Europe Sweden The unemployment rate decreased in June and it's now over 1% lower than last year as the latest data from the Swedish Public Employment Service shows
Europe Sweden Coop Sweden closed over 400 of its 800 supermarkets after a cyberattack hit one of its software suppliers, resulting in misfunctioning of tills and self-service checkouts
Europe Sweden Prime Minister Stefan Löfven announced his resignation to avoid a snap election; after talks among all the parties involved, opposition leader Ulf Kristersson is asked to try and form a government
Europe Sweden In Stockholm green waste from parks and private homes is processed in pyrolysis plants to obtain syngas for heating and biochar - a product that can be used in agricolture to improve soil quality with carbon negative footprint
Europe Sweden Cement manufacturer HeidelbergCement will build a carbon-neutral plant in the country, which will capture up to 1.8 million tonnes of carbon dioxide per year, equivalent to the plant's total emissions
Europe Sweden Volvo and Ericsson have carried out the first successful test handover of connected cars between two national mobile 5G networks
Europe Sweden A decade after gaining asylum in the country, 19-year-old Tousin Chiza is the national representative at the Eurovision Song Contest
Europe Sweden One month ago today, regional passenger trains between Boden and Haparanda resumed after a 29-year gap
Europe Sweden Lotta Klemming is Sweden's only female oyster diver in the Grebbestad archipelago on Sweden's west coast
Europe Sweden The Rally of Sweden will change location from next year, leaving its traditional home in Varmland to move further north to the "more snowsafe region" of Umea
Europe Sweden World’s first fossil fuel-free iron plant to be located in Gallivare; it will generate sponge iron, a form of “reduced” iron ore that can be used to create wrought iron or steel
Europe Sweden According to a recent study, approximately one in five adults suffers from dental anxiety or phobia