WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is set to appeal to the UK's Supreme Court Wednesday not to extradite him to Sweden, where he faces sexual assault charges. An extradition could seriously impede the anti-secrecy websites work.
Markus Karlsson meets with the Swedish Finance Minister, Anders Borg, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Anders Borg was ranked the best EU-finance minister in 2011 by the Financial Times.
Online campaigning for the release of two Swedish journalists jailed in Ethiopia. A Chinese blogger debates the need for a revolution in the country. And a video encouraging web users to do a good deed and help change the world.
An Ethiopian court sentenced two Swedish journalists on Tuesday to 11 years in prison for allegedly helping the illegal Ogaden National Liberation Front rebel group and for entering the nation unlawfully in July.
Britain's Supreme Court on Friday granted WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange permission to appeal his extradition to Sweden in connection with rape allegations in a two-day hearing scheduled to begin on February 1.
London's High Court ruled Monday that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange can apply to Britain's Supreme Court in a bid to halt his extradition to Sweden to face rape and sexual assault allegations.
A new documentary from Sweden, “The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975”, tackles a tumultuous period of US history through an outsider’s lens. France24.com sat down with the film’s director, Goran Hugo Olsson, for an interview.
Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer, 80, has won the 2011 Nobel prize for literature. His surrealistic works have been translated into more than 50 languages, influencing poets around the world.
Israeli scientist Daniel Shechtman was awarded the Nobel Chemistry Prize for his 1982 discovery of quasicrystals Wednesday, bringing an end to this year’s round of science awards.
Researchers Saul Perlmutter and Adam Riess of the USA and US-Australian Brian Schmidt were awarded the 2011 Nobel Physics Prize Tuesday for their study on exploding stars which revealed that the universe is expanding at an accelerated rate.
