A 25-year-old Polish man underwent a three-hour operation to remove a screwdriver lodged about two inches into his head.
Doctors in Bialystok said the man apparently fell and lost consciousness, then when he woke up he was at first aware only of pain in a hand before realising something else was wrong. He walked to his car, looked in a mirror and noticed the screwdriver penetrating his forehead just above his right eye.
Medics told the station TVN24 that the man smoked a cigarette before calling a neighbour who took him to the hospital. The screwdriver did not damage the man’s eyes or brain. (PA)
‘Pope’s childhood girlfriend’
An Argentine woman who grew up as the neighbour of the Pope Francis says she was very briefly the object of his affections when they were both 12.
Amalia Damonte, now 76 like the Pope, still lives four doors down from where Jorge Mario Bergoglio grew up in the Argentinian capital, Buenos Aires.
Ms Damonte says it was clear early on that he was thinking about dedicating his life to God.
She says in a hand-written letter he left for her, the future pontiff drew a picture of a little white house with a red roof and wrote “this is what I’ll buy when we marry”.
He added: “If I don’t marry you, I’m going to be a priest.” Ms Damonte says her parents were angered by the letter and ended the friendship. (AP)
‘Educational’ over-reaction
A woman sees everything upside down after being born with a rare brain glitch, The Sun has reported.
Bojana Danilovic, 28, has to read newspapers topsy-turvy, needs an inverted computer screen and keyboard and flips her television on its head in order to watch it. She said: “To me it’s normal. My eyes see the images the right way up but my brain changes them. Doctors do not know how, just that it does and where it happens in my brain. They’ve seen people who write the way I see but no-one like me.” (PA)
Refuelling in water tank
The Royal Navy’s next generation of aircraft carrier has carried out its first refuelling in the water – but only as a model of the real thing.
Two highly-accurate one-tonne scale models of HMS Queen Elizabeth and future tanker RFA Tidespring have been tested in Europe’s largest indoor water tank in Gosport, Hampshire, to determine how the two ships can sail safely together.
The ability to conduct replenishment at sea will be crucial to the warship’s ability to carry out refuelling thousands of miles from the UK.
To enable this, the Royal Fleet Auxiliary is developing a new generation of tankers. (PA)