Sweden takes over EU operations to stop pirates and illegal fishing fleets in the waters off Somalia. political parties banging on the doors of schools to talk to the youngsters in these months of parliamentary election campaigning, a dying womans appeal to end her life kindles a renewed debate over euthanasia banned by Swedish law, a Swedish writer and psychiatrist comes out with a new book dedicated to her tail-waging pet and some new Swedish jazz inspired by a world-famous American conductor and a composer.