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Norwegian's CEO Bjørn Kjos announces the end of the strike at a press conference in Oslo. Photo: Terje Pedersen/NTB scanpix/TT

Norwegian strike ends as pilot unions accept deal

The bitter strike between Norwegian and its Scandinavian pilots has come to an end after unions won legal and financial guarantees from the airline's parent company. READ

Sweden's PM Stefan Löfven. Photo: Rolf Höjer/TT

Controversial Saudi arms deal scrapped by Sweden

UPDATED: Sweden's government will not extend a controversial military cooperation agreement with Saudi Arabia, Prime Minister Stefan Löfven has confirmed. The announcement comes after the Arab League slammed comments by Sweden's Foreign Minister Margot Wallström about human rights violations in the oil rich state. READ

A Swedish teenager unconnected to this case. Photo: TT

‘Well-developed’ teen loses child rape case

A Swedish girl who says she was raped by a 27-year-old man when she was just 13 has lost her appeal against his acquittal after a court ruled that the man could not have known she was under age because of her “well developed” body. READ

Police are investigating the attack in December. Photo: TT

Fire service raps mosque fire ‘fat fryer’ claims

The lead investigator looking into the fire at a mosque in central Sweden on Christmas Day has told The Local it is ‘very unlikely’ the damage was caused by an overheated deep fat fryer, despite contradictory comments from a police source on Monday. READ

08/02 Stockholm imam receives death threats »
20/01 'Something is going wrong in Sweden' »
14/01 Swedish Muslims react to new Charlie Hebdo »

Opinion

Demonstrators at an International Women's Day rally in Stockholm. Photo: Jonas Ekströmer/TT

'Sweden is not some kind of equality paradise'

It's time to challenge the image of Sweden as the world's gender equality frontrunner, writes Cecilia Schelin Seidegård, head of the Swedish government's special inquiry on gender equality. READ

Four people wearing sunglasses and wigs snatched a baby. Photo: Hasse Holmberg/TT

Grandparents put on disguises to snatch baby

Four members of the same family have each been sentenced to six months in jail after they dressed up in wigs and sunglasses and made off with a baby in southern Sweden. READ

Sweden's prime minister Stefan Löfven. Photo: Jonas Ekströmer/TT

Löfven on Saudi snub: 'We stand by criticism'

Sweden was right to criticize Saudi Arabia’s human rights abuses, Prime Minister Stefan Löfven has said, a day after Saudi diplomats barred the Swedish foreign minister from addressing the Arab League. READ

Left, Emmylou Harris, Photo: Veronique Roland. Right, Evelyn Glennie, Photo: Jim Callaghan

Emmylou Harris wins Sweden's top music prize

American singer Emmylou Harris and Scottish percussionist Evelyn Glennie have been announced as the winners of Sweden's prestigious Polar Music Prize 2015. READ

Activists want gender neutral toilets in Sweden. Photo: Shutterstock

Swedish activists push for gender neutral toilets

No more “I'll just pop to the ladies'”, or “have you seen the queue over at the gents'?” Transgender activists have been covering public toilet signs with stickers as part of a campaign to make more toilets in Sweden gender neutral. READ

Botkyrka outside Stockholm is one of the most segregated areas in Sweden. Photo: Maja Suslin/SCANPIX

'Segregation in Sweden will continue to rise'

Segregation between ethnic Swedes and people from foreign backgrounds has widened in the past two decades in some of the biggest towns in Sweden, according to the Dagens Nyheter daily. READ

Features

My Swedish Career

Shai Dahan (R) and the original Dala horse mural (L) that launched his street art career. Photos: Private

Artist rides on back of Dala horse success

Israeli-born American graphic designer and street artist Shai Dahan gained media attention when he painted a Dala horse in his town of Borås. He tells The Local how the criminal act launched his career. READ

The Local List

Death Team are one of the acts on our list this week. Photo: Death Team

The Local's top Swedish songs of the month

The Local's resident pop music guru, Paul Connolly, has a bumper selection of great tracks to welcome in the warmth of spring. READ

The Local Recipes

Traditional Swedish 'knäckebröd'. Photo: Leif R Jansson/SCANPIX

How to bake traditional Swedish crispbread

The art of baking your own bread has been making a comeback in trendier hipster circles in Sweden. Here, food writer John Duxbury shares his recipe of traditional Swedish crispbread ('knäckebröd'). Sure, it's easy to buy in the shop - but like all bread it tastes so much better when you make it yourself. READ

The Local List

Talking and texting is easier in warmer weather. Photo: Susanne Walström/Image Bank Sweden

Seven silly signs winter is over in Sweden

The snow has melted in large parts of Sweden, but there are plenty more clues that spring is on the way, from previously hibernating colleagues suddenly arranging midweek beers to busy barber shops. Here's The Local's unofficial guide to the end of Swedish winter. READ

Opinion

Migrants rescued in the Pozzallo harbour, Sicily last month. Photo: TT

Why can't refugees travel to Sweden legally?

Refugees should not be forced to make dangerous journeys to Europe in order to seek asylum, argues Liberal Party MEP Cecilia Wikström, who also wants to see other EU states joining Sweden and Germany in taking in more people from war-torn nations. READ

More News

The man stole money from parking meters over a ten-year period. Photo: Jessica Gow/TT

Parking guard told to pay back stolen millions

A former security guard for a Swedish parking company has been ordered to pay back over 11 million kronor ($1.3m) he stole from parking meters in Malmö. READ

Stockholmers enjoying the sun as temperatures soared on Sunday. Photo: Hasse Holmberg/TT

Sweden enjoys hottest day of the year at 18.7C

Sweden recorded its hottest day of the year yesterday with temperatures soaring higher than in Rome, Athens and Barcelona – and one Swedish town breaking a 64-year-old record. READ

Saudi Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal. Photo: AP/TT

Saudi rejection 'a punch in the nose' for Sweden

Sweden’s national debate about a controversial arms deal has sparked anger in Saudi Arabia and formed the backdrop to its move to block the Swedish foreign minister’s planned speech at the Arab League, according to an expert on Saudi politics. READ

Sony Mobile chief executive Bengt Arne Molin at a press conference in Lund on Monday. Photo: Ola Torkelsson/TT

Sony to slash 1,000 jobs in southern Sweden

UPDATED: Nearly half of the work force at Sony Mobile's facility in Lund, Sweden, will be laid off in a money-saving move, the company confirmed at a press conference on Monday afternoon. READ

Norwegian's flights in Scandinavia have been cancelled since Wednesday. Photo: Johan Nilsson/TT

Norwegian pilots' strike 'nearing resolution'

A ten-day pilots' strike which has seen nearly all of budget airline Norwegian's Scandinavian flights grounded since Wednesday could be one step closer to a resolution, reported Norway's newspaper Verdens Gang on Monday. READ

Police investigate after three people were found dead in Uddevalla, Sweden. Photo: Björn Larsson Rosvall/TT

Swedish police quiz two in triple murder case

Two brothers were being held by police on Monday over a triple murder in the town of Uddevalla in western Sweden on Saturday. READ

Travellers have been forced to walk up and down the escalator steps at Östermalmstorg. Photo: Yvonne Åsell/SvD/TT

Shut-down escalators get back in action in capital

Commuters in Stockholm have welcomed the return to action of three escalators in the capital's underground system, bringing to a partial end a three-week escalator shutdown prompted by a serious accident. READ 2 comments

Photo: TT

Bomb threat targets Swedish newspaper

The offices of a Swedish local newspaper were evacuated on Saturday evening following an anonymous bomb threat. READ

Report: mistakes made in Swedish forest fire fight

Last summer’s massive forest fire in Västmanland might have been less serious if the response had been different, a new report said. Mistakes by emergency services, communes and counties made a bad situation worse. READ 7 comments

Women in Tech

'Swedish women are strong and ambitious'

The second annual Women in Technology conference took place on Friday. The Local spoke to the founder and participants about why such an event is both necessary and popular – even in gender-equal Sweden. READ

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From our other editions:

Vienna's Stephansdom. Photo: APA/Fohringer

Vienna is 'best city in world for quality of life'

The Austrian capital has been dubbed the city with the best quality of life in the world for expats for the second year in a row. READ

Zurich by night: costly but high quality of life, too. Photo: Switzerland Tourism

Franc makes Zurich and Geneva 'costliest cities'

UPDATED: Residents of Zurich and Geneva already know their cities are costly places to live — but now they have more proof. READ

Deputy Green Bundestag leader Katja Dörner and drug policy spokesman Harald Terbe. Photo: DPA

Cannabis lovers greet Green legalization plan

Pro-legalization campaigners welcomed a draft law presented by the Green party on Wednesday that would allow adults to consume cannabis under strict conditions. READ

Mumbly McGees Nikolaj Lie Kaas and Mads Mikkelsen from the film Mænd og Høns. Photo: Rolf Konow

Not even the Danes can understand Danish

Danish actors mumble so badly that Danes can't understand what they are saying, forcing movie theatres to run subtitles. READ

Photo: Lluis Gene/AFP

What country is Catalonia most like?

In an interview with CNBC, Catalan president Artur Mas proudly claimed that an independent Catalonia would be similar to Denmark or Austria. The Local has done some number-crunching to see how it truly measures up to other European nations. READ

Paris is pricey but it's not all bad news. Photo: AFP

Paris is pricey, but is that good news for Parisians?

Paris has once again been named the world’s second most expensive city in a global study this week, meaning it's pricier than the likes of Oslo, Zurich and Sydney. But those behind the report say it's not all bad news for people living in the French capital. READ

Plans are underway to bring an Islamic University to Lecce, in Puglia. Photo: Lecce photo: Shutterstock

How Islamic college plan has split Italian town

Plans to build an Islamic university for 5,000 students in a small town in Italy's heel will help change attitudes towards Muslims, organizers say. But many locals are afraid that it will change the character of Lecce - and are asking who's paying for it. READ

A clip from the film Monkey LSD Suicide. Photo: Screen Grab

LSD 'self-acceptance' may cut suicide risk

Forget tales of first-year college kids dropping acid and then leaping from their seventh story dorm windows. According to a new Norwegian study, “self acceptance” gained through LSD-use may actually reduce the risk of suicidal behaviour. READ

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Tuesday, March 10, 2015

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