Stockholm: Hundreds of youths have set fire to cars and attacked police and rescue services in poor immigrant suburbs in three nights of rioting in Stockholm, Sweden's worst disorder in years.
On Tuesday night, a police station in the Jakobsberg area in the northwest of the city was attacked, two schools were damaged and an arts and crafts center was set ablaze, despite a call for calm from Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt.
The riots in one of Europe's richest capitals have shocked a country that prides itself on a reputation for social justice, and fuelled a debate about how Sweden is coping with both youth unemployment and an influx of immigrants.
"We've had around 30 cars set on fire last night, fires that we connect to youth gangs and criminals," Kjell Lindgren, spokesman for Stockholm police, said on Wednesday....
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04:44 PM, May 22, 2013
Stockholm: The list of troubles linked to Justin Bieber's tour of Europe grew again after Swedish police said Thursday they had found drugs and a stun gun on the pop singer's bus. No arrests were made since the bus was empty at the time, Stockholm police spokesman Lars Bystrom told The Associated Press. Police said they decided to act after smelling marijuana coming from inside the bus while it was...
11:48 AM, Apr 26, 2013
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05:46 PM, Mar 18, 2013
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07:10 PM, Jan 15, 2013
Luxembourg: Venus Williams won her first WTA tournament in more than two years, beating Monica Niculescu of Romania 6-2, 6-3 to take the Luxembourg Open title on Sunday. Slowed by injuries and illness for two seasons, Williams showed she still had the winning touch and played steady tennis while Niculescu proved error-prone as she sought her first career title. At 32, Williams won her 44th singles title in a career...
11:35 PM, Oct 21, 2012
Stockholm: Tomas Berdych won his second ATP title this year by rallying to beat top-seeded Jo-Wilfried Tsonga of France 4-6, 6-4, 6-4 in the Stockholm Open final on Sunday. The sixth-ranked Czech saved seven of nine breakpoint chances in the hard-fought match to improve to 3-1 against Tsonga and add to his win in February in Montpellier, France. Berdych now has eight career titles. For the first time in his...
11:31 PM, Oct 21, 2012
Stockholm: Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Tomas Berdych will contest the Stockholm Open final after contrasting semi-final wins on Saturday. Top-seeded Tsonga advanced after 2009 champion Marcos Baghdatis retired with a left groin strain in the deciding set, with Tsonga leading 6-4, 4-6, 5-2. Second-seeded Berdych recorded a comfortable 6-3, 6-2 win over third-seeded Nicolas Almagro of Spain. Baghdatis picked up his injury at 4-2 in the decider, when he attempted to...
07:49 PM, Oct 20, 2012
Stockholm: Jarkko Nieminen of Finland and Russia's Mikhail Youzhny advanced to the second round of the Stockholm Open on Monday with straight-set wins. Nieminen, who lost last year's final to Gael Monfils of France, was down 4-2 in the second set but recovered to win the match 6-3, 6-4. Niemenen says "I lost focus and made some simple mistakes but then I woke up and started playing more aggressive. I'm...
11:45 AM, Oct 16, 2012
New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the Centre to firm up its plans on the deadly chemical endosulfan. The apex court sought a report from the Centre and asked it if it has decided to ban or permit the usage of endosulfan. Thousands of people have been affected due to to endosulfan poisoning, especially in Kerala. According to the Supreme Court, a blanket ban or permission - both...
01:24 PM, Oct 09, 2012
Stockholm: A Swedish man was dug out alive after being snowed in to his car on a forest track for two months with no food, police and local media reported on Saturday. The 45-year-old from southern Sweden was found on Friday, emaciated and too weak to utter more than a few words. He was found not far from the city of Umea in the north of Sweden by snowmobilers who...
01:12 PM, Feb 19, 2012
Stockholm: Top-seeded Gael Monfils won his first title of the year on Sunday after defeating Jarkko Nieminen 7-5, 3-6, 6-2 in the Stockholm Open final. The win is 25-year-old Monfils' fourth title on the ATP tour and he said he was surprised to win his first tournament since picking up a knee injury. "After Bangkok I haven't practiced that much, mostly been in rehab for my knee," he told local...
02:14 AM, Oct 24, 2011
Stockholm: Rohan Bopanna and Aisam-ul-haq Qureshi won the Stockholm Open men's doubles title after comprehensively outplaying Marcelo Melo and Bruno Soares in the summit clash on Sunday, enhancing their chances of qualifying for the season-ending ATP World Tour Finals. The top-seeded Indo-Pak pair lived up to its top billing, downing their fourth-seeded Brazilian opponents 6-1, 6-4 in just 57 minutes in the 600,00-Euros hard court event. Bopanna and Qureshi swiftly...
06:09 PM, Oct 23, 2011
Stockholm: Top-seeded Gael Monfils defeated Milos Raonic 6-7 (6), 6-4, 6-3 on Saturday to set up a Stockholm Open final against Jarkko Nieminen. The 10th-ranked Monfils converted three of nine break points against the hard-serving Canadian. He is looking for his first title of the year. Nieminen beat American player James Blake 7-6 (5), 5-7, 6-2 to reach his third Stockholm Open final. Blake, who beat 15th-ranked Juan Martin Del...
11:32 PM, Oct 22, 2011
Stockholm: Top-seeded Gael Monfils beat South Africa's Kevin Anderson 7-5, 7-5 on Friday to advance to the semifinals of the Stockholm Open. The 10th-ranked Frenchman made heavy weather of the win, though, allowing his fifth-seeded opponent to break service twice to draw level after racing into a 5-1 lead in the second set. Monfils will now play the sixth-seeded Milos Raonic for a place in the final after the big-serving...
08:24 AM, Oct 22, 2011
Stockholm: India's Rohan Bopanna and Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi of Pakistan staged a commendable fightback to defeat Cypriot Marcos Baghdatis and Juan Martin Del Potro of Argentina and enter the final of the 600,000 Euros Stockholm Open on Friday. The top-seeded India-Pakistan pair won 2-6, 6-2, 10-8, in a match that lasted 68 minutes. In total, they fired 8 aces and saved six of the eight break points they faced. Bopanna and...
05:31 PM, Oct 21, 2011
Stockholm: Gael Monfils of France was the only seeded player to advance during a day of upsets in the second round of the Stockholm Open on Thursday. The top-seeded Monfils beat Bernard Tomic of Australia 6-4, 6-7 (4), 6-4 and will next face fifth-seeded South African Kevin Anderson in the quarterfinals. Unseeded Argentine David Nalbandian took the most emphatic victory of the day, beating seventh-seeded Ivan Dodig of Croatia 6-1,...
09:04 AM, Oct 21, 2011
Stockholm: James Blake of the United States upset second-seeded Juan Martin Del Potro of Argentina 6-4, 6-4 on Wednesday to reach the quarter-finals of the Swedish Open. South Africa's Kevin Anderson and Milos Raonic of Canada also advanced in the Royal Tennis Hall. Anderson needed three sets to beat 33-year-old Tommy Haas of Germany 6-7 (3), 6-4, 6-4 while Raonic easily defeated Philipp Petzschner of Germany 6-3, 6-3. In other...
01:27 PM, Oct 20, 2011
Stockholm: India's Rohan Bopanna and his Pakistani partner Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi advanced to the men's doubles quarter-finals of the 600,000 Euros Stockholm Open. The top-seeded India-Pakistan pair defeated Julian Knowle of Austria and Poland's Lukasz Kubot 6-4, 6-4 in the first round in Sweden on Tuesday. They now await the winner of the opening-round match between Germany's Michael Kohlmann and Alexander Waske and the wildcard pair of Martin Emmrich of Germany...
04:48 PM, Oct 19, 2011
Stockholm: David Nalbandian dropped the first set before going on to beat Xavier Malisse of Belgium 4-6, 7-6 (6), 7-6 (3) in the first round of the Stockholm Open on Tuesday. The Argentine will next face Ivan Dodig of Croatia, who beat Adrian Mannarino of France 7-6 (5), 7-6 (5). South Africa's Kevin Anderson also needed tiebreakers to win against Guillermo Garcia-Lopez 7-6 (1), 7-6 (4), and will face German...
01:07 PM, Oct 19, 2011
