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Crown Princess Victoria, left, Prince Daniel, center, holding Princess Estelle and Queen Silvia, right, during the christening ceremony of Princess Estelle of Sweden in the Royal Chapel in Stockholm, Sweden, Tuesday, May 22, 2012. Princess Estelle is the daughter of Crown Princess Victoria and Prince Daniel of Sweden. Princess Estelle is number two in the Swedish royal succession (AP Photo/Anders Wiklund, Pool)

Future royal heir baptized in Sweden

Last updated Tuesday, May 22, 2012 - 10:46am

STOCKHOLM -- Princess Estelle, the future heir to the Swedish throne, was baptized Tuesday amid pomp and pageantry in the chapel of the Royal Palace in Stockholm.

Some 550 guests, including royals from Scandinavian countries and the Netherlands, witnessed the ceremony, which was broadcast live on television in Sweden and neighboring Denmark and Norway.

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Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia.

Tough year for the Swedish royal family

LOUISE NORDSTROM The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, December 29, 2011 - 11:31am

STOCKHOLM -- A book that accused Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf of visiting strip clubs and media reports claiming the queen was on the verge of a nervous breakdown made 2011 a very tough year, the royal family said in a documentary being shown on national television Thursday.

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(PAUL SAKUMA/The Associated Press) Nobel Prizes winner for physics Saul Perlmutter smiles as he poses with his daughter’s telescope at his home in Berkeley, Calif., Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2011 after hearing he had won. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said American Perlmutter would share the 10 million kronor ($1.5 million) award with U.S.-Australian Brian Schmidt and U.S. scientist Adam Riess. Working in two separate research teams during the 1990s, Perlmutter in one and Schmidt and Riess in the other, the scientists raced to map the universe’s expansion by analyzing a particular type of supernovas, or exploding stars.

Studies of universe’s expansion win physics Nobel

Karl Ritter, LOUISE NORDSTROM The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, October 4, 2011 - 7:36am

STOCKHOLM — Three U.S.-born scientists won the Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for overturning a fundamental assumption in their field by showing that the expansion of the universe is constantly accelerating.

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Flowers and candles were placed outside the Scandinavian and Nordic Embassies' building in Berlin, Germany, Saturday July 23, 2011. A Norwegian is reported to have set off an explosion in Oslo city centre before going on a shooting spree on nearby teenage vacation destination of Utoya island, killing some 91 people, before being detained by police on Saturday July 22. Investigators are still searching the surrounding waters, where people tried to flee from the attack. (Axel Schmidt/Associated Press)

Norway gunman fired for 1.5 hours on island

IAN MacDOUGALL, LOUISE NORDSTROM The Associated Press

Last updated Saturday, July 23, 2011 - 7:32pm

OSLO, Norway — A gunman who opened fire on an island teeming with young people kept shooting for 1.5 hours before surrendering to a SWAT team, which arrived 40 minutes after they were called, police said Saturday.

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