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...CONFESSED. MIJAILO MIJAILOVIC, 25, to fatally stabbing popular Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh in a department store last year; in Stockholm. Mijailovic's lawyer said the killing was a random act with no political motive...
...humans, others are trying to make our machines a bit more like ourselves. Alex Zelinsky, CEO of tiny Seeing Machines, based in Canberra, Australia, has been keeping his eye on road wrecks, which kill 1.26 million people worldwide every year, according to the World Health Organization. Working with Swedish carmaker Volvo, Seeing Machines is pairing small, driver-facing dashboard-mounted cameras with pattern-recognition software that analyzes whether the driver's face shows signs of fatigue, a top cause of traffic fatalities. "Our philosophy is that you cannot drive while you're fatigued. It's like driving drunk," says Zelinsky...
...November 2001, including a 50% cut in financial aid to newcomers, has reduced the number of people seeking asylum there from 12,500 in 2001 to less than a third of that this year. Largely as a result, asylum applications in Sweden have gone up 40% since 2001. Nevertheless, Swedish Migration Minister Barbro Holmberg last week vowed to expand Sweden's intake of asylum seekers to include people persecuted for their gender or sexual orientation. Britain, a prime European destination for asylum seekers with some 100,000 arrivals a year, expects to halve the annual figure in 2003. Tougher screening...
...Swedish entrepreneurs Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friiss have already shaken the music industry to its roots with their Kazaa file-sharing software. Now Zennstrom, 37, and Friiss, 27, have turned their attention to another industry: telephony. The duo's new creation is known as Skype, and they hope it will do for phone calls what Kazaa, which lets millions of users get songs for free, did for file sharing. Download Skype's software www.skype.com and buy a $15 headset, and you can make free phone calls worldwide to anyone else who has installed Skype. Like Kazaa, the system...
...rough count, there were about 100 stuffed cats and dogs, and maybe two dozen fish—not counting the several packages worth of Swedish fish that also made their way over the boards...