Sweden, a nation long synonymous with neutrality, is embarking on record military spending for defense and record spending ...

Lindsborg isn’t just another dot on the map—it’s a cultural phenomenon that blooms especially beautifully when winter thaws ...

Real GDP growth is expected to strengthen further in 2025 after a moderate recovery in 2024. Supportive policies and recovering real incomes will boost private domestic demand as inflation has been ...

Real GDP is expected to pick up to 1.9 percent in 2025 and further in 2026 to 2.2 percent. Inflation is expected to remain anchored around the 2 percent target.

RAF Typhoon fighter teams are being sent to cover NATO's flank near Poland to counter increasing Russian aggression in major ...

Sweden sends six Gripen jets to Poland for NATO’s Air Policing, marking its first forward deployment as a NATO member.

As allegations of attacks and other incidents blamed on Russia piled up across Europe last year, a team of AP journalists set ...

For much of their history, three Nordic countries, Finland, Sweden, and Norway, were one nation within the Swedish Empire. Now, after Finland and Sweden have ...

Sweden's homicide and manslaughter rate dropped sharply last year as increased surveillance lessened gang crime that had ...

SAN JOSE – San Jose Sharks forward William Eklund was left off Sweden’s roster for last month’s 4 Nations Face-Off, with that country’s officials choosing, for the most part, to ice a more ...

Finland was ranked No. 1 in the World Happiness Report for the eighth straight year. The U.S. finished at No. 24 – its lowest rank since the report launched 13 years ago. Every Nordic country ...

The United States fell to its lowest global ranking in the 2025 World Happiness Report released Thursday. The annual report measures and analyses wellbeing data from 140 countries and ranks them ...