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Stockholm, Sweden (SportsNetwork.com) - Fifth seed Benoit Paire highlighted Monday's first-round winners at the $715,000 Stockholm Open tennis event.The world No. 25 Frenchman got past Colombian Santiago Giraldo 6-4, 6-4 on the indoor hardcourts at Kungliga Tennishallen.Also on Day 1, Spaniard Pablo Carreno Busta was tied with Estonian Jurgen Zopp 5-5 in the first set when Zopp retired with a lower back injury and Dutchman Igor Sijsling handled German Tobias Kamke 6-4, 6-2.The top seeds in Stockholm are David Ferrer and Milos Raonic.Czech Tomas Berdych, who is not defending his title this year, beat France's J-Wilfried Tsonga in last year's marquee finale.This week's titlist will earn $130,000....
Here's a look at the achievements honored by this year's Nobel prizes, the $1.2 million awards handed out since 1901 by committees in Stockholm and Oslo:ECONOMICSThr...
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France remains a ''formidable'' team that higher-ranked opponents will want to avoid in next month's World Cup playoffs, captain Hugo Lloris said Monday.Although Fra...
The Netherlands, Italy, Germany, Belgium and Switzerland have clinched berths from Europe for next year's World Cup by winning their qualifying groups and four more ...
Sweden's environment minister thought she had asked the country's former agriculture minister to attend a glam dinner. But the invitation went to the "wrong" Margare...
World Cup holder Spain hosts Georgia knowing a win or a draw will put it into the 2014 tournament as Group I winners.The European champions are three points above Fr...
A car bomb exploded outside a building housing the Swedish and Finnish consulates in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi on Friday, badly damaging it but causing no ...
Austria were on course to join second-placed Sweden on 17 points in Group C after Martin Harnik's 29th-minute strike gave them the lead.However, Sweden drew level so...
Sweden has long been a bastion of generous social welfare and an egalitarian political culture. So many people were shocked when scores of youths hurled rocks at pol...
The Swedish operators of one of the world's largest nuclear reactors say they are preparing to restart the facility after it had to be shut down because of a wave of...
Sweden's Royal Palace says Princess Madeleine and her husband, New York banker Christopher O'Neill, are expecting their first child in March.Madeleine, the younger s...
Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf celebrated 40 years as monarch Sunday in true Scandinavian egalitarian style by inviting everyone to come and dance at the royal palace...
Americans Eugene Fama, Lars Peter Hansen and Robert Shiller won the Nobel prize for economics on Monday for developing new methods to study trends in asset markets.T...
No one has ever doubted the ability of St. Louis Blues center Patrik Berglund to be an impact player at any level of competition. Consistency has always the main iss...
In his suburban Stockholm apartment, Marcello Demeter sits at the kitchen table with his two daughters, Isabelle and Sandra — and wonders how they got on the list th...
Germany sealed a spot at next year's World Cup with an assured 3-0 win over Ireland on Friday.Sami Khedira opened the scoring with a deflected shot in the 12th minut...
ST. PAUL -- The opening round of the 2011 NHL Entry Draft at Xcel Energy Center certainly offered a "Swede" smell of success on Friday evening. Among the six Swedish...
Three Americans – Robert Shiller, Eugene Fama and Lars Peter Hansen -- were awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize in economics on Monday for their influential work in predict...
FBN's Jo Ling Kent breaks down late-morning market news.