Jobless Swede offers salary as finder's fee
Local Sweden News
After being out of work for eleven months, economist Michael Sundblad from Lund, in southern Sweden, decided to try a new approach and is now offering his first month's pay in finder's fee to whomever gets him hired.
Source: The Local - Sweden's news in English
Sweden braces for freezing rain, snow
Local Sweden News
Freezing rain and snow is expected to fall across large swaths of central and northern Sweden on Friday night, prompting warnings from icy road conditions across much of the region.
Source: The Local - Sweden's news in English
'Electro-oversensitive' man in mobile phone blackout threat
Local Sweden News
A Swedish man who wears a 'silver suit" to protect himself from mobile phone radiation had demanded that local officials protect his health by creating a "radiation-free zone" that may leave thousands with mobile phone coverage.
Source: The Local - Sweden's news in English
Sweden to meet England in Euro 2012
Local Sweden News
Sweden have been drawn in the same group as England, France and co-hosts Ukraine at next summer's European Championship.
Source: The Local - Sweden's news in English
'There's no reason to fear another attack'
Local Sweden News
December 11th marks the one year anniversary of the attack by a suicide bomber on a Stockholm street that left Sweden reeling. The Local's Rebecca Martin examines what, if anything, has changed.
Source: The Local - Sweden's news in English
'Tattoo' star Rooney Mara laughs off 'bush' wig
Local Sweden News
Rooney Mara, who portrays hacker heroine Lisbeth Salander in the Hollywood remake of "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" has made light of the measures taken to ensure the star's hirsute nether regions were also in character for the film.
Source: The Local - Sweden's news in English
The Local's most shared stories on Facebook
Local Sweden News
Swedish animal antics, medical madness, and plain old errors in human judgment featured prominently in stories by The Local that proved popular on Facebook in 2011.
Source: The Local - Sweden's news in English
Surgery worsens patient memory: Swedish study
Local Sweden News
Many routine surgical procedures can result in patients suffering from memory loss and a lack of concentration, a Swedish-American study has shown.
Source: The Local - Sweden's news in English