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Teen reports being raped in Uppsala

A 16-year-old girl has reported that she was raped during Walpurgis festivities in central Uppsala last night. Police have not arrested any suspects.

Published: 1 May 2009 10:16 CEST

The teenager told police she had been the victim of attempted rape around 1 pm on Thursday. After interviewing her, the police believed her story, according to Upsala Nya Tidning newspaper.

The girl is not from Uppsala and she is unsure where the attack occurred. Now police are searching for a gang of six young men.

“In all likelihood, a single individual attacked her,” Christer Nordström, police spokesperson for Uppsala county, told TT around 9 pm last night.

He said that aside from the attack, the Walpurgis festivities have been relatively calm considering how many people were out and about. Around 9 pm last night, around 20 individuals had been taken into custody for drunkenness.

Calle Persson, spokesperson for the Skåne police, said that around five individuals had been taken into custody for drunkenness in Lund and another young man had been arrested on suspicion of assaulting an officer.

UNIVERSITY

Three Swedish universities earn spots in top 100

Three Swedish universities made it into the top 100 in an annual ranking of the world's best schools on Tuesday, but some of the country's higher education seats dropped from last year.

Published: 6 September 2016 13:23 CEST
Three Swedish universities earn spots in top 100
Students at Lund University. Photo: Aline Lessner/imagebank.sweden.se

Lund in southern Sweden was again picked as Sweden's top university and came 73rd in the QS World University Rankings, but dropped three ranks on last year (and down from 60 in 2014).

Eight Swedish universities feature in the QS rankings, and all but three fell in the global list.

The ancient Uppsala University climbed back to the top 100, landing a spot in 98th place. Further down the list, Linköping and Umeå Universities both edged up to 282nd and 294th place, up from 286th and 319th, respectively.

The Royal Institute of Technology (Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan, KTH) dropped from 92nd to 97th place. Gothenburg-based Chalmers University of Technology fell from number 132 to 139 (which is still an improvement on its 175th place in the 2014 QS World University Rankings).

Lund was given a five-star ranking in addition to its place in the list. “Lund is Sweden's most attractive study destination. The compact university campus encourages networking and creates the conditions for scientific breakthroughs and innovations,” read the QS description.

“The university has a clear international profile, with partner universities in over 70 countries. Funding of more than 5 billion kronor a year goes to research at eight faculties, which gives Lund one of Sweden's strongest and broadest ranges of research activity.”

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Now in their 13th year, the annual rankings are compiled by global higher education analysts Quacquerelli Symonds (QS), and rank 916 institutions according to four key pillars: research, teaching employability and internationalization.

For the first time in more than a decade US universities took all three top spots, with MIT placing first for the fifth successive year ahead of Stanford and Harvard, knocking Britain's Cambridge to fourth.

Tuesday's list comes less than a month after the Shanghai Rankings, which picked the Karolinska Institute as the best university in Sweden.