If you haven’t gotten enough of the heart-pounding, dark, spectacular “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo ,” the publishers of Steig Larsson’s mysteries are giving you another opportunity. Norstedts, the late author’s publisher, has created an app that follows the story of Lisbeth Salander , the computer whiz readers have followed through three books and the Swedish and American movies . Read full article > >

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Steig Larsson app follows a new story of Lisbeth Salander

Police in Norway cut in half a traffic fine for a Swedish trucker on the grounds that Swedes earn less than Norwegians, an Oslo newspaper reports.

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Norway fine cut for ‘poor’ Swede

A Swedish woman discovers her wedding ring on a carrot growing in her garden, 16 years after she lost it, says a newspaper.

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Long-lost ring ‘found on carrot’

Two Swedish journalists are sentenced by an Ethiopian court to 11 years each in jail for entering the country illegally and supporting terrorism.

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Ethiopia jails Sweden journalists

Flipping through H&M’s Web site, you might get deja vu: Somehow, the lingerie and bikini models manage to pose exactly the same, even down to the arch of their pinkie finger. It’s not just exceptionally good posing — Aftonbladet, a Swedish tabloid, reports that the company created computer-generated perfect bodies, and then edited a different model’s head onto each one, changing the skin color to match. The practice was first noticed by Bildbliffen, a Norwegian Web site that monitors photo retouching. Read full article > >

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H&M defends computer-generated models against feminist, industry wrath

The Swedish videogame, Minecraft, is the winner of the inaugural GameCity arts prize, announced in Nottingham.

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Minecraft wins gaming arts award

STOCKHOLM — Swedish police arrested four people on suspicion of preparing a terror attack and evacuated an arts center in Sweden’s second largest city on the eve of the 9/11 anniversary, officials said Sunday. The four were arrested in the west coast city of Goteborg and were suspected of plotting terrorism, said Sara Kvarnstrom, spokeswoman for the Swedish security police, SAPO. She declined to give details on the arrests and wouldn’t say whether they were linked to the 10-year anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in the United States. Read full article > >

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Swedish security police arrest 4 people suspected of preparing terror attack in Goteborg.

Struggling Swedish carmaker Saab is filing for bankruptcy protection as it seeks breathing space from its creditors.

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Saab seeks bankruptcy protection

Scientists estimate that poaching over the last decade has substantially slowed the recovery of the Swedish wolf.

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Poaching threatens Swedish wolves

More than 200 passengers are left stranded after a mouse is seen inside an SAS plane scheduled to fly from the Swedish capital to the US, and evades all attempts to capture it.

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Mouse grounds airliner in Stockholm

The X Factor singer will release her new single as a ‘collaboration’ after the Swedish producer had claimed a sample was used without his permission.

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Leona Lewis backs down over song

Ladies in strappy heels and minidresses crowd around the bathroom mirror on a recent Friday night, touching up lipstick. Done with their primping, they join a growing crush of people shimmying on the dance floor, lemony cocktails in hand, to the peppy sounds of Swedish pop star Robyn. Not far from the action, someone waiting — and waiting and waiting — for a drink at the bar abandons her place in line with a squeal when the DJ switches over to Lady Gaga. It’s a familiar scene that could have been playing out at local clubs Current or Josephine, but it was happening in the institutional doughnut known as the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum . Just as many partygoers were streaming up escalators bound for an exhibition of paintings by Blinky Palermo as were outside indulging in cocktails and conversation. Read full article > >

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Culture shock: High art meets mass appeal

Two Swedish men are jailed for life in the Philippines for running a cybersex business that featured naked women performing for internet clients.

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Manila jails Swedes for cybersex

A witness at the UK extradition hearing of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange questions the approach adopted by Swedish prosecutors.

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Assange case validity questioned

The case of Colleen LaRose, an American arrested for allegedly planning to murder a Swedish cartoonist, won’t go to trial after all. In a hearing Tuesday in Philadelphia, LaRose-who went by the pseudonym “Jihad Jane” online-switched her plea from not…

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‘Jihad Jane’ Pleads Guilty