Swedish archaeologists take to the waves to protect Baltic wrecks

Swedish pop icons ABBA will release their first new music for 35 years with two new songs set for broadcast in December, the quartet said on Friday.

A mass grave under excavation since 2011 in northern Peru was announced on Thursday (April 26) as the largest mass sacrifice of children in the world, according to National Geographic.

Sweden faces weeks or even months of political gridlock after an election dominated by immigration produced no clear winner.

The southern Swedish state of Skane has become a fortress of the far-right Sweden Democrats. What does their rule mean for the local municipalities? Richard Orange went to Horby to find out.

Archaeologists have found a jar of eggs in a tomb dating back 2500 years in eastern China.In the video, filmed in Changzhou City in Jiangsu Province on March 25, a jar of around 20 eggs was found buried in a tomb by archaeologists, along with various cookware items from the country's Spring and Autumn period (770-476BC) .

A 5,000-year-old city found north of Tel Aviv points to sophisticated urban planning taking place earlier than previously thought. Israel's Antiquities Authority has called it the "New York of the early Bronze Age."

The Swedish institute is hosting the ‘leading through change’ a platform for sharing and developing the insights necessary for transformative leadership. The platform is exclusive to female experts and managers. Carl Michael Gräns, Sweden’s Ambassador to Nigeria, Ghana and Cameroon spoke to CNBC Africa’s Christy Cole on what informed the Swedish government’s decision to support this programme.

Swedish gov't to partner ICPC, BSPR, Accountability Lab to fight corruption

It's thought that as many as 20,000 shipwrecks litter the floor of the Baltic sea, offering key clues about the region's history. Along Sweden's eastern coast, one team of archaeologists undertaking research for a new museum about shipwrecks has noticed signs of looting on historically unique sites, and is racing to protect them from further interference.

An ancient brewery found in Egypt suggests that tears were not the only thing to flow at royal funerals of the time. The find is the most recent announced by the country in an apparent bid to lure back tourists.

Footballer Zlatan Ibrahimovic will return to Sweden's national squad after an almost five-year hiatus to play in World Cup qualifiers at the end of March, head coach Janne Andersson says in an online presentation from Stockholm as he announced the team's line-up.

Israeli archaeologists uncover a Byzantine-era, industrial-scale wine complex which produced some two million litres of the drink annually. The facility in Yavne, south of Tel Aviv that was a Jewish settlement during biblical times and a key city after the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD.