Man showing off gun shoots himself and a friend

Two men are recovering in hospital after a New Jersey man accidentally shot himself and a friend while showing off a handgun. Police reports say the owner of the weapon was shot through the left hand, with the bullet ending up striking the second man in the hip. Both are expected to make a full recovery.

Boy caught driving was ‘taking brother to bathroom’

A 10-year-old boy has told police the reason he was driving his family’s car was because he had to take his younger brother to a bathroom. The boys’ father, a shop owner in the southern Israeli Bedouin village of Lakiya, told police that he had no idea the boys had taken the car.

Alaskan man accidentally sails to Russia

An Alaskan man travelling in a “one-person boat” has accidentally crossed the Bering Sea and landed on Russia’s isolated eastern coast. Bad weather and a lack of navigation equipment has been blamed for the incident. The man has been detained by Russian officials and will likely be deported.