With Sweden's Princess Estelle's christening just days away, the Royal Court on Friday released new images of the infant princess and her proud parents, Crown Princess Victoria and Prince Daniel.
A job ad for a personal assistant for a 35-year-old man who wanted an "easily trained" woman and was prepared to offer a clothing allowance, has been pulled due to a flood of applications from women eager to fill the position.
Ikea is sacking four managers at its French subsidiary following allegations that they spied on employees and customers using an illegal police database, the Swedish home furnishing retailer announced on Friday.
Two South Africans will stand trial in July in the murder case of Swedish honeymooner Anni Dewani, despite the delay in the extradition of her British husband from the UK, a judge said on Friday.
Abba's famous refrain fails to capture the true cause for concern when Swedish politicians leave government to fatten their wallets in the private sector, argues commentator and historian David Linden.
The manufacturer of the bikini suspected of having caused severe bust-line burns on a Swedish woman claims that test results reveal the beach garment is not responsible for the woman's scorched skin.
The editor-in-chief of Swedish tabloid Expressen and two other journalists with the paper have been convicted of weapons crimes related to a report about how easy it is to buy guns in Malmö in southern Sweden.
Racist comments on the Stockholm police's Facebook page beneath a plea for tips from the public have prompted a backlash from the Swedish Bar Association over how police use social media.
It's enough to make some choke on their choc ice - a new survey shows that not only are plenty of Germans happy to go naked on the beach, a worryingly high proportion may even try to strike up conversation with other holidaymakers.
German baritone singer Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, hailed as one of the greatest lyrical vocalists of the last century, has died at the age of 86, a close associate said on Friday.
The European women's Champions League final was decided Thursday but you wouldn't have noticed, as only two million people bothered to watch the live televised match.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel left her conservative party somewhat shell-shocked with her merciless sacking of a minister for a terrible regional election result that weakened her domestically as she fights the euro crisis.
Ah, there you are Mr Local Reader, how nice of you to... drop in. This week's Local List turns the spotlight - sorry, the megawatt interrogation lamp - on Germany's cold-blooded coterie of Hollywood film villains.
Some sex abusers should continue to work for the Catholic church, a bishop said on Thursday, while a cardinal argued for some homosexual relationships to be treated like heterosexual ones.
The eurozone could absorb a Greek exit from the bloc, although it would prove extremely costly, a top member of German Chancellor Angela Merkel's junior coalition partners said on Friday.
A German politician not only had the embarrassment of being stopped trying to board a plane carrying an axe - he then had to admit it was for a live role-playing game, but insisted it was for a friend.
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">The Council of States wants to change the law so that people cannot claim political asylum because they have deserted their country’s army. The aim is to make it harder for Eritreans to seek asylum in Switzerland.</p>
<p>Foreign Minister Didier Burkhalter wants to have a presence at the 2015 World Expo in order to improve Switzerland’s image in Italy.</p>
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<p>Swiss luxury goods group Richemont posted a steep rise in annual net profit on Wednesday as Asian demand for watches and jewellery showed no signs of abating.</p>
<p>Swiss bank Wegelin, accused by US authorities of conspiring to help clients escape tax payments, has once again refused to appear before a US court claiming on Wednesday the summons was "invalid."</p>
<p>Ernst Bromeis, the Swiss swimmer who set out to swim the length of the Rhine, has given up his quest after about 400 kilometres due to health concerns.</p>
<p>A centuries-old diamond passed down through generations of European royalty fetched nine million francs ($9.7 million) at auction in Geneva on Tuesday.</p>
<p><strong><span lang="EN-GB">Dubbed the ‘king of kitsch,’ Jeff Koons is perhaps the world’s most famous living artist – or to quote the Fondation Beyeler in Basel that has dedicated its summer exhibition to his work, “one of the most influential artists of all time.” </span></strong></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">A couple in the southern town of Cannes have been able to escape a string of parking fines by registering a car in the name of their four-year-old son.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">A woman in her fifties is being questioned by police after admitting she put sleeping tablets and tranquillisers in drinks she made for her neighbours.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">A man who took two flights a month to Paris' Charles de Gaulle airport just to steal the bags of other passengers has been caught by police.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Patrons at Paris's "Crazy Horse" breathed a sigh of relief on Thursday as topless dancers got back on stage following the first-ever strike over pay at the famed cabaret.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">French leader Francois Hollande's new Socialist government got down to work on Thursday with the first order of business a symbolic 30 percent pay cut for the president and ministers.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">A decision to let an 83-year-old man keep his wild boar at home has given hope to another French family who have been separated from the wild fox they adopted two years ago.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">An inquiry has been opened after confusion in a hospital mortuary led to the wrong woman being cremated.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Disgraced ex-IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn is seeking more than $1 million in a countersuit against the New York hotel maid whose accusation of sexual assault last year brought down his glittering political career.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Francois Hollande had quite a first day as French president: swearing in, Champs Elysees parade in torrential rain, then a lightning strike to his plane en route to meet the world's most powerful woman.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">French President Francois Hollande named Jean-Marc Ayrault, the head of the Socialist bloc in parliament and mayor of Nantes, as his prime minister on Tuesday.</span></p>
Former Manchester United striker Ole-Gunnar Solskjær is the subject of interest from Aston Villa regarding the vacant manager's job, his Norwegian club Molde have confirmed.
Norway's ice hockey world championship dreams came to an end on the country's national day on Thursday, falling victim to an ultimately commanding display by Russia who ran out 5-2 winners.
A young survivor of self-confessed killer Anders Behring Breivik's massacre on a Norwegian island told his trial Wednesday how
she stayed alive by hiding behind the dead bodies of her friends.
A crafty Norwegian who has become famous for demanding cash for goods that have passed their expiration date has managed to rack up a 40,000-kroner ($6,700) profit in the last three weeks alone.
The Norwegian government pointed to the strength of the national economy on Tuesday in presenting a revised 2012 budget with a
larger surplus, but it revised down growth prospects for the year.
A man set himself on fire on Tuesday outside the Oslo courthouse where Anders Behring Breivik is on trial for killing 77 people last year, but there was no evidence the two events were linked, police said.
Locals recovered at least five three bodies from river Padma after two speedboats capsized amid Nor’wester in Kathalbari Ghat area of Mawa-Kaorakandi shipping route of the district on Friday night.
Parveen Akhter, wife of Slain BRAC official Mohiuddin, Friday expressed her hope to meet Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in order to inform her that the killing incident of her husband was preplanned.
A woman and her son died and two other family members fell sick after having beverage at village Naltor under Manda upazila in the district on Friday afternoon.
An official of Rajshahi Education Board was killed as a motorbike knocked him down in front of Shaheed AHM Quamruzzaman divisional stadium in city’s New Bilsimla area on Friday evening.
Thousands of people have taken to the streets in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, activists say, in the biggest protests there since the revolt began.
A family of moose has taken up residence in a city park, where police have increased patrols to keep residents and the animals safe.
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At the protest camp near Barrikadnaya metro station late Wednesday, police detained around 30 demonstrators for offenses that included slashing the tires of a police vehicle.
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The head of independent pollster the Levada Center said President Vladimir Putin's attractiveness to the public is not only shrinking, but the damage is irreversible.
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A Siberian man got stuck in a trash chute while trying to hide from his girlfriend, the regional branch of the Emergency Situations Ministry in Tyumen said in a report on their site Thursday.
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The director of a Moscow museum was detained at Domodedovo airport with a 17th-century icon worth $1 million, police said, but there was confusion over whether the man had been authorized to bring the icon into the country.
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Ill-tempered air travelers might want to think twice before throwing a fit at 35,000 feet on Aeroflot. If the airline gets its way, they could be blacklisted.
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Half a century ago, this town on the White Sea coast was a supply mecca for residents of the nearby metropolis Arkhangelsk, who regularly made the 35-kilometer trip just to buy sausage, which was usually available in the well-stocked stores of strategically important defense industry centers.
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Television humorist Mikhail Zhvanetsky criticized President Putin's inauguration motorcade on state television, saying it looked "disinfected" and "wiped with alcohol."
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A tractor in the Siberian region of Tomsk slammed into a bus stop on a rural road, killing one person instantly and sending two others to the hospital, where they later died, police said in a statement on their website Wednesday.
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A court in Sevastopol, Ukraine has acquitted a Russian defense contractor on espionage charges after he spent two-and-a-half years in prison for buying a piece of outdated Soviet equipment from Ukrainian partners.
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More than 20 monarchs gather to celebrate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee, with protests over the inclusion of the controversial heads of Bahrain and Swaziland.
Frenzied buying pushes Facebook shares higher in early trade, but by the end of session the Nasdaq's newest stock closes just above its $38 open price.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel told Greece's president Friday she hoped the uncertainty over its government would be resolved as soon as possible, a German government spokeswoman said.
France's newly elected President Francois Hollande said Friday that he is sticking to his campaign pledge to remove his country's forces from Afghanistan by the end of the year.
Syrian forces opened fire Friday on anti-government demonstrators in Aleppo, the opposition claimed, a day after thousands purportedly took to the streets calling for an end to the regime in a city widely considered a stronghold of President Bashar al-Assad.
Six roasted fetuses covered with gold for black magic rituals were found in a Bangkok hotel room, and the gruesome discovery led to the arrest of a British citizen Friday, Thai police said.
Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri urged people in Saudi Arabia to follow the example set by popular revolutions in Egypt, Libya and Tunisia and rise up.
Doctors' attempts to combat rare, aggressive bacteria that have infected a University of West Georgia graduate student have suffered a further setback: 24-year-old Aimee Copeland's remaining foot and both her hands were amputated, according to a blog on the school's website.
Donna Summer died of lung cancer, but the singer wasn't a smoker, and the cancer wasn't related to smoking, her family's representative said Friday.
A telephone conversation on Friday between Germany’s chancellor and Greece’s president became the latest flashpoint in the unfolding crisis over Greece’s membership in the euro.
The United Nations nuclear monitoring agency said its leader would meet with the top nuclear negotiator in Iran, signaling greater urgency by both sides to resolve their dispute.
Medellín, Colombia, once famed for murder and cocaine, is now drawing notice for its ambitious urban projects, many aimed at easing life in the city’s slums.
At the end of his career, Dr. Robert L. Spitzer has reached a painful conclusion: “I believe,” he wrote in a letter, “I owe the gay community an apology.”
The arrests of a group of generals were without precedent in recent memory, and reports suggested that other key figures in the drug war could be arrested.
Lai Changxing, a peasant-turned-billionaire, was given a life sentence on Friday for his role in a corruption scandal, according to the state news media.
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The king of Bahrain, whose regime has been accused of rights abuses, was among nearly 50 foreign royals at a lunch Friday to mark the diamond jubilee of Britain's Queen Elizabeth II.
King Hamad, whose Persian... Read more]]>
FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) — Hundreds of firefighters worked Thursday to combat a growing blaze that was scorching terrain around a scenic canyon in northern Colorado.
Ground efforts were being supported by a heavy air tanker and helicopters that together are capable of dropping thousands of gallons of fire retardant and water on the spreading flames.
U.S. Forest Service officials said the blaze about 20 miles northwest of Fort Collins grew from about 1.5... Read more]]>
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — A crowded overnight bus plunged off a bridge into a river in central Vietnam, killing 34 people and injuring 21 others in one of the country's deadliest road accidents.
The 50-seat coach lost control and ripped through the bridge's guardrails Thursday night, diving about 18 meters (60 feet) and landing on its top, partially submerged in the Serepok River, said local official Tran Bao Que.
"When the accident happened, everyone... Read more]]>
Bahraini forces backed by Saudi regime have again clashed with pro-democracy protesters near the Persian Gulf Kingdom’s capital Manama.
Security forces attacked the pro-democracy protesters on Friday with sound grenades and teargas canisters, reports said.
Thousands of protesters had taken to the streets across the country.
Activists said several protesters were injured during the clashes.
Once again demonstrators called for the release of prominent human rights activist... Read more]]>
TOKYO (Dow Jones) -- Japan's industry minister on Friday questioned whether a U.S. court order seeking to freeze Iranian assets held at a Japanese bank applies outside the U.S., adding that Tokyo has raised the matter with the U.S. government to ensure the order will not disrupt Japan's crude oil supplies.
Japan's largest bank, Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, said Thursday that it froze financial transactions with the Iranian government and its central bank... Read more]]>
SHIRAZ Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast has said that Iran plans to take legal action against Google over its decision to leave the Persian Gulf nameless on its online map service.
“One of the seditious measures taken in line with the soft war against the Iranian nation has been Google’s shameless act to remove the name of the Persian Gulf which is inconsistent with historical documents,” Mehmanparast said on Thursday.
“The country’s diplomatic apparatus... Read more]]>
TEHRAN - Iranian worshippers across the country held demonstrations after Friday prayers to protest the decision recently made by Persian Gulf Arab states to discuss a proposal for a closer political union that could begin with Saudi Arabia and Bahrain.
In the demonstration that was held outside the University of Tehran, the worshippers chanted slogans in condemnation of the proposal and the Bahraini government’s wrong policies and expressed their support for the... Read more]]>
TEHRAN - Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has said that certain officials’ apathy will not cause the movement of the Iranian nation to divert from its correct path.
The Leader made the remarks in Tehran on Friday during a meeting with a number of war veterans who fought for the country during the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war.
If the country’s officials follow the correct path, they will encourage the society... Read more]]>
TEHRAN - Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev warned on Thursday that military action against sovereign states could lead to a regional nuclear war, starkly voicing Moscow’s opposition to Western intervention ahead of a G8 summit at which Syria and Iran will be discussed, Reuters reported.
The 38th G8 summit is to be held in Camp David, Maryland, from May 18 to 19.
“Hasty military operations in foreign states usually bring radicals to power,” Medvedev,... Read more]]>
TEHRAN - Bahrain’s charge d’affaires to Tehran was summoned to the Foreign Ministry on Thursday to hear Iran’s concerns about the course of events in the Persian Gulf sheikhdom.
During his meeting with the Bahraini envoy, a Foreign Ministry official dismissed the recent claims by Bahraini Foreign Minister Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa that Iran is interfering in the Arab country’s internal affairs.
According to AFP, the Bahraini foreign minister warned Iran on Thursday... Read more]]>
