Happy New Year from Sweden! 🥂 Thank you for hanging with us during the past year. Wishing everyone a great 2025! 💙💛💙💛 📷: Hilla Aspman/imagebank.sweden.se

Time for us to say Merry Christmas in advance! God jul!🎅🎄🎁❤️🇸🇪 📷Hans Strand/Folio/imagebank.sweden.se

Happy Lucia! 💙💛 Today, we celebrate one of 🇸🇪's most beloved traditions. 🕯️ At the heart of it is Lucia, the bearer of light, leading a singing procession of candle-carrying handmaidens and ‘star boys’, all dressed in white gowns.

Happy Lucia! 💙💛 Today, we celebrate one of 🇸🇪's most beloved traditions. 🕯️ At the heart of it is Lucia, the bearer of light, leading a singing procession of candle-carrying handmaidens and ‘star boys’, all dressed in white gowns.

For this evening, Stockholm City Hall has a brainy guest list! Today's #NobelPrize award ceremony at Konserthuset is followed by the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm City Hall, according to tradition. Some 1,300 guests are invited. #NobelDay 📷 Alexander Mahmoud © Nobel Media AB

For this evening, Stockholm City Hall has a brainy guest list! Today's #NobelPrize award ceremony at Konserthuset is followed by the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm City Hall, according to tradition. Some 1,300 guests are invited. #NobelDay 📷 Alexander Mahmoud © Nobel Media AB

Happy Independence Day, @ThisisFinland! It's said that you’re 'happier' than us. And you drink more coffee than us, and you probably last longer than us in the sauna. But you do fear us in ice hockey 😉. Take a bow, awesome neighbour! 🇸🇪 ❤️ 🇫🇮 📷: Ants Vahter/Visit Finland

Tomorrow is All Saints' Day in Sweden, in memory of those who have passed away. ❤ To many, it's a day to visit a cemetery to light candles and lay flowers on a grave or by a memorial grove. 🌹 📷: Cecilia Larsson Lantz/ImageBank.Sweden.se

BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson “for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity.”

BREAKING NEWS The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2024 #NobelPeacePrize to the Japanese organisation Nihon Hidankyo. This grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, also known as Hibakusha, is receiving the peace prize for its

BREAKING NEWS The 2024 #NobelPrize in Literature is awarded to the South Korean author Han Kang “for her intense poetic prose that confronts historical traumas and exposes the fragility of human life.”

BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 #NobelPrize in Chemistry with one half to David Baker “for computational protein design” and the other half jointly to Demis Hassabis and John M. Jumper “for protein structure prediction.”

BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 #NobelPrize in Physics to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.”

The Nobel Prize announcements just kicked off, and we aim to provide you with an informative read! In accordance with Alfred Nobel's will, the prize celebrates ‘those who, during the preceding year, shall have conferred the greatest benefit on mankind’. https://t.co/XRKjL4Myql

BREAKING NEWS The 2024 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun for the discovery of microRNA and its role in post-transcriptional gene regulation.

🎉 Good things come in different shapes and sizes – right? Happy Cinnamon Bun Day! Do you take yours with or without coffee? ☕ 🎥: https://t.co/Sjyrqt1gvt #kanelbullensdag #swedishfika

Today we send our best of luck to Sweden’s Paralympians! 🇸🇪 20 Swedish athletes will be competing in seven of the events at the 2024 Paralympics in Paris. Go Sweden! And good luck to our buddies @MySwitzerland_e who are tailing us. 😉 #Paralympic2024 📷 Umit Bektas/Reuters/TT

Rest in peace, Sven-Göran Eriksson (1948-2024) – one of Sweden's soccer greats. The first overseas manager of England (2001-2006), he also coached IFK Gothenburg to the UEFA Cup title in 1982, and guided Lazio to the Serie A title in 2000. 📷: Björn Larsson Rosvall/TT

Come late summer, crayfish are a highly sought-after delicacy in Sweden. Our velvety dark August nights provide the perfect setting for enjoying these shellfish. 😋 Your read: https://t.co/TcOpndTWYT Photo: Anna Hållams/imagebank.sweden.se

Belated congrats to Swedish duo David Åhman & Jonatan Hellvig – gold medallists in beach volleyball! 🥇 👏 Åhman and Hellvig played brilliantly in the final, beating Germany in straight sets. 🇸🇪 concludes the Olympics with 11 medals – four of them gold! 📷 Ludvig Thunman/TT