In 2009, Sweden's largest television station, SVT, revealed that IKEA's money — the three per cent collection from each store — does not actually go to a charitable foundation in the Netherlands, as IKEA has said.

Greater Malmö is one of Sweden's three officially recognized Metropolitan areas ( storstadsområden ) and since 2005 is defined as the municipality of Malmö and 11 other municipalities in the southwestern corner of Scania.

There was some excuse for her ; she had lost three babies and still felt herself an isolated foreigner in a hostile land, even more so after 1627 when her brother joined Sweden's enemies.

He went on to win gold medals in his other three events: the 10, 000 m, sprinting past Guillemot on the final curve and improving his personal best by over a minute, the cross country race, beating Sweden's Eric Backman, and the cross country team event where he helped Heikki Liimatainen and Teodor Koskenniemi defeat the British and Swedish teams.

After studying at what was then Sweden's only film school, the Dramatiska Institutet, he directed three short films before moving to features.

* The mostly commercial city features three of Sweden's Royal Palaces.

Linköping and neighbouring twin city Norrköping together form one of Sweden's biggest metropolitan areas ; The Linköping-Norrköping Corridor is therefore often referred to as The Fourth Metropolitan Region of Sweden, the other three being Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmö.

Map of Sweden's three historical lands, the former Swedish province Österland in Finland, and the former historical Lands of Denmark | land of Denmark ( Skåneland ) in southern Sweden.

Through the defector, Hamilton and his superiors found out that the Soviet Union had three secret underwater bases for special operations, set to target Sweden's highest political and military leaderships in case of a war.

Eric Kandel and Paul Greengard, each of whom have received NIMH support for more than three decades, shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Sweden's Arvid Carlsson.

During the war, Sweden's government rejected a total of three formal pleas from Finland's government to engage militarily in Finland's defense against the Soviet Union.

He played in three of Sweden's four games, and scored a goal against Denmark, which secured Sweden advancement from the preliminary group stage.

This makes the organization the second biggest of Sweden's three major trade union confederations.

All three teams expressed interest but it was Östers IF who then played in Sweden's top division the Allsvenskan that signed Countess to a contract until the end of the 2006 season.

* Storstad (= literally " large city "; metropolitan area ) is a term usually reserved for Sweden's three largest cities: Stockholm, Göteborg ( Gothenburg ) and Malmö.

With her three entries accumulating a total of 388 points, Chiara became also the third most successful Eurovision artist in terms of total points earned in her performances, behind Russia's Dima Bilan and Sweden's Carola

At the beginning of the war the Danes advanced from Halland with a 25, 000-strong army of professional mercenaries and captured Sweden's gateway to the west, Älvsborg Fortress, after only three days of bombardment and a six-hour assault, on 4 September.

In 2006, Sweden's Robert Karlsson broke the European Tour's 36-hole and 54-hole scoring records by shooting 124 for the first two rounds and 189 for the first three.

Catherine of Sweden's ancestors in three generations

Oslo was awarded the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1930 ; with exception of Sweden's Erik Rylandet who finished fifth, Norway had the top ten positions.

The following year, at the 1998 European Junior Championships, Sweden's final game required them to beat Russia by four goals to surpass Finland in goal differential and win the gold medal.

In 1959, both the football team and Djurgårdens IF's hockey team won their respective Swedish Championships of Sweden's two most popular sports, a remarkable happening.

Gothenburg also hosted the 1995 World Championships in Athletics, and Stockholm, Sweden's capital, hosted 1958 European Athletics Championships.

As a boy in a local school he was shy and solitary, absorbed in his fondness for nature and his visions of Sweden's ancient glory.

Sweden's conservative party, the Moderate Party, was formed in 1904, two years after the founding of the liberal party.

In 2001 Finland's outsourced proportion of spending was below Sweden's and above most other Western European countries.

According to Moodysson, the problem with the original title started when the film was Sweden's candidate for the Academy Awards, though it was eventually not chosen as a nominee: the Hollywood industry magazine Variety refused to run an advertisement for a film with that title, and thus American distributor Strand Releasing asked for a new title to be chosen.

The Nordic union was in a way formalized on June 17, 1397 by the Treaty of Kalmar, signed in the Swedish castle of Kalmar, on Sweden's south-east coast, in medieval times close to the Danish border.

Lund University library was established in 1666 at the same time as the university and is one of Sweden's oldest and largest.

Queen Christina of Sweden's tendency to dress as a man was well known during her time, and excused because of her noble birth ; she was brought up as a male and there was speculation at the time that she was a hermaphrodite.

It was founded in 1963 due to Sweden's social welfare politics.

" Robyn entered Sweden's pre-selection for Eurovision Song Contest 1997, as co-writer and producer of the song " Du gör mig hel igen ," which was performed by Cajsalisa Ejemyr.

KTH was founded in 1827 as Sweden's first polytechnic and is one of Scandinavia's largest ( the largest by certain definitions ) institutions of higher education in technology.

The reactor hall remains an amusement to many as once it was next door to what used to be Sweden's first nuclear reactor.

In 2009, KTH was the only institution among all Sweden's universities to be awarded " Centre of Excellent Quality in Higher Education "( in Computer Science ).

Sweden's military forces was for over a century built upon the concepts of conscription and territorial defence, supporting the longstanding national policy of non-alignment.

While some argued that it went against Sweden's historic policy of neutrality, where Sweden had not joined during the Cold War because it was seen as incompatible with neutrality, others viewed the move as a natural extension of the economic cooperation that had been going on since 1972 with the EU.

During the 1960s he was one of Sweden's most prolific songwriters, producing more than 3, 000 published titles.

Sweden's largest printed encyclopedia of all times, the 2nd edition of Nordisk familjebok was started in 1904 and used the old spelling through all 38 volumes until 1926.

In 1960, it was granted university status, becoming Sweden's fourth state university.

The university was founded in 1965 and is the fifth oldest within Sweden's present borders.

Their vision was to build cars that could withstand the rigors of Sweden's rough roads and cold temperatures.