Sweden on Tuesday granted political asylum to two activist members of the Russian protest collective Pussy Riot who had feared being arrested if they had returned to Moscow, Swedish public television ...

Protesters threw stones at police and burned tyres in southern Sweden late on Friday, authorities said, hours after an anti-Muslim Danish politician was blocked from attending a Koran-burning rally ...

Sweden has long been a bastion of generous social welfare and an egalitarian political culture, so many people were shocked when scores of youths hurled rocks at police and set cars ablaze during ...