Norway's Olympic Champion Andreas Thorkildsen Makes the Javelin Trendy

Andreas Thorkildsen Olympic champion for Norway is very fussy about his equipment and is becoming famed almost as much for his trendy state of the art javelins as for his stunning 90-metre javelin throwing, the...

IOC wants Pirate Bay to walk the plank in Sweden

The International Olympic Committee has asked the Swedish government to block Swedish-based file sharing site The Pirate Bay from distributing videos of the Beijing opening ceremony."But much to the IOC's...

World Water Week Begins in Stockholm Sweden

According to the UN 30% of people in the world face water shortages by the year 2025, the UN has declared 2008 the International Year of Sanitation." STOCKHOLM (AFP) - A week-long conference on the impact of lacking...

Sweden relaxes stance on weird children's names

Sweden has relaxed its rules on naming children weird things like Heineken, Mouthpad and Dubble Bubble. The country once frowned on such lapses of judgment, but, according to one official, it's no longer considered 'negative' in this day and age to name children after...

Poor School Performance Link to Schizophrenia

UK and Swedish researchers who followed more than 900,000 schoolchildren born between 1973 and 1983, have found a correlation between developing schizophrenia and low marks.   " The researchers, from the...

URANIUM! The next Energy crisis may cripple the Western Nations and it has al...

By, Uwe Paschen.Energy, our main focus since the Oil crisis of the 1970 has been Nuclear, yet, once the Oil crisis was over we focused once again on Oil!Now that we are in the middle of a new Oil crisis much worse...

Stanley Cup Becomes Baptismal Font

This is why the best trophies are cups - the sheer flexibility: beer-soaked bars to babtism - quite a range of uses.You could never do this with the Vince Lombardy Trophy. It's another case of the interesting case of...

The Demand: Where Sex Trafficking Begins

The transnational sex trafficking of women and children is based on a balance between the supply of victims from sending countries and the demand for victims in receiving countries. Sending countries are those from which victims can be relatively easily recruited, usually...

Sundin's agent says no deal with Canucks

A Swedish newspaper ran an article Saturday saying that Mats Sundin was Vancouver-bound, but today his agent denied the claim. Vancouver has offered Sundin a two-year, $20-million deal that would make him the highest...

Sweden's Prostitution Solution: Why Hasn't Anyone Tried This Before?

" Sweden's Prostitution Solution:  In a centuries deep sea of clichés despairing that 'prostitution will always be with us', one country's success stands out as a solitary beacon lighting the way. In just...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi: Bush a total failure

Just prior to the end of Bush administration, some members of the Republican party have expressed their rejection to his policies. This time, House Speaker Nancy Pelosy expressed her veiled scorn towards President Bush. However, it is too little to late. " House Speaker:...

Iran Supreme Leader Khamenei: West must respect red lines

In the Iranian complex political system, the Supreme Leader (rahbar) Ali Khamenei plays a pivotal role. His comments and recommendations are to be obliged by the adherence to the Islamic revolutionary principles.  Despite public appearances...

US and Iran continue to approach slowly...again

US career diplomat and  Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, William Burns, is to meet Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council (SNSC), Saeed Jalili in Geneva on 19 July...

Swedish Theme Park Ride Collapses, Injuring 18

UPDATE - 3:30pm ESTAn amusement park ride in Sweden collapsed today, injuring around 18 people. The ride, called 'The Rainbow', is a spinning metal arm with a seating platform on one end. It is unknown what happened to cause the accident, which has left at least 2 riders...

Get ready for Spacebook

"You've joined Facebook, MySpace and Bebo and have more than 3,000 friends but something's still missing. What you really want is to catch up with your mates from the cult World Of Warcraft game and now you can with Avatars United, the newest social networking site."My...

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