Lindsay Lohan emerged from her crumpled sports car unhurt after a collision with a tipper lorry on a coast road near Los Angeles.
The troubled actress returned to the set of her new film hours after the accident on Pacific Coast Highway on Saturday. The lorry driver was also uninjured.
Sgt Richard Lewis of Santa Monica Police said there was no sign Ms Lohan, 25, or the lorry driver was under the influence of alcohol, adding: “We’re treating this as a regular accident.”
The accident happened as Ms Lohan was on her way to film scenes for the Lifetime movie Liz And Dick, which chronicles the tempestuous love affair between Hollywood stars Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton.
Arrested for trespassing in a suitcase
A US woman has been arrested for trespassing after workers at her boyfriend’s apartment building found she had been sneaking in by hiding in a large suitcase he carried around.
The Oregonian reports Kola J McGrath weighs 43kg. The 50-year-old was banned from the building last year for breaking a fire extinguisher case during an argument.
Police were notified when someone reported a man had kidnapped a woman, put her in a suitcase and taken her into the building. Officers searched Curtis T Lowe’s apartment and found Ms McGrath hiding in a closet.
Holidaymakers are feeling the burn
Sunburn is taking the shade off foreign holidays for many travellers, according to a UK survey.
On average, those seeking a tan lose out on two days of sunshine and have to cover up after getting burnt, the poll by travel agent sunshine.co.uk found. Of those who had overdone the sunbathing, 72 per cent said it had affected their trip.
The survey results were based on responses from 2,117 UK adults who had been on a holiday to a hot-weather destination for at least one week in the past 12 months.
A total of 61 per cent said they had got sunburnt, with many saying their holiday plans had been affected “a considerable amount”.
The most common cause of sunburn was forgetting to reapply suntan lotion, with some respondents saying they were put off by the high cost of some lotions.
Ex-police, painter turned ‘smugglers’
Two men, including a retired policeman, have been arrested near the Greek city of Thessaloniki on suspicion of antiquities smuggling after police found an ancient gold wreath and an armband in their car.
Police said the two – a 60-year-old retired policeman and a 41-year-old painter – were arrested after the artefacts were found during a routine traffic check.
They said the wreath of gold oak leaves and acorns, and the gold arm band with carved snake heads at the ends, date from roughly the 4th Century BC. Antiquities in Greece are state property by law but smuggling is a major issue.
Fishy medicine
Seventy thousand asthma-sufferers have mobbed a southern Indian stadium to swallow live sardines smeared with a yellow herbal paste they believe will cure their breathing problems.
Despite doctors’ criticism, the Goud family has drawn throngs of people for years with its secret fish and herbal formula it says it received from a Hindu saint about 170 years ago.
Hyderabad police say a man died of a heart attack and several others sought medical attention for breathing difficulty after waiting for hours. The family offers the treatment annually on a day chosen by astrologers.