A new poll shows a Swedish party that calls for legalizing Internet file-sharing could win a seat in the European Parliament in June.

Wireless equipment maker LM Ericsson has reported a 35 percent fall in first-quarter net profit due to weak results from its handset unit Sony Ericsson and higher restructuring costs.

Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt said Tuesday he had been denied entry to Sri Lanka as part of a European delegation pressing for a cease-fire between the government and Tamil Tiger rebels.

The volume of weapons exported to the Middle East has risen sharply in the last four years, threatening to destabilize the volatile region further, a leading Swedish think tank warned Monday.

Organizers say former Fugees singer Lauryn Hill will be the headline act for the Stockholm Jazz Festival in July.

Wearing bandanas and waving Jolly Roger flags, hundreds of supporters of file-sharing hub The Pirate Bay demonstrated on Saturday against a Swedish court’s conviction of the Internet site’s organizers.

The entertainment industry won round one Friday in a legal battle against file-sharing hub The Pirate Bay, with guilty verdicts and one-year prison sentences handed down to four men accused of running and financing the popular site.

A Swedish court has convicted four men linked to the popular Pirate Bay file-sharing site of breaking Sweden’s copyright law.

Mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson on Friday posted a euro293 million ($387 million) net loss in the first quarter on falling sales and said it would slash an additional 2,000 jobs to cut costs.

Hundreds of people living aboard a docked passenger ferry were evacuated Thursday after a fire broke out in the engine room, police said. There were no reports of injuries.