Posted on 08 February 2012. Tags: bomb, crime, malmo, murder, Sweden, violence
Police in Malmö, southern Sweden, have admitted that they are “embarrassed and irritated” after a man was murdered and a police station fire bombed, despite a huge drive to combat crime in the area.
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Posted in General, MBL, Sweden
Posted on 06 February 2012. Tags: crime, love, murder, prison, romance, Sweden, wedding bells
Two notorious Swedish murderers plan to marry after meeting and falling in love in a high security psychiatric ward.
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Posted in General, Lifestyle, MBL, Sweden, Technology
Posted on 05 February 2012. Tags: crime, disability, shoplifting, Sweden, theft
Police are hunting two phony disabled people who got out of their wheelchairs and legged it after being caught shoplifting in a Swedish supermarket.
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Posted in Business, General, MBL, Society, Sweden
Posted on 31 January 2012. Tags: discipline, employment, immigration, racism, sensitivity, Sweden
A man working at the Swedish Migration Board is to face disciplinary action after telling an Iraqi couple that their baby looks like Saddam Hussein.
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Posted in General, MBL, Society, Sweden, Travel
Posted on 30 January 2012. Tags: class, money, stockholm, Sweden, tour, tourism, wealth
Residents of a wealthy Stockholm suburb have complained to the police about a tour agency’s plan to run ‘high-society safaris’ in their neighbourhood.
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Posted in Business, Culture, Leisure, Lifestyle, MBL, Politics, Society, Sweden, Travel
Posted on 26 January 2012. Tags: children, crime, mental illness, murder, Sweden
A mother who pushed her two sons into a river and watched them drown is being charged with their murder in a Swedish court.
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Posted in General, MBL, Sweden
Posted on 25 January 2012. Tags: breasts, Lifestyle, medical, rights, transgender, transsexual
An advocacy group in Sweden has called for national guidelines on issuing breast implants to transgender women, claiming they can save countless lives.
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Posted in Lifestyle, MBL, Politics, Sweden
Posted on 24 January 2012. Tags: direct democracy, Iceland, nordic council, Norway, oslo, Scandinavia
For the first time today members of the Nordic Council offered to meet the public before their official meeting; but only four applications were received.
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Posted in Denmark, Faroe Islands, Finland, Greenland, Iceland, MBL, Norway, Politics, Scandinavia, Society, Sweden
Posted on 23 January 2012. Tags: animals, cats, court, cruelty, hoarding, Sweden
A Swedish couple have been convicted of animal cruelty after 53 cats, at least half of which were said to be neglected, were found in their Stockholm house.
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Posted in General, Lifestyle, MBL, Sweden
Posted on 22 January 2012. Tags: animals, kidnapping, pets, police, rabbits, Sweden
A series on bunny burglaries in a western Swedish town has left pet owners blaming the media for encouraging copycat kidnappings.
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Posted in General, MBL, Society, Sweden