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Lady Gaga’s ‘five-hour’ dinner date
Pop Star Lady Gaga paid a visit to Wikileaks founder Julian Assange at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. The singer reportedly spent five hours in Assange’s refuge in west London. According to the Daily Mail, she had arrived at 7pm local time and it’s believed she had dinner with the 41-year-old Australian activist. Her visit […]
Father of two rectally impaled on children’s fairground ride
31-year-old father of two became impaled on a child’s ride in eastern Sweden. The man took his children, aged 2 and 4, to the Furuvik theme park near Gävle in eastern Sweden. The family had been riding the minicar. The older girl wanted help driving the vehicle. So dad jumped in saying “She can’t […]
Medicine: Shortcut
The search for a cancer vaccine has largely been a painstaking, systematic chore of isolating some agent that might produce cancer-killing antibodies in human patients.
NORWAY: Jubilee
If while chatting with a Norwegian lady one unwittingly refers to “the time when Norway was a part of Sweden,” the chances are four out of five that hot tears of indignation will rush to her light blue eyes. “Norway was never a part of Sweden!” she will exclaim
The Nobis Hotel: Stockholm’s Hostage to Comfort
Sweden’s latest hip hotel is — but of course — impeccably designed.
Bosnian war’s ‘Iron Lady’ freed from prison
Former Bosnian Serb leader Biljana Plavsic was released from prison in Sweden Tuesday, after serving two thirds of an 11-year sentence for crimes against humanity.
Paper’s organ harvesting article causes Israel-Sweden rift
Israeli troops are accused in a newspaper article of harvesting organs from dead Palestinians, and Israel wants Sweden’s government to condemn the Swedish paper that published it. Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman compared the Swedish Foreign Ministry’s hands-off position to the country’s neutrality during World War II. “It’s a shame that the Swedish Foreign Ministry fails to intervene in a case of blood libels against Jews,” Lieberman told Sweden’s ambassador to Israel on Thursday evening
Pirate Party wins surprise Euro seat, calls for Web freedom
A Swedish political party which wants to legalize file-sharing on the Internet scored a surprise victory Sunday when it took a seat in the European parliament. The Pirate Party won 7.1 percent of the Swedish vote to claim one of the country’s 18 seats in the European parliament. “Together we have changed the landscape of European politics,” Pirate Party leader Rick Falkvinge told file-sharing news Web site TorrentFreak after the win