The United States may attack Iran again in the near future, according to US media reports. President Trump is reportedly considering a strike before the two high-stakes elections this fall.
World politicsRising market interest rates and energy prices are weighing on stock markets around the world. In Stockholm, the broad OMXS index fell 0.7 percent on Thursday.
BusinessThe Spanish Football Federation is paying its players to freeze their eggs. Sweden’s Amanda Ilestedt thinks it’s a good way to avoid feeling stressed about the biological clock. But researcher Angelica Lindén Hirschberg warns against a false sense of security.
FootballStudents at the elite American university Cornell held an organized sit-in on Wednesday to protest the handling of an alleged gang rape in 2024.
WorldA court has ordered the preservation of all evidence linked to the botched execution of a Tennessee woman. She is angry and confused, her lawyer says, according to CNN.
WorldMoldova is naming a new power line after US President Donald Trump, following an American proposal.
World politicsMinutes from the US Federal Reserve’s latest policy rate decision show that members believe interest rates will rise further before the end of the year.
BusinessSpanish star Jon Rahm is leaving the struggling LIV Golf tour.
SportsA long recovery likely lies ahead for death row inmate Christa Pike after her botched execution in the United States. Whether the state should try again to take her life is uncharted legal territory. “These are questions that have never had to be asked before, and no one knows the answers,” Robin Maher, a death penalty expert, told USA Today.
WorldA rival candidate to FIFA’s scandal-plagued president, Gianni Infantino, will soon have to emerge. Most likely, the challenger will not come from Europe. It would be an advantage, and easier to put forward a candidate who is not European, says Simon Åström, chairman of the Swedish Football Association (SvFF).
FootballUS soldiers on Okinawa, Japan, are banned from drinking alcohol for 48 hours after a US Marine was arrested for the murder of a woman.
ConflictsThe Stockholm Stock Exchange followed a global downward trend on Wednesday. The broad OMXS index closed down 1.6 percent.
BusinessThis year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry could recognize work on molecularly thin, smart surface layers that protect electronics from corrosion or serve as highly accurate disease tests. The prize could also recognize skeletal editing. Here are some of the researchers tipped to win.
SwedenThe world is demanding transparency following reports of pneumonic plague in Russia. At present, it is not possible to make a full risk assessment, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).
WorldDeath row inmate Christa Pike, who survived an execution attempt in Tennessee last week but fell into a life-threatening coma, has regained consciousness, her lawyer announced.
WorldThe Norwegian Football Association wants FIFA President Gianni Infantino investigated for possible conflicts of interest and abuse of power. US President Donald Trump is the common denominator in the three cases, Norway’s Lise Klaveness told The Times.
FootballThousands of light detectors built at Stockholm University have contributed to Francis Halzen’s Nobel Prize-winning work. Colleagues in the field see his receiving the prize as a given. “He has driven the project from the beginning and worked tirelessly ever since,” says Professor Klas Hultqvist.
SwedenStock prices in New York hit new record highs on Tuesday as US market interest rates fell and major technology companies continued their rally.
TechnologyBritish police have confirmed that a 22-year-old man has been arrested in London on suspicion of involvement in the incident at Fairford air base in western England.
WorldUS Secretary of State Marco Rubio says Iceland has long been a “critical outpost” for regional security during a visit to the country.
WorldTwelve crew members were injured in an attack on a Panama-flagged oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz off the coast of Oman, according to the Indian government.
WorldA giant ice cube at the South Pole that captures ghostly messengers from space. No “respectable physicist” should have agreed to join the project. But now Francis Halzen is receiving the Nobel Prize in Physics for the idea. “It feels strange,” he said at the press conference.
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