Saturday 31st July, 2010
Balciunaite wins women's marathon at Europeans
(AP) — BARCELONA, Spain - Zivile Balciunaite of Lithuania won the women's marathon at the European Championships. Balciunaite went around the streets of Barcelona on Saturday in 2 hours, 31 mi...
Biogen Idec And Swedish Orphan Biovitrum Present Data On Long-Lasting Hemophilia B Therapy At The World Federation Of Hemophilia Congress
0 posts Biogen Idec (NASDAQ: BIIB) and Swedish Orphan Biovitrum AB (STO: SOBI) announced results from a Phase 1/2a open-label, dose-escalation, safety and pharmacokinetic study of the companies' long-...
Woman gets damages for pregnancy job snub
A 29-year-old woman is to receive 100,000 kronor ($14,000) in damages after reaching an out of court settlement with a home electronics store in western Sweden which cited her pregnancy as grounds for...
British Airways Announces First Scandinavian Route from London City to Copenhagen
24 / 7 Press ReleaseBritish Airways announces September plans to start a new service from London City to Copenhagen, operated by BA CityFlyer, a wholly owned subsidiary of the airline.
Feofanova wins women's pole vault at Europeans
eTaiwan NewsSvetlana Feofanova of Russia won the women's pole vault at the European Championships on Friday.Feofanova leapt a European season-best 4.75 meters at Barcelona's Olympic stadium and watched as German ...
Former Swedish police chief is jailed for rape
The IndependentA former chief constable in Sweden, who was known for lecturing on gender equality and sexual harassment, has been jailed for six and-a-half years for rape and other sex crimes. Goran Lindberg, forme...
Sounders trade Swede Ljungberg to the Fire
ReutersCHICAGO (Reuters) - Former Sweden and Arsenal midfielder Freddie Ljungberg has been traded by the Seattle Sounders to the Chicago Fire, the Major League Soccer team said Friday.
Sweden calls on European Commision to act on Roma rights
General Sources) - Sweden's government Friday called for the European Commission to act on the rights of Europe's Roma community, saying their situation was "alarming". "Given the alarming situation, the Swedish go...
"Romani people are deported without legal reason"
Stockholm NewsSweden deports Romani people without proper legal reason. This claims former Liberal People’s Party (Sw: Folkpartiet) chairman Maria Leissner, now chairman for the government’s committee on Romani...
BlackBerry maker RIM races past Sony Ericsson in mobile phone sales
The Triangle Business JournalResearch in Motion improved its share of the mobile phone market to 3.5 percent in the second quarter, according to figures released Friday by research firm IDC. Research in Motion (Nasdaq: RIMM), wh...
Nordic Extremist Groups Intensify Collaboration
YLE NewsNeo-Nazis in Finland, Sweden and Norway have intensified their collaboration in recent years. YLE's Swedish language news reports that leaders of the Finnish extremist group Kansallinen vastarinta m...
Century-old steamers inspire nostalgia in Stockholm's waters
BreitbartSitting in an armchair on the sun-soaked bridge of the vintage Stockholm steamer SS Storskaer, 84-year-old Stieg Dingertz, dressed to a tee, savours a special day out on the Baltic sea. Some 60 yea...
Sweden News.Net now hosts our own daily newsletter. Readers are encouraged to register to receive our daily newsletter by mail
