Sweden news headlines

Denmark, Sweden and Norway joined Australia in further tightening travel advisories for Lebanon and cautioned against travel there until further notice as Hamas and Hezbollah say they bombarded Israel from Lebanon.

The UK's weather forecaster, the Met Office, issued a rare red alert — the highest level of weather warning — for parts of Scotland, with "exceptional rainfall" expected to pose a "danger to life from fast-flowing or deep floodwater".

Police in Belgium have shot dead a suspected Tunisian extremist accused of killing two Swedish football fans.

Swedish media outlets revealed the names of the three US based scientists who won the prestigious award hours before officials did.

Their experiments "have given humanity new tools for exploring the world of electrons inside atoms and molecules", the committee says.

Police said at least four cars and a bus skidded off the road and crashed, and three people were hospitalised.

Australian wealthy women have total combined net worth of a whopping $60 billion, according to the latest study from City Index.

Thunberg was charged with "the crime of disobedience to law and order" earlier this month.

In a surprise move, Turkey has ended its veto on Sweden joining NATO, thereby removing all the barriers to its membership of the military alliance.

NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg said on Monday that Turkey has agreed to back Sweden's bid to join the military alliance – a major development on the eve of the NATO summit.

Sweden's Prosecution Authority has charged climate activist Greta Thunberg with disobeying law enforcement after she allegedly refused to leave the scene of a climate protest in Malmö in June

Witnesses described a chaotic scene at the Gröna Lund park as the front of the train appeared to jump off the tracks before coming to a stop, with one car tilted toward the ground.

Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg will no longer be able to skip classes as a way to draw attention to climate change because she is graduating from high school.

Summer is in the air, cigarette smoke is not, in Sweden's outdoor bars and restaurants.

The white cetacean with the strange brown harness has spent the last three years tracking around Norway, and has dramatically increased speed.

Iran executed an Iranian-Swedish dual national Saturday accused of masterminding a 2018 attack on a military parade that killed at least 25 people.

Prosecuters hinted the identity of the likely saboteurs may never be known.

Anti-Turkish protests increased tension between the two countries as Sweden seeks Turkey's approval to join NATO.

The Furuvik zoo said in a statement Saturday that the surviving animals are now being looked after and one who is injured is receiving veterinary care.

Three chimpanzees have been shot and killed at a Swedish zoo after a group of the primates escaped.

The Queen's beloved corgis appear to be in good hands with the Duchess of York Sarah Ferguson.

This year's Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine has been awarded to Swedish scientist Svante Paabo for his discoveries on human evolution.

She said the abuse started immediately after she was recognised at a checkpoint near Mariupol and taken prisoner, along with her driver, on March 16.

The move further increases Russia's strategic isolation but one country could still present problems.

Australian WikiLeaks founder's wife vows they will continue to fight the ruling as his father calls for the Australian Government to step in.

US President Joe Biden has given his "full backing" to bids by Finland and Sweden to join NATO.

A historic shift that comes after more than 200 years of military nonalignment in the Nordic country.

Over the past few days, Ukrainian forces advanced toward the border in several places north and east of Kharkiv.

Finland and Sweden are closer to joining NATO and abandoning decades of military neutrality.

NATO is on the path of expansion, with Finland and Sweden set to join the military alliance.

It’s likely to be the quickest NATO enlargement ever and one that would redraw Europe’s security map.

Russia warned the move would 'inflict serious damage' and threaten 'stability and security in Northern Europe'.

Sweden has said a Russian military plane has violated Swedish airspace.

Forty people have been injured in riots that broke out over Easter weekend in southern Sweden following a far-right anti-Muslim rally.

European Union nations Finland and Sweden reached important stages today on their way to possible NATO membership as the Finnish government issued a security report to lawmakers and Sweden's ruling party initiated a review of security policy options.

Sweden's chief epidemiologist who was considered the architect of the country's pandemic approach, which meant they avoided a lockdown but had one of the world's highest per capita COVID-19 death rates, is headed to the UN world health body.

Magdalena Andersson, who last week was Sweden's first female prime minister for a few hours before resigning because a budget defeat made a coalition partner quit, has been elected again.

Swedish retailer Ikea is becoming a landlord in Japan with a tiny apartment it will rent out in Tokyo.

Hours after being tapped as Sweden's first female prime minister, Magdalena Andersson has resigned.

The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to journalists Maria Ressa of the Philippines and Dmitry Muratov of Russia.

Tanzanian writer Abdulrazak Gurnah was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for works that explore the legacies of imperialism on uprooted individuals.

They were cited for their work in developing a new way for building molecules known as "asymmetric organocatalysis."

Lars Vilks, the Swedish artist who sketched the Prophet Muhammad with a dog's body, has died in a car crash.

The Nobel Prize in the field of physiology or medicine has been awarded to US-based scientists David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian.

The bodies of some of Sweden's earliest Christians have been uncovered in a dig in the village of Sigtuna, near Stockholm.

Teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg has urged governments, vaccine developers and the world to "step up their game" to fight vaccine inequity.

Chinese state TV has called for a boycott of H&M as Beijing lashed out at foreign clothing and footwear brands following Western sanctions on Chinese officials accused of human rights abuses in the Xinjiang region.

Swedish police have shot and arrested a man who went on an axe rampage in the small town of Vetlanda in the country's south.

Sweden is tightening nationwide coronavirus restrictions by requiring many people to work from home and reducing the number who can gather in restaurants, shops and gyms starting next week.

Europe has entered the final week before Christmas with multiple countries bracing for a post-celebration coronavirus fallout, leaving some to introduce restrictions and lockdowns to curb rising infection rates