Skygazers across a broad swathe of the Northern Hemisphere will have a chance to see the Moon take a bite out of the Sun on Saturday when a partial solar eclipse sweeps from eastern Canada to Siberia.
In October, the Swedish tourist board launched a tongue-in-cheek campaign in a bid to end the confusion of people mixing up the Scandinavian country with the Alpine nation. Now a Swiss ambassador has responded.
Tomas and Hannah Mazetti, the "furious" Swedish couple who hate Wham's Last Christmas so much they want to buy it and pull it off the airwaves forever, have been behind a string of similar viral news stories which have gone around the world over the last decade.
Who knew that Mahna Mahna, the Muppets' much-loved exploration of scat jazz, came from Sweden? Or at least from Sweden: Heaven and Hell, a bizarre 1968 Italian shock-doc portraying the country as a land of uninhibited public nakedness, government-approved pornography and swinging couples.
A small town on the Swedish island of Öland has issued a stark warning to locals and visitors not to come too close to a nearby beached humpback whale for fear it might explode.
You might have noticed a lot of discussion about a supermarket advert in Sweden this week. Here's why it seems like the whole country is talking about Ica-Stig.
Could this be the best way to spend coronavirus isolation: watching films on a remote Swedish island for a week, with no contact with the outside world? That's the opportunity being offered by a cultural festival, and applications are open now.
The national bomb squad was called out to a Swedish pre-school after a young child brought in a grenade he found on a military firing range to show his friends.
Sweden is known around the world for its expansive natural spaces and sleek architectural design – but have you ever wondered which is the ugliest building in the country?
Residents of a northern Stockholm suburb were surprised to discover this week that their house had some unusual artwork on its roof: a giant penis, to be precise. And there are breasts, too.
An elderly man in Nortbotten in northern Sweden is being billed nearly a quarter million kronor as a result of his willingness to care for feral cats in the area.
Tuesday was an unusual day for Sweden’s emergency services to say the least, as their response to a call-out over a burning outhouse was curtailed at the last minute when the person who called it in rang again to say she had seen the fire in a dream.
The internet is full of ‘tattoo fails’. We just can’t seem to get enough of sniggering at the hideous artwork, questionable life choices and unfortunate misspellings that others have permanently etched into their skin.
Four men have been remanded in custody after they forcefully evicted shop workers in a Malmö grocery store – only to keep running the store themselves before police arrived to put an end to it.
When a wind turbine stops working, it requires more than a little imagination to assume it was because a naked man switched it off before breaking into a number of parked cars to honk their horns.
Got a job in Sweden or planning a move? The Local's Paul Connolly shares his top tips for the conversations and topics well worth steering clear of as you adapt to Sweden's unique office culture.
The cashless society did not deter a trio of robbers who threatened a young man in Gothenburg in the early hours of Wednesday unless he wired them cash using the popular money transfer app Swish.
Sweden's national rugby team were hammered 46-5 by a team from a tiny village in Wales at the weekend, suggesting there is finally something that the Swedes aren't particularly good at. But according to their technical director there was more to the match than the scoreline suggests.
