Malmö Fotbollförening (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈmâlːmøː ˈfûːtbɔlːfœˌreːnɪŋ]), commonly known simply as Malmö FF or MFF, is a Swedish professional football club based in Malmö, Scania. They compete in the Allsvenskan, the top division of Swedish football, and play home matches at the Eleda Stadion. Malmö FF is Sweden's most successful football club in terms of domestic trophies won. They hold 24 Swedish championships and 16 Svenska Cupen titles, both of which are national records.

The club formed in 1910 and is affiliated with the Scania Football Association, winning its first national championship in 1944. Their most successful period was the 1970s, during which they won five Swedish championships, four Svenska Cupen titles and became the only side from the Nordic countries to have reached a European Cup or UEFA Champions League final, losing 1–0 to English club Nottingham Forest in the 1979 final. For this feat, Malmö FF was awarded the Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal. Malmö FF also became the only Nordic side to be represented at the Intercontinental Cup, the predecessor of the FIFA Club World Cup, by competing in the tournament's 1979 edition. The club is the leader of the overall Allsvenskan table maratontabellen, meaning that they have won the most matches of any side in Allsvenkan history. They also lead the table in terms of total goals scored. (Full article...)

Old Tjikko

Old Tjikko is an approximately 9,568-year-old Norway spruce, located in the Dalarna province in Sweden. Old Tjikko originally gained fame as the "world's oldest tree". Old Tjikko is, however, a clonal tree that has regenerated new trunks, branches and roots over millennia rather than an individual tree of great age. Old Tjikko is recognized as the oldest living Picea abies and the fourth-oldest known clonal tree.

The age of the tree was determined by carbon dating of genetically matched plant material collected from under the tree, as dendrochronology does not work for clonal trees. The trunk itself is estimated to be only a few centuries old, but the plant has survived for much longer due to a process known as layering (when a branch comes in contact with the ground, it sprouts a new root), or vegetative cloning (when the trunk dies but the root system is still alive, it may sprout a new trunk). (Full article...)

22 October

• 2015 – A sword-wielding man attacks students and teachers at a school in Trollhättan, killing three people.

• ... that Swedish DJ Avicii was featured on a postage stamp in January 2015?
• ... that a set of 12th-century Swedish murals in Finja Church is the main achievement of a workshop that decorated at least ten other churches?
• ... that Fabian Wrede's family was granted a barony to honor his grandfather Henrik Wrede's sacrifice in giving his horse to Charles IX of Sweden during a battlefield retreat?
• ... that Swen Swenson was born in Norway but pioneered a drainage system for Nicollet County while living in New Sweden?