“Yesterday we said goodbye to my beloved husband, dear friend and one of the greatest actors of our time. Bob passed away peacefully at home, surrounded by love and security,” his wife Luciana Duvall wrote in a post on Facebook. American actor and director Robert Duvall’s career spanned seven decades and he was nominated for seven Academy Awards throughout his career. In 1984, Duvall won the prestigious film award for best male lead for his role as a former country star in the western film “Tender Mercies” or “På nåd och onåd” as its Swedish title is. He is perhaps…
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– We already knew beforehand – considering what they have shown before – that it would be a completely different challenge than the one we have faced so far. But of course it was sad that it ended like this, said defender Maja Nylén Persson to HBO after the game. Striker Lisa Johansson agrees with her teammate. – It was a really competent team that we met, and of course it’s sad in hindsight. “Because even though everyone at home expected it, it’s not something you expect when you go in to play a game,” she told HBO. After five…
On November 9th, Irish hip-hop group Kneecap is coming to Stockholm for a gig at BK in Frihamnen, which DN previously reported on. Kneecap previously attracted attention when one of the band members, Mo’Chara, was charged with terrorism offenses in the UK last year. During a concert in London in 2024, he reportedly displayed a Hezbollah flag and shouted “Up Hamas! Up Hezbollah!” from the stage. Mo’Chara pleaded not guilty and the charges were dismissed because the statute of limitations had expired. Christofer Fjellner, group leader of the Moderates in Stockholm, considers the booking to be provocative. – There is…
This is an opinion piece in Dagens Nyheter. The author is responsible for the opinions in the article. Who are today’s Swedish stepchildren? Jenny Andersson asks that in DN (6/2). There are hundreds of thousands of children and young people growing up in endangered areas. Those who, in Nicolas Lunabba’s words, “face a future that collapses them, destroys their dreams and ambitions, their self-esteem and their bodies.” Children or young people who have not misbehaved should not be expelled. We also do not pay return migration allowances to integrated people. Right-wing nationalism must be fought. But the point in Andersson’s…
A column on the Canadian website The Curling News (a publication that has covered curling in various forms since 1957) is about Canadian elite curler Michael Fournier launching a fierce attack against Oskar Eriksson and the Swedish team, which was first reported by Aftonbladet. Fournier writes that he has been involved in curling for a long time, but believes that Marc Kennedy, the player at the center of the controversy, did not influence the ball’s trajectory by touching it after it was released. “There is no way to affect the stone by touching the back of it after releasing the…
Since the launch of Chat GPT just over three years ago, artificial intelligence (AI) has evolved from an existential risk in the future to a playmate and lifesaver in the stock market. What worries today’s technology investors from Silicon Valley to Swedish ISK accounts is not whether AI will wipe out humanity, but whether the stock values of Tesla, Amazon and especially Nvidia are a bubble about to burst. The chance to make a lot of money has changed perspectives. Technology companies are breaking all records on the stock market. The problem isn’t just that we sometimes close our eyes…
It took 20 seconds before Kristoffer Jakobsen’s Olympic Games were over. The Swede went down on an inside ski and fell out of the race. But he wasn’t alone. It was a competition with very uneven conditions. Heavy snow and heavy clouds hung over Bormio and many had problems on the flat hill. – Slalom can be the most unfair sport you can find, as Kristoffer Jakobsen said before the start of the Olympics, mentioning that it looks like it could get complicated due to the weather and the surface. Later, when it was a fact, he was dejected and…
Lars Heikensten makes his way through the revolving doors of the Ministry of Finance on Jakobsgatan in Stockholm. It is the sixth and final time that he will present his annual report as chairman of the Fiscal Policy Council. And this year the verdict on the government’s economic policy is harsh. According to Lars Heikensten, this is the most serious criticism that the review board has expressed since it was founded. – This kind of short-term measures, where you postpone costs and don’t offset different expenses against each other, is exactly what the fiscal policy framework is designed to prevent,…
Last fall, DN was able to reveal, citing “controversies” in northern Sweden, that the world’s largest food company Nestlé had stopped purchasing new fibers from SCA. Now the German clothing and e-commerce giant Zalando is following suit. Zalando is the main sponsor of Copenhagen Fashion Week. In connection with this fashion week at the end of January, the company was criticized by environmental organizations such as Skydda Skogen and Greenpeace because its packaging material was linked to the deforestation of forests worthy of protection. After Nestlé, Zalando is now also deciding to break with the forestry group SCA. Photo: Monika…
The cross-country skiers have been training for many years to be in top shape for the Olympic Games. But you can’t win medals without good skis. It is crucial that the dikes do their job successfully. Peter Reinebo firmly believes that Russia did everything in Sochi to find out what the Swedish skiers had under their boots. – We have no evidence that we were bugged, but I’m sure it happened in several places. It followed a clear pattern, the former head of operations for the Swedish Olympic Committee tells DN. Peter Reienbo tells us that it later turned out…
This is a joke. The author is responsible for the opinions expressed in the text. Every day shortly after lunch the photo comes via text message. The motif is always the same. One picture is similar to the other, a little close, blurry. Very black shiny fur and a pair of sparkling yellow eyes. The cat often sits huddled on my husband. Then his eyes light up with satisfaction. Sometimes he wanders restlessly between his husband and the computer to get attention. Sometimes he stands with his front feet on the windowsill and monitors the garbage collection. It’s morning in…
Getting a ticket on public transport is a bit like signing a silent social contract. The rules are unwritten but self-evident: You stand on the right side of the escalator to keep the “left lane” free for people in a hurry, choose your own pair of seats instead of the seat next to a stranger and take off your backpack during rush hour. Petri Kajonius is an associate professor and personality researcher in psychology at Lund University. He believes that these standards play a particularly important role for Swedes. – Sweden has an incredible respect for individuals, which is why…
The Swedish cross-country men are doing a lousy Olympics and 19-year-old Alvar Myhlback shouldn’t have left Italy. A multi-year plan should have made him a medal contender in the final men’s five-mile race. But considering how he was treated by the management of the national ski team, it makes perfect sense that he was already in Trysil, Norway this weekend. Instead of staying in Trentino, Italy and learning how to train extremely hard without crossing the border. Ten out of ten it would have been worse if more teams had started. In the wake of Sweden’s epic fiasco in the…
Pernilla Winberg has returned to northern Italy as a hockey expert for TV4. No more than 21 kilometers west of Milan, she won Olympic silver for Sweden in Turin in 2006 – an achievement that is still considered the women’s national team’s greatest success of all time. A few decades later, conditions are almost shockingly similar. – You almost feel a little nostalgic. “It’s really cool,” says Pernilla Winberg, who was just 16 years old when she scored one of Sweden’s two penalties in the semifinal thriller against the Americans 20 years ago. 20 years ago in Turin, Pernilla Winberg,…
She was plagued by injuries for years and had to undergo six operations. The Olympic premiere last week brought only tears with a 42nd place on the normal hill. But when it really mattered on the large hill in Predazzo, the 25-year-old Westman delivered an almost perfect performance. She stepped out into the evening darkness and flew 129.5 meters in the first jump and 127.5 meters in the second. The result: a strong fourth place, just six points away from a bronze place – which in this case would have been Sweden’s first ski jumping medal at the Olympics since…
Sebastian Samuelsson Elsa, 2 years old in May, watches as father Sebastian Samuelsson trains on his treadmill in the garage at home in Östersund. The biathlon star was home over Christmas and New Year but is now seven weeks away from his family, even though they will be there to cheer on the Olympics. Photo: Linnéa Karlsson/Private Sport: Biathlon. Most important Olympic achievements: Best results – gold in the 2018 relay, silver in the 2018 pursuit start, 4th place in the 2018 distance and in the 2022 mixed relay, 5th place in the 2022 and 2026 sprint and in the…
As is well known, a key reason why Jeffrey Epstein was able to commit his unimaginable amount of abuse for so many years was that those around him preferred to look the other way. Relativize. That is, in cases where they themselves did not participate. Around him was a group of educated, well-mannered people who saw but did not see, heard but did not hear. The same selective tunnel vision seems to occur all over the world when a reasonably likeable, socially competent man of position and authority commits abuse. Afterwards everyone is shocked. Nobody understood it. Nobody had a…
In Beijing she was so nervous that she vomited. Sara Hector wasn’t as shaky as she tried to defend her Olympic gold four years later, but admitted she had plenty of butterflies in her stomach as soon as she started in Cortina. But the nervousness couldn’t stop her this time either. Only 35-year-old Federica Brignone, who celebrated her comeback, prevented the Swede from Sandviken, who was two years younger, from reaching the top of the podium again. She said the mental training she underwent paid off. “I actually became mentally strong,” she said, explaining that the nervousness was nowhere near…
As DN previously reported, author Arundhati Roy has decided to boycott this year’s Berlin Film Festival. The decision was a protest against “the inappropriate statements” made by some members of the Golden Bear jury regarding Gaza. Last but not least, this year’s chairman Wim Wenders, who said, among other things, that the film world should stay away from politics. Other festival-goers were also criticized for dodging political topics, including actors such as Rupert Grint, Neil Patrick Harris and this year’s honoree Michelle Yeoh, who called on everyone to “focus on what’s important to us, which is the film”. The British…
In the ninth edition of the Prince Daniels Fellowship mentoring program, ten entrepreneurs were selected to participate. The purpose of the program, which is an initiative of Prince Daniel and the Royal Academy of Science and Technology (IVA), is for the entrepreneurs to receive support alongside hand-picked mentors from the business community to take their businesses to the next phase. Paula Runsten, founder of the battery company Rebaba, is one of the chosen ones this time. The company was founded almost three years ago and production started in Lidingö outside Stockholm in the summer of 2025. “In short, we build…