Stockholm  - Piles of bullets and spent cartridges, a rusty spade, old pistols and sub-machine pistols, pieces of clothing and numerous maps and photographs.

These artefacts are part of an exhibition called "Holocaust By Bullets," that offers new insights into the genocide of Jews in Ukraine during during the Nazi-German occupation 1941-1944.

Stockholm - Drinking moderate amounts of coffee may protect people from dementia in later life, according to a study by Finnish and Swedish researchers.

Coffee drinkers ran a lower risk of dementia in middle age and Alzheimer's disease later in life compared to those who drank little or no coffee.

The researchers at the University of Kuopio, Finland, and Karolinska Institutet of Stockholm, Sweden, studied 1,409 individuals aged 65 to 79 who were members of a group surveyed in 1972, 1977, 1982 or 1987 and who completed a re-examination in 1998.

Stockholm - Over half of all Swedish girls aged 15 to 18 who access chat rooms and so-called communities on the internet have received unwanted sexual invitations or have been sexually harassed, Svenska Dagbladet reported Tuesday.

The Stockholm daily published the statistics drawn from the annual Youth Barometer, a national survey of 12,000 youths aged between 15 and 24.

Stockholm - Investor AB, the investment company with key stakes in leading Swedish blue-chip companies, Tuesday reported a loss for fourth quarter 2008 in the wake of the global financial downturn.

For the fourth quarter 2008, the group reported a loss of 15.6 billion kronor (1.9 billion dollars), compared to a loss of 19.2 billion kronor for the corresponding business period 2007.

For full-year 2008, the loss was 36.7 billion kronor compared to a loss of 400 million kronor for full-year 2007, the group said.

Stockholm - A Swedish prosecutor Monday called for a life sentence to be upheld against a German woman previously convicted for beating to death two young children in Sweden.

Christine Schuerrer was convicted in October of killing a three- year-old boy and one-year-old girl and injuring their mother in an attack on March 17, 2008.

Schuerrer, 32, was convicted without forensic evidence such as DNA or fingerprints linking her to the crime scene in Arboga, central Sweden.

"A life sentence is the only option," prosecutor Frieda Gummesson said in her closing statement, underlining that "exceptional" violence was used against the children and their mother.

Stockholm - Volvo Cars, the Swedish subsidiary of US carmaker Ford, is to assemble fewer cars in the coming two months, reports said Friday.

The decision by management of the Gothenburg-based carmaker was to avert a build-up of unsold vehicles, and production was estimated at 5,000 cars per month for January and February, the Goteborgs-Posten newspaper reported.

"It is still tough and we do not see any major turnaround of orders," Volvo Cars spokeswoman Maria Bohlin told the paper but she did not confirm the paper's production figure.