A Swedish man who says his car became trapped in deep snow in a forest the week before Christmas has been found alive and in surprisingly good condition.
The man, believed
 to be Peter Skyllberg, told police that he had eaten nothing but snow for two months, but that thanks to having good clothes and a sleeping bag, he was able to stay relatively warm inside his car, even as temperatures outside fell to -30 degrees Centigrade (–22 degrees Fahrenheit.)
Skyllberg was discovered by a pair of snowmobilers, who thought they had found a crashed car and were amazed when they dug down through a meter of snow and discovered the driver lying on the back seat in his sleeping back. He was weak and emaciated and barely able to speak but is now recovering well in the hospital.

Babies still too small to speak
know how to make jokes and form friendships, say researchers at an Australian university who have spent two years filming the behaviour of young children.
Academics at Charles Sturt University are studying how children interact with other infants while in childcare using footage obtained from tiny cameras strapped to their heads.
The study affords a “baby’s eye view” of the world in which even simple objects such as spoons appear oversized, said Jennifer Sumsion, foundation professor of early childhood at the university.
But it also shows that children aged from six months to 18 months use sophisticated but subtle non-verbal means to make friends and make each other laugh.
“We were very, very surprised to see just how sophisticated they were in terms of their social skills, their helping skills, in making sure they were inviting other children to be part of their group,” Sumsion told AFP.
Sumsion said babies interacted with each other by making eye contact and with hand gestures and humour.
They used “little social games that you wouldn’t necessarily see unless you were looking very closely”, she said.
Examples of this included children pretending to hand another child a toy, only to snatch it away at the last minute, or babies sitting close to each other in highchairs playfully switching their drink bottles around.
In another instance caught on camera, a one-year-old girl tried to comfort a baby when she was frightened by gently placing a piece of see-through fabric over her so she could see out but feel protected.
The researchers, who analysed the baby-cam footage alongside other video shot of the children at the same time, did not force the babies to wear the cameras and they were only attached for 10 to 15 minutes at a time.
They hope the research will shed light on the secret world of babies and their experience in childcare.
“What surprised us though was the games that they were playing with each other, even at that age. It’s really very positive to see,” Sumsion said.

Music could have been an inspiration for the design of Stonehenge, according to an American researcher.
Steven Waller’s intriguing idea is that ancient Britons could have based the layout of the great monument, in part, on the way they perceived sound.
He has been able to show how two flutes played in a field can produce an auditory illusion that mimics in space the position of the henge’s pillars. He told the BBC: “My theory is that the ancient Britons, when they were hearing two pipers in a field, were experiencing sound wave interference patterns, where in certain locations as you walked around the pair of pipers, you would hear loud or quiet zones.
“If you could look at it from an overhead view, it would look like the spokes of a wheel. And, as you walk around the circle, every time you come to one of these sound-wave cancellation points, it feels like there is this massive invisible object in front of you.
“Put all this ‘vision in your mind’ together and it forms a Stonehenge-like structure.” Mr Waller is an expert in “archaeoacoustics”, which examines the role sound might have played in ancient cultures.
It is just one of a host of different topics being discussed here at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
‘Supernatural explanations’
The La Mesa, California-based researcher said he had demonstrated the auditory henge effect using blindfolded subjects.
He took these people into a field where two pipers were playing and afterwards asked them to draw diagrams of the soundscape they had experienced.
“These people were not told anything about interference patterns or Stonehenge; they were completely naive subjects,” he recalled.  “And it was very interesting when they took the blindfolds off, and after having described the presence of large structures to then discover nothing was there in the field except these two flutes – they were flabbergasted.”
Mr Waller said his ideas had been further strengthened by measurements he had made of the acoustic shadows actually cast by the Stonehenge megaliths. He found they accurately reproduced the interference pattern that would be generated by two flutes playing in the centre of the monument.
Mr Waller argued that sound its behaviour would have utterly captivated the ancients.
“People didn’t even know that sound was propagated by pressure waves until a few centuries ago,” he said. “We know that sound was a great mystery to the ancients because there are many myths about echoes being a spirit that lives in the rock and which calls back, or that thunder was caused by large birds in the sky flapping their wings. They had supernatural explanations for all these sound phenomena.”

The government of Rio de Janeiro state will distribute more than three million condoms free of charge during Brazil’s five-day carnival that begins Friday.

State health officials said their “using a condom rates 10 in harmony” campaign aims to prevent AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases, or STDs, particularly among the young.

The prophylactics will be handed out to revelers who will pack the Sambodrome to watch the dazzling parades of leading samba schools Sunday night and Monday night as well as those who attend the various dancing-and-drinking street parties across the city.

State officials will also distribute 55,000 condom cases and 160,000 leaflets with information on how to prevent STDs.

A couple in Portland, Oregon found themselves spending Valentine’s Day in jail after their bondage role-playing resulted in nine police cruisers being dispatched. Responding to reports that a naked woman was seen tied up in the back of a car with duct tape over her mouth, Portland police converged on New Seasons Market shortly after noon on Tuesday, according to KATU.
When police arrived, 26-year-old Stephanie Morgan Pelzner was still naked and bound in the car. She confirmed to authorities that she had simply been role-playing with her 31-year-old boyfriend, Nikolas Alexander Harbar.
Both were arrested and charged with disorderly conduct.
“You can’t do things that are going to create a public alarm,” Sgt. Pete Simpson told KATU. “When it starts to affect other people and the public, something like this is not okay.”
“Role-play all you want, but when you do something that is going to generate a 911 call you should probably do it at home,” he advised.