And in a separate incident, a burglar was arrested because he left his Facebook logged in at the scene of the crime. How embarassing.

KITE surfer Kevin Kearney had just come ashore for safety reasons when a blast of wind, spun off by Tropical Storm Fay, landed the 28-year-old in a Fort Lauderdale hospital and put him on computer and television screens around the world.

A jogger in the US was killed by an alligator which ripped her arms off before dragging her body into a canal.