Dmitri Kalinin scored with 56 seconds remaining in overtime to lift Russia to a 6-5 win over Sweden on Thursday to open the second round of the hockey world championship.

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.

The United States blew a three-goal lead in the third period and lost 6-5 in overtime to Sweden on Wednesday at the ice hockey world championship.

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.