AlHijjah 13, 1432, Nov 9, 2011, SPA -- The center-right Swedish government says it has reached broad agreement with opposition parties to start withdrawing Sweden's 650 troops from northern Afghanistan by the end of next year.
Foreign Minister Carl (...)
AlQa'dah 12, 1432, Oct 10, 2011, SPA - US economists Thomas J Sargent and Christopher A Sims on Monday were awarded the 2011 Nobel economics prize for "their empirical research on cause and effect in the macro economy," said the Royal Swedish (...)
AlQa'dah 8, 1432, Oct 6, 2011, SPA -- Poet Tomas Transtromer, who Thursday won the
Nobel Prize in Literature, was the seventh Swedish national to be
awarded the prize, according to dpa.
"It's always special, almost 40 years since a Swedish (...)
AlQa'dah 8, 1432, Oct 6, 2011, SPA -- After a long wait, Swedish poet Tomas
Transtromer was Thursday named winner of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Literature, dpa reported.
The Swedish Academy cited Transtromer, who had been nominated several times (...)
AlQa'dah 6, 1432, Oct 4, 2011, SPA - The 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics was Tuesday awarded to three researchers for "the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the universe through observations of distant
supernovae," the Royal Swedish Academy of (...)
AlQa'dah 5, 1432, Oct 3, 2011, SPA - Three scientists were awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize for Medicine Monday for pioneering discoveries that has "revolutionized" the understanding of the human immune system.
Bruce A Beutler of the United States and (...)
AlQa'dah 3, 1432, Oct 1, 2011, SPA -- Sweden should begin taxing saturated fats and sugar, especially sodas and other sweetened soft drinks, UPI quoted a nutritionist as saying.
Claude Marcus of the Karolinska Institute told The Local high-calorie, (...)