Hundreds youths hurling rocks, burning cars and smashing windows for the second day in a row in Stockholm say they are protesting against police brutality and inequality. In Sweden, critics of the multiculturalism policies lash out at immigration laws. Seven policemen were injured, at least ten cars and countless containers set on fire, and dozens of windows smashed in several heavily immigrant-populated... 

Swedes stand waiting at a job fair in the northern city of Arjeplog. The Swedish national statistics office has reported that the country’s unemployment rate increased to an unadjusted 8.8 percent, mostly caused by a reckless immigration program. A 2011 Statistics Sweden (SCB) report showed that around 1.858.000 (19.6%) inhabitants of Sweden had foreign background. Statistics Sweden (SCB) published... 

The Iranian female activists have followed the footsteps of the scandalous Ukrainian FEMEN movement, flashing their breasts in protest against the hijab headscarf, women wear in the Islamic world. The action performed by members of the Iranian Communist Party and the Organization Against Violence on Women in Iran took place in the center of the Swedish capital, Stockholm on Sunday, and was dedicated... 

In the Swedish Academy of young translators, new recruits study a crash course in complex languages. It is not only about military discipline: specialists discovered that intensive study of foreign tongues stimulates the growth of the hippocampus and causes changes in other structures of the brain. Learning languages also helps in preventing Alzheimer’s disease. In the Swedish Academy, young... 

New study conducted by Swedish researchers suggests eating chocolate can improve the health of brain and protect the organ against stroke. The researchers from the Karolinska Institute studied the chocolate eating habits of 37,000 Swedish men while observing their health status of for a decade. The participants were divided into four groups based on the amount of chocolate they consumed, with the... 

The Swedish Foreign Minister says Belarus has expelled his country’s ambassador to Minsk “for being too supportive of human rights.” “Outrageous. Shows nature of [President Aleksandr Lukashenko] regime,” Carl Bildt wrote in his twitter micro-blog on Friday. “We have said that the new Belarus ambassador to Sweden is not welcome and have asked two other diplomats to leave,” the minister... 

Here’s another news brief from the backlog that accumulated while I was in Brussels. It’s from our Swedish correspondent PMP, and concerns a recent decision by the Swedish government to extend “free” healthcare to all illegal immigrants. As with similar decisions by the American government concerning “undocumented” migrants from Latin America, the ruling renders the distinction between... 

Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt Following an agreement by Iran and six major world powers (P5+1) to hold expert-level meetings, Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt has stressed the importance of settling Tehran’s nuclear energy issue through political channels. Bildt urged diplomacy on Iran’s nuclear energy program in a Saturday telephone conversation with Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar... 

A “UFO-shaped” object, found at the bottom of the Baltic Sea last year, has puzzled many. And a Swedish expedition that plunged into the deep eventually surfaced with more questions than answers. ­Covered in soot, with little “fireplace”-like structures and lying at the end of a 300-meter “runway” – this is not something you would expect to find sitting on the sea floor. And whatever... 

New Delhi fires a long range missile from Wheeler Island, off the coast of India, in the state of Orissa on April 19, 2012. The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) reports that despite a decline in the total number of nuclear warheads in the world, major atomic arsenals are modernized continuously. At the start of 2012 eight states, the United States, Russia, the United Kingdom,... 

From an unusual method, the study concluded that stripes serve as the best insect repellent… The stripe pattern of three species of zebra was copied to categorically study the reflection of light. Hungarian and Swedish researchers conducted an unusual study that culminated in a good hypothesis about the function of zebra stripes. According to the team, the patterning would be an antidote against... 

WallStreet Journal reports that Sony Corp. is on its way to finish off the deal with Telefon AB L.M. Ericsson, which would make Sony the sole and primary shareholder of the Sony Ericsson joint venture. Created back in 2001, the Sony Ericsson 50-50 joint venture is one of the world’s leading mobile phone manufacturers (the 6th, actually) and has attracted many brand-loyal users through the years. Sony’s... 

Islamic terrorism remains the greatest threat to Sweden, according to Anders Danielsson, head of Sweden’s Security Service (Säpo). Speaking at a seminar on Monday on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the terror attacks on the US on September 11th 2001, Danielsson said that the strength of al-Qaeda had been greatly weakened in recent years. The threat from al-Qaeda could be complicated... 

In light of Norway’s recent “9/11” it is apparent that terrorism has now seriously infected the Scandinavian Peninsula. Norway, however, was not the first country to get a taste of this. On December 11, 2010, suicide bomber Taimour Abdulwahab al-Abdaly blew himself up on the busy shopping street Drottninggatan, in Stockholm, Sweden. So what exactly connects Anders Behring Breivik with this Islamic... 

Södertörn’s fire department, just south of Stockholm, is being sued for actively choosing to hire women and people with foreign background, according to Sveriges Radio (SR). The fire deparment’s gender and ethnicity quota became an unpleasant surprise for Simon Wallmark, who was informed that despite having trained as a firefighter, he was not encouraged to apply for a summer job, on...