Google Street View gets agoraphobic mum outside
An agoraphobic mother has left her house for the first time in 20 years - thanks to Google Street View.
Sue Curtis, 40, has spent half her life inside her home and even married husband Alan in her sitting room, reports the Daily Telegraph.

But the mother-of-two's interest was sparked by Google Street View which led her to try self-help classes online.
And she has finally now ventured onto the pavement outside her house in West Harton, South Shields.
Mrs Curtis said: "It may not seem very far to walk, but for me, this is amazing, I'm getting there very slowly, and now I don't see no reason why I can't be cured in the future and lead a normal life again.
"It's all down to the classes, I've said for years I needed cognitive behavioural therapy to help me, and now that I've got access to it, I've been able to learn, and I feel like I have a new lease of life."
Mrs Curtis stopped leaving the house after experiencing severe panic attacks a day in 1989.
"It was very scary. At one point I was suffering between 15 and 20 attacks a day, my weight dropped down to just over five stone and I ended up bed-bound for 18 months," she said.
"It gradually came to a point where I knew I didn't want to be or go outside, so I just stayed in."
 
Tree grew in man's lung
Astonished surgeons have removed a two-inch long fir tree growing inside a patient's lungs.
Doctors thought Artyom Sidorkin, 28, had cancer when he began coughing up blood and complaining of agonising chest pains.
But as they operated to remove a tumour the medics were amazed to discover the perfectly formed spruce thriving inside the lung.
"I blinked three times and thought I was seeing things," said surgeon Vladimir Kamashev at Izhevsk Hospital in Russia.
Doctors believe that Artyom breathed in a tiny seed which then began growing in his lung and that the sharp pains were the plant's needle-like leaves digging into his lung.
"It was very painful. But to be honest I did not feel any foreign object inside me," he explained.

World's longest football match
A world record for the longest football match was set after a 36 hour battle ended with a 285-255 scoreline.
Leeds Badgers beat Bristol Academy in the epic match which beat the previous record of 33hrs, 36mins.
Each team had 18 players who each played around 18 hours, staying at the Bristol pitch during their breaks.
The game, documented by volunteers keeping video and logbook evidence, was held to raise £10,000 for the Meningitis Trust.
Former Liverpool FC star and Welsh international Ian Rush, who had meningitis as a child, said: "These players are amazing."

Motorist arrested for sex while speeding
A Norwegian man was arrested after he was caught having sex with his girlfriend while speeding on a motorway.
Officers trailed the couple's car after noticing it was swerving from side to side and travelling at 20mph over the speed limit, reports the BBC.
But they soon realised the erratic driving was due to the woman "sitting on the man's lap", a police spokesman said.
After filming the exploit for evidence, they pulled them over at a rest area on the E18 motorway, west of Oslo.
The 28-year-old man is likely to face a fine of several thousand Norwegian kroner and a lengthy driving ban.
"Why they did it on a highway with such a high risk we don't know," said Superintendent Tor Stein Hagen.
Despite her role in the incident, the 21-year-old woman was allowed by police to drive her lover home.

Gran devours snail problem
A Welsh grandmother came up with the perfect solution after her garden became infested with snails - she's eating them.
Oriole Parker-Rhodes was unwilling to trample on or poison the creatures, reports the Daily Mail.
So she regularly feasts on their meat, claiming they are higher in protein and lower in fat than beef.
Miss Parker-Rhodes, 59, of Anglesey, said: "Last summer it was really wet and warm - ideal for snails. I had hundreds in my garden. I was treading on them, and they were also eating our home-grown potatoes.
"I'm quite an organic, perma-culture sort of person and didn't want to trample or poison them. That would be against my principles. So I thought eating them made sense."
Miss Parker-Rhodes said restaurants usually serve six per plate but she serves 12 at a time with salad, garlic, parsley or butter sauce and bread.
"They're perfectly good meat," she added. "They're very high in protein and low in fat. In some ways, they're better than beef."
Miss Parker-Rhodes has now set up an internet blog with recipes at eatinggardensnails.blogspot.com.

Woman sees home burgled on webcam
A Florida woman who set up a webcam in her home turned on from work to see her house being burgled.
Jeanne Thomas, 43, was sitting in her office 25 miles away when she saw strangers rummaging through her living room.
She called police and said the men were scaring her pets, eating food from her fridge and stealing Nintendo games.
The intruders are thought to have entered the house, in Boynton Beach, by squeezing through a dog flap from the back garden.
Police officers asked Mrs Thomas to stay on the line and describe what the thieves were doing.
She said: "Okay, here's just one. He's running to the front. The other one is trying to figure out which way to go.
"The cat's freaked out. The dogs are hiding. My God. This is crazy. They've got things in their hands."
By this time the officer replied: "Ma'am, it's okay. Officers are surrounding your house. They're not going to get away with anything."
Two men, aged 20 and 19, were arrested inside the house. Two other suspects, both 20, were charged with planning the burglary.

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