Sweden ended a six-month ban on visits to nursing homes on Thursday, delighting residents and their relatives but also prompting fears of a return to the grim months of spring when COVID-19 caused ...

In April, a nurse at a Stockholm home for the elderly told Helen Gluckman that her 83-year-old father would likely not live for long. He had been stricken by COVID-19 and the home recommended putting ...

LINKOPING, Sweden — In a cavernous room filled with garbage, a giant mechanical claw reaches down and grabs 5 tons of trash. As a technician in a control room maneuvers the spiderlike crane, the claw ...

Lagom is Swedish for “not too much and not too little – just right." An undated stock photo of woman reading a book in front of fireplace in Sweden. STOCK/Getty Images If you haven’t yet heard the ...

Four generations of the Garg family live in a four-story building in Delhi, India. In May, Mukul Garg wrote in a blog post that his 57-year-old uncle had gotten the coronavirus, probably after ...

GOTHENBURG, Sweden (Reuters) - The killer was only 14 and had lived in youth homes as a ward of the authorities since he was eight. A year ago, a gang helped the boy escape, put him up in a hotel and ...

As Sweden’s population ages, the country faces a challenge: How can it maintain support for its citizens without breaking the bank? Furniture giant Ikea has one idea. The company is launching a new ...

In the popular imagination, Sweden does not seem like the sort of country prone to accepting the mass death of grandparents to conserve resources in a pandemic. Swedes pay some of the highest taxes on ...