MAGPIE:A HOMELESS Japanese woman who sneaked into a man's house and lived undetected in his wardrobe for a year has been arrested.
Police found the woman (58) hiding in the top compartment of the wardrobe and arrested her for trespassing, said Hiroki Itakura, police spokesman in Kasuya.
The resident of the home installed security cameras that transmitted images to his mobile phone after becoming puzzled by food disappearing from his kitchen. One of the cameras captured someone moving inside his home after he had left, and he called police, believing it was a burglar. However, when they arrived, they found the door locked and all the windows closed.
"We searched the house, checking everywhere someone could possibly hide," Itakura said. "When we slid open the shelf closet, there she was, nervously curled up on her side."
The woman told police she had no place to live and first sneaked into the man's house about a year ago when he left it unlocked.
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Police in Colorado are hopeful of catching robbers who were caught on camera using thongs as masks. The skimpy ladies' pants left most of the duo's faces visible, say police.
CCTV cameras caught the pair holding up a convenience store in Arvada. One wore a green thong while the other opted for blue - but their noses, mouths and chins were barely covered.
The men, believed to be in their 20s, were not armed. They stole cigarettes and cash, which they stuffed into a pink backpack.
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Scientists in New Zealand claim to have developed an inoculation to reduce methane emissions from sheep and cows that break wind.
Phil Goff, New Zealand's trade minister, told an economic summit in Paris that a solution was in sight. "Our agricultural research organisation just last week was able to map the genome that causes methane in ruminant animals and we believe we can vaccinate against flatulent emissions," he said.
Sheep, cattle, goats and deer produce large quantities of gas through belching and flatulence, as their multiple stomachs digest grass. The 45 million sheep and 10 million cattle in New Zealand burped and farted about 90 per cent of that country's methane emissions, according to government figures.
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A Chinese motorist has been arrested for hanging up a fake police uniform in his car to deter thieves.
Police pulled up the car in Taiyan city after spotting the uniform hanging in a rear window. "We were suspicious when we spotted a uniform hanging up in a civilian vehicle," said a police spokesman.
The driver (25) admitted the uniform was fake, and said he hung it up to scare off thieves after his car was broken into previously.