World briefs
Windsurfing across the Atlantic
A Frenchwoman yesterday set off from Senegal to windsurf across the Atlantic Ocean, four years after she was diagnosed with a heart condition and fitted with a pacemaker.
Sarah Hebert, a four-times French windsurfing champion and European champion, began her 4,000 kilometre journey from a beach north of Dakar. She is expected to take 25 days to reach the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe.
The 28-year-old from Carnac, in Brittany, northwest France, is accompanied by a support boat with a four-man crew. She intends to windsurf for six to eight hours a day and sleep on board the craft every evening. The boat is carrying replacement boards, extra sails, a VHF radio, satellite telephone, a global positioning system as well as distress flares and beacons.
She will restart her journey every day using the GPS to plot the exact point where she stopped the previous evening.
No way!
A man with one leg made a vain bid to escape after he was flagged down by police officers in Jacksonville, Florida.
He got out of his SUV and tried to hop down the street on his left leg.
But he did not get far. When the officers yelled at him to stop, he thought better of his slow-speed getaway and surrendered.
Golden surprise
A California woman has got her gold necklace back months after she accidentally flushed it down her toilet.
San Rafael sanitation workers were cleaning a pipeline when they found Ann Aulakh’s necklace. Her friend had left a message with officials after the chain was lost.