Visa to buy Swedish fintech start-up Tink for nearly £2bn: Payments giant snaps up open banking platform after being forced to abandon similar deal Visa is buying Swedish fin-tech Tink for $2.2bn Tink develops technology to allow fintechs to connect to customers from different financial institutions It comes after Visa was forced to abandon its … Read more
‘You are wonderful and I miss you’: Love letters from JFK to his Swedish mistress written just weeks before he married Jackie up for auction Love letters penned by President Kennedy to his Swedish mistress are up for sale Kennedy met Swedish aristocrat Gunilla von Post the summer of 1953 He was a Massachusetts Senator weeks … Read more
Bishop Peder Winstrup was a prominent Lutheran church member in 17th century Scandinavia and was buried in 1679 in a crypt at Lund Cathedral, Sweden. Previous analysis found this man of God was buried with a human foetus wrapped in cloth and concealed betwixt his calves, and researchers have been toiling to solve the riddle … Read more
A Swedish professor who had been researching the effects of Covid-19 on children has quit after being bombarded with abuse online. Jonas F Ludvigsson, a paediatrician at Örebro University Hospital and professor of clinical epidemiology at the Karolinska Institute, published data showing few children in Sweden became ill from Covid-19 during the first wave. However, … Read more
A Swedish filmmaker has been cleared of breaching an international grave treaty while filming the wreckage of the doomed ferry MS Estonia. Henrik Evertsson used a drone camera to film the vessel, which sank off the coast of the Finnish island Uto in 1994, killing 852 passengers, for a Discovery+ documentary about the disaster. The … Read more
‘Child’ migrant stopped at Swedish border is actually a SIXTY-YEAR-OLD woman Woman in her sixties, who lives in bordering Denmark, had claimed she was a child so she could get around Sweden’s strict border controls The woman had said she was under 18 so she could visit her mother in Sweden She was stopped by … Read more
Could this gritty Nordic noir be the next Girl With the Dragon Tattoo? Netflix to release first-ever Swedish feature film Red Dot which sees expectant parents hunted by reckless shooters in snow storm Netflix is set to launch its first-ever Swedish feature with gritty movie Red Dot Film follows married couple in their twenties struggling … Read more
Victoria’s Secret model Kelly Gale, 25, announces engagement to Swedish actor Joel Kinnaman, 40, during a picturesque hike By Candice Jackson For Daily Mail Australia Published: 20:13 GMT, 18 January 2021 | Updated: 20:13 GMT, 18 January 2021 Victoria’s Secret model Kelly Gale is now engaged. The Swedish-Australian beauty. 24, accepted a romantic proposal from Swedish … Read more
A Swedish filmmaker has revealed that he is looking forward to giving evidence next month after being arrested for filming the wreckage of doomed ferry MS Estonia. Henrik Evertsson will appear in court in Gothenberg on January 27, accused of breaching an international treaty, which declared the site a marine grave and prohibited any exploration … Read more
Professor Neil Ferguson’s argument for lockdown was ‘too good to be true’, says Swedish academic who accuses Imperial College London of ‘going beyond the data’ to support draconian measures Neil Ferguson co-wrote paper in June claiming restrictions cut the virus’s R-rate The first coronavirus wave subsided in Sweden without draconian measures Kristian Soltecz, of Sweden’s … Read more