Ericsson to help roll out Verizon’s 4G network in the US
Sweden’s telecom equipment provider Ericsson has been chosen by Verizon Wireless to help build the United States’ first 4G wireless network.
Day: February 18, 2009
Sweden
No fans allowed for Israel tennis match
Sweden's upcoming Davis Cup tennis match against Israel will be held behind closed doors, Malmö city council ruled on Wednesday. The decision follows a vocal campaign against the match in protest at the situation in the Middle East.
Germany
NASA rocket scientist Konrad Dannenberg dies
German rocket scientist Konrad Dannenberg, who worked on the Nazi V-2 rocket before helping NASA to develop the first moon rockets, has died at the age of 96 in Huntsville, Alabama, daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reported on Wednesday.
Germany
Condé Nast shuts down Vanity Fair Germany
This week’s edition of the German Vanity Fair will be the last, publisher Condé Nast said on Wednesday in Munich.
Germany
Wilhelm brings home third biathlon medal
Germany's Kati Wilhelm snagged her second World Championship title as well as her third medal in Pyeongchang, South Korea on Wednesday when she claimed victory in the 15-kilometre individual.
Sweden
Swedish court grants asylum to ex-Guantanamo prisoner
A Swedish court has overturned a deportation order for a former Guantanamo Bay prisoner from China.
Germany
Artists create baby hatch for unwanted plants
A new receptacle for unwanted plants debuted in Schöppingen in North Rhine-Westphalia this week. It’s called a Pflanzenklappe, or plant hatch, in a play on the German word Babyklappe, where parents can safely deposit their unwanted infants.
Germany
Naked Merkel Karneval float to appear in Brazilian bikini
The Cologne Karneval committee has decided not to let a float parody of Chancellor Angela Merkel travel topless through the city during its Rosenmontag parade next Monday.
Sweden
‘Gimme gimme gimme more money money money’
Freelance writer Gene Oberto isn't buying the anti-piracy arguments put forward by Abba's Björn Ulvaeus.
Sweden
Defence disputes damage claims
As the Pirate Bay trial entered its third day on Wednesday, lawyers for the entertainment industry defended their compensation claims against the four defendants, whose lawyers in turn did their best to poke holes in the prosecution’s case.
Sweden
Sweden ‘won’t save Saab’
The Swedish government said on Wednesday it would not intervene to take over Saab. Enterprise Minister Maud Olofsson slammed Saab's US owner General Motors for "abandoning" the struggling Swedish car maker.
Sweden
Banking on the new Swedish model
Olle Wästberg, Director General of the Swedish Institute reveals some insights garnered from his inside track in the early 1990s to the bone-shaking Swedish banking crisis and its eventual resolution.
Germany
Germany backs law to nationalise banks
The German government has approved measures allowing it to temporarily nationalise troubled banks through the seizure of shares in order to shore up the country’s financial sector.
Germany
Berlin mulls genetically modified corn ban
The German government is mulling a possible ban on a specific strain of genetically modified corn because consumers and farmers are opposed to GM crops, daily Berliner Zeitung reported on Wednesday.
Sweden
Sweden Democrat ‘stole reporter’s camera’
Swedish prosecutors have begun investigating four politicians from the far right Sweden Democrat party who are accused of locking an investigative reporter into a ferry cabin and stealing a video camera she had hidden in her handbag.
Sweden
Sweden’s colleges catching more cheats
The number of students expelled from Sweden’s colleges and universities for cheating increased by nearly 30 percent last year, according to a recent study.
Sweden
Police to investigate Swedish art student’s metro graffiti
The Stockholm county transit authority SL has filed a complaint with the police against a student who filmed the vandalizing of a subway carriage, amid revelations that the incident wasn’t the first time the student recorded vandalism for an art project.
Germany
GM not planning to close Opel plants yet
US auto maker General Motors has no current plans to close factories for its German subsidiary Opel, despite rumours to the contrary, the company said late on Tuesday.
Germany
Germany shouldn’t host Iraqi Christians, minister says
A member of the Iraqi government chose the visit of Germany's foreign minister on Tuesday to criticise European countries that encourage Christians to leave the war-torn nation.
Germany
Auschwitz blueprints found in attic go on display in Berlin
Original building plans for Nazi death camp Auschwitz are now on display in Berlin after being discovered in an attic in the German capital last November.
Sweden
Sweden’s annual immigrant tally hit six figures in 2008
More than 100,000 people emigrated to Sweden in 2008, marking the first time the country’s annual immigrant count hit six figures, according to new statistics.
Sweden
GM plan leaves Saab’s future in doubt
Swedish automaker Saab may find itself filing for bankruptcy protection “as early as this month” if its US parent General Motors (GM) doesn’t get financial assistance from the Swedish government.