Swedes in danger of loving crayfish delicacy to death
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Swedes worship crayfish, holding large parties every summer to celebrate the little red shellfish in a feast that is as important for its rituals as its gastronomic delight.
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Swedish researchers say men who eat fish more than twice a week may have an increased risk of stroke.
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STOCKHOLM  - The Swedish government said it feared that many of the 1,500 Swedish tourists in Thailand who are still unaccounted for after giant tidal waves struck Asian coastlines may be dead.
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The bug that causes stomach ulcers may become more virulent when exposed to high levels of salt.
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NEW DELHI: With thousands of bodies rotting and infrastructure in tatters, authorities and medical relief workers fear an epidemic and severe shortage of food supplies along south Indian coastline and in Andaman and Nicobar islands.
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Two Asian delicacies are the subject of a simmering debate pitting merchants who like to store them at room temperature for hours against food safety regulators who worry the practice could allow bacteria to build up.
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By MIKE SWAIN  CELEBRITY chefs yesterday hit out at destructive fishing policies which threaten to take seafood off the menu.   Chefs Antony Worrall Thompson and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall slammed fisheries chiefs who are set to ignore calls for a ban on some stocks.
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Torn by war, famine and disease, the world&#39;s most tortured continent faces a new horror: the biggest swarms of locusts for 15 years. Steve Connor reports on a gathering menace ...
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A Swedish landlord inspecting a recently vacated cottage got an ugly surprise when she found dozens of dead or ailing snakes, mice, rats and lizards locked up in cages inside the house.
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Sweden&#39;s Supreme Court Thursday issued an irreversible life sentence to Mijailo Mijailovic for fatally stabbing Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh.
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Sweden&#39;s supreme court gave the go-ahead yesterday for the family of the murdered foreign minister, Anna Lindh, and the prosecution to seek a tougher sentence for her killer, who in turn may appeal against his conviction.
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Swedes grieve the loss of many dead and missing in the Indian Ocean tsunami, writes Lars Bevanger in Stockholm.
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KASSEL, Germany (Der Spiegel) - In his first television interview, German cannibal Armin Meiwes describes the taste of human flesh, provides a decent recipe for steak, explains his fascination with the fairy tale Hansel and Gretel - and insists that he's a normal person. In his first television interview, broadcast Monday night on RTL TV, Meiwes, 46, looked relaxed and healthy as he spoke about his decades-long yearning to consume another man. The case came to light in December 2002, and the grisly details made world headlines. Meiwes filmed himself killing, disemboweling and cutting up the corpse of computer engineer Bernd Brandes, 42, whom he had met after posting messages in Internet chatrooms seeking "men for slaughter." Meiwes, a computer repair man, was originally sentenced to 8 1/2 years for manslaughter but that verdict was overturned by Germany's federal appeals court which deemed it too lenient and ordered him to be retried on a murder charge.  The judge ruled Meiwes had killed to satisfy his sexual urges. The court ruling means Meiwes could be eligible for parole after serving a mandatory 15 years in jail. "I sauteed the steak of Bernd, with salt, pepper, garlic and nutmeg. I had it with Princess croquettes, Brussels sprouts and a green pepper sauce," said Meiwes. He froze meal-sized portions of Brandes, some in the form of minced meat, and ate more than 20 kilograms of it in the months following the March 2001 killing. "The flesh tastes like pork, a little bit more bitter, stronger. It tastes quite good," he said.  He said that when he was a child, he enjoyed his mother reading him the fairy tale "Hansel and Gretel," about a witch who traps two children and prepares to eat the boy. "The bit where Hansel is to be eaten was interesting. You wouldn't believe how many Hansels are whizzing around the Internet." Police estimate that around 10,000 people in Germany alone share Meiwes' fascination with cannibalism - either eating human flesh or being eaten. "He was close to me with every bite," Meiwes recalled, adding that Brandes had encouraged him to seek out other slaughter victims. "Bernd told me he didn't want to be on his own in the freezer for long," said Meiwes, who did indeed keep advertizing for fresh victims on the Internet until 18 months later, December 2002, when police arrested him after receiving a tip from a Web user.
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Sweden said on Thursday more than  1,000 Swedes may have been killed in the Asian tsunami, the  worst death toll for any foreign country.
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The European Unionâs head office today proposed unprecedented bans on fishing in popular northern waters to safeguard threatened species such as the common cod, a traditional dinner favourite from Sweden to Portugal.
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Scientists from Linkoping University, Sweden, estimate that 849 Swedes got cancer in Northern Sweden as a result of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster.
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Burglars tore down part of a wall to get into a grocer's shop in central Sweden but apparently were only after fish balls and a little shrimp - they didn't touch the cash.   "It puzzles both me and police why they took the trouble to tear down a wooden panel in the wall without taking anything of real value," storekeeper Yvonne Holm told The Associated Press on Wednesday...