The Swedish southwest town of Växjö has joined towns and companies in Norway, Costa Rica and elsewhere to create a new global climate network under the United Nations Environment Program.

The Swedish computer and video game industry brought in more than 100 million dollars last year.

The newspaper “Dagens Nyheter” reports that it will take longer than expected for Stockholm’s congestion charge system to start paying for itself.

Speaking to the European Parliament in Strasbourg Tuesday, Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt called for a shift in the EU away from spending on agriculture and towards innovation.

Swedes are travelling further and further abroad for their winter sports holidays.

Swedish forestry workers in the southern part of the country have cancelled operations in some areas - because the unseasonably warm weather has left the ground too soft for the heavy machines.

A new Swedish report about the record number of false applications for social welfare benefits has delivered a heavy blow to this Nordic nation’s once-proud reputation for honesty and efficiency.

Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt has reacted to former Cuban President Fidel Castro’s announcement that he will not return to political leadership ”as the end of an epoch and the beginning of the end of another Communist dictatorship.”

Swedish-Iraqi relations are capturing headlines here both concerning foreign assistance and refugees.

Swedish development cooperation agency SIDA is warning in a new report that climate change could lead to violent conflicts in over 50 developing countries around the world.

Members of the Swedish Temperance movement, IOGT-NTO are leaving the organisation in droves after the movement decided to exclude a controversial pastor who has openly slammed homosexuality from the pulpit.

Only four companies are now left in the fight to buy Sweden’s state owned alcohol giant Vin och Sprit.