Falun, Sweden  - Switzerland's Dario Cologna on Sunday became the youngest-ev

Falun, Sweden  - Dario Cologna of Switzerland won the men's double pursuit over 10 kilometres in the Nordic ski World Cup finals in Falun on Saturday.

Marcus Hellner of Sweden clinched second place ahead of Tobias Angerer of Germany.

The women's double pursuit over 5 kilometres went to Riitta-Liisa Roponen of Finland.

Cologna boosted his chances of winning the overall World Cup with victory in the classic and freestyle techniques in 54 minutes 59.5 seconds. Hellner was 1.7 seconds behind, with Angerer 2.4 seconds back.

Falun, Sweden - Dario Cologna of Switzerland won the men's double pursuit over 10 kilometres in the Nordic ski World Cup finals in Falun on Saturday.

Marcus Hellner of Sweden clinched second place ahead of Tobia Angerer of Germany.

Cologna boosted his chances of winning the overall World Cup with victory in the classic and freestyle techniques in 54 minutes 59.5 seconds. Hellner was 1.7 seconds behind, with Angerer 2.4 seconds back.

Falun, Sweden - Claudia Nystad and Axel Teichmann won the prologue races for Germany at the cross-country skiing World Cup finals on Friday.

Nystad won the women's freestyle race over 2.5 kilometres in 7 minutes 12.5 seconds from Sweden's Charlotte Kalla (2.7 seconds behind) and two-time world champion Justyna Kowalczyk of Poland (3.0 seconds).

Stockholm - All three thriller novels by the late Swedish writer and journalist Stieg Larsson are to be released as feature films for cinema, it was announced Friday.

Swedish public broadcaster SVT said it had "given careful consideration" and would not oppose the release of two films on cinema this autumn.

Initially, SVT - one of the co-producers - had planned that only the other two films in the series were to be released on DVD, and SVT was to broadcast six 90-minute installments.

Stockholm - Mobile telephone maker Sony Ericsson on Friday said it expected to post a loss for first-quarter 2009, citing "weak consumer demand."

The joint venture formed 2001 between Japan's Sony and Sweden's Ericsson also cited "de-stocking in the retail and distribution channels" as factors contributing to the loss.

The group said it expected its gross margin to decline both year-on-year and sequentially.