Since speaking out about receiving racist abuse in Sweden, the tech worker Kat Zhou has been accused of being a Chinese spy and of taking part in a Chinese smear campaign. She tells The Local that...

The Chinese ambassador was summoned for talks with Sweden's foreign ministry in Stockholm on Tuesday after he appeared to try to intimidate the Swedish media.

One of Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson's top aides has resigned from his post after it emerged that he had been fined by police for illegally fishing for eels and had twice lied to the...

A Woman's Place is wherever she wants it to be. Meet twelve inspiring women who have found a place where they can fulfil their professional ambitions, where their voices are heard and where their...

A Woman's Place is wherever she wants it to be. Meet twelve inspiring women who have found a place where they can fulfil their professional ambitions, where their voices are heard and where their...

UPDATED: A mother has told The Local her 13-year-old son was banned from attending classes at an international school in the Stockholm region until he agreed to remove the mask he was wearing. She is...

Two Swedish MPs have nominated Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg, and the Fridays For Future protest movement she began, for 2020's Nobel Peace Prize.

Readers around the world have nominated four writers for a new award created as a reaction to a series of scandals which prompted the Swedish Academy to postpone this year's Nobel Literature Prize.

If you thought that this December had been peculiarly dark in Sweden, no, you weren't imagining things.

Finland’s president Sauli Niinistö and prime minister Sanna Marin have said ‘yes’ to a Finnish Nato application, kickstarting the process through which Finland and most likely Sweden will join the...

Abba reunited in secret last summer to record the group's first new music in 35 years. "It was like in the olden days," their manager has told The Local.

A 91-year-old woman living in an elderly care home in Mjölby – a small city mid-way between Stockholm and Gothenburg – has become the first person in Sweden to be vaccinated against Coronavirus.

Sweden's government has never had a formal strategy for handling the coronavirus pandemic, the country's health minister Lena Hallengren said on Friday, a day before revealing that she has undergone...

Sweden has been ranked one of the hardest places in the world to make local friends in InterNations' annual survey of expatriate workers, with close to a quarter of respondents rating Swedes as...

When a Swedish neo-Nazi group staged a demonstration in the country's second largest city last weekend, they were by far outnumbered by counter-demonstrators.

Speaking at a defence conference, Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said that everyone who wants to become a Swedish citizen should consider what it means to sacrifice their life for the country.

A penalty from Captain Andreas Granqvist was the difference as Sweden beat South Korea 1-0 in Nizhny Novgorod to win their first match of the 2018 World Cup and equal leaders Mexico on points in...

On October 4th, Swedes celebrate National Cinnamon Bun Day in honour of their favourite sweet treat. But what's the history of the pastry and its special day?

More and more people are testing positive for coronavirus in Stockholm, new figures show.

'See you on the street,' Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg urged the audience as she accepted Amnesty's award.

Sweden stunned the United States 5-4 in a sudden-death penalty shootout on Sunday to surge into a Women's World Cup quarter-final against Japan and consign the defending champions to their earliest...

A Pakistani journalist based in Uppsala has been missing for nearly a month, with a press rights group warning his disappearance could be linked to his reporting.