I've heard that rock stars want to be athletes and athletes want to be rock stars. If that's true, Swedish band The Hives recently got their wish by taking on some of the 'Nucks in a pick-up game at GM...
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"Two Papuan indigenes -- Franzalbert Joku and Nicholas Simion who were formerly Papua New Guinean and Swedish citizens repectively -- have officially resumed their status as Indonesian nationals, it was reported here Sunday. Franzalbert Joku and Nicholas Simion regained the...
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Paris (ANTARA News) - Swedish tennis player Joachim Johansson, who once reached number nine in the world, announced his retirement on Friday at the age of 25 because of a long-standing shoulder injury."I can practice for a few weeks and play an individual tournament but after...
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TimesOnLine.co.uk–January 27, 2008
Pelle Neroth
MARGARET THATCHER ordered the Royal Navy to land Special Boat Service
(SBS) frogmen on the coast of Sweden from British submarines pretending
to be Soviet...
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"As expected, the Swedish government charged the owners of Pirate Bay with copyright infringement of four applications, nine movies, and 22 music tracks.
Each of the four owners, Fredrik Neij aka 'TiAMO,' Gottfrid Svartholm Warg aka 'Anakata,' Peter Sunde aka 'Brokep' and...
""A number of cooperation plans to step up bilateral relations between Indonesia and Sweden were launched." Linggawati said, adding that a concrete step to cement the two countries` relations was the initiation of a Human Rights Dialog. She said through the Human Rights...
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The bovine belch has never been so lucrative."STOCKHOLM, Sweden - A Swedish university has received $590,000 in research funds to measure the greenhouse gases released when cows belch.
About 20 cows will...
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"Bangkok (ANTARA News) - The Thai cabinet has approved a procurement of six Swedish-made Gripen jet fighters with a budget of 19 billion baht (637.75 million USD), the Thai News Agency (TNA) reported.Government spokesman Chaiya Yimwilai said the Royal Thai Air Force earlier...
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This is cool for the fans I suppose, but a little lazy on the part of the band. If your job is to be an artist, pick up a pen and draw something on the cover. "12/19/2007 For many fans of music being a part of...
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Femanism run amock or level heads prevailing? The ladies of the Swedish army have requested, nay demanded, the emasculation of their coat of arms. For an army that doesn't really fight these women are sure feisty. "Protests from female soldiers have led to the Swedish...
""We're going to open the ABBA museum from June 3 to 7 (2009), it will be an inaugural week," said Ulf Westman, who mastermind the world's first ABBA museum along with his wife, Ewa Wigenheim-Westman.
"It will be...
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I feel the study would have been better if they compared different countries in an international hug-off. This is still pretty good though."STOCKHOLM, Sweden - While Swedes have a reputation of being reserved, a...
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In Sweden sexuality as the new political weapon of choice"STOCKHOLM, Sweden - A group of Swedish women is making waves by taking their tops off at public swimming pools in a protest against what they call gender-biased rules on swim wear.
About 40 women have joined the...
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"The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said the three established "mechanism design theory", which looks at how well different institutions fare in allocating resources and whether government intervention is needed.
Hurwicz initiated the theory and it was further developed by...
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"Qaeda puts bounties on heads of Swedes in cartoon row
AFP
AFP - 14 minutes ago
DUBAI (AFP) - An Al-Qaeda front organization in Iraq has offered rewards to anyone who kills two Swedes behind a cartoon depicting...
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