A Swedish couple has been fined by the Tax Agency for failing to give their 16-month-old son a name. The boy’s father has been forced to pay SEK 4,000 (USD 542), while the mother has been charged SEK 2,000 (USD 271) for denying their offspring the most basic of human rights. Continue Reading

Iceland, Sweden and Denmark were among the 41 countries which chose to abstain in a United Nations vote to enshrine access to fresh drinking water as a fundamental human right for all. Continue Reading

A Swedish man who translates Japanese Manga comics has been fined for possessing child porn cartoons, sparking a heated debate about censorship. The man was reprimanded by Uppsala district court for downloading 51 drawings of children engaged in sexual acts from the internet. Continue Reading

Jogging is as important as spending time with the family or having sex, according to a new survey of Swedish women. The study, carried out by iFORM lifestyle magazine, found Swedish women would rather don a pair of trainers and trot round the block than have coffee with friends, watch TV or call up their mums. Continue Reading

Traditional Danish surnames such as Jensen, Nielsen and Hansen could be dying out, as more people change their aliases in a bid to stand out from the crowd. Since new laws were introduced in 2006 making it easier for people to pick their own monikers, over 320,000 Danes have opted to be called by something more exotic than the name they were born with. Continue Reading

Icelandic Prime Minister, Johanna Sigurdardottir is under pressure to ensure members of her government are free to speak their minds over the purchase of a large majority of the HS Orka geothermal company by Canada's Magma Energy. Continue Reading

A fraudster, who claimed to be crippled by cerebral palsy, has been sent to jail after being caught taking part in a table tennis tournament. The 32-year-old man, who claimed to be confined to a wheelchair, was sentenced to three years in prison by a Swedish court after it heard that he had conned country’s Social Insurance Agency out of millions of kroner. Continue Reading

A city in Sweden has built a dedicated seagull lavatory in an attempt to lure the birds away from doing their business in the marina. After cries of exasperation from the local yachting set at Marieberg bay, officials in central Sweden’s Karlstad municipality put in place a designated pontoon, which they hope the gulls will congregate, and therefore relieve themselves, on. Continue Reading

Christians should take a leaf out of the Torah when it comes to sex, according to a Swedish professor speaking at an annual meeting of the country’s faith groups. Professor Leif Carlsson told attendees at the Hono Conference on the west coast of Sweden that Christianity holds negative views on sex compared to those found in Judaism. Continue Reading

A Stockholm sports trainer has been jailed for three years for a string of sex attacks against boys. The 22-year-old man was found guilty of three counts of sexual assault and child rape against one boy and one count of sexual assault against another. He was also convicted of a further 16 additional counts of sexual harassment. Continue Reading