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The Nobel Foundation has decided to raise the award amount for this year’s Nobel Prizes by 1 million kronor ($90,000) to 11 million kronor ($986,270) as the Swedish currency has plummeted recently.

This week marks 50 years since a failed bank robbery that gave rise to Stockholm syndrome, a term used to describe the bond that victims of kidnappings or hostage situations sometimes develop with their captors.

Spain defeated Sweden 2-1 in a thriller on Tuesday and booked itself a spot in the Women’s World Cup final for the first time in tournament history.

Just four teams remain in the 2023 Women’s World Cup. Here is a look at the schedule, matchups and TV info for the rest of the tournament.

Sweden is moving on to the Women’s World Cup semifinals after defeating Japan 2-1 in Auckland, New Zealand, on Friday.

The U.S. women’s national team was defeated by Sweden in the Women’s World Cup Round of 16 following a penalty kick shootout.

The USWNT will continue its quest for a three-peat when it faces Sweden in the Round of 16 at the 2023 Women’s World Cup on Sunday.

The U.S. women’s national team now knows which country it will face in the Women’s World Cup Round of 16. Here is a look at the upcoming clash against Sweden.

Sweden gave up a history of non-alignment to apply to join NATO after Russia invaded Ukraine last year. Turkey accuses Sweden of being too lenient toward groups that Ankara says pose a security threat.

Officials say a roller coaster train has derailed in Stockholm, sending some passengers plunging to the ground in an amusement park accident that left one dead and nine injured.

A U.S. military laboratory has helped Swedes confirm that a woman was on a 17th century warship that sank on its maiden voyage in the Stockholm harbor.

Finland’s top diplomat appears to have suggested that the country may have to join NATO without Sweden, after Turkey’s president cast doubt on expansion of the military alliance.

Officials at a Swedish Zoo have managed to get three chimpanzees who had broken out of their enclosure back into a secure space, but four others were shot dead. The Furuvik Zoo said in a statement Saturday that the surviving animals are now being looked after and one is receiving veterinary care. The apes had escaped on Wednesday, with some...

A venomous 7-foot snake called “Houdini” returned to its enclosure in Sweden after escaping for over a week.

A venomous king cobra which escaped from a Swedish zoo terrarium six days ago has been located inside the building where it lived but has not been recaptured

This year’s Nobel Prize in economic sciences has been awarded to the former chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve, Ben S. Bernanke, and two U.S.-based economists, Douglas W. Diamond and Philip H. Dybvig, “for research on banks and financial crises.”

An employee of an animal park in southwestern Sweden has been gored to death by an eland.

The Senate is set to ratify NATO membership for Finland and Sweden with strong bipartisan support in response to Russia’s war with Ukraine. Wednesday’s vote is a crucial step toward expanding the Western military alliance.

The move means the question of admitting the two nations now goes to the capitals of existing members for legislative approval.

In response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the two Nordic nations abandoned their long-held nonaligned status and applied to join NATO as protection