Sweden

Prayer service remembers victims of Bangladesh building collapse

2013-05-14 07:36:00

NEW DELHI, India -- Thousands gathered Tuesday in the rubble of the collapsed Rana Plaza garment factory complex in Bangladesh to pray for the 1,127 victims who died in the ruins of the world’s worst apparel industry disaster. Pictures taken at...

Bangladesh crowd gathers as collapse cleanup ends

2013-05-14 15:18:00

NEW DELHI — Thousands gathered Tuesday in the rubble of the collapsed Rana Plaza garment factory complex in Bangladesh to pray for the 1,127 people who died in the world's worst apparel industry disaster. Pictures taken at the Islamic prayer...

Review: Lang Lang leads the L.A. Phil on a jazzy jaunt

2013-05-03 15:14:00

The famous first bars of Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto summon four fortissimo horns to urgently blare a four-note descending figure and then leap. The full Los Angeles Philharmonic punctuated that leap Thursday night about as adamantly as I can...

Justice Department accuses U.S. citizen of being Cuban spy

2013-04-25 17:39:00

WASHINGTON — Almost 30 years ago, two young women allegedly obtained fake passports in Europe for a clandestine trip to Cuba. Today, one is in prison serving a 25-year sentence for espionage; the other has taken shelter in Sweden. On Thursday, the...

Search of Justin Bieber tour bus in Sweden yields weed, stun gun

2013-04-25 10:42:00

As if Justin Bieber's European escapades haven't been entertaining enough already, let's add ... a drug raid in Sweden! A strong smell of marijuana got authorities' attention Wednesday night when the bus was outside the Biebs' hotel before the Stockholm...

Europe austerity strategy is hurting growth, IMF says

2013-04-19 00:00:00

WASHINGTON — Britain and the Eurozone are steadfastly sticking to austerity measures despite increasing evidence that such action alone isn't working to revive their economies and is dragging down global growth. Such persistence, analysts said,...

The Hives and the Cardigans involved in bizarre band-loan ruling

2013-04-17 14:30:00

Defeat doesn't come easy to the brash rock 'n' rollers in the Hives. But a Swedish court may have just one-upped them with a multimillion-dollar ruling in a strange case of management malpractice, according to the BBC and Radio Sweden.� The ruling...

The Week in Pictures | April 1-7, 2013

2013-04-05 15:32:22

Uncertainty around Kent Nagano's tenure at Montreal Symphony

2013-04-08 06:45:00

Kent Nagano's tenure at the Montreal Symphony Orchestra appears uncertain following reports that the American conductor will depart the orchestra when his current contract as music director expires in 2016. But the orchestra's management has vigorously...

Steal his movie and Simon Klose will thank you

2013-03-30 09:00:00

AUSTIN, Texas — Simon Klose would like you to steal his movie. Stream it, download it, share it with someone in Croatia or Brazil and remix it with videos of kittens playing patty-cake, if that's your kind of thing. Klose, 37, is the director of...

Bebo Valdes, Cuban pianist and composer, dies at 94

2013-03-22 16:21:00

Bebo Valdes, the legendary Grammy-winning Cuban pianist, composer and father of his equally accomplished pianist son, Chucho Valdes, has died in Sweden at 94. During his artistic prime, in the 1940s and '50s, the elder Valdes ranked among the key...

Sweden's Liseberg plans Projekt Helix megacoaster for 2014

2013-02-20 06:45:00

Ride enthusiasts are already drooling over a multi-launch roller coaster coming to a Swedish amusement park that promises six inversions and a series of near-miss encounters with other rides dotting a wooded hillside terrain. Photos: Projekt Helix...

Sweden's Fredrik Pettersson (right) shoots to score the game winning goal on Canada's goalkeeper Mike Smith during a shootout at the quarterfinals match Canada vs Sweden at the 2013 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championships on May 16, 2013 in Stockholm. Sweden won 3-2.

2013-05-17 00:00:00

The capsized Artemis catamaran, a 72-foot America's Cup entry from Sweden, is towed past Treasure Island in San Francisco Bay. A sailor died after the catamaran of a Swedish team training for the upcoming America's Cup races capsized on San Francisco Bay, emergency officials said.

2013-05-09 00:00:00

Finnair has off-season discounts for flights from New York City to Stockholm, Sweden, and other countries.

2013-04-18 17:09:02