Stockholm - A German woman sentenced to life for beating to death two young children in Sweden appealed her conviction Friday to the Supreme Court.

Christine Schuerrer has been convicted by two courts, most recently in February, of killing a three-year-old boy and one-year- old girl and seriously injuring their mother in an attack on March 17, 2008.

Her lawyer Per-Ingvar Ekblad said he wanted the Supreme Court to rule on the evidence and the definition of "beyond reasonable doubt," the online edition of the VLT newspaper reported.

Are, Sweden - Didier Cuche of Switzerland clinched the giant slalom World Cup by finishing third in the season-ender in Are, Sweden on Friday.

Benjamin Raich of Austria won to stay in the running for the overall World Cup title, but super-g world champion Cuche's third-place was just enough to give him the discipline title.

Raich posted a combined time of 2 minutes 18.95 seconds, edging Ted Ligety of the United States by 0.13 seconds, with Cuche 0.71 seconds behind Raich.

Are, Sweden - Austrian ski veteran Hermann Maier missed a 15th World Cup trophy on Thursday, but said shortly after the day's super-g race that he may continue his skiing career until the 2010 Vancouver Olympics.

Maier, 36, even suggested he may still be around for the 2011 world championships in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, where he won the first of his 54 World Cup races back in 1997.

"Everything is possible in theory. There is a tendency to continue. Olympic Games naturally are a big goal," Maier said.

Stockholm - A majority of Swedes support continued use of nuclear power and support has reached a new high, Swedish researchers said Thursday.

The autumn 2008 survey by Gothenburg University researchers suggested that 51 per cent of the 3,250 people polled wanted to keep the 10 current reactors.

Of the 51 per cent, 30 per cent favoured replacing the reactors when they become outdated with new reactors while 21 per cent said they wanted to build even more reactors in future.

Are, Sweden - Aksel Lund Svindal of Norway defied an illness as he clinched the super-g World Cup title and took another step towards the overall crown on Thursday by finishing second behind Italian Werner Heel.

Austrian veteran Hermann Maier, by contrast, missed a 15th career trophy with an erratic ride at the World Cup finals.

Heel won the final super-g in 1 minute 13.41 on a sunny day on the Olympia piste, his second win of the season and third overall.

Stockholm  - Saab, the loss-making Swedish subsidiary of US giant General Motors Corp, Thursday said it planned to shed 750 employees from its workforce of about 4,000 in Sweden.

Broadcaster TV4 said 650 of the affected employees were blue- collar workers.

The employees were informed about the plans Thursday.

Saab last month filed for bankruptcy protection while it attempts to reorganize its business. That move came after GM said it planned to shed the brand as part of its restructuring efforts.