The Pigeon Express
Crows are being recruited to pick up discarded cigarette butts from the streets and squares of a Swedish city as part of a cost-cutting drive. The wild birds carry out the task as they receive a little food for every butt that they deposit in a bespoke machine designed by a startup in Södertälje, near […]
A giant straw goat that has become an annual highlight in the Swedish city of Gavle has been burned by an arsonist. A man in his 40s was arrested after the structure was set alight in the early hours of Friday. The goat has been attacked many times before but survived every festive period since […]
Swedish police arrested two adults on suspicion of murder after two children fell “from a great height” and one of them died. Those arrested are a man and a woman, police said. The children, who reportedly were siblings and both under the age of 10, were rushed to a hospital but one of them died. […]
A plane carrying skydivers crashed in Sweden, killing all people on board, police said. The plane was carrying eight skydivers and a pilot when it crashed close to the runway at Orebro airport, about 160km west of Stockholm, on Thursday. The crash is thought to have happened as the plane was taking off. “It’s a […]
The Swedish parliament passed a vote of no confidence against its Prime Minister Stefan Lofven. 181 of the 349 MPs voted in favour of the motion, while 51 abstained themselves. This is for the first time in history that a sitting prime minister was ousted this way. Mr Lofven now has a week to resign […]
Swedish police dropped charges against a mother suspected of holding her son captive for 28 years after he admitted being able to come and go as he pleased. The 70-year-old was arrested earlier this week after her 41-year-old son was found inside her filthy Stockholm flat, covered in sores and with no teeth. Officers had […]