A devoted Ukip supporter who had a picture of Nigel Farage tattooed on her arm has met her “hero”.
Kerrie Webb caused a stir at the party’s autumn conference in Doncaster after fellow supporters spotted her inky tribute to the eurosceptic. Mr Farage then autographed the image of his face before the pair hugged and laughed as activists cheered.
Ms Webb, 38, from Chesterfield, said the tattoo had taken three hours to complete but insisted it had “not really” hurt. She said she felt a “bit embarrassed” about the prospect of meeting Mr Farage. “But very pleased, of course, because he’s my hero,” she added.
History of violence uncovered
Scientists have shed light on one of the earliest known discoveries of human decapitation.
The 9,000-year-old head had been excavated by Andre Strauss from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology at the Lapa do Santo site in eastern Brazil and showed signs of violent removal.
The exact reason for the decapitation is unknown, but the head was discovered in what appeared to be a symbolic or spiritual pose suggesting the subject had died and was decapitated as part of a religious ceremony.
Apple store camper strikes again
A customer who had camped out all week was the first to cross the threshold of an Apple Store as the new iPhone 6s and 6s Plus went on sale.
Sam Shaikh, from Stratford, was the first to enter the Apple Store in Covent Garden, London, on Friday, having been waiting outside “since 8.30pm on Monday night”. Mr Shaikh said he was also the first person in the queue last year when the iPhone 6 launched.
The new iPhone is looking to repeat the success of the record-breaking launch of the iPhone 6 last year, which sold 10 million units in its first days of sale.
Reporter finds story – and boys
A newspaper reporter found two missing boys - who it turns out were just skipping school - after he was sent to cover their disappearance in central Pennsylvania.
Centre Daily Times reporter Shawn Annarelli said the brothers, aged seven and nine, were supposed to board a bus to their charter school on Tuesday morning but did not. State College police posted their picture on Twitter about an hour later and Mr Annarelli began poking around in some bushes near a playground after he heard some noises.
He found the boys hiding under a blueberry bush about 90 minutes into the search, and called 911 after hearing one of the boys say “they found us”. Police said the boys “didn’t want to go to school today”.
$37 ‘gift’ was missing Picasso
A $15 million Pablo Picasso painting is back on display in a Paris museum after a long and unusual journey.
La Coiffeuse (The Hairdresser) disappeared from a French storage room more than a decade ago, then turned up in a package from Belgium to New York last year – with a customs label calling it a $37 Christmas gift.
A top French government minister and the US ambassador attended the unveiling at the abstract painting’s new home at the Pompidou Centre. The investigation into who sent the package and how the painting was stolen is still under way.
Early cruise birth for US woman
A woman who unexpectedly gave birth on a cruise ship months before her due date said she wrapped towels around the one and a half-pound baby boy and, against all odds, she and medical staff managed to keep him alive until they reached port.
Emily Morgan, of Ogden, Utah, said doctors did not expect tiny Haiden to live, but thanks to strong lungs, a makeshift incubator and an early arrival in Puerto Rico, he made it. He’s now receiving care at a neonatal intensive care unit in Miami, Florida.
Mrs Morgan, 28, said the baby was due in December, but contractions began on August 31 during a seven-day cruise around the eastern Caribbean that her doctor approved to celebrate her daughter’s third birthday. The pregnancy had been uneventful, so she was shocked when the contractions began just past the halfway mark in her pregnancy.