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Finnish was the second language of Sweden for centuries. Now Arabic is overtaking it.

Officially, Sweden doesn't keep a record of the languages its inhabitants speak. That fact was infuriating to Mikael Parkvall, a linguist...

A Swedish town has refused to turn its street lights off for just an hour amid fears that women will fall victim to sex attacks. Police...

The German Automotive Club (ADAC) tested 24 different cars with the new Keyless Go technology for safety. The result: all of the cars...

A court in Saudi Arabia has sentenced a man to 10 years in prison and 2,000 lashes for expressing his atheism in hundreds of social media...

A Swedish police officer failed to arrest a driver suspected of smuggling hundreds of litres of booze across the border – because it was...

Socrates, considered as one of the founders of Western philosophy, was once named the wisest man on earth by the Oracle of Delphi. When...

To the Western world, it's a surprising thing to see. One Starbucks in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, has a sign with the phrase, "Please no...

Antonio Docampo García, who died last week in Vigo, northwestern Spain, never drank water and put his long-life down to only imbibing his...

The brain becomes tolerant to sugar – which means more is needed to attain the same 'high'. In ways that nicotine and heroin hijack the...

France has decided to crack down on food wastage by becoming the first country in the world to ban supermarkets from throwing away unsold...