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SATURDAY 31 OCTOBER· STOCKHOLM · THE DAY IN 5 STORIES

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EU opens free travel passes to young residents in Sweden

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A train passes waiting travellers at Katrineholm Central station.

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Terracotta figures displayed together behind glass at Stockholm’s Mediterranean Museum.

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Two Stockholm museums face closure over rising rents

Two adults talk on a city street.

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Swedish Muslims take public questions to the street at 150 locations

Ripe, red and forming mulberries grow on a leafy branch.

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People browse books and displays at a Gothenburg Book Fair booth in 2025.

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Why Gothenburg Book Fair is built around what readers miss

Robert De Niro in a grey jacket at the Cannes Film Festival in 2025.

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Sweden puts Robert De Niro’s new thriller at number one

A butterfly resting on a flowering plant in Töfsingdalen National Park.

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The tiny autumn menu that keeps Swedish butterflies visiting

The pipe organ and organ loft inside S:t Nicolai Church in Örebro.

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Örebro’s festival puts electric guitar beside a church organ

A cook prepares hot food at a busy outdoor festival.

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Umeå turns school lunch into a public taste test

A young European hedgehog standing on a wooden deck in Sweden.

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The autumn garden job a hedgehog wants you to skip

Matt Damon at the 2024 Berlin International Film Festival.

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The Odyssey still has Sweden making time for three hours

Assia Dahir smiles against a red background in a 2026 press portrait.

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Sweden's culture quiz IFS returns after contributors walked away

Ripe red and green apples hang from a leafy tree in a Swedish orchard.

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Sweden has 240 apple varieties worth tasting this autumn

Golden chanterelles and red lingonberries grow among moss on a Swedish forest floor.

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A new map shows the mushrooms hiding under Sweden's forests

The courtyard facade of the Swedish Institute at Hôtel de Marle in Paris.

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Three funded overseas residencies open to Sweden-based artists

An SJ X40 regional double-decker train stands at Sundbyberg station in March 2006.

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Your bicycle ticket depends on the Swedish train

A nightclub crowd dancing beneath purple stage lights.

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What a Swedish nightclub cannot decide at the door

A blue-walled platform at T-Centralen metro station in Stockholm with a train approaching in the distance.

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The quiet rules that keep Stockholm's metro moving

Matt Damon at the 2024 Berlin International Film Festival.

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Where The Odyssey is still screening in Sweden

A grocery store aisle in Sweden with packaged food displayed on shelves.

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The two Swedish food dates that mean different things

A partial solar eclipse visible through clouds over Tuntorp in western Sweden.

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Sweden gets a partial eclipse Wednesday, but viewers need eye protection

Passengers carrying bags board a plane at Stockholm Arlanda Airport.

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48% of Swedes less likely to summer in Europe because of heat

People gather around a decorated Midsummer maypole beside red wooden buildings in Rälta, Sweden.

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Seven people wearing paper hats and bibs share crayfish at a decorated waterside table.

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Why Swedes wear paper hats and sing over crayfish every August