Southern Sweden faces airspace shutdown
A new airspace shutdown has been announced for southern parts of Sweden from 8pm on Monday.
Day: April 19, 2010
Sweden
Sweden
The Ark pulls tax trick with music magazine
Swedish glam band The Ark has taken a novel approach to combating music industry monetary woes by releasing its new album as a magazine freebie.
Germany
Deutsche Bahn in advanced talks for Arriva takeover
British transport operator Arriva on Monday said it was in advanced talks over a possible takeover by Germany's national rail company Deutsche Bahn worth 1.54 billion pounds (€1.75 billion).
Germany
Bayern Munich’s Ribery faces probe over prostitution scandal
One of Bayern Munich’s star footballers, Frenchman Franck Ribery, may be charged over alleged relations with an underage call girl, but says he did not know she was a minor, a judicial official said on Monday.
Sweden
Sweden’s nurse Freddy ‘better than Paul Potts’
Opera-singing nurse Freddy Amigo is being billed as Sweden's answer to Paul Potts after a show-stopping performance on talent show Talang 2010.
Germany
Konrad who? Unsung computer pioneer remembered
The inventor of the computer was a little known German engineer named Konrad Zuse, according to a new museum exhibition that seeks to revive the unsung hero’s notoriety.
Germany
British expat voter registration deadline looms
British citizens living in Germany still have time to register for the upcoming general election – but they should hurry. The deadline to apply for postal or proxy voting is 5 pm GMT on Tuesday.
Sweden
Court clears Shell for Sweden gas drilling
UK-Dutch energy firm Royal Dutch Shell has received the retroactive backing of an environmental court over its test drilling for natural gas in Skåne in southern Sweden.
Sweden
Tuesday deadline for UK expat voter registration
Britons abroad have until Tuesday April 20th to register to cast their vote by post or proxy in next month's UK general election.
Germany
Long winter shrivelled German economy, central bank says
The German economy, Europe's biggest, shrank slightly in the first three months of the year due mainly to a viciously cold winter, the country's central bank, the Bundesbank, forecast on Monday.
Germany
Flight ban now stretched to early Tuesday
Germany's DFS air safety agency has extended until 2 am Tuesday the shutdown of its air space because of volcanic ash.
Germany
Merkel to defend Afghanistan mission
Following the deaths of seven German soldiers in Afghanistan within two weeks, Chancellor Angela Merkel will deliver a speech to the parliament robustly defending the war, a top official announced Monday.
Sweden
Riksbank chief misses rate meeting
Swedish Riksbank head Stefan Ingves missed a key monetary policy meeting on Monday morning as he was travelling overland from Spain due to a Swedish airspace shutdown.
Sweden
Foreign cars build up at Swedish rental firms
With much of Europe's airspace remaining closed on Monday, Swedish car hire firms are battling with the logistics of foreign-registered cars in need of repatriation.
Sweden
Aussie rules in world’s tallest volleyball team
Billed as the world's tallest volleyball team, Linköping went into this weekend's Swedish title decider knowing its mix of local lads and gigantic Australians would need to put in a towering performance to see off gutsy Falkenberg. Ben Kersley followed the action.
Germany
Transport Minister defends flight ban
Federal Transport Minister Peter Ramsauer has defended extensions to the flight ban against mounting criticism from the airline industry that decisions are being made on insufficient data.
Germany
Merkel stays cool despite odyssey home
Even the world’s most powerful woman couldn’t do a damned thing against the volcano chaos this weekend. Between the geological force of the earth’s mantle and the bureaucratic power of aviation authorities, Chancellor Angela Merkel was as helpless as the hundreds of thousands of other travellers stuck far from home this weekend.
Sweden
SAS planes grounded until Tuesday
Scandinavian airline SAS has confirmed that almost all its flights would remain grounded on Monday except for flights from the US and a few from Norway.
Germany
Cooler temperatures expected after sunny weekend
The balmy weekend weather is set to end on Monday as a Scandinavian cold front moves in with cooler temperatures, the German Weather Service (DWD) reported.
Sweden
Winter chill causes home heating headache
The cold winter in Sweden has left every fifth household struggling to pay their electricity bills, according to a new survey published in the Dagens Industri daily.
Germany
Two Germans kidnapped in Nigeria
Germany’s government said Monday it believed two of its citizens were abducted in Nigeria and said that diplomats were working to secure their release.
Germany
Air traffic ban extended through Monday
Germany’s air safety agency DFS has once again extended its ban on air travel until 8 pm on Monday due to volcanic ash from Iceland that has crippled flight schedules across Europe since Thursday.
Sweden
Body found after months by railway line
A person was found dead on Sunday afternoon by a train driver by the tracks near Kristianstad in southern Sweden.
Sweden
Major Swedish airports reopen
Arlanda and Landvetter and Bromma airports have reopened for air traffic on Monday morning, the Civil Aviation Authority (Luftfartsverket - LFV) has confirmed.