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Several people killed after bus crashes into bus stop in Stockholm

Roads were closed as rescue teams raced to the scene on Friday afternoon

The Independent UK

Image of burn survivor wins Taylor Wessing photo portrait prize

Stockholm-based photographer Martina Holmberg takes £15,000 first prize for portrait of Mel, who survived car fire

The Guardian - UK

Slow-paced and low-cost: Why you should do a bus and train odyssey around Scandinavia this winter

Scandinavia is one of Europe’s most expensive destinations, but choosing the right transport can mean considerable savings.

Euronews

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87 Ugly, Unaesthetic And Depressing Buildings That Give Modern Architecture A Bad Name

Attractiveness may be subjective, but we all have a sense of what an unappealing image looks like. The following structures you will see fall under that category, and seeing them may provide you with a sensible explanation as to why. Scroll through and see some of the “ugliest” structures around…

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Eight winter clothing essentials Scandinavians swear by – from heated socks to ‘allværsjakke’

Brace for the cold with these clever accessories made and tested by people who know long, dark winters

The Guardian - US

Grand Hotel, Stockholm, hotel review

HOTELS: Benjamin Parker visits the grande dame of Stockholm’s hotel scene to experience the very best of Scandinavian luxury with opulent interiors and a world-class cocktail bar

The Independent UK

How Stockholm Used a $3 Toll To Tame Its Traffic Congestion

Swedes initially hated the congestion pricing experiment. After they witnessed the effects, they voted to bring it back.

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Not to be: Hamlet rages in Stockholm against the political closure of a cultural institution

The experimental annexe of Sweden’s national stage, Elverket, has fallen victim to severe government cuts. Its final play is a powerful protest against being forced to leave its home

The Guardian - UK

My dad cursed our family and left us. But after his death, he followed me everywhere

His absence shaped me. But as my father lay dying in a Stockholm nursing home, I longed to hear him explain, says Swedish novelist Jonas Hassen Khemiri

The Guardian - UK

Up to 20,000 coins from Early Middle Ages discovered by man digging for worms near Stockholm

A man digging for worms at his summer house in Sweden has unearthed a stupendous treasure: a silver hoard of up to 20,000 coins from the Early Middle Ages.

LiveScience

László Krasznahorkai wins the Nobel prize in literature 2025

Hungarian novelist celebrated for dystopian, melancholic novels that ‘reaffirm the power of art’

The Guardian - UK

Nobel prize in literature 2025 as it happened: László Krasznahorkai wins ‘for his compelling and visionary oeuvre’

Nobel academy cites Hungarian novelist for work that ‘in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art’

The Guardian - UK

The Nobel Prize in physics is to be announced Tuesday

The Nobel Prize in Physics will be announced by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm

The Independent UK

The Nobel Prize in medicine will be announced Monday, starting this year's awards

The 2025 Nobel Prizes are starting Monday with the medicine prize being announced by a panel at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm

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Home Office missed chances to assess man who died on Bibby Stockholm, coroner finds

‘Distraught’ Leonard Farruku, 27, was found dead in shower cubicle on Dorset barge

Evening Standard

Home Office ‘missed opportunities’ to assess asylum seeker who took his own life

Leonard Farruku died onboard the Bibby Stockholm in December 2023.

PC Gamer

2 months after halting work on its latest project, Just Cause developer Avalanche is closing its Liverpool studio and laying off employees in Malmö and Stockholm

Avalanche, which halted work on Contraband following Microsoft's massive layoffs in July, says the closure and cuts are necessary "in light of current challenges to our business and the industry."

Evening Standard

Man who died onboard Bibby Stockholm ‘had not raised concerns’ about barge

Leonard Farruku died on the barge providing accommodation for asylum seekers in December 2023.

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The Guardian - UK

Deserted islands, seagrass meadows and endless ocean: kayaking in Sweden’s new marine national park

In Nämdöskärgården, in the Stockholm archipelago, low-impact tourism is helping visitors appreciate the region’s fragile ecology and ocean conservation efforts

Evening Standard

Man who died on Bibby Stockholm ‘tricked’ into going to barge, inquest hears

Albanian Leonard Farruku was ‘distraught’ and had ‘point blank’ refused to go the accommodation vessel.

The Independent UK

Man who died on Bibby Stockholm ‘point blank’ refused to go on barge, inquest hears

Leonard Farruku’s family claim he was ‘tricked’ to move to the accommodation vessel

Euronews

Gun crime capitals: Where's safest and most dangerous in the EU?

As several European cities struggle with rising organised crime and gun violence, Euronews lists EU capitals according to their safety and danger when it comes to shootings.

Evening Standard

Man who died on Bibby Stockholm said ‘he wanted to go back to his home country’

Leonard Farruku told hotel staff before arriving on the barge that he wanted to go to Albania because of his mental health.

Evening Standard

Home Office ‘did not respond to concerns’ about man who died on Bibby Stockholm

An inquest has heard that Albanian Leonard Farruku was said to have ‘serious mental health issues’.

The Guardian - UK

Family of man who died on Bibby Stockholm question mental health care

Sisters of Leonard Farruku tell inquest his ‘mental state was clearly not right’ and ask why he was put on the barge

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