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.

Sweden unveiled a permanent monument to arguably its greatest cultural influences since the Vikings this northern Spring... Abba The Museum.

He was once Sweden's most infamous serial killer, a self-confessed cannibal who claimed to have murdered 30 people. But Sture Bergwall could soon be freed.

The pace of the neighbourhood watch suddenly picks up. "Here's the fire we've been waiting for," grins Samiy, an Iraqi in a bulky jacket.

Stockholm was braced for a fifth night of riots as violent unrest that began almost a week ago in the northern suburbs of the Swedish capital continued to spread to other corners of the city.

A Swedish co-founder of file-sharing website The Pirate Bay has gone on trial, charged with hacking and stealing data from an IT services company with ties to the Swedish tax authority and other government agencies.

It's taken a couple of years of tough negotiations, but local brewing giant Lion has secured a distribution deal that will see its Steinlager Pure beer brand sold in 382 retail stores, bars and restaurants in Sweden.

Travelling by train with a young family turns the journey into part of the holiday, as Mark Rowe has discovered.

In our second debate on the Electoral Commission's recommendations for MMP, Graeme Edgeler and Muriel Newman put the arguments for and against reducing the threshold. Join the debate and leave your comments at the end.