Jürgen Klopp would welcome Sven-Göran Eriksson to Liverpool so the Swede can live out his dream of being the club's manager for a day ~sports.football Article 594 words 5 votes
Salary caps to shootouts: how US soccer could transform the game ~sports.football Article 1506 words 6 votes
Half of recent US inflation due to high corporate profits, report finds ~finance economics business Article 943 words 35 votes
Louis Rees-Zammit’s hasty ditching of Wales for NFL adventure is huge gamble ~sports.american_football Article 985 words 4 votes
Capitalism is dead. '[Technofeudalism is] something much worse’: Yanis Varoufakis on extremism and the tyranny of big tech ~humanities Article 2785 words, published Sep 24 2023 36 votes
In most of the Western world teletext has disappeared, but in Sweden it's going strong and will soon celebrate its 45th anniversary ~tv Article 538 words 30 votes
Norway is to allow mining waste to be dumped in its fjords after the government won a court case against environmental organisations trying to block the plan ~enviro pollution.water Article 550 words 29 votes
Commentary - on archaeology and small mundane discoveries ~humanities.history Article 578 words, published Jan 7 2024 4 votes
Why do hardly any straight men write about sex and dating? ~life.men Article 883 words, published Jan 29 2023 64 votes
French wild pansies are producing smaller flowers and less nectar than twenty to thirty years ago, study shows ~enviro Article 807 words, published Dec 20 2023 25 votes
ABBA stars Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus have shared in a dividend of nearly £1m after a surge in profits at their production company Littlestar Services ~music Article 617 words 6 votes
Jeffrey Epstein: documents linking associates to sex trafficker unsealed ~news usa crime Article 519 words 28 votes
Far from their girl-power namesakes, deadpan Finnish pop duo Maustetytöt have topped the charts at home – and found a kindred spirit in director Aki Kaurismäki ~music pop.schlager Article 1042 words 9 votes
Morning sickness breakthrough raises hopes of possible cure ~health medicine Article 646 words, published Dec 13 2023 20 votes
Sweden's most popular tourist attraction, a 17th-century vessel that foundered minutes after launch, needs another financial rescue ~humanities.history Article 660 words 11 votes
Sweden's Aira, which offers subscription service at no upfront cost, has sights set on UK's growing heat pump market ~enviro energy Article 768 words 14 votes
Many prehistoric handprints show a finger missing. Canadian scientists say evidence shows digits may have been ritually removed to appease deities or aid social cohesion. ~humanities.history Article 776 words 26 votes
Sculptor sues Swedish glassmaker Kosta Boda for €1m in test of EU ‘bestseller clause’ – landmark case may open door to retrospective claims across bloc ~design Article 1074 words 6 votes
Reindeer combine sleeping and digesting, Norwegian researchers found after extracting reindeer brain data ~science biology Article 484 words 9 votes
Anthony Joshua admits “there is no future” if he fails to beat Otto Wallin on the ‘Day of Reckoning’ in Saudi Arabia on Saturday ~sports.combat Article 597 words 4 votes
Paris is saying 'non' to a US-style hellscape of supersized cars – and so should the rest of Europe ~transport Article 902 words 82 votes
Reindeer noir, the Finnish crime sub-genre influenced by Santa's home town of Rovaniemi ~tv Article 747 words 5 votes
In northern Ontario, a dozen First Nations have been left struggling. A court’s attempt to enforce treaty promises could see them getting up to C$126bn. ~news canada.on Article 2222 words 12 votes
Greedflation: corporate profiteering ‘significantly’ boosted global prices, study show ~finance business Article 706 words 87 votes
Danish parliament has voted to ban the burning of religious scriptures after a series of Qur’an desecrations in the country and neighbouring Sweden ~humanities religion Article 448 words 26 votes
When the great apes at Furuvik Zoo in Sweden broke free from their enclosure last winter, the keepers faced a terrible choice ~life work Article 7479 words 19 votes
Cop28 president says there is ‘no science’ behind demands for phase-out of fossil fuels ~enviro climate change Article 1527 words 45 votes
Denmark's largest trade union has joined strike action by Swedish Tesla workers, piling pressure on the US electric car company to agree to collective bargaining rights ~transport Article 397 words 21 votes
Shane MacGowan obituary - lead singer and masterful songwriter for the Pogues who brought punk style and attitude to Irish folk music ~music Article 2013 words 29 votes
World’s biggest experimental nuclear fusion reactor launched in Japan ~enviro energy Article 439 words 21 votes
Archaeologists reveal life stories of hundreds of people from medieval Cambridge ~humanities.history Article 520 words 12 votes
‘A bus is open to everyone regardless of class’: riding the world’s biggest network ~transport Article 806 words 8 votes
A tourism boom to the Faroe Islands, fuelled by social media, has resulted in some landowners taking measures to get a share of the revenues ~travel Article 1133 words 8 votes
Meta designed platforms to get children addicted, court documents allege ~tech social media facebook Article 558 words 24 votes
Campaigners seek listed status for Finnish sauna from 1948 Olympics – wooden hut is Britain's oldest operating sauna and ‘hugely important’ piece of sporting history ~design architecture Article 738 words 9 votes
Norway brought heat pumps in from the cold – device installed in two-thirds of households suggests switching to greener heating can be done ~enviro energy climate change Article 1215 words, published Nov 23 2023 28 votes
Sweden's Northvolt says new lithium-free sodium-ion battery is cheaper, more sustainable and doesn't rely on scarce raw materials ~transport Article 606 words, published Nov 21 2023 49 votes
Swedish A-traktors, vehicles modified to not go above 19mph, became a teenage rite of passage – amid a rise in accidents there are calls for a ban ~transport Article 809 words 16 votes
Residents of Luleå, Sweden welcome new campaign encouraging them to say hello to each other during dark winter months ~life Article 955 words 12 votes
The Australian scientist who tried to raise the alarm about climate change asks himself "Where did I go wrong?" ~enviro climate change Article 1397 words 17 votes
Tesla may have picked an unwinnable fight with Sweden's powerful unions ~transport Article 1059 words 23 votes
Solar power to the people: California program brings clean energy to Oakland ~enviro energy.renewable Article 1225 words, published Nov 18 2023 11 votes
Some ultra-processed foods are good for your health, World Health Organization-backed study finds ~food Article 563 words, published Nov 13 2023 27 votes
Novo Nordisk suggested to senior UK government officials that they could “profile” benefit claimants – those who are most likely to return to the labour market ~health Article 1338 words 17 votes
‘It was a way to share your musical experiences’: Two new books explore the cassette tape's contribution to music ~music Article 1622 words 7 votes