Construction group Skanska reports an increase in operating profit for the second quarter to SEK 2.1 billion. That compares with SEK 1.8 billion in profit in the same quarter a year earlier.
BusinessAdults with obesity have significantly better blood pressure and cholesterol levels today than they did 30 years ago. The improvement is linked to effective medications.
SwedenLet emissions rise to save the economy, critics shout as the EU takes a new approach to climate policy. Sweden is pushing back - and fears the forest industry will take the hit.
SwedenHotel chain Scandic Hotels' operating profit increased to SEK 899 million in the second quarter of this year. During the corresponding quarter last year, the company posted a profit of SEK 816 million.
BusinessFinnish divers are now beginning the work of draining the sunken armored ship Ilmarinen of oil. The wreck has been lying at the bottom of the Baltic Sea since 1941, but was only found about 50 years later.
WorldElectrification in Europe is moving too slowly, and that is a major failure, according to Fatih Birol, head of the International Energy Agency (IEA).
BusinessBravida, listed on the Stockholm Stock Exchange, has won the contract for an installation job at a new data center in Finland worth about 200 million euros (about 2.2 billion kronor), the company says in a press release.
BusinessToday, Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is being buried in Iran. But in Finland, the biggest rumor is that his coffin was transported in an old Finnish refrigerated trailer.
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