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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 gone up in the past two decades in some of the biggest towns in Sweden, according to the Dagens Nyheter daily. READ  

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

Emmylou Harris and Evelyn Glennie win Polar Music Prize

American singer Emmylou Harris and Scottish percussionist Evelyn Glennie have been announced as the winners of the 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 toilets in Sweden gender neutral. READ  

• 25/02 More Swedes want to have a sex change »
• 24/02 Sweden clears way for gender equal ploughs »
• 23/01 Sweden's first LGBT pool makes a loud splash »

Staff arrive at a Sony Mobile meeting in Malmö on Monday morning. Photo: Ola Torkelsson/TT

Sony to slash 1,000 jobs in southern Sweden

UPDATED: Sony Mobile has confirmed it is cutting 1,000 jobs at its facility in Lund in southern Sweden. READ  

Ukraine crisis

Sweden's foreign minister, Margot Wallström met Ukraine's president, Petro Poroshenko, in Kiev in November last year. Photo: Gustav Sjöholm/TT

Russia blames Sweden for Ukraine crisis

Russia’s embassy in Sweden has pointed the finger of blame at its host country for causing Ukraine's woes, in a furious response to comments made about the crisis by Foreign Minister Margot Wallström. 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 

Photo: TT

Sides remain locked in Sweden pilot strike

The pilot strike affecting flights operated by Norwegian continued on Sunday with 20,000 passengers set to be hit as the conflict entered its ninth day. READ  

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  

Photo: TT

Swedish police hunt two in triple murder case

Swedish police are seeking to come into contact with two people on a moped seen leaving the scene of a suspected triple murder in Uddevalla in western Sweden on Saturday. READ  

And so it goes....