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Clinton & Co. Land Cheap Birth Control for World Poor

27M women affected in deal that halves the cost: Bill Clinton

(Newser) - Prices for long-acting contraception will be halved for 27 million women in the developing world through a new partnership, Bill Clinton and other world leaders announced yesterday. The deal will help avoid almost 30 million unwanted pregnancies and save an estimated $250 million in health costs, the partnership said. By...

2 Moms Give Daughters Wombs in Transplants

Milestone surgeries go well in Sweden

(Newser) - Two women in their 30s unable to have kids now might be able to—thanks to their moms. Swedish surgeons have performed the first mother-to-daughter uterus transplants, reports the BBC . All four patients are recovering well, but "we are not going to call it a complete success until this...

Worst Pickpocket Theft You Will Ever See

Thief leaves drunk victim on subway tracks with train coming

(Newser) - We've got Good Samaritans, we've got people who look the other way, and now we've got ... this guy. Evil Samaritan, maybe? After a drunk man fell onto subway tracks in Sweden, another man hopped down, stole his wallet, and left him there to get hit by an...

World's Biggest Internet Users ... Aren't Americans

95% of Icelanders online, but Sweden ultimately tops new index

(Newser) - If you think the US has "surfing the Internet" cornered, think again: A new global index evaluates the state of the World Wide Web around the globe, and finds that Iceland actually has the greatest web use, boasting 95% of its population online. The Web Index, put together by...

Cambodia: We Will Deport Pirate Bay Co-Founder

Even though country has no extradition treaty with Sweden

(Newser) - Cambodia today announced that it will indeed deport Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg—though to where remains unclear. The 27-year-old was arrested last week after Cambodia was asked to do so by Sweden, which had sentenced Svartholm Warg to prison for breaching copyright laws. But as Cambodia has no...

Cambodia Nabs Pirate Bay Founder

Gottfrid Svartholm Warg may be extradited to Sweden

(Newser) - Cambodian police have arrested a co-founder of The Pirate Bay, the world-famous file-sharing site whose organizers were convicted in Sweden of helping to break copyright laws. Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, 27, was supposed to begin a yearlong prison sentence months ago, the Wall Street Journal notes. He and three other organizers...

Assange on Embassy: I Could Be Here a Year

Hopes Sweden will drop case

(Newser) - Waiting for the next chapter in Julian Assange's story? Don't hold your breath: The WikiLeaks founder says he could stick around in Ecuador's London embassy for six months to a year. "I think the situation will be solved through diplomacy," he said in an interview...

Sweden to Create Registry of ... Sports Hooligans?

Agency approves preliminary government plan

(Newser) - Sweden is on the lookout for threats to society—in the form of hardcore sports fans. The government has received the OK from the country's Data Inspection Board to develop a registry of sports hooligans, the Local reports. There's one hoop to jump through, however: The agency first...

Belarus-Sweden Teddy Bear War Gets Nastier

Belarus closes its embassy in Stockholm, arrests 2

(Newser) - The great Belarus-Sweden teddy bear war continues to escalate, with Belarus booting Sweden's ambassador from the country and closing its own embassy in Stockholm, reports the BBC . Since a Swedish PR firm parachuted 879 teddy bears bearing pro-democracy slogans on July 4, Belarus' longtime President Alexander Lukashenko has reacted...

Teddy Bears Really Did Invade Belarus

President Lukashenko admits invasion by Swedish ad agency

(Newser) - Airborne teddy bears apparently are capable of invading Belarus, despite official denials. Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has finally admitted that a Swedish plane dropped teddy bears by parachute over the town of Ivyanets, near Minsik, a few weeks ago. The bears wore signs that read, "Belarus freedom" and "...

Guess How Good This Is for You
 Constantly Online? 
 Mental Problems Await 
study says
Jul 22, 2012 5:40 PM CDT

Constantly Online? Mental Problems Await

Computer, cell phone use can lead to depression

(Newser) - Reading this could be dangerous for your mental health—if you've already been online for a while. Swedish researchers studied more than 4,100 men and women in their early 20s, and found that most of the ones constantly glued to computers and cell phones were prone to depression,...

Explosives Found Near Sweden Nuclear Plant

Security alert raised, but officials say no real danger

(Newser) - Sweden raised the security alert for the country's three nuclear power plants today after explosives were found on a truck at the southwestern Ringhals atomic power station. Police said they were investigating possible sabotage. Bomb sniffer dogs detected the explosives during a routine check yesterday afternoon by security staff...

US Airman Steps Forward After 28 Years AWOL

Deserter David Hemler has been in Sweden since 1984

(Newser) - A US Air Force deserter is "back from the dead" after being AWOL since 1984. David Hemler says he walked off a base in Germany 28 years ago and hitchhiked to Sweden, where he only planned to stay a week but ended up building a new life under an...

Wolves Kill Swedish Zookeeper
 Wolves Kill Swedish Zookeeper 
Jun 18, 2012 12:45 AM CDT

Wolves Kill Swedish Zookeeper

Woman mauled to death during morning feeding

(Newser) - A zoo worker in Sweden has been mauled to death by a pack of wolves she had looked after since they were puppies. The 30-year-old woman was attacked by eight wolves after she entered the enclosure at Kolmarden Zoo to feed them, reports the Independent . Her body was recovered by...

Raunchy, IKEA-Hating Mom Running Sweden's Twitter

'Swede of the week' makes controversial comments about Jews

(Newser) - Sweden's seven-month democratic experiment in handing the country's official Twitter account to a different citizen every week has thrown up an interesting twist this week, CNN reports. Sonya Abrahamsson, a 27-year-old mother of two from western Sweden, has become the most controversial tweeting Swede yet with her dirty...

Hotel's New Fee: One Work of Art, Please

New York's Chelsea Hotel inspires Swedes to attract artists

(Newser) - Welcome to the hotel where artists can pay with their work—and anyone's art is accepted. The Clarion Hotel in Stockholm is letting guests stay overnight if they hand over a work of self-made art, The Local reports. “It all started with the fact that our general manager’...

World's Oldest Fish Trap Found Near Sweden

Fish-catching baskets are thought to be 9K years old

(Newser) - Marine archaeologists have discovered fishing traps they think were constructed around 9,000 years ago. "This is the world's oldest find when it comes to fishing," says one expert. The researchers found the remnants of seven wooden traps on the Baltic Sea bed off Sweden, reports the...

UK Court: Assange Will Be Extradited to Sweden

WikiLeaks founder to answer sex assault accusations there

(Newser) - Britain's Supreme Court has upheld the extradition of Julian Assange to Sweden to answer accusations of rape and sexual assault by two WikiLeaks volunteers. The British court rejected in a 5-2 vote Assange's claim that a European arrest warrant seeking his extradition was invalid because it was issued...

In the Holy Land, Attempts to Revive Jesus' Language

Schools in two villages teaching Aramaic

(Newser) - In two Holy Land villages—and, randomly, Sweden—efforts are being made to revive Aramaic, the language Jesus spoke that has been almost dead for centuries. The Palestinian village of Beit Jala, near Bethlehem, and the Arab-Israeli village of Jish, in the Galilean hills where Jesus taught, were both inspired...

Swede Minister Blasted for 'Racist Cake' Stunt

Controversial 'art' aimed to highlight genital mutilation

(Newser) - A Swedish culture minister is under attack for gleefully cutting into a cake made to look like a racist caricature of a black African woman. Lena Adelsohn Liljeroth defended the cake-cutting event, part of an art installation at Stockholm's modern art museum that was intended to highlight the issue...

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