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Mum fails to keep abreast of traffic laws

China : A mum in a hurry breastfed her young son while they sped through traffic on a moped.

Witnesses say the tot — aged about 18 months — was crying as the bike weaved through busy roads in Yuzhou, Henan province. “So she suddenly lifted up her T-shirt, whipped out her breast and started to feed him on the move,” said one startled driver.

But the impromptu meals on wheels earned the mother a ticking off from local police.

“She was risking her life, her son’s life and the lives of all the other road users,” said a police spokesman.

“We told her that if she carried on we would confiscate her bike.”

New Zealand : A man’s attempt to smuggle live tropical fish into New Zealand in his trouser pockets floundered when water was spotted dripping from his clothes, officials have said.

The Vietnamese national travelled from Australia to Auckland earlier this week and airport officials suspected something was fishy because liquid was seeping from the bulging pockets of his trousers, the Ministry of Primary Industries (MPI) said.

The man initially said he was carrying water from the plane because he was thirsty. However, customs officers found seven fish hidden in plastic bags in his pockets.

The passenger told them he was bringing the fish, unidentified species of cichlid, into the country for a friend.

MPI spokesman Craig Hughes said the man will face charges under the Biosecurity Act, which carries maximum penalties of five years in jail or a NZ$100,000 (£50,000) fine.

China: Don’t try this at home: Sports enthusiast Per Gunnar Roalkvam caught an eye-popping sight when he trained his camera on strongman Brian Shaw lifting a weight of 442.5 kilos — almost a thousand pounds.

In the video, in Sanyu, China, the weights on the barbell look comically huge — and seem to almost dwarf Shaw.

Fans can be heard yelling encouragement to him from the sidelines as the strongman contemplates the dead lift. “Pick it up!” And, amazingly, he does.

That feat led Shaw to be placed first in the 2013 competition for world’s strongest man. The video shows why the American, 31, earned the title — which he also won in 2011.

US: A bank robbery suspect trying to elude police searching for him in an apartment building jumped into a rubbish chute and survived a 200ft fall into waste in the basement, police have said.

Robin Gutheridge, 26, plunged from the 21st floor of the Clinton Plaza Apartments, a few blocks from the Chase Bank Branch which he had robbed earlier, according to Sergeant Tom Connellan.

He was conscious and told police he had climbed into the chute to avoid being captured. Police estimate he fell about 210ft before landing on rubbish in a compactor at the bottom.

“He was able to slow himself down by holding the sides of chute, and the garbage may have cushioned the fall, but he did get severe injuries,” Sgt Connellan said.

Firefighters moved the compactor and removed Gutheridge from the chute, police said. Gutheridge was in critical condition on Friday at Upstate University Hospital, where he was in the intensive care unit with fractures and internal injuries, Sgt Connellan said.

A phone listing for him couldn’t be found, and it wasn’t clear whether he had a lawyer.

Police said Gutheridge fled on foot with an undisclosed amount of cash after robbing the bank. After detectives learned he was seen entering a nearby apartment building, they began searching the building. That’s when a maintenance worker told them he could hear someone calling for help from a rubbish chute in the basement.

When the officers checked it out, they found Gutheridge trapped in the compactor, Sgt Connellan said. He had some of the bank’s money on him, police said.

He remained under police guard at the hospital and will be charged with robbery when his condition improves.

Egypt: In a case that’s ruffling feathers in Egypt, authorities have detained a swan that a citizen suspected of being a spy.

Officials say a man brought the suspected winged infiltrator to a police station on Friday in the Qena governorate, some 450km (280m) southeast of Cairo.

Officials say the man suspected the bird was an undercover agent because it carried an electronic device.

The head of security in Qena said on Saturday that officials had examined the bird and the device.

Mohammed Kamal said the device was neither an explosive nor a spying device.

It is thought likely that it could instead be a wildlife tracker.

With turmoil gripping Egypt, authorities and citizens remain suspicious of anything foreign.

Earlier this year, a security guard filed a police report after capturing a pigeon he said carried microfilm.