Sweden Articles

Brosque hatches plot to please Pim and Sky Blues

ALEX BROSQUE has a plan to help Sydney FC win the A-League title and make it into Pim Verbeek's Socceroos squad for the World Cup: hold out for the end of the season and then take up a foreign loan option in March.

Sweden and Israel clash over press freedom

THE Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, flew to London last night amid an escalating diplomatic crisis between Israel and Sweden over allegations in a Swedish newspaper that Israeli soldiers had killed Palestinians in order to harvest their organs to sell.

Call to revise .05 limit

AUSTRALIA'S .05 blood-alcohol limit should be re-examined in light of overseas experience showing a .02 limit reduces road fatalities, Victoria Police Assistant Commissioner Stephen Fontana has said.

Spaliviero acquitted of soliciting to murder

CHARLOTTE LINDSTROM was 19 when she arrived in Sydney on a working holiday and fell for a man who was twice her age, drove a Porsche and stashed cash behind his fridge.

Lindstrom told she must testify before going home

THE NSW Government has refused to consider an application by Charlotte Lindstrom to be repatriated to serve the remainder of her jail term in her home country of Sweden until she has testified in two coming trials.