‘Time-traveller’ says computers manipulate time in 2300

A man who claims to be a time-traveller from 2300 says that in the future computers rule the world and manipulate time. Gerald Gardner says that he travelled to the future in a “top-secret journey” and discovered that “cities were governed by computers”. He adds that the computers “could manipulate time”.

Girl fends off armed robber by throwing bread

An armed robber was scared away by an 11-year-old girl who threw bread at him. After the masked man drew a knife in a supermarket in West Sussex and ordered the staff to empty the till, the girl started to throw a loaf of bread and two bottles of squash at him. The robber quickly fled empty-handed out of the shop.

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Bees delay flight in India

A commercial flight was delayed last week thanks to bees. “Thousands of bees just sat on the left side of the cockpit window blocking the view of the pilot,” said a worker at Kolkata airport. When staff tried to remove the bees they were attacked. Eventually a water cannon did the job.

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