The Independent (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
Any coastal town or city worth its salt has a Grand Hotel; those that host political shindigs – Eastbourne, Scarborough and Brighton, for example – seem to be particularly partial to them. All too often they are grand in size, rather than quantifiably opulent. Victorian edifice, "promenade" location, luridly patterned carpets, conference facilities – you know the sort....
Business Wire (Free subscription) | yesterday
STOCKHOLM--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Regulatory News: BE Group Sverige AB (STO:BEGR) has received the challenging contract to deliver approximately 15,000 tons of reinforcing steel to Peab for the construction of Arenastaden in Solna. The order value for BE Group is estimated to about 100 SEK millions. BE Group has formed a qualified project organization in order to administer the transaction going forward...
red.house (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
: : I found out from . emma . that a new hotel has opened in Stockholm. A hotel with a .story.
Slap Shot (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
A second-division Swedish team acts to join the Russian league, but first must get approval from the Swedish federation -- and from its own fans.
STYLECLICKER (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Emil, Singer Second hand jacket, trousers from Primark, boots from Sko Uno, belt second hand and gloves from a punk shop in Stockholm. © STYLECLICKER - This article is from www.styleclicker.net.
Discobelle.net (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
Stockholm production team Van Rivers & The Subliminal Kid are long time favorites of us here at Discobelle. Hot off the heels of touring with Fever Ray and also a recent dj gig at the notorious Berghain club in Berlin, they give us a pumping techy mix done for the friendly and amazing Italians over [...]
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
Swedish soprano whose perceptive singing and vivid acting made her a great heroine in operas by Tchaikovsky, Richard Strauss and Janacek One of the most perceptive and admired sopranos of the postwar era, Elisabeth Söderström, who has died aged 82, had a lengthy career that carried on into the 1990s, when she was well into her 60s. In everything she attempted, her vibrantly beautiful singing...
Mallica Vajrathon (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
Government officials at several recent regional and inter-regional meetings held this month from cities of Stockholm to Singapore, promised to take action together on climate change. This is good news to me, for those who are working to prepare the big United Nations meeting in December this year in Copenhagen, Denmark, on Climate Change. At [...]
prefixmag (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
The xx + jj = whoa. This is not an algebra problem, though it may solve the puzzle of who jj is. The mysterious Swedish group, who have never revealed their identities, are making their U.S. debut this fall with another electronic band of the moment, the xx. Will they play behind a curtain? A U.K.-based electro group, the xx are making many Best of 2009 lists with their self-titled debut, and are...
dramma per musica (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Associated Press reports that Swedish soprano Elisabeth Söderström died this morning in Stockholm of complications from a stroke. She was 82. In this 1986 clip, she performs “Song to the Moon” (“Měsíčku na nebi hlubokém”) from Dvořák’s Rusalka, with James Levine and the Vienna State Opera Orchestra.
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | yesterday
Common genetic contributions to plasma lipoprotein profile determined by large scale, genome-wide genetic analysisUsing highly precise measurements of plasma lipoprotein concentrations determined by nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR), researchers led by Daniel Chasman at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA, the Framingham Heart Study in Framingham, and the...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | yesterday
Stockholm - Former South African president Nelson Mandela and his wife Graca Machel were Friday named winners of a children's rights prize in a vote involving over 7 million children worldwide. We are extremely honoured to have been voted as the Dec...
Adpunch (Free subscription) | yesterday
Well, the sickness prescribes medicine for cure. This ambient advertising effort has been created for Swedish horror film festival, Saatchi Saatchi Stockholm. This pillow was sent out to the members of the festival. Time and date was printed on.
Gadling (Free subscription) | yesterday
Filed under: Sweden , News Two North Korean diplomats tried to claim diplomatic immunity when they were arrested in Stockholm for smuggling cigarettes. The man and woman, who were caught driving their tobacco-filled car off a ferry from Helsinki, have been taken into police custody. Apparently, they have diplomatic status in Russia, but no accreditation in Sweden. Also, they allegedly had 230,000...
Business Wire (Free subscription) | yesterday
STOCKHOLM, Sweden--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Regulatory News: As previously announced, Gunnebo Security Group (STO:GUNN) is planning to implement a number of restructuring measures, with the aim of gradually reducing its costs by MSEK 500 up to 2012 and strengthening its market positions. The restructuring measures partly entail streamlining the Group’s industrial platform. The planning of winding-up...
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