Dec 14th, 2008 · Annika Sorenstam putted her final birdie Sunday as a professional golfer. Jacki Lyden gives highlights of the final tournament and wishes the Swedish golfer good luck on her future goals, including: Dancing with the Stars.
Nov 29th, 2008 · Employees of the Peer Bearing Co., which makes ball bearings outside Chicago, are getting a healthy year-end bonus, thanks to the family owners who sold the company to a Swedish firm.
Nov 21st, 2008 · Think about that phrase in the Constitution - about how the President must be a natural-born American. If similar laws apply to the nations of central Asia, we may have to ask if a newborn baby will be entitled to run for president of Kazakhstan. A Swedish woman was on a flight over the Asian country when she gave birth. Two doctors and two nurses were on board the 11-hour flight. The baby's fine, born at 35,000 feet.
Nov 11th, 2008 · The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is an unlikely best-seller — it's the first book in a trilogy of thrillers written by Stieg Larsson, a previously unknown Swedish journalist who died of a heart attack in 2004.
Oct 30th, 2008 · The time change this weekend could be good for your heart. Daylight saving time ends at 2 a.m. Sunday. In Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine, Swedish researchers report they found fewer heart attacks the Monday after clocks were turned back an hour. They examined 20 years of records. The researchers said that moving the clocks ahead appeared to have the opposite effect.
Oct 27th, 2008 · Sweden has been producing some of the best pop music of the past decade. On our latest mix we've got new music from singer Lykke Li (pronounced Leaky-Lee), and the sprawling, 30-member group I'm From Barcelona. Also on the show: the British band Wild Beasts with their oddly titled new song "Brave Bulging Buoyant Clairvoyants;" the wildly strange and wonderful Sparks; twin sisters and the former drummer for Secret Machines form the band School of Seven Bells; and the influential Elephant 6 Orchestra reunites for a magical and historic live performance.
Oct 23rd, 2008 · In his Swedish vampire fable, director Tomas Alfredson constructs a biting narrative without going overboard on the blood. For all its finesse, though, the movie's still essentially a genre exercise.
Oct 20th, 2008 · Governments around the world continue to announce financial rescue plans. Dutch officials poured more than $13 billion into their country's largest bank, ING. Over the weekend, ING became the latest European bank to seek government help. And Swedish officials have announced they're setting up a bailout fund. They'll also guarantee some Swedish bank debt worth $200 billion.