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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

MAERSTA, Sweden (AFP) – Six-month-old Nour al Hodl smiles, perched on her mother's knee in the dining room of a spotless refugee reception centre in Maersta, north of Stockholm. When the Hodl family ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...