Denser cities could be a climate boon – but nimbyism stands in the way
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Stefan Löfven steps down as Sweden's prime minister after seven years – finance minister Magdalena Andersson widely tipped to be his successor as leader of Socialdemokraterna
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Sweden's only remaining mountaintop glacier lost another two metres in height in the past year due to rising air temperatures driven by climate change
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Film-makers buckle under relentless appetite for Danish TV – a victim of its own success, the industry behind cult dramas such as The Killing struggles amid bullying claims
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Jair Bolsonaro’s ‘banana republic’ military parade condemned by critics
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Tens of thousands of Hong Kongers leave the city to accept British citizenship
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Transatlantic conquest the aim for new budget airline Norse – insists that demand for travel is bouncing back as coronavirus restrictions eased
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Anti-vaccine protesters storm BBC HQ – years after it moved out
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Modern analysis of a 1,000-year-old grave in Finland challenges long-held beliefs about gender roles in ancient societies
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From the 1910s to the 1930s, John Alinder portrayed the local people of rural Sweden, the landscape around them and their way of life
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Alt-milk maker Oatly loses trademark case against family-run UK firm – Swedish company took legal action against Cambridgeshire-based Glebe Farm Foods over oat drink
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Armand Duplantis fails to break world record but strolls to pole-vault gold – Swede had three attempts at 6.19m after securing gold medal
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Why right to repair matters – according to a farmer, a medical worker, a computer store owner
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High court victory for Stonehenge campaigners as tunnel is ruled unlawful
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Denmark faces legal action over attempts to return Syrian refugees – activists fear a dangerous precedent being set as Copenhagen deems Damascus safe
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Tobacco firm Philip Morris calls for ban on cigarettes within decade
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Sucks to be him! How Henry the vacuum cleaner became an accidental design icon.
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US parents say Peppa Pig is giving their kids British accents
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Louise Taylor: ‘Ole Gunnar Solskjær must now deliver silverware to an expectant Old Trafford after earning himself a contract extension’
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Olympics: Brisbane confirmed for 2032 Games
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Culper Precision has stopped selling a kit that encases Glock handguns in Lego blocks, amid uproar and after the Danish toymaker demanded it cease and desist
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Compartment No 6 review – meet-uncute train romance is a Finnish 'Before Sunrise'
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World's tallest sandcastle has been completed in Denmark, towering more than twenty metres high and comprising nearly 5,000 tonnes of sand
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Andy Hunter: ‘Denmark's Euro 2020 run is built on class and coaching, not just team spirit’
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Millions in UK face disenfranchisement under voter ID plans
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Vatican urges Italy to stop proposed anti-homophobia law
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Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen lose out as French voters shun local elections: Abstention rate estimated at 68%, and exit polls suggest Le Pen’s National Rally failed to get expected support
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Tim Sparv: ‘Finland has waited so long for this: at Euro 2020, it's our turn at last’
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Keiko Fujimori’s fraud claims criticised as rival’s narrow lead widens: Pedro Castillo holds 0.4% lead with more than 97% of votes counted
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Plans to capture and run six-hour-long sound tests on young minke whales are set to go ahead in Norway despite condemnation from more than fifty international scientists
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The mystery of Denmark's vanishing wolf pack – are hunters to blame?
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Tens of thousands of Brazilians march in upwards of 200 cities to demand Jair Bolsonaro’s impeachment
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Did Jordan’s closest allies plot to unseat its king? Alleged sedition and a royal family feud may have been driven by a broader plan to reshape the Middle East.
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Simone Biles makes history with Yurchenko double pike vault at US Classic
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Shares in alt-milk maker Oatly surge on US stock market debut – Swedish firm valued at $13bn as investors bet on soaring demand
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Lego to launch first LGBTQ+ set – toy company's designer Matthew Ashton says he was inspired to support the community with rainbow-themed creation
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Galápagos rock formation Darwin’s Arch collapses from erosion
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Mutiny on the sex raft: How a 70s science project descended into violent chaos
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The secret of how Roald Amundsen beat Captain Robert Falcon Scott in race to south pole? A diet of raw penguin
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Silent whale watching on Iceland's first electric boat tour – a carbon-neutral tour off Húsavík makes for a greener, more peaceful experience for visitors and sea creatures
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Gothenburg's bold plan to be world's best rainy city – it rains nearly 40% of the time in the Swedish city, so why not try to make the most of it?
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Betrayed review – This account of the internment of a Jewish boxer from Oslo packs an emotional punch, but pulls back from displaying any real horrors
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Havana syndrome: US NSA officer’s case hints at microwave attacks since 90s
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Woman in Disaster Girl meme sells original photo as NFT for $500,000
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Bee population steady in Dutch cities thanks to pollinator strategy
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IKEA plans to accelerate its investment in renewable energy by spending an extra €4bn by the end of the decade to build wind and solar farms
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‘A poor man’s rainforest’: Why we need to stop treating soil like dirt
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Kenan Malik: ‘By demonising asylum seekers, Denmark reflects a panic in social democracy’
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Forests cover 70% of Sweden, but many argue the model of replacing old-growth forests with monoculture plantations is bad for biodiversity
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Björn Ulvaeus: ‘Today's pop industry cheats songwriters – and deters the risk-taking that made ABBA’
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