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Sweden signs NATO request, Finland formally endorses move
Finland's Parliament has overwhelmingly endorsed a bid from the Nordic country's government to join NATO
18 May 2022 1:12 AM
COVID-19 genetic risk variant protects against HIV, says study
The study was published in 'Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences' (PNAS)
27 Feb 2022 1:08 PM
Nobel Physics Prize honours climate work
US-Japanese scientist Syukuro Manabe, Klaus Hasselmann of Germany and Giorgio Parisi of Italy won the Nobel Physics Prize for climate models
05 Oct 2021 10:40 PM
Nobel physics prize goes to 3 for climate discoveries
The winners were announced Tuesday by Goran Hansson, secretary-general of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
05 Oct 2021 4:59 PM
Nobel Prize honors discovery of temperature, touch receptors
David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian focused their work on the field of somatosensation
04 Oct 2021 11:47 PM
Return to training with Sweden's Hammarby sparks rumours about Ibrahimovic's future
A report in an Italian newspaper predicted that the 38-year-old will choose against renewing his Milan deal at the end of the season
10 Apr 2020 9:30 AM
Wanted man caught by Sweden police while snoozing in a furniture store
The staff contacted the police after they found the 25-year-old sleeping in the bed department.
21 Nov 2019 1:32 PM
Sweden drops rape investigation against WikiLeaks founder Assange
Assange is also fighting extradition to the US, which accuses him of publishing secret documents.
19 Nov 2019 7:05 PM
Climate activist Greta Thunberg declines environmental award
She honoured at a Stockholm ceremony held by the Nordic Council, a regional body for inter-parliamentary cooperation.
30 Oct 2019 10:00 AM
Dark matter and exoplanet discoveries win Nobel Physics Prize
'Their discoveries have forever changed our conceptions of the world,' the jury said.
08 Oct 2019 6:29 PM
Champions League football architect Lennart Johansson dies aged 89
Sweden's soccer association said the former UEFA president died Tuesday after a short illness.
05 Jun 2019 2:20 PM
Assange rape investigation re-opened, Swedish prosecutor will seek extradition
Prosecutor Eva-Marie Persson told a news conference she would continue and conclude a preliminary investigation that was dropped in 2017.
13 May 2019 3:52 PM
Air India plane with 179 onboard hits building at Stockholm airport, passengers safe
Pictures from the scene showed the Boeing aircraft parked on the runway with the very tip of its left wing stuck in the side of a building.
29 Nov 2018 9:57 AM
'Threatened' Swedish cops shoot man with Down syndrome, he was holding toy gun
Torrell’s family said that Eric had Down syndrome, autism and was essentially nonverbal.
04 Aug 2018 3:00 PM
South Korea arms sales sparks up amid tensions with N Korea: study
South Korea is a top arms producer among emerging countries in the sector, including Brazil, India and Turkey.
11 Dec 2017 4:34 PM
Women in 21st century ‘locked out of labs’ and Nobel prizes
The peace prize is meanwhile the most favourable to women: 16 women laureates out of 104 people awarded.
08 Dec 2017 2:48 PM
Headless torso of female journlaist found in Danish waters: police
The female torso, with the head and limbs deliberately cut off, was found on Monday in Koge Bay, around 50 km south of Copenhagen.
23 Aug 2017 2:58 PM
Extremism grows, chiefly radical Islamists: Sweden
A 2010 Sapo report estimated the number of violent Islamist extremists in the Scandinavian country at 200.
16 Jun 2017 6:10 PM
WikiLeaks' Assange will be arrested if he leaves Ecuador's embassy: UK police
Assange, 45, has been holed up in the embassy since 2012 after skipping bail to avoid extradition to Sweden.
19 May 2017 3:51 PM
Swedish prosecutors discontinue 7-year rape probe against WikiLeaks' Assange
Julian Assange has always denied the 2010 allegations, which he feared would see him extradited to the United States.
19 May 2017 3:45 PM
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The move has created a gap of six years between parallel ranks in the IAS and IPS, and IPS officers are upset at this 'unprecedented' order
The Tokyo summit was the second in-person meeting of the four leaders
Bandi Sanjay was able to bring Central funds to the extent of Rs 5,458 crore for various developmental projects in his constituency
Like the 1770 famine which heralded the West’s arrival on Indian soil, the British departure from the East too saw the worst of all famines