Swedish News:

More Volvos sold in China than in Sweden but the U.S. is still No. 1 / Chocolate thieves on the loose in west Sweden / Coincidence determines genes, according to Karolinska. 

  • Volvo, the Swedish car make, sells everywhere but mostly in the U.S. followed by China and Sweden.

  • Volvos to China
    China represents an ever growing part of the market for Volvo cars. Last year, 2013, more Volvo cars were sold in China than in Sweden, however the U.S. is still the largest market for the car brand. The American market represents 61,233 Volvo cars sold, while 61,146 were sold in China, and 52,260 in Sweden.

  • Thiefs with a taste for chocolate have attacked Varberg, where chocolate bars for $1,500 have been stolen in the past days.

  • Stolen chocolate
    A team hungry for chocolate is on the loose in Varberg, according to radio P4 Halland. Over 500 chocolate bars have been stolen from a store there over the past few days, to a value of nearly 10,000 SEK ($1,500).

  • New gene research from Sweden shows that it is coincidence that determines which of the two gene copies in each cell that’s active.

  • Coincidence determines genes
    It is pure coincidence that determines which of the two gene copies in each cell that’s active. The active gene can also vary from cell to cell, and vary during the lifetime of that cell as well, according to new research from the Karolinska Institute. This piece of news was presented in the journal Science, and explains, for instance, why identical twins do not necessarily look like each other, although they have the exact same set of genes. It also explains why symptoms of the same genetic disease can vary in severity from one individual to another.

  • Most Volvo's are sold in the United States, followed closely by China, then Sweden in third place.