In a new funding round led by Swedish group, Proventus Capital Partners, funds to the tune of _65 million ($84 million) have been raised by Dublin-based renewable energy group Gaelectric.

During a Tuesday press conference with Turkish President Abdullah Gül in Stockholm, Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt urged Turkey to consider overhauling its terrorism laws which are used by the Turkish courts to jail journalists.

After its last-week ejection from Sweden, notorious file-sharing site The Pirate Bay claimed on Monday that it had set up shop in North Korea on Monday; but, tracking searches carried out by several tech websites have cast doubts on the authenticity of the claim.

According to a report on the TorrentFreak website, file-sharing site The Pirate Bay has moved its servers out of Sweden, and shifted them to two safer havens - Norway and Spain.

The emergence of `Minecraft' as one of the hottest games on the Internet has brought to the forefront its not-so-widely-known development studio Mojang AB, which is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden.

A consortium of companies led by Sweden's ViaEuropa AB has won the right to construct a high-speed fiber optic Internet network across Israel; with the network having the potential to notably upgrade the country's telecom scenario as well as to offer substantial competition to the existing phone and cable firms.

Israel's recent announcements of withholding the transfer of tax revenue to the Palestinian Authority has sent the Israeli ambassador summon from not only the European Union but from several Western nations too like Britain, France, Spain, Sweden and Denmark, to express its concerns over settlement expansion plans.

Researchers from the Karolinska Institute in Sweden have revealed that it is necessary for people in their young age to exercise. The team says the absence of this habit of exercising can raise one's risk of early death.