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(ARIEL SCHALIT/The Associated Press) Israeli scientist Daniel Shechtman poses for photographers during a news conference at the Haifa Technion, Israel, Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2011. Shechtman won the 2011 Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for his discovery of quasicrystals, a mosaic-like chemical structure that researchers previously thought was impossible.

Israeli wins chemistry Nobel for quasicrystals

Karl Ritter, Malin Rising The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, October 5, 2011 - 1:48pm

STOCKHOLM — Israeli scientist Dan Shechtman was awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for a discovery that faced skepticism and mockery, even prompting his expulsion from his research team, before it won widespread acceptance as a fundamental breakthrough.

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Mike Danton uses prison skills to save teammate

Malin Rising The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, September 20, 2011 - 4:20pm

STOCKHOLM -- Former NHL player Mike Danton was sent to prison for plotting to take a life. In his return to professional hockey, the skills he learned in jail may well have saved one.

Danton, who served a five-year jail term for conspiracy to commit murder, was playing in his first game with Swedish third-division club Ore on Sunday when his linemate Marcus Bengtsson hit his head on the ice after a hard hit and started convulsing.

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The Roda Sten art exhibition, center foreground, in Goteborg, Sweden, with the Gota Alv river and the oil terminal on the opposite bank seen Sunday Sept. 11, 2011. Swedish police arrested four people on suspicion of preparing a terror attack and evacuated an arts center in Sweden's second largest city on the eve of the 9/11 anniversary, officials said Sunday. The four were arrested in the west coast city of Goteborg and were suspected of plotting terrorism. (AP Photo/Adam Ihse / SCANPIX)

Swedish police arrest 4 terror suspects

Malin Rising The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, September 12, 2011 - 9:47am

STOCKHOLM -- Swedish police arrested four people on suspicion of preparing a terror attack and evacuated an arts center in the country's second largest city, security officials said Sunday.

The four were arrested in the west coast city of Goteborg and were suspected of plotting terrorism, security service spokeswoman Sara Kvarnstrom said. She declined to give details on the arrests and wouldn't say whether they were linked to the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.

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Lennart Preiss/The Associated Press file photo
In this Saturday, Oct. 23, 2010, file picture founder of the WikiLeaks website, Julian Assange, speaks during a press conference in London. A Swedish prosecutor has asked for a court order to detain Assange for questioning on suspicions of rape, sexual molestation and unlawful coercion.

Sweden to issue warrant for Assange

Malin Rising, The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, November 18, 2010 - 1:44pm

STOCKHOLM -- Swedish prosecutors said they will seek an international arrest warrant for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange after a court approved their request Thursday to detain him for questioning in a rape case.

The Australian is suspected of rape, sexual molestation and unlawful coercion in an investigation that stems from his encounters with two women during a visit to Sweden in August.

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