This year’s Nobel Prize season kicks off Monday with rumours suggesting the Peace Prize could go to Egypt’s Maggie Gobran for helping Cairo’s poor, Afghan burqa opponent Sima Samar or American scholar

A man convicted of smuggling in Sweden outwitted his jailers by sneaking in a friend to serve most of his yearlong sentence, prison officials said Friday.

The identity of the false convict was discov

European security officials say a Norwegian man has received terrorist training from al-Qaeda's offshoot in Yemen and is awaiting orders to attack the West.

Western intelligence officials have long

A woman zookeeper died after she was savaged in a wolf enclosure, Swedish public radio said on Sunday.

The 30-year-old woman was alone with eight wolves at Kolmarden Zoo, one of the largest in northe

Volvo, the world's second-largest truck maker, reported on Thursday a slight drop in first quarter net profit, though the figure was better than analysts had expected.

From January to March, Volvo po

A hundred years after the Titanic sank, two Swedish researchers on Thursday said when it comes to sinking ships, male chivalry is ‘a myth’ and more men generally survive such disasters than women and

Chick peas, fava beans and other seeds from a facility in Syria are among the 25,000 new samples being deposited this week in an Arctic seed vault built to protect food crops from wars and natural dis

Russia's Olympic champion Yelena Isinbayeva set a new indoor pole vault world record on Thursday with a clearance of 5.01metres.

The 29-year-old had held the previous best of five metres set in Donet

WikiLeaks aims to release documents revealing that Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt is a US spy as part of a 'smear campaign' to stop Sweden from extraditing founder Julian Assange to the United St

A man was pulled alive from a snowed-in car on a deserted forest road in northern Sweden where he had been stranded and without food for at least two months in freezing temperatures, police said on Sa