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India is on track to approve a bid by Swedish furniture giant IKEA to open its trademark blue-and-yellow stores in the country as it seeks big new markets for its flat-pack products.

• 28 декабря 2012, 17:53

South Korea's Samsung Electronics said Wednesday it had filed a complaint to seek a US import ban on some Ericsson products in an escalating patent battle with the Swedish mobile giant.

• 27 декабря 2012, 14:27

European governments argued through the night in a bid to agree a deal on tightening the oversight of eurozone bank, hours before leaders stage on Thursday their final summit of a gruelling third year in debt-crisis mode.

• 14 декабря 2012, 12:51

Archbishop Desmond Tutu and two other Nobel Peace laureates have written to the foundation in protest at the decision to award the 2012 prize to the European Union.

• 01 декабря 2012, 16:28

Regular moderate exercise can raise life expectancy -- even among people who are overweight, a study said Tuesday.

• 07 ноября 2012, 11:53

This year's Nobel season wraps up on Monday with the announcement in Stockholm of the economics prize, which US researchers are once again tipped to win after years of dominance in the field.

• 15 октября 2012, 17:12

Americans top the list of favourites for Monday's Nobel Economics Prize, an award that increasingly rarely seems to go to a European.

• 14 октября 2012, 12:33

European newspapers on Saturday praised the decision to award this year's Nobel Peace prize to the EU, with the notable exception of the British press, most of which poured scorn on the decision.

• 13 октября 2012, 18:45

With just hours to go before the Nobel Literature Prize laureate is announced in Stockholm, speculation has hit fever pitch with Canada's Alice Munro and Japan's Haruki Murakami often cited as possible winners.

• 11 октября 2012, 18:42

David Wineland, who won Tuesday the Nobel Prize for work in quantum physics with Serge Haroche of France, said our limited computers will "eventually" give way to super-fast, revolutionary ones.

• 11 октября 2012, 14:49

Stockholm's literary circles are abuzz with speculation about this year's Nobel Literature Prize, and while it's notoriously difficult to predict the laureate, some experts are saying it's time for a woman.

• 10 октября 2012, 17:41

Sweden's tradition of gender equality has famously put more mums in the workplace while rising numbers of dads stay at home.

• 08 октября 2012, 11:13

Swedish inventor and scholar Alfred Nobel (1833-1896), who made a vast fortune from his invention of dynamite in 1866, ordered the creation of the Nobel Prizes in his will.

• 05 октября 2012, 10:22

Early October means it's time for the annual Nobel Prize announcements and frenzied guessing over possible winners, with 231 Peace Prize nominees.

• 04 октября 2012, 15:39

Victor Hedman, Swedish professional ice hockey defenceman, has signed a contract with Astana hockey team.

• 26 сентября 2012, 18:55

A swine flu vaccine used in 2009-10 is linked to a higher risk of the sleeping disorder narcolepsy in children and teens in Sweden and Finland.

• 22 сентября 2012, 16:51

A Danish magazine was set to publish pictures of Prince William's wife Catherine sunbathing topless, despite the British royals' legal moves in France to stop the spread of the photos.

• 20 сентября 2012, 18:19

Belarus strongman leader Alexander Lukashenko on Monday fired his foreign minister as part of a sweeping reshuffle that follows a diplomatic crisis in ties with Sweden after a pro-democracy stunt.

• 21 августа 2012, 13:39

Ecuadoran President Rafael Correa said he expects to respond to Wikileaks founder Julian Assange's application for political asylum some time this week.

• 14 августа 2012, 10:50

Over 67 years since he disappeared into the Soviet prison system, the fate of the Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg remains shrouded in mystery despite decades of work to find the truth.

• 03 августа 2012, 10:34