Mechanics, carpenters and plumbers who have tough physical jobs need strong, functional clothing. But that doesn’t mean they have to wear boring, old-fashioned overalls that their grandfathers might have worn. A kilt for professional men recently introduced in Sweden features roomy pockets needed to carry necessary tools and allows the worker to make a striking fashion statement at the same time.
Swedish consumers fed up with persistent telesales calls will soon have the law on their side, after the government accounced plans to ban pushy sales methods.
Stockholm has retained its position as Sweden's top destination for luxury cruise liners.
The number of reported cases of insider trading in Sweden more than doubled last year compared to 2006.
An American and two Russian researchers have earned a major Swedish scientific award for their work on black holes and the early universe, the Royal Swedish Academy of Science announced Thursday.
A number of Chile's leading singers and musicians gathered in Santiago on Thursday to pledge their support for Swedish-Chilean opera star Tito Beltran, who is appearing in a Swedish court on rape charges.
An Orthodox Christian priest in the Stockholm region has been sentenced to jail after being convicted of having sex with his mentally disabled daughter.
University lecturer Fuat Deniz, who was stabbed to death at Örebro University in December, knew the man now arrested on suspicion of his murder, prosecutors say.
The number of Swedish share owners fell in 2007 to under 46,000, according to new figures from the Nordic Central Securities Depository.
A simple blood test could in future be used to test for prostate cancer, one of the deadliest cancers to affect men, research carried out in part by Swedish scientists at the Karolinska Institute has found.
Lush green lawns with no trace of snow, chanterelles sprouting and spring flowers in bloom: winter in Sweden is beginning to look a lot less like, well, winter, meteorologists said on Wednesday.
