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• World’s oldest football up close: The Smith Museum in Stirling is unlocking the display case and letting fans hold the oldest football in the world.

The band’s manager, Bill Curbishley, told the Sunday Times he had been approached to see if Moon “would be available” to play with the surviving members this summer.

“I emailed back saying Keith now resides in Golders Green crematorium, having lived up to the Who’s anthemic line ‘I hope I die before I get old’,” came the excellent reply.

“If they have a round table, some glasses and candles, we might contact him.”

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“At ‘Care Plus World’ we recognize, in this busy world, that not everyone has the luxury of being at home with their children, therefore we strive to give children a ‘home from home’ environment in their most important early years,” the nursery says on its website.

Parents are “invited to leave their children with us for a considerable period of leave from one week to one year in case of any emergency such as hospitalization, business trips etc.”

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• Russia Church in gold watch row: The Russian Orthodox Church apologises for showing a doctored photo of its leader Patriarch Kirill in which a luxury watch had been removed from his wrist.
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• US man survives nail into heart: A New Jersey man is making a quick recovery after accidentally shooting a 4-inch (10cm) nail into his heart.
• German drivers offered free rides: Motorists in the German city of Leipzig are being offered public transport for free for the rest of the week to encourage them to leave their cars at home.
• Clinton ‘hearts’ text spoof site: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gives her seal of approval to a website showing spoof texts from her to various political leaders.
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• Girl, 4, joins Mensa with 159 IQ: A four-year-old girl from Hampshire is accepted into Mensa with an IQ just one point below Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking.
• NZ to build cardboard cathedral: A cardboard cathedral will be built in Christchurch to temporarily replace the one damaged by the 2011 earthquake, officials say.
• Superman cheque makes super price: The original cheque used to buy the Superman comic character from its original creators for $130 sells in an online auction for $160,000 (£101,000).
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• US introduces $60 LED light bulb: A light bulb which won a US Department of Energy contest for an alternative to a 60-watt incandescent bulb goes on sale for Earth Day – but with a $60 price tag.
• Hi-tech car aid for older drivers: A team at Newcastle University is developing new technology – including a “Granny-Nav” – aimed at helping older drivers stay on the road.
• Men set to live as long as women: The gap between male and female life expectancy is closing and men could catch up by 2030, according to an adviser for the UK Office for National Statistics.
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• Student wins Google photo prize: A Swedish student has been named as the winner of the Google Photography Prize.
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Twenty five years after he got lost whilst traveling on a train in India, a man found his mother using the unlikeliest of technology, satellite images.

Here’s the incredible story of how Saroo Brierly used Google Earth to reunite with his long lost mother:

Saroo was only five years old when he got lost. He was travelling with his older brother, working as a sweeper on India’s trains. “It was late at night. We got off the train, and I was so tired that I just took a seat at a train station, and I ended up falling asleep.”

That fateful nap would determine the rest of his life. “I thought my brother would come back and wake me up but when I awoke he was nowhere to be seen. I saw a train in front of me and thought he must be on that train. So I decided to get on it and hoped that I would meet my brother.”

Saroo did not meet his brother on the train. Instead, he fell asleep and had a shock when he woke up 14 hours later. Though he did not realise it at first, he had arrived in Calcutta, India’s third biggest city and notorious for its slums. [...]

Soon he was sleeping rough. “It was a very scary place to be. I don’t think any mother or father would like to have their five year old wandering alone in the slums and trains stations of Calcutta.”

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It’s the modern equivalent of dialing a random phone number or knocking on strangers houses, except this time it went a little wrong!

A northwest Arkansas teenager thought it would be funny to text a random phone number saying she hid a body, but the joke backfired.

Of all the local phone numbers she could have chosen, the 15-year-old Rogers girl picked one that belonged to a police detective. Police found the girl’s address by tracing her cellphone number.

The prank? To text: “I hid the body … Now what?” to a random phone number.

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