Protestors in Stockholm celebrate the guilty verdict of Hamid Noury STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - A former Iranian official sentenced in Sweden to life in prison for his part in a mass execution of political ...

I’m about to ruin an otherwise enjoyable morning by going where every daughter has gone before. I’m about to have an awkward conversation with my parents. “Ah, Mom,” I say, clearing my throat. “You ...

At first glance, the term death cleaning might evoke an image of somber rituals, preparing for the inevitable end. But in reality, Swedish Death Cleaning (döstädning in Swedish) is far from grim. In ...

Forsberg family trip to Sweden June, 1946. Picnic with Forsberg and Zettergren families here in Karlskoga. Left to right Ingrid Forsberg, seated next to three unnamed relatives, next is my mother ...

"Swedish death cleaning" may sound like a funeral ritual. But it's actually all about living in the present. The longstanding in Swedish practice – further popularized with the book "The Gentle Art of ...

And then there are the lifestyle concepts. First there was hygge, which sold ten thousand beeswax candles and fluffy throws as Americans got cozy, Danish-style; then there was the lesser-known ...

Lagom, pronounced “lah-gom,” essentially means “not too much, not too little” and is the Swedish ideal of finding balance and happiness in life. We might be wise to take some clues from Sweden and ...

Mazdak Dorosti is no longer taking the metro to get to his banking job across Stockholm and cycling instead. But on his virus-adapted commute, he sees restaurants and coffee shops filled with people ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Life expectancy in Sweden will probably fall in 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the country's statistics agency said Wednesday. The ...

The relentless, tiring buzz of contemporary work life, a constant request for our time and energy, tends to leave us stuck in a continuous cycle of burnout. It’s the sensation of jogging on a ...