Emirates to introduce additional flights to StockholmEmirates today announced that it will introduce three additional flights per week to the Swedish capital, complementing Emirates’ existing schedule and providing more choice to travellers from December 8. The new scheduled f More… |
Two held after Swedish truck attack kills 4Two men have been arrested after a truck crashed into a Stockholm department store on Friday, killing at least four people. The first man to be arrested is being held on suspicion of committing a terrorist crim More… |
Planes grounded at main Swedish airports due to communication problemSwedish authorities grounded planes from Stockholm and the western city of Gothenburg on Thursday due to computer problems that affected network communications. No planes were being allowed to take off from Stockholm airports and More… |
Emirates’ to fly Stockholm from Sept 4Dubai-based Emirates airline’s service to Stockholm from September 4 is expected to boost Swedish tourism and trade. The number of international travellers from Sweden is projected to grow from 13.1 million to 18.6 million b More… |
Emirates resumes services to LibyaEmirates will restart passenger flights to Libya's capital Tripoli from September 1, a statement said. It said that the flights to Tripoli - every Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday - will also make a stop in Malta. More… |
Match-making science wins economy NobelUS economists Alvin Roth and Lloyd Shapley won the 2012 Nobel prize for economics on Monday for research on how to match different economic agents such as students for schools or even organ donors with patients. The Royal Swedish More… |
Chinese writer wins Nobel prize for literatureChinese writer Mo Yan won the 2012 Nobel prize for literature on Thursday for works which combine "hallucinatory realism" with folk tales, history and contemporary life grounded in his native land. The prize, awarded by More… |
Cell receptor research wins chemistry NobelTwo American scientists won the 2012 Nobel Prize for chemistry on Wednesday for research into how cells respond to external stimuli that is helping to develop better drugs to fight diseases such as diabetes, cancer and depression. More… |
French, US scientists win Nobel for Quantum workA French and an American scientist won the Nobel Prize on Tuesday for finding ways to measure quantum particles without destroying them, which could make it possible to build a new kind of computer far more powerful than any seen before. More… |
Japanese, UK scientists win Nobel medicine prizeA British and a Japanese scientist won the Nobel Prize for Medicine on Monday for work on creating stem cells, opening the door to new methods to diagnose and treat diseases. Briton John Gurdon and Japan's Shinya Yamanaka equa More… |