QUIRKY WORLD ... Lime juice leak forces bittersweet jet drama
The leak on the Alaska Airlines plane was traced to a container of lime juice that broke open during a flight from Seattle.
Alaska Airlines said workers first detected the sour-smelling liquid coming from a cargo container. Airport staff took a cautious approach and called for emergency responders from the Ketchikan fire department to take a ferry to the airport on Gravina Island, where they diagnosed the source.
A roadsweeper won ÂŁ4.5m (âŹ5.7m) on the Lotto â then went to work because he didnât believe he had won.
Joseph Whiting checked his tickets at 4am the morning after last weekâs draw, but turned up to clean the streets in north London as usual.
EXCLUSIVE! #BehindTheScenes at Joseph Whitingâs press conference - our latest #Lotto winner whoâs now ÂŁ4.5m richer! pic.twitter.com/DPRyf2Tu8Z
— The National Lottery (@TNLUK) September 22, 2014
The 42-year-old, who banked the windfall of ÂŁ4,570,887 with a ticket bought nine minutes before the deadline last Wednesday, told his bosses he was hanging up his broom yesterday.
He said: âI woke up and checked the numbers on teletext at four in the morning and I saw all six numbers.
âI couldnât believe it. I didnât have my glasses on so I put them on and checked two or three more times.â
He then reported for his 5am shift. âI donât know how I got through the day. You can check 100 times and you are still not sure.â
Finally he got home and contacted Camelot, who confirmed the win.
A generous customer paid $1,000 (âŹ779)to pick up the tab for diners in dozens of vehicles at the drive-through lanes of a Texas fast food restaurant.
The man was in a white truck at a Chick-fil-A in Abilene when he handed over the cash. He told employees he wanted to pay for everyone behind him for as long as the cash lasted.
He told workers his name was John and that he just wanted to make everyoneâs Monday better as he handed over the money. The cash was enough to pay for people in 88 vehicles over about an hour.
British Labour MP Ed Balls has admitted a tackle which left an opponent with a cut eye during the annual football match between Labour and journalists looked âawfulâ.
Love how seriously @edballsmp @jimmurphymp & @SadiqKhan take the politicians vs journalists football! (via @BuzzFeed) pic.twitter.com/SM6LVBUM7n
— Simon Hogg (@CllrSimonHogg) September 21, 2014
The shadow chancellor also said he had been rebuked by his wife and fellow frontbencher Yvette Cooper over the clash â but insisted it was âentirely accidentalâ.
This is what happens when you get the wrong side of Ed Balls' elbow. Rob Merrick, the lobby's Terry Butcher pic.twitter.com/i9jlolOdXo
— Sam Macrory (@sammacrory) September 21, 2014
The incident came as the Labour team were en route to a 3-1 defeat against the Lobby team.
A Pennsylvania man caused more than $14,000 of damage to several other vehicles when he took a dare to do a âdoughnutâ with his pick-up truck in a bar car park.
Brett Whitmireâs truck kicked up damaging stones as it spun in a tight circle in the car park of the Beer Garden in Washington Township. Butler County prosecutors said they were willing to drop a felony criminal mischief charge if Whitmire, 35, of Butler, pays for the damage.
An online version of the British Museum will be built using the popular game Minecraft after the institution appealed for volunteers to help create it.
The idea is part of its Museum Of The Future project and staff have gone online to find volunteers willing to take part.
The game, where players can build an entire world from scratch using different types of blocks, has millions of fans around the world.
