The Swedish government wants to tighten the rules for Swedish language lessons for newly arrived immigrants.

Seven activists from a climate action group were taken into custody Friday afternoon at Malmö Airport.

With longer and longer queues at district courts, the work is piling up for judges.

European Union Commission President, José Manuel Barroso was in Sweden Thursday for a meeting with the government and the Swedish King.

In its grouping of the world’s 30 most developed economies, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, pushed Sweden further up its scale.

Sweden’s pharmacy monopoly has all but given up on being paid the US$ 46.7 million it’s owed by customers who have charged their medications.

In order to have a presence in foreign countries where the most Swedes are, the Church of Sweden is redistributing its manpower.

There is controversy in Gällivare in northern Sweden after a preschool has forbidden its children from wearing clothing with stripes or polka dots.

A Swedish study has revealed both good and bad health results for fast food diets.

Swedish Radio News reports that family wealth seems to determine which girls receive a vaccine that reduces the risk of some forms of cancer.

The Swedish-Swiss engineering group ABB has posted record high profits for last year, and is upbeat about 2008.

Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt says Sweden will not be among the first in the European Union to recognize Kosovo was an independent country.