Factory output across continental Europe's core euro currency zone surged ahead in January, delighting analysts, although not enough to remove longer-term concerns. Official statistics released by the European Union on Friday showed that industrial production in the 16 countries which share the euro rose by 1.7 percent compared to the previous month, and by 1.4 percent compared ...

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - A Swedish man accused of masterminding the theft of the "Work sets you free" sign from the former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz will be extradited to Poland, a Swedish district court said Thursday. Anders Hogstrom, 34, was seized in Sweden in February on a European arrest warrant issued by Poland. The theft of the "Arbeit macht frei ...

A Stockholm court Thursday allowed the extradition to Poland of Swedish former neo-Nazi leader Anders Hoegstroem to face trial for the theft of a sign from the one-time Auschwitz death camp, a prosecutor said. Hoegstroem, 34, was arrested on February 11 over the theft of the "Arbeit Macht Frei" sign which disappeared on December 18 from over the gate of ...