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Charlie Sheen, Julian Assange and John Galliano: Who's Really Anti-Semitic?

By Torie BoschMar 1st 2011 – 4:29PM

When did anti-Semitism become fashionable again? In the past week, we've seen three prominent individuals from different fields make remarks that either could be interpreted as or definitely were anti-Semitic. Julian Assange The WikiLeaks mastermind ranted about how "Jewish" reporters are out to get him, the British...

Never List 'God' as a Reference on a Resume

By Matthew HallMar 1st 2011 – 7:33AM
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Advice for a successful job search often includes the tip that it is who, rather than what, you know. Let's hope that explains some of the results from a study by an international recruitment agency that said one job seeker submitted a resume citing "God" as a professional reference, while another was written in...

Femme Fatale Robbers Target Men in Swedish Nightclubs

Feb 23rd 2011 – 1:40PM

It's becoming a familiar story: Boy meets girl. Boy brings girl home. Boy wakes up feeling dizzy and disoriented. And his apartment has been cleaned out. At least three young men in Malmo in southern Sweden have reported being drugged and robbed after meeting a comely woman in a nightclub, according to TheLocal.se, a...

Report: Ex-Minister Says Gadhafi Ordered Lockerbie Bombing

Feb 23rd 2011 – 10:30AM
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AP

STOCKHOLM (AP) - Libya's ex-justice minister on Wednesday was quoted as telling a Swedish newspaper that Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi personally ordered the Lockerbie bombing that killed 270 people in 1988. "I have proof that Gadhafi gave the order about Lockerbie," Mustafa Abdel-Jalil was quoted as saying in an...

Boy, 6, Stabbed in Neck at School Because He Likes Pink

Feb 11th 2011 – 3:56PM

A 6-year-old boy who had been bullied because he liked to wear pink was stabbed in the neck at his preschool in central Sweden, media reports said today. The boy, identified only as Oskar, was picked on because he liked pink clothes, nail polish and ballet, Jönköpings-Posten newspaper said. He had complained to his...

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Julian Assange Loses Extradition Appeal, Moves Closer To Prosecution In Sweden

May 30th 2012 - 07:44AM

Britain's Supreme Court has endorsed the extradition of WikiLeaks chief Julian Assange to Sweden, bringing the secret-spilling Internet activist a big step closer to prosecution in a Scandinavian court.

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Eurovision: Engelbert Humperdinck Fails To Fire, Sweden Euphoric

May 27th 2012 - 05:50AM

It was always going to be difficult, from the moment that Engelbert Humperdincks position in the draw meant he had to sing first of 26 acts.

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Sweden's Crown Princess Victoria Christens Baby Estelle

May 22nd 2012 - 02:54PM

Queen Elizabeth II isn't the only female monarch in Europe celebrating milestones this year.

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Learn Longer, Live Longer?

May 17th 2012 - 08:37AM

Researchers from the Swedish Institute for Social Research and the Centre of Health Equity Studies found that students who have nine years of schooling die less after hitting age 40, compared with students who spend just eight years in schooling.

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A Bar That Swims With The Fishes

May 16th 2012 - 10:22AM

London-based architecture practice, Jump Studios , recently completed the interior of a submarine for the first ever Guinness deep-sea bar, which recently plunged the depths of the Baltic in the Stockholm Archipelago.

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