The 55-year-old man allegedly broke into the First Christian Church in Ames, Iowa on Thursday, whereupon he set about collecting a number of items from around the building, before retiring to the basement for the night, where authorities say he set up a camp.

The man then used the church’s equipment to watch a selection of porn movies he had with him.

Staff from a preschool group who use the church found him on Friday morning, when they noticed a number of items missing, and then heard noises coming from the basement.

Police were called, and arrived to find the man attempt to flee while dragging a rubbish bin filled with electronic equipment, food, kitchen utensils and a 26-inch flatscreen TV – all of it from the church.

‘He kind of made himself at home,’ Commander Mike Brennan of the Ames Police Department told the Ames Tribune newspaper.

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69-year-old Ruth Flowers is a living example that age shouldn’t get in the way of things you’re passionate about. Like Bette Calman, the Yoga super-granny, Ruth does extraordinary things, for her age.

Known as “Mammy Rock“, around the European club scene, Ruth Flowers is probably the oldest professional DJ in the world. The British granny wears bling-bling headphones, trendy clothes and sports an electrifying hear-do as she works the turntables in popular clubs, in France.

Mammy Rock’s career began when she was 65. Her grandson was celebrating his birthday in a London nightclub, and asked Ruth to join him and his friends. There were a few problems with the bouncers, who didn’t feel right letting a senior citizen inside such an establishment, but as soon as she stepped in, Mammy Rock was bewitched by the lively atmosphere that made her feel so much younger.

She talked to her grandson about becoming a DJ herself, and although he thought she was mad, he agreed to introduce her to a young music producer. After learning the basics of electro music, Mammy Rock developed her very own style, and one of today’s most in-demand DJs.

Ruth had had a pretty interesting youth, going to balls all the time, but with the coming of old age, she became bored out of her mind. She says she’d much rather “sign a contract with a record company than to sign up for the nursing home.”

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Centenarian Zhang Ruifang, of Linlou Village in China’s Henan Province, first started developing the strange growth in 2009, when a patch of rough skin appeared on the left side of her forehead.

Her youngest son, 60-year-old Zhang Guozheng, said that when the growth first appeared they ‘didn’t pay too much attention to it’.

‘But as time went on a horn grew out of her head and it is now 6cm long,’ he said.

The growth is thought to be a ‘cutaneous horn’ – a tumour composed of keratin, the same substance that makes up fingernails, which most commonly occur in elderly people. Normally cutaneous horns are very small, several larger ones, which can stretch several inches, have been recorded in the past.

The condition has left her family worried – especially now it seems that she is developing a second horn on the right side of her forehead to match the first.

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Surgeons in China have operated to remove a five inch tail from a four-month-old baby girl.

The little girl, called Hong Hong, was born with the tail but it had since doubled in size, reports the Anhui Market Daily.

Her father, Hou, of Lixing town in eastern China’s Anhui province, said he had been “shocked” to see the tail at birth.

“I wanted to cut it off when she was born, but doctors suggested we wait some time, as a newborn is too weak to take such a surgery,” he said.

He checked the tail each day, hoping it would get smaller but instead it just “grew bigger and bigger”, he added.

Doctors at the Anhui Provincial Children’s Hospital said they too had been surprised by the case.

“It’s very rare, about one in a million. We have never seen anything like this before,” said Dr Sun Jun.

X-rays had shown that the tail was connected to a fatty tumor within the spinal column.

Dr Sun said the surgery had been successful, but it was still too early to say whether further treatment would be necessary.

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Prison bosses are about to open the world’s most luxurious jail with flatscreen TVs, its own recording studio – and even Banksy style murals.

The £160 million prison, near Oslo, Norway, gives 252 inmates a single en suite cell with its own bathroom and windows without bars.
Inside the maximum security prison, authorities have lavished more than £1 million on modern art, and even provided prisoners with a climbing wall.

Governor Arne Hoidal – who opens the jail next month – said: “We are very proud of what we have achieved.

“None of the windows have bars and they are made of unbreakable security glass so that people do not feel too claustrophobic.”