Sweden romps against Switzerland wins world title

General Sources - Sunday 19th May, 2013

Martin Rose/Getty Images STOCKHOLM (AP) -- Sweden became the first home team to win the world hockey championships in 27 years, beating Switzerland 5-1 on Sunday for its ninth title. Vancouver Canucks star Henrik Sedin had two goals and an assist, and Buffalo Sabres goalie Jhonas Enroth made 26 saves to help Sweden become the first team to win the title on home ice since the Soviet ...

Eurovision Song Contest 2013 as it happened

The Telegraph - Sunday 19th May, 2013

Arthur House follows the action live as Bonnie Tyler represents the UK in the live grand final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 in ...

Ice hockey-Sweden thump Switzerland to win world championship

General Sources - Sunday 19th May, 2013

ice hockey world championship on home ice on Sunday. The Swedes' victory snapped a nine-game winning streak that carried the unfancied Swiss all the way to their first final since 1935. The Swedes were made to work hard in the beginning and fell behind in the fifth minute when tournament MVP Roman Josi cut across the ice before slotting a backhand shot between the legs of Swedish goalie ...

Swedish family stranded in LA following family emergency

General Sources - Sunday 19th May, 2013

Carson sheriff's deputies and personnel from the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Reserve Forces Bureau provided a stranded Swedish family of seven with food and hotel accommodations after they were spotted walking up Sepulveda Boulevard in Torrance on Friday, May 17, ...

Stranded Swedish family of seven heading back home thanks to Carson sheriffs deputies reserves

Daily News - Sunday 19th May, 2013

A stranded Swedish family of seven, made penniless by airfare changes due to a family emergency, should be on its way home today, Sunday, May 19, 2013, thanks to sheriff's deputies and reservists sympathetic to their plight. Carson station deputies and personnel from the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Reserve Forces Bureau chipped in donations for the family to provide them with food, ...

Tre Kronor are world hockey kings - Swedes beat Swiss for gold

CBC News - Sunday 19th May, 2013

Henrik Sedin scored twice on Sunday as Sweden won the gold medal at the IIHF World Hockey Championship with a 5-1 victory over Switzerland. Earlier, the United States beat Finland 3-2 in a shootout to win bronze. Erik Gustafsson, Simon Hjalmarsson and Loui Eriksson also scored for Sweden, which became the first country to win the title at home since the Soviet Union in 1986. Roman Josi opened ...

Six Wheel Volvo Pickup

Fox News - Sunday 19th May, 2013

What do you think of when you think of Sweden? Meatballs? Chefs? Flat-pack furniture and massive station wagons? We do. Beneath that safe, sensible, clean modern design exterior lies a very different Sweden. It's the country that loves classic American hot rods and big motorcycles, thinks nothing of driving through snow-covered forests at breakneck speeds and creates one-off ...

Swedish Princess Madeleine American fiance attend pre-nuptial service

Middle East Times - Sunday 19th May, 2013

The Swedish royal family attended church Sunday in Stockholm's Royal Chapel for a traditional public announcement of Princess Madeleine's upcoming wedding. Princess Madeleine is scheduled to marry Christopher O'Neill, an American who has declined Swedish citizenship and will remain a U.S. citizen after the wedding -- and therefore will not hold a position of responsibility in the ...

McDowell wins Volvo Match Play championship

RTE - Sunday 19th May, 2013

Graeme McDowell today became the first Irish winner of the Volvo World Match Play Championship with a hard-fought victory over Thongchai Jaidee in Bulgaria. McDowell, runner-up last year to Ryder Cup team-mate Nicolas Colsaerts, only took the lead for the first time in the final on the 14th hole after several vital par saves on the front nine at Thracian Cliffs. But the top seed then birdied ...

On Good Friday at about 2 am two Russian bombers and an escort of four fighters had come within 30-40 kilometers of Swedish airspace allegedly practicing mock attacks upon two specific targets in the Stockholm area and Southern Sweden. Wow

Pravda - Sunday 19th May, 2013

Dateline Dalarna, Sweden: Sometimes truly extraordinary events occur, events which impact an entire nation's people, though, the word 'surreal' perhaps fits better than 'extraordinary' in describing events here during the last third of April. Of course, too much has too long been overblown, the strongest of adjectives too frequently employed to mask the weakest of ...

Nord Stream plans new gas pipelines

The Local - Sunday 19th May, 2013

OAO Gazprom is the majority shareholder in Nord Stream, an international consortium formed in 2005 to plan and construct a 1,224-kilometre natural gas pipeline along the Baltic Sea floor. Now, Nord Stream wants to expand the project by adding one or two more pipelines. The gas pipelines currently under construction will deliver natural gas ...

Royal wedding fever hits Sweden

The Local - Sunday 19th May, 2013

The Swedish royal family gathered in the Royal Chapel in Stockholm on Sunday for the publication of the banns of marriage ahead of the wedding of Princess Madeleine and her ...

Novelist draws a winning hand in ‘Octavo’

General Sources - Sunday 19th May, 2013

 Karen Engelmann’s first novel, set in late 18th-century Stockholm, is a captivating indulgence in political intrigue, romance, societal manners of the time and cartomancy. “The Stockholm Octavo” centers on Emil Larsson, a card player and bon vivant of the Town (that is, Stockholm). He has recently done well enough at the gaming table to purchase a position of responsibility ...

Eurovision 2013 SwedenDenmark winner with Emmelie de Forrest Only Teardrops Video Europe News

National Turk - Sunday 19th May, 2013

Denmark won with Emmelie de Forrest the Eurovision song contest, but still unsurpassed for Eastern European block vote,if you need to re-singing contest Eastern Eur0peans must get of the ...

Denmark wins Eurovision on ABBA’s turf with folksy ballad

Global Times - Sunday 19th May, 2013

Denmark's Emmelie de Forest won Eurovision on Saturday before an international TV audience of around 125 million, clinching the coveted crown of euro-pop with a folksy ballad backed by a wall of fire, flutes and drums.The barefoot 20-year-old blonde stole the show as predicted by bookmakers with "Only Teardrops" in a final that saw 26 countries battle it out in the southern ...