A look back through the years as Queen Silvia of Sweden turns 76

THE Volkswagen up! GTI is back on sale eight months after being withdrawn from the UK while the pocket rocket city car waited for the new WLTP fuel economy tests to come into force.

A+E Networks has entered into a first-look production deal with Ozy Media that includes multiple projects annually across platforms, from live events and podcasts to original series.The announcement was made by Paul Buccieri, president of A+E Networks Group, and Carlos Watson, Ozy Media co-founder and CEO.Ozy Media was founded in 2013 as a digital magazine, with capital from Silicon Valley investors including Emerson Collective as well as German publishing giant Axel Springer.

On Wednesday (Jan. 8), credit card company Mastercard unveiled its first-ever branded music single, a collaboration with Swedish artist Nadine Randle.

Former Bond girl Britt Ekland has vowed to use her influence to stop a woman taking over as the face of the James Bond franchise.

To deliver the “anti-hate satire” of “Jojo Rabbit,” the story of a German boy who idolizes his own particular vision of Hitler before slowly learning the truth, director Taika Waititi followed a simple philosophy when it came to assembling his crew: “I like working with nice people.” 

Esports Arena is a curated weekly roundup of the biggest stories in the world of online competitive gaming.The Electronic Sports League (ESL) and Dreamhack, a Swedish event production company, have partnered with Blizzard to launch two new pro circuits based onStarcraft II and Warcraft Reforged.The ESL Pro Tour Starcraft II will offer a $1.8 million prize pool and replace the current Starcraft II World Championships, moving the Global Finals of the event from Blizzard's annual BlizzCon

While Madame Tussauds is known for creating amazing life-like wax figures of celebrities, it’s latest Nicki Minaj was figure is raising eyebrows for all the wrong reasons. The statues created by Madame Tussauds are mostly praised for being remarkably similar to their famous real-life counterparts, however, its latest creation failed to impress the fans.

Sweden's Gothenburg Film Festival becomes the first A-list festival to achieve complete gender parity with its 2020 lineup, which is made up of an equal number of movies directed by men and women.The festival was inspired to hit the target by the FiftyFifty by 2020 campaign launched by the Swedish Film Institute at the Cannes Film Festival in 2016, in which the institute pledged that, by this year, state film financing would be evenly split between films directed by woman and those helmed by

Goteborg Film Festival, the biggest showcase of local and international movies in the Nordics, will kick off its 43rd edition with Maria Bäck’s “”Psychosis,” and will close with actor-turned-director Mårten Klingberg’s “My Father Mary Anne.”

Olivia Newton-John has been made a Dame in the Queen’s New Year’s List of honours.

We’re so very fortunate to live in a world filled with fashionable royals. There’s England’s Kate Middleton and Meghan Markle, who have different but equally beautiful taste in clothes. Queen Letizia of Spain is just all the goals, looking absolutely gorgeous in everything including repeat ensembles she loves to wear. And who doesn’t love the looks of Princess Sofia of Sweden or Princess Charlene and Charlotte Casiraghi of Monaco?