Ride a train north from Stockholm to Lapland, and you'll be transported from one of the most cultured, orderly cities in the world to the eerie, untamed beauty of Arctic wilderness.
Skiing, shopping, camping, Stockholm, hiking, glass and glass factories, good food, festivals, Viking history, art, culture, beaches and beautiful scenery are Sweden's foremost attractions.
The country will appeal to travelers who want to spend time outdoors, who like a slow pace and who will enjoy the sophisticated, cultured experiences Stockholm offers.
Finnish PM hopes for consensus on constitutional reform NewsRoom Finland Matti Vanhanen (centre), Finland's prime minister, would not comment on Friday on the issue of changing the president's powers in a possible Finnish constitutional reform. Mr...
Bike fetishist fined by Swedish court Earth Times Stockholm - A Swedish court Friday convicted a man on three counts of sexual molestataton, ordering him to pay damages to three women after he was found guilty of masturbating on bicycle saddles. The...
Indian traffic fuelling Finnair Sweden News.Net Indian traffic has been one of the major factors for the Nordic airline Finnair's Asian expansion contributing more than half of its revenues last year, says the airline's president and chief executive Jukka Hienonen.
Read taps veteran crew for Volvo Ocean Race Examiner Two America's Cup champions and a two-time Olympic medalist are among the veteran sailors chosen by skipper Ken Read to crew PUMA Ocean Racing in the 37,000-mile Volvo Ocean Race.PUMA Ocean Racing is...
Swedish Parliament OKs plans to start dismant... Canadian Business 2008 - 12:40 a.m. Lawmakers have approved plans to restructure Sweden's state-owned pharmacy chain Apoteket in a first step toward ending the monopoly on sales...
Decreasing EU development aid worries Finland NewsRoom Finland Tarja Halonen, Finland's president, met with seven other EU presidents at an unofficial gathering on Tuesday and Wednesday in Graz, Austria, the president's office said in a...
Europe Day celebrated in 18 localities around Finland NewsRoom Finland Europe Day is being celebrated at 18 different localities around Finland on Friday. The main Europe Day event is organised in Hämeenlinna, where the speakers include Finland's EU...
HEAT warhead stolen from Finnish army base -police NewsRoom Finland A 66 mm high-explosive anti-tank warhead used by the Finnish Defence Forces has gone missing in Helsinki and may have been stolen, the police warned in a statement Friday. ...
All Finns known to be in Burma unharmed by cyclone -foreign ministry NewsRoom Finland Finland's embassy in Thailand has confirmed that all the Finnish citizens who were known to be in Burma when cyclone Nargis struck have now been reached, the foreign ministry said...
Finnish flag carrier Finnair to start flights to Yekaterinburg NewsRoom Finland Finnish flag carrier Finnair announced Friday that it will start flying to Yekaterinburg, east of the Ural mountains in Russia. The new route will be flown from Helsinki three...
Finnish defence chief to visit Croatia NewsRoom Finland Admiral Juhani Kaskeala, the chief of the Finnish Defence Forces, is to travel to Croatia on an official visit on Monday, the defence forces said in a statement Friday. The...
Europeans get drunk BBC Professor Mark Bellis The researchers said although it was well known that use of alcohol and drugs was linked to risky sexual behaviour, this study showed many young people were &strategically&...
Drowning deaths peak in Finland during spring of 2008 NewsRoom Finland More Finns have drowned in the beginning of this year than at the beginning of any other year during the whole decade, indicate preliminary figures released on Friday. In total 41...
Finnish manufacturing orders fall 3.1 pct yr/yr in March NewsRoom Finland The volume of new orders received by Finnish manufacturing in March was down 3.1 per cent year-on-year, Statistics Finland said in a statement on Friday. The textile industry...
Chadian police expected to release Finnish peacekeepers soon NewsRoom Finland Finnish peacekeepers detained by local police in Chad were expected to be released on Friday, the Finnish Defence Command told the Finnish News Agency on Friday morning. ...
Intel wins bid for Sweden WiMax San Francisco Chronicle 05-08) 13:29 - Intel Corp. dove further into the cellular business on Thursday, becoming one of the winners in Sweden's auction of licenses for nationwide wireless...
Sweden, Germany victorious at Worlds Inside Baltimore Sweden recorded a decisive win while Germany shocked its opponent on Monday in preliminary round play at the 2008 World Hockey Championship.After escaping Belarus with a 6-5 win in its first...
Sweden welcomes two but loses Wallin to suspension Reuters But the Olympic champions will be without Niclas Wallin after the defenseman was handed a two-game suspension for hitting an opposing team member on the head.
Skandia launches online business protection website08.05.2008 Congoo Skandia has launched a new online business protection website and set of tools to help advisers guide clients on the essentials of business protection. The site looks at how best to cover the key...
Volvo Targets Injury-Proof Car by 2020 Extreme Tech The destruction of the orange sedan with its slapdash paintwork may have been intentional but it was far from wanton. It was all part of Volvo's bid to create an...
Intel Continues to Invest in WiMax, Buys Swedish 4G License CIO 2008 — IDG News Service — For the second day running Intel has made an investment to ensure the success of WiMax. Intel Capital is one of the winners in the Swedish 4G...
Sony Ericsson Z770i mobile phone The Register Fans of clamshell phones may feel a touch hard done by when it comes to Sony Ericsson. Despite some desirably stylish Walkman and Cyber-shot designs, the real style icons to date have tended to be...
DT, Ericsson rise; Clearwire, Sprint fall Market Watch U.s.-listed shares of Deutsche Telekom AG and LM Ericsson Telephone Co. topped trading Thursday in the telecommunications sector, but Clearwire Corp. and Sprint Nextel...
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