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• Paul Simon, Yo-Yo Ma share Swedish music prize

  award for musicians.Simon and Ma will receive 1 million kronor ($166,000) each and an invitation to the prize ceremony in Stockholm Aug. 28.The award was founded by the late Stig Anderson, the manager of Swedish pop group ABBA , and has been handed out since   Read more »

• Sales of handset arm lifts Sweden's Ericsson in QI

  quarter profits more than double, largely on the back of proceeds made from the sale of its stake in handset maker Sony Ericsson.The Stockholm -headquartered group posted Wednesday a net profit of 8.95 billion kronor ($1.33 billion), up from the 4.1 billion   Read more »

• Swedish museum evacuated after bomb threat

  -- Police say Stockholm's modern art museum has been evacuated because of a bomb threat.Police spokesman Mats Almquist says a bomb squad was dispatched to the Moderna Museet in the Swedish capital on Tuesday after officers in the southern city of Malmo received   Read more »

• Denmark braced for terror trial against 4 Swedes

  -- in December 2010 at an apartment near the Danish capital.The fourth, Sabhi Ben Mohamed Zalouti, left the car and returned to Stockholm, were he was arrested the same day as the others.The men are also charged with possession of illegal weapons.Prosecutors   Read more »

• Erland Josephson, Swedish actor, dies

  -- Swedish actor Erland Josephson, who collaborated with director Ingmar Bergman in more than 40 films and plays, died Saturday at 88.He died in a Stockholm hospital following a long battle against Parkinson's disease, said Royal Dramatic Theatre spokeswoman   Read more »

Around the web

• 2012 London Olympics Blog: Sweden 1912: Cruising With the Olympians

  1, 2012, 1:23 pm By SAMANTHA STOREY One hundred years ago the Summer Olympics were held in Stockholm. As we count down the days to London 2012, we’ll take a look back at what was happening at the Games a century ago. April 10, 1912 Want a unique summer vacation? 6/1/12 from The New York Times Read more »

• Facebook attack claimed by Anonymous members

  loose hacking collective in the past, Anonymous targeted the social network. PC World reported that disruptions were seen in Stockholm, Shanghai, Copenhagen, Oslo, Lisbon, San Francisco and Moscow. Facebook acknowledged that some users had trouble accessing 6/1/12 from The Washington Post Read more »

• Melbourne It Limited

  IT Limited (MLB) is a Melbourne-based domain name and online business services provider, with offices in Melbourne, Wellington, Stockholm, London, Paris, Amsterdam, Madrid and San Francisco. MLB is the administrator of the Australian commercial domain.com.au 6/1/12 from OpPapers.com Read more »

• A site for matching journals and referees?

  Espinoza, a philosopher at Stockholm University (who you can reach at nicolas-dot-espinoza-at-gmail-dot-com) writes: Like many other junior philosophers (and i suspect senior ones too) I am frustrated by the long turn around time for submitted manuscripts 6/1/12 from Leiter Reports Read more »

• FDA Asked To Ban Lice Shampoo For Kids

  wrote to the FDA. He asks whether the FDA has assessed harm to children, among other things (here is his letter). However, the Stockholm ban includes a specific exemption allowing the chemical to continue to be used as a second-line pharmaceutical treatment 6/1/12 from Pharmalot Read more »