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The sculptures are made from scrap recovered by picking up garbage dropped in the waters around Stockholm. Photo by Carlos Coronado on Unsplash Defiantly flipping off both middle fingers, a mermaid ...

Every week, The Local invites readers to submit their pictures to our photo competition, to bring our audience together from all parts of Sweden. This week's winner is Kalicharan Sethupathy, who sent ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A growl erupts beneath our feet. We’re in the middle of a vast, frozen body of water, far from the shoreline.