Sweden has a host of holiday food traditions, including reindeer meat. IKEA, the Swedish based furniture icon, is now under fire by a group of British vegans for taking those traditions to market.

On Thursday the Swedish central bank made the decision to sharply reduce its main interest rate, in the first round of what was shaping up to be day of major moves by the global monetary authorities.

The Rt Rev Dr Sebastian Bakare is currently on a speaking tour of Australia. The Bishop arrived from Stockholm Sweden where he received a Human Rights Award. I had the opportunity to interview Rev Bakare in private without the distractions of the media.

The Nobel Prize for Literature for 2008 has been awarded to French writer, Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio. He joins such authors as Doris Lessing and Ernest Hemingway in winning the prize.

Transparency International’s 2008 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) scores show Somalia and Iraq are the most corrupt countries in the world, with Denmark being the least corrupt.

The cause celebre of the media and bloggers these days is to question the leadership of former Toronto Maple Leafs captain Mats Sundin. Funny, I thought we had buried this topic years ago.

A Swedish company has created an innovative wind turbine that replaces blades with a ball-like device. The turbine can harness energy at speeds as low as 2 meters/sec, and it's more efficient in translating wind into energy than conventional turbines.

A recent Swedish study has confirmed a link between a genetic variant and a man's likelihood of becoming a "player." Study data shows that men with the variant behave differently and bring crisis to their relationships.

Michael Phelps’ amazing performance at this year's Beijing Summer Olympics has many calling it the greatest Olympic performance in history. However the 2012 London Olympics will mark the centennial of the great performance Jim Thorpe gave in Stockholm.

Swedish wrestler, Ara Abrahamian, is ousted from the Olympic games and stripped of his Olympian medal status after a temper tantrum during a medal ceremony. This makes the third medal stripped during the Beijing Olympic games and the fourth expulsion.