A giant straw goat was burned down yet again early Wednesday in a Swedish city where torching it has become a Christmas tradition, to the dismay of local leaders.

Arsonists set fire early on Wednesday to a giant straw statue of the Swedish Yule goat, a forerunner to Santa Claus in Sweden, defying security measures for a third year in a row. Police in Gavle, north of Stockholm, said an unknown number of …

STOCKHOLM (Reuters Life!) – Arsonists set fire early on Wednesday to a giant straw statue of the Swedish Yule goat, a forerunner to Santa Claus in Sweden, defying security measures for a third year in a row.

(AP) A straw goat was burned down yet again early Wednesday in a Swedish city where torching it has become a Christmas tradition. Gavle city spokeswoman Anna Ostman said someone set fire to the 43-foot-high creature around 3 a.m. local time.

STOCKHOLM (AP) — A straw goat was burned down yet again early Wednesday in a Swedish city where torching it has become a Christmas tradition. Gavle city spokeswoman Anna Ostman said someone set fire to the 43-foot-high (13-meter-high) creature …

STOCKHOLM – A straw goat was burned down yet again early Wednesday in a Swedish city where torching it has become a Christmas tradition. Gavle city spokeswoman Anna Ostman said someone set fire to the 43-foot-high (13-meter-high) creature around 3 …

If you still haven’t baked your gingerbread house and you need inspiration, then the architecture museum in Stockholm and its exhibition of gingerbread houses is the place to go. All that jazz! Meet two new Swedish jazz musicians who produced their …

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(AP) The world’s tallest man has unveiled what’s touted as the world’s largest gingerbread man at an Ikea store in the Norwegian capital. The Swedish furniture chain’s Oslo outlet says 8-foot-1-inch tall Sultan Koesen of Turkey presented the cookie …

Sultan Kösen, the world’s tallest man, unveils the world’s largest gingerbread man at an Ikea store in Oslo, Thursday, Nov.