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Slipping into the chilly waters of the Baltic sea, the divers descended more than 60 metres to where the masts of the Jönköping lay strewn across the seabed. They glided past the wounds left when the Swedish schooner was sunk by a German U-boat in 1916 to home in on the rare treasure they had come for: thousands of ...

Four people recently arrived from UK test positive for variant in Madrid, and one in Sweden Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageSpain and Sweden have joined the growing list of countries to have reported cases of the more contagious coronavirus variant first identified in Britain.Four cases of the variant have been confirmed in Madrid. All involve people who recently arrived from the...

Spanish government injects £4bn while Sweden study casts doubt on herd immunityCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageMore than 8,000 people have been quarantined in fresh outbreaks of Covid-19 in three areas of Germany, while the most comprehensive study yet on immunity in Sweden showed very few people had developed antibodies.As governments across Europe continue to ease their restrictions, authorities in North Rhein...