Jonkoping, Sweden News

Individuals with higher mid-life Body Mass Index in the 1960s have been found to have lower memory and thinking skills and a sharper decline in these abilities in old age, compared to those with lower BMI in mid-life. "The adverse effects of being overweight and obese are not limited to cardiac function, but also extend to brain function," says ...

Professor Bo Malmberg and Professor Gerdt Sundstrom at the School of Health Sciences in Jonkoping, Sweden have studied loneliness among older people.

Liberal Party Riksdag member Tobias Krantz will take over as Sweden's Minister for Higher Education and Research, the Swedish government announced on Wednesday.

When a stonemason did not receive payment for his work he took the law into his own hands and repossessed the grave stone from churchyard in Gnosjo in southern Sweden.

Sveaskog, a publicly owned Swedish forest company, has started using the first example of the El-forest F14 forestry machine, the world's first forwarder to utilize electric-hybrid technology.

Finnish wood-processing group Metsaliitto and government-controlled Vapo are considering building a wood-based biofuel facility in the Baltic Sea region, Metsaliitto said in a statement Thursday.

Journalists should not be paid well, argues Robert G. Picard, a professor of media economics at Sweden's Jonkoping University, for the csmonitor.com, because journalism has "no intrinsic value" and its "instrumental value" has been eroded.

AS A WRITER, I know perfectly well the importance of a good lead. Properly executed, it can draw in readers to a story they would otherwise ignore.

Top German politicians have protested after it emerged that a prominent Swedish right-wing extremist with ties to German neo-Nazis is relocating to Berlin .

FITCHBURG _ Munksjo Paper Inc. told its employees today that it will be closing on June 30, according to Gene King, chief union steward at the River Street plant.

Police have launched a credit card fraud investigation after employees at an Ikea in central Sweden discovered a suspicious device attached to one of the store's card payment machines.

An increasing share Sweden's holiday homes are owned by foreigners, according to new statistics.

The prosecutor in a high-profile rape case in Jonkoping where a 15-year-old victim committed suicide before the trial, has withdrawn from the case.

Aftonbladet's Tomas Ros reports that Red Wings prospect "Hat Trick Dick" Axelsson hopes to return to Farjestads BK's lineup for the Swedish Eliteserien finals against HV-71 Jonkoping.

A visit to a pizzeria in Jonkoping in southern Sweden has left almost 600 customers clutching their stomachs.

Motorists are being advised to exercise caution as meteorological agency SMHI forecasts that the weather in Sweden will remain bitterly cold for the rest of the working week.

It's not only warmer weather on the way to Sweden. A host of internationally renowned music acts play live throughout the country in the coming months.

A Stockholm -area businessman has been charged for using the internet to pimp Swedish school girls for violent group sex.

The Annual General Meeting of Husqvarna AB will be held at 4 p.m. on Thursday, April 23, 2009, at the Elmia Congress Centre, the Hammarskjold Hall, Elmiavagen 15 in Jonkoping.

Released in the spring of 2006, Enter the Gate is the fifth studio album from the Christian metal band Narnia.