A commercial plane carrying 79 passengers skidded on to the grass while taxiing to a gate at Copenhagen’s airport on Wednesday, Danish officials have said.

Airport spokesman Soeren Hedegaard Nielsen said no one was injured and the passengers were able to leave the SAS plane calmly and continue their journeys as planned.

Mr Hedegaard Nielsen said the plane had arrived from Oslo and was on its way to the airport gate when it missed a turn. (AP)

Proof reader for teachers’ reports

A school is looking to recruit a proof reader to check for mistakes in teachers’ reports.

Northgate High School in Ipswich, Suffolk, posted an advert for the position on its website, saying responsibilities would include correcting “spelling mistakes, poor or missing punctuation, incorrect capitalisation” and improving “poor grammar”.

The part-time job will also include helping staff whose reports need “extensive correcting by giving them feedback on their report-writing and tactfully suggesting strategies to help them improve”. (AP)

Love-lorn sailor detained at border

A love-lorn sailor has been detained by border officials after trying to sail into a British port to find his “holiday sweetheart” – despite admitting she has no interest in him.

Ramazan Culum was intercepted when his yacht reached British waters off Plymouth last Friday evening, having sailed through stormy seas from his homeland of Turkey in pursuit of romance.

The 38-year-old, who said he would go on hunger strike to convince the British woman of his love for her, is awaiting deportation after his latest grand gesture was foiled. (AP)

Russian woman kept dead husband

A Russian woman kept the body of her dead husband in her apartment for three years, ordering her children to feed and talk to him in the hopes he would be resurrected.

The man, a missionary for a Pentecostal church, had lived with his wife and five children in a village in the Yaroslavl region in central Russia until he died in 2009.

Investigators said: “For three years, between August 14, 2009, and July 2, 2012, the corpse was lying in bed in a room in the apartment. All this time the widow continued to live in the apartment with her small children, whom she asked every day to go into the room where her husband’s body lay, ‘talk’ to their father, (and) ‘feed’ him.” (AFP)

Rome declares ‘war’ on starlings

Tired of bird droppings on the city’s most famous monuments, local authorities in Rome are resorting to unusual measures to try and scare off a million starlings that migrate to the Eternal City every year.

Armed with loudspeakers and light projectors, workers in white overalls and masks are walking around at sunset along the tree-lined embankments of the Tiber River where starlings tend to congregate.

The loudspeakers blast out shrieks of alarm used by the starlings and the projectors are shone into the trees to scare off the birds. Rome has the highest number of starlings in Italy – around a million are estimated to migrate there every autumn and winter. (AFP)