Sweden to save 'sinking' town
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Sweden is to move the northern town of Kiruna to prevent it sinking into a hole left by iron ore mines.
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By MATTIAS KAREN STOCKHOLM, Sweden - For 40 years it has been torched, vandalized, had its legs cut off and even been run over by a car.
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A total of 60 Swedes have been identified among the dead and 3,500 are missing after the massive earthquake and tidal waves that slammed the Indian Ocean coastlines, the foreign ministry said.
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In a wooded ravine tucked away from the water parks, restaurants and mega-resorts that dominate this tourist town, a piece of history is quietly dying.
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For 40 years it has been torched, vandalized, had its legs cut off and even been run over by a car. But officials in the Swedish city of Gavle are guaranteeing that this year's giant straw Christmas goat &#151; the victim of Sweden's most violent yule tradition &#151; will survive unscathed.
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden Swedish police say it was a pretty novel way to aid a prison escape.
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While efforts were still under way to restore power and telephone services after a weekend winter storm that battered northern Europe on Wednesday, Swedish authorities issued a new storm warning.
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The first Swedish dead from the Asian tsunami have come home to a nation which fears it may have suffered its worst loss of life for 200 years.
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden More than 800 people in northern Sweden may have cancer as a result of the fallout that spewed over the region after the Chernobyl nuclear accident in 1986.
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STOCKHOLM --The tsunami that swept away so many lives in Asia has carried waves of grief to Sweden, with the country confronting what one government official described yesterday as ''Sept. 11 levels of casualties."
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A ship containing toxic power station waste has sunk after being moored in a Turkish harbour for four years. The Ulla had sat in the port of Iskenderun in south-eastern Turkey amid confusion over the ship&#39;s future.
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The first Swedish dead from the Asian  tsunami came home on Wednesday morning to a nation which fears  it may have suffered its worst loss of life for 200 years.
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Many Swedes are missing in tsunami-stricken southern Thailand, Swedish diplomat Lenart Hamark said on Tuesday. Hamark, who is running an emergency centre on the resort
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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...
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The Scandanavian nation spends a lot in R&D, which has kept them buoyant. Next: Finland wants to move into clean tech.
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SMOGEN, Sweden -- Minimalism dances nicely with luxury here, a former fishing village turned into a seaside resort on Sweden's west coast.
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HAMBURG (Der Spiegel) - Scientists here recently simulated the sinking of the Estonia, the 1994 Baltic Sea ferry disaster that killed 852 people. The bottom line: Scientific evidence shows that the vessel was traveling much too fast in stormy seas and that the crew's attempts to save the ship by turning it actually caused it to capsize...