It looked like things were about to turn. Instead, the ice hockey World Championship ended in bitter disappointment for Sweden's Tre Kronor. A goal made by the Czech Republic's Milan Michalek shot Tre Kronor out of the World Championship with just 29 seconds of the quarter final to go.

Several cars burned in the Stockholm suburb of Tensta Thursday night. Four people were seen running from Gullingeplan, where one of the cars was on fire, but police did not manage to arrest any suspects.

On Monday Stockholm police published pictures and video footage from a surveillance camera on Facebook, in an effort to get tips from the public, but the Swedish Bar Association is critical.

About 350 guests were evacuated from a fire in the Scandic Backadal Hotel in Gothenburg in the middle of the night Friday.

A Stena Line cruise ship travelling to Karlskrona from the Polish harbor city of Gdynia crashed into a giant crane Thursday morning as it left the port. Three dockworkers were injured, two of them seriously, and taken to the hospital, according to the Swedish tabloid Aftonbladet.

Six out of ten mosques give advice that is not in line with Swedish law to women who come to them seeking help, according to Swedish Television's investigative program Uppdrag Granskning.

Swedish Islamic representatives do not approve of the advice and demand that education is needed to overcome the problem. Integration minister Erik Ullenhag of the Liberals tells newspaper Dagens Nyhether that he welcomes the idea of training more imams in Sweden.

Swedes living abroad owe a total of US$ 2 billion in student loan payments to the nation's coffers.

Two labor federations, Akademikerförbundet SSR and Vision, have reached an agreement on pay raises for their members who work for the Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions. Some 140,000 employees will get a raise of 2.6 percent.

Negotations took four months to hammer out. The raise will be applied from April 1, and the agreement is valid for a year.

Police arrested seven teenagers in the Stockholm suburb of Tensta Wednesday night. The teenagers had thrown stones at the police, vandalized and set fire to a school as well as to cars, reports news agency TT.

As the Sangisälven, or the Sangis River, in the northern county of Norrbotten rises and rain is expected Thursday, the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute has issued a class 2 warning for very high water levels with a risk of flooding.

Police fired a warning shot in the southern Swedish city of Ronneby Wednesday after the burial of a motorcycle gang leader, who was killed in a shooting in March.