One of the world's first permanent nuclear waste storage sites that can house highly radioactive waste for more than 100,000 years will be built in Sweden.

• How to bury nuclear waste for 100,000 years

Sweden poised to become the first country in the world to bury spent nuclear fuel for hundreds of thousands of years.

The Swedish navy arrested seven pirates early Tuesday as they tried to hijack a Greek merchant vessel in the lawless waters off Somalia.

Yehoshua Zettler, a former Jewish underground leader who masterminded the 1948 assassination of UN mediator Count Folke Bernadotte, died on Wednesday at the age of 92.

Four music industry giants want heavy fines imposed on the founders of The Pirate Bay as long it keeps running.

• Stockholm court jails The Pirate Bay founders
• Judge in Pirate Bay trial may have been biased
• Pro-piracy party soars in Swedish EU poll

The home of Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman, estimated to be worth up to four million euros, has gone under the hammer.

Men graduating from European MBA programs expect to make 30 percent more than their female buddies, Swedish research shows.

A New York court has convicted a Swedish man of Lebanese origin of charges that he planned to set up an Al Qaeda training camp in the United States.

Swedish think tank reveals how air cargo carriers used to smuggle weapons to war-torn parts of Africa have also been hired to deliver humanitarian aid.

British rock legend Peter Gabriel and Venezuelan conductor and composer Jose Antonio Abreu won the 2009 Polar Music Prize.

"He has been sick for three days but is holding up well".

Sweden confirms first case of swine flu

A young Swede is facing 10 years in prison after hacking into the computer systems of NASA.

Avoid all non-essential travel to Mexico, Swedish health authorities says

Mystery revealed about bottled message found on the grounds of Auschwitz this week.

A Swedish judge who found four men guilty of promoting copyright infringement by running filesharing site The Pirate Bay may have been biased and a retrial may be ordered, legal experts said Thursday.

Sweden's unemployment rate rose for the fifth consecutive month in March to 8.3 percent from 8.0 percent the previous month, Statistics Sweden said Thursday.

In opening arguments in federal court Tuesday, US prosecutors argued that Ousama Kassir, a Swedish man of Lebanese descent, was planning to set up an Al-Qaeda terrorist training camp in the United States.

The happiest children in Europe are in the Netherlands and Scandinavia but Britain is among the worst places to grow up, according to new British research published Tuesday.

A Swedish court found four men guilty of promoting copyright infringement by running The Pirate Bay, one of the world's top illegal filesharing websites, sentencing them to a year in prison in a landmark ruling.