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World Dec 10
Climate change threatens reindeer and a way of lifeAlready pressured by the mining and forestry industry, and other development that encroach on grazing land, Sami herding communities fear climate change could mean the end of their traditional lifestyle.
World Nov 19
Sweden drops rape investigation into Julian AssangeAssange, who is battling an extradition attempt by the U.S. so he can face spying charges related to his WikiLeaks work, has always denied the allegations made against him during a visit to Stockholm in August 2010.
Economy Oct 14
Nobel awarded to 3 economists for work to alleviate povertyThe Nobel Economics Prize was awarded to Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer for their studies on poverty. Duflo is the second woman to win the economics prize.
Arts Oct 10
2 Nobel literature prize winners expose Europe’s fault linesThe two winners were a liberal Pole who has irked her country's conservative government and an Austrian accused by many liberals of being an apologist for Serbian war crimes.
Arts Oct 10
Nobel Prize in Literature awarded to Olga Tokarczuk and Peter HandkeTwo Nobel Prizes in literature were announced because the 2018 literature award was postponed following sex abuse allegations that rocked the Swedish Academy.
World Oct 09
3 scientists awarded Nobel in Chemistry for lithium-ion batteriesThe prize went to John B. Goodenough of the University of Texas; M. Stanley Whittingham of the State University of New York at Binghamton; and Akira Yoshino of Asahi Kasei Corporation and Meijo University in Japan.
World Oct 08
3 win Nobel in Physics for discovering planet and work on the universe’s evolutionA Canadian-American cosmologist and two Swiss scientists won this year's Nobel Prize in Physics.
Health Oct 07
Nobel Medicine prize awarded to 3 scientists for learning how cells use oxygenThe prize winners' work has paved the way for new strategies to fight anemia, cancer and other diseases.
Arts Aug 14
A$AP Rocky found guilty of assault by Swedish courtThe court sentenced the American rapper to a "conditional sentence," which means he faces no prison sentence in Sweden unless he commits a similar offense in the country again.
World Jul 29
Teen climate activist Greta Thunberg will bring her message to the U.S.The 16-year-old will attend U.N. climate summits in New York in September and Santiago, Chile, in December.
