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50 ships, with thousands of people, trapped in Baltic Sea ice

A total of about 50 ships, including a passenger ferry with nearly 1,000 people on board, were stuck Friday in ice, after gale-force winds built up large ice masses in the Baltic Sea off Sweden's east coast, officials said.

Vatican rocked by usher's gay sex scandal

One of Pope Benedict's ceremonial ushers and a member of an elite choir in the Vatican's St Peter's Basilica have allegedly been involved in an organized network of gay prostitution.

Robbers use chopper to raid Sweden cash depot

Masked gunmen used a stolen helicopter and explosives to engineer a spectacular raid on a cash depot in Stockholm on Wednesday, breaking into the building through the roof and flying off with bags of cash, police and officials said.

Swedish newspaper accuses Israeli troops of harvesting organs from dead Palestinians

Israeli troops are accused in a newspaper article of harvesting organs from dead Palestinians, and Israel wants Sweden's government to condemn the Swedish paper that published it.

Swedbank to create Baltic real-estate company

Johan Nylander The Swedish Wire 06/30/2009
Sweden takes over European Union presidency

Sweden took over the six-month rotating presidency of the European Union on Wednesday, vowing to tackle climate change and combat soaring unemployment in Europe following the global economic crisis.

Swedbank to create Baltic real-estate company

Due to a growing number of confiscated properties in the Baltic States, Swedbank "will become a real-estate company" in the region, the bank’s CEO said.

Chimp in Swedish zoo named 'Santino' hoards stones to attack people

Bill Hutchinson New York Daily News 03/10/2009
 
Chimp in Swedish zoo named 'Santino' hoards stones to attack people

A crafty chimp at a Swedish zoo has stunned scientists by carrying out carefully planned attempts to hit humans with stones.