Sweden

A northern adventure: Europe’s last wilderness - - a travel guide to Norrland

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5 May 08 - A 31-year-old man at the heart of Sweden’s largest file sharing case to date was convicted in Linköping District Court on Monday.

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Sweden is the world’s best country in which to be a mother, according to a new report published by Save the Children.

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9 May 08 - Sweden's parliament on Thursday voted in favour of the centre-right government's plans to open up the country's market for prescription and non-prescription drugs to competition.

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Oden is one of seven icebreakers operated by the Swedish Maritime Administration. Icebreaker ODEN is designed for escort ice-breaking and for Arctic research operations. My husband just added a bunch of stuff to this ship.

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The Sällström family got a shock when their girl ate a bag of chips.

Suddenly while eating the chips, the girl got a hair in her mouth. It turned out to be a dead baby rat.

The girls grandpa says:

She thought that it was disgusting. She always check the stuff she eat from now on, even if it is a peace of bread. She has got some serious problems, and she has'nt been eating very much in the last two weeks.

She now has scars in her mouth and has 40,5 C in fever (it's normal 37 C)

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So. Right now Sverige (Sweden) is holding it's Melodifestivalen song contest to determine who we are sending to Eurovision 2008.

Each week after the broadcast, the videos are being uploaded to YouTube so the world can see who won that round and will be competing at the Globen in Stockholm for that coveted Eurovision spot.

Well, Apparently now all of sudden today (3 weeks into the contest) SVT (Sverige Television) is getting all uppity and has made YouTube pull all the videos of Bodies Without Organs performance from Round 3.... I have no idea if this will stop with...

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I plan to write a full article on Heimdalls Stenar for a print publication, so this soapbox for Fanpop is just a short overview meant to explain the images I am about to upload. Many Fanpop members will glance at them and be like "umm ok, rocks in a field... big deal."

Well, it is a big deal.

I am sure you are all familiar with Stonehenge in the UK. It has been touristified to hell and back. The thing is, there are bigger and older henges throughout Europe than Stonehenge. The biggest and oldest was Ales Stenar in the Skåne region of Sweden. Ales Stenar is a Viking...

The dollar fell the most against the euro since March as a drop in consumer confidence and record crude oil prices raised concern U.S. economic growth will slow.

IPL Chairman and Commissioner Lalit Modi said as per the ICC rules the WADA team would go about collecting samples from players from today.

Spain national manager Luis Aragones raised eyebrows on Saturday by calling up uncapped players Santi Cazorla and Sergio Garcia for the European Championship finals.

In their report, commissioners GA rard Bouchard and Charles Taylor also wade fearlessly into the English-French debate.

Former captain and leading all-time scorer Raul and Barcelona teenager Bojan Krkic were left out of the Spain squad for Euro 2008 on Saturday.