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At a time when most people his age would be relaxing and spending time with their families, 103-year-old Fu Yiquan has far more active ideas.

The Chinese centenarian is the oldest of the 400,000 volunteers working at the Beijing Olympics.

Although he can’t go to the stadiums to work, Fu is an official Capital Security Volunteer at the Games.

His duties involve helping spectators and tourists, ensuring litter is picked up and patrolling the streets of his neighbourhood three times a day, reports the Xinhua news agency.

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A 47-year-old man has been arrested in Florida on charges of making false 911 calls.

The Associated Press reports that Carlos Gutierrez was at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino on August 4 and called 911 to say the slot machine he was playing had stolen his money. A police report says Gutierrez left the casino only to place another emergency call reporting the same incident.

Gutierrez’s arrest is the second time in the last week that a man from Florida has been charged with making a false emergency call. In Jacksonville, Reginald Peterson called a police emergency hot line number twice after staff at a Subway sandwich shop left his favourite Italian sauce off his sandwich.

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Police arrested a woman in Florida after she allegedly struck her husband with a frozen lasagne.

UPI.com reports that Amanda Trott allegedly used the frozen ready meal as a weapon during an argument with her husband. Mrs Trott was charged with domestic battery after admitting she had hurled the lasagne at her husband and hit him in the head.

Sgt David Cameron told UPI that Mrs Trott’s husband was left in a great deal of pain and that the blow he took is likely to leave welts on his head.

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An American man has been accused of murder with a most unlikely weapon after discovering a woman he was intimately involved with was born a man.

Allen Ray Andrade is alleged to have beaten Justin Zapata with a fire extinguisher after stumbling upon the victim’s secret during a sexual encounter.

Andrade initially believed his partner was a woman known as Angie Zapata. The pair met via an online dating service.

Andrade faces several charges including second-degree murder. Zapata’s bloodied body was discovered by his sister on July 17 in Denver, Colorado.

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An 18-year-old man who allegedly stole buses and drove them along their correct routes has been arrested in Florida.

Bus-obsessed James Harris is thought to have picked up and dropped off passengers on a number of routes in the Miami-Dade area. He even wore the correct uniform to avoid being rumbled. Police believe he did not steal any fares.

Harris was arrested after the most recent bus theft. Police suspect him of stealing at least three other buses from different depots in Miami-Dade and taking the vehicles out for up to six hours at a time. He has been charged with three counts of theft and burglary.

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