Police said they neutralised an explosive device found in a busy area of downtown Oslo.

Heletranz owner and expat Swede Sofia Ambler gives the lowdown on her hometown.

An Australian tourist witnessed a stolen truck mowing down people in central Stockholm.

Man confesses to carrying out a deadly truck attack which killed four in Stockholm.

Welby Ings believes teachers need to disobey rules to help students believe in themselves.

Joakim Robin Berggren spent more than $27k on a 24-hour bender - and it didn't end well.

Just days after Trump implied, incorrectly, that immigrants had perpetrated a spate of violence in Sweden, riots have broken out in a predominantly immigrant neighbourhood.

Donald Trump has hit out at Sweden's immigration record after being mocked for making up an attack in the Scandinavian nation.

The Australian, who is holed up in Ecuador's London embassy, spoke and answered questions via live video link to Auckland and Melbourne.

Sweden's towns and villages have been ordered to prepare for a possible military attack.

Winning a Nobel Prize could arguably be the best Christmas present of all. But not for musician and lyricist Bob Dylan, one of this year's best-known laureates.

A southern Swedish health clinic is offering services to men to measure their penis in order to fit them with the correct condom.

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has given a public statement for the first time hitting back at rape allegations, claiming he is "entirely innocent".

Sales of Aro Valley's Garage Project beer were off to an explosive start in Sweden when an over-carbonated batch of cans hit the country.

Deal seen as an endorsement of the "high-quality intellectual property" produced by Auckland-based Marker Metro.

With its fairy lights, plastic flowers and bamboo furniture, Koh Phangan is that kitschy ... and even more fun.

Police in Sweden have been accused of hushing up a series of sexual assaults by asylum seekers at Europe's largest teen pop festival.

King Carl XVI Gustaf, who shed his reputation as a lothario to become better known as a environmentalist, wants to turn his Stockholm palace green.

No central banker today will raise interest rates without looking carefully at Sweden's example.

A number of Maori skulls in a macabre collection of almost 800 human skulls in Sweden are expected to be returned to Te Papa Museum in Wellington this year.

Swedish Lapland is a wonderland in winter, when traditional activities belie its modern role as an up-and-coming hub of international communication.

From igloos to heli lodges in the Canadian wilderness, Jennifer Ennion looks at three of the Northern Hemisphere's top snow hotels.

The shocking scale of female genital mutilation (FGM) in a Swedish school, where every single girl in one class had been subjected to the procedure, has been revealed.

Graham Reid visits a Swedish museum with spirit in every sense.

A Swedish newspaper has intensified a decades-old allegation by dead crime novelist Stieg Larsson about who was behind the 1986 murder of the country's Prime Minister.

The apartment where Pippi Longstocking creator Astrid Lingren lived for more than half a century is set to be opened to the public.

In the Swedish capital, Winston Aldworth finds some surprising parallels with home.

The museum manages a clever walk between satisfying ABBA obsessives while engaging with the casual admirer, writes James Lane.