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French author popular bet for literature Nobel

Malin Rising · October 8, 2014 3:08 pm

Nobel Prize in literature: Oh really? Or finally?

Malin Rising · October 4, 2014 2:57 pm

FILE - An Aug. 20, 2012 photo from files showing Swedish Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker Malik Bendjelloul. Police in Sweden say the film director behind the Oscar-awarded music documentary "Searching for Sugarman," Malik Bendjelloul died Tuesday, May 13, 2014. He was 36. Police spokeswoman Pia Glenvik said Bendjelloul died in Stockholm late Tuesday, but wouldn't specify the cause of death. She said no crime is suspected in relation to the Swedish film maker's death. (AP Photo/TT, Anders Wiklund, File) SWEDEN OUT

Brother: ‘Sugar Man’ director killed himself

Malin Rising · May 14, 2014 10:58 pm

FILE - An Aug. 20, 2012 photo from files showing Swedish Academy Award-winning documentary filmmaker Malik Bendjelloul. Police in Sweden say the film director behind the Oscar-awarded music documentary "Searching for Sugarman," Malik Bendjelloul died Tuesday, May 13, 2014. He was 36. Police spokeswoman Pia Glenvik said Bendjelloul died in Stockholm late Tuesday, but wouldn't specify the cause of death. She said no crime is suspected in relation to the Swedish film maker's death. (AP Photo/TT, Anders Wiklund, File) SWEDEN OUT

‘Searching for Sugar Man’ director dies at 36

Malin Rising · May 14, 2014 2:05 am

Russia boosts military, global arms spending fall

Russia boosts military, global arms spending fall

Malin Rising · April 13, 2014 10:02 pm

Picture distributed by Norwegian police, Tuesday April 8, 2014, shows a man who understands five languages but claims he can't remember his own name. According to police the man in his mid-twenties was found abandoned in bad condition in the snow in Oslo in December 2013, he speaks with an eastern European accent but is unable to remember who he is, so police are seeking help from the public to identify him. (AP Photo / Norwegian Police)

Czech couple: Norwegian amnesia man is our son

Malin Rising · April 10, 2014 9:39 am

The carcass of Marius, a male giraffe, is eaten by lions after he was put down in Copenhagen Zoo on Sunday, Feb. 9, 2014. Copenhagen Zoo turned down offers from other zoos and 500,000 euros ($680,000) from a private individual to save the life of a healthy giraffe before killing and slaughtering it Sunday to follow inbreeding recommendations made by a European association. The 2-year-old male giraffe, named Marius, was put down using a bolt pistol and its meat will be fed to carnivores at the zoo, spokesman Tobias Stenbaek Bro said. Visitors, including children, were invited to watch while the giraffe was dissected. (AP Photo/POLFOTO, Rasmus Flindt Pedersen) DENMARK OUT

Thousands of zoo animals killed in Europe yearly

Malin Rising · February 14, 2014 7:01 pm

Volvo's CEO Olof Persson speaks during a news conference in Stockholm, Thursday Feb. 6, 2014. Truck maker AB Volvo plans to lay off 4,400 employees this year as it revealed a 37 percent slide in fourth quarter profits. Persson said the job losses, which include the previously announced reduction of 2,000, will affect employees worldwide in group truck operations, as well as in technology, sales, marketing, IT, finance and human resource departments. (AP Photo/TT News Agency, Fredrik Sandberg) SWEDEN OUT

Volvo to cut 4,400 jobs in 2014

Malin Rising · February 6, 2014 10:47 am

Crime records go online in Sweden amid protests

Crime records go online in Sweden amid protests

Malin Rising · January 27, 2014 7:41 pm

Facebook starts first servers outside the US

Facebook starts first servers outside the US

Malin Rising · June 12, 2013 3:49 pm

Bystanders take photos of a row of burning cars in the Stockholm suburb of Rinkeby after youths rioted in several different suburbs around Stockholm for a fourth consecutive night, late Thursday May 23, 2013. Youths in immigrant-heavy Stockholm suburbs torched cars and threw rocks at police in riots believed to be linked to a deadly police shooting of a local resident in the suburb of Husby. (AP Photo/Scanpix, Fredrik Sandberg) SWEDEN OUT

Sweden’s riots raise questions about inequality

Malin Rising · May 23, 2013 4:00 am

Blinking skirts, fake tans: It must be Eurovision

Blinking skirts, fake tans: It must be Eurovision

Malin Rising · May 18, 2013 7:47 am