We still don’t know if the San Jose Sharks are going to trade defenseman Erik Karlsson to the Pittsburgh Penguins. But now we do know that he has spoken to the Pens, and we know he doesn’t want to ...

I was talking to friend in New York City the other day about the current financial crisis, and she told me about a scene she had just witnessed in the lobby of the Warwick Hotel. Four Swedish tourists ...

I enjoyed the "Finland Diary" series by Robert Kaiser. One point that he made in his June 11 article, "A Blond Nation, in a Bind on Immigrants," merits elaboration, though. The article referred to a ...

Rock Island, Ill. – Is your family from Sweden? Do you speak Swedish? Or do you know anyone who does? Those are a few of the questions a team of Swedish researchers will ask when they visit ...

Coordinated by the University of Helsinki, the LAREINA project (Language Resource Infrastructure for AI) is working to create speech interfaces in less widely spoken languages, such as Finnish, the ...

Why on earth do Swedes use English phrases so much, even while speaking Swedish? Native English speaker Oliver Gee is perplexed. I've got a confession. I've been eavesdropping on the Swedes. Yep, I've ...