Europe - Scandinavia
UPDATED: Bawendi, Brus and Ekimov win 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
STOCKHOLM, Oct 4 (Reuters) - Scientists Moungi Bawendi, Louis Brus and Alexei Ekimov won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for "the…
UPDATED: Hungarian and U.S. scientists win medicine Nobel for COVID-19 vaccine work
By Niklas Pollard and Ludwig Burger STOCKHOLM, Oct 2 (Reuters) - Scientists Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman from Hungary and the United…
Nobel Peace Prize: Indigenous, women or green activists could win 2023 award
By Gwladys Fouche and Ilze Filks OSLO/STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and Russian dissident Alexei Navalny are among favourites for…
Swedish PM summons army, police chiefs as gang violence rocks nation
By Johan Ahlander STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Sweden's prime minister summoned the head of the armed forces and the police commissioner in a…
EPA’s Eye In The Sky: Middelfart, Denmark
An aerial view taken with a drone of the soon to be opened Charging Park for electric cars at the Lillebaelt Syd…
Two dead in Sweden restaurant shooting
STOCKHOLM, Sept 22 (Reuters) - Two people were killed and two injured in a shooting at a restaurant in eastern Sweden late…
Lockheed Martin F-35A fighter jets land on motorway
OSLO, Sept 22 (Reuters) - A pair of F-35A Lockheed Martin fighter jets have landed on a motorway for the first time,…
Russian forces near Norway at ‘20% or less’ than before Ukraine war
OSLO (Reuters) - Russian forces stationed in the Arctic near Norway are "20% or less" of the number they were before the…
Twenty years after euro “No” vote, Swedes fret over weak crown
By Simon Johnson STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Need a cheap, reliable second-hand car? Think Sweden, where a nosedive in the local crown currency…
Photo Story: Sweden celebrates Carl XVI Gustaf’s throne jubilee
(L-R) Princess Madeleine, Mr. Chris O'Neill, Queen Silvia, King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden, Princess Sofia, Prince Carl Philip and Crown Princess…
Nobel Prize award raised to nearly $1 million for 2023
STOCKHOLM, Sept 15 (Reuters) - Winners of this year's Nobel Prizes will get an extra 1 million crowns, taking the total financial…
Photo Story: First F-35 fighter jets arrive in Denmark
An F-35 fighter jet arrives at Skrydstrup Air Force Base, in Skrydstrup, Denmark, on Thursday. The first four F-35 combat aircraft have…