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On Sunday, Yves Rossy became the first person to fly over the Grand Canyon using a winged jet pack. Yves, aka ‘JetMan’, 51, a former Swiss fighter pilot was dropped from a helicopter at an altitude of 8,000ft above the world famous Canyon. He travelled at speeds up to 190mph and completed a series of barrel rolls and twists before parachuting down to the canyon floor.

Yves shot to fame in 2008 when he became the first person to successfully cross the English Channel using his jet pack, reaching a speed of 186mph during the 21 mile flight. In November last year, Yves performed a similar stunt over the Swiss canyon of Vaud.

His Grand Canyon stunt was due to take place on May the 6th, but was postponed after the FAA failed to clear his winged jet pack for flight.

Red-faced New York police officers revealed that a man who escaped their custody after being handcuffed to a chair had been caught. The 58 year old man escaped the police station through a back door while still being handcuffed to a chair before being questioned about a theft from a restaurant.

Mr Caesar was re-apprehended a short time later while riding a bike with the handcuffs still attached. An investigation has been launched into the escape with police spokesman Mike DeGorge stating, “There was a mistake made and the department isn’t gonna run from the fact, or hide from the fact that a mistake was made”.

Mr Caesar was being held with the suspicion that he had stole money from the Anchor Bar restaurant, famous for being the home of Buffalo chicken wings.

A man has survived after his car plunged 200ft off the south rim of the world famous Grand Canyon in the US state of Arizona. The driver, a 21 year old unnamed man told park rangers that he managed to free himself from the wreckage after the accidental crash on Monday afternoon, and climbed to the top of the cliff to seek help.

The man eventually flagged down a passing tourist and was treated for non-life threatening injuries. Park officials were notified and later found the car lodged against a tree 200ft below the Canyons rim.

Park officials are investigating the incident and said that they have no plans to remove the stricken car. It was a luck escape for the 21 year old driver, as a National Park spokeswoman said that around 10ft after the tree that had stopped the car there was another precipice.

New York taxi driver Mohammed Alam got more than he bargained for when he picked up investment banker John Belitsky and his friend Dan Wuebben. Instead of a cross town fare, the two decided to do something ‘magical’ and asked Mr Alam how much it would be to take them to Los Angeles, a 2448 mile trip.

The $5,000 (around £3,000) drive took six days to complete with a stop off in Las Vegas where the two friends won $2,000. To document the trip, Mr Belitsky used the popular social networking site Twitter, but has not said how they plan to get back to New York.

A local New York news blog has calculated that if the taxi meter was running for the whole trip it would of cost nearly $17,000 (around £10,000).

Amazon has revealed its new online music streaming service called cloud player, which users can upload their songs and play them from a range of different devices. Cloud Player has already been released in the States and gives Amazon account holders 5GB of storage space for free, although more storage can be purchased for just over $1 per GB.

Songs uploaded onto the cloud player can be accessed through Palm, Blackberry and Android devices, but there is no support for Apple devices.

Bill Car, Amazon’s vice president for music and movies said, “Our customers have told us they don’t want to download music to their work computers or phones because they find it hard to move music around to different devices.”

Apple and Google are expected to release their own cloud music services over the coming months, so time will tell on how popular Amazon’s cloud player will become.

Christina Aguilera sang the wrong word to the American national anthem during the opening of the Super Bowl in Texas it has emerged. The 30 year old singer sang the words “What so proudly we watched at the twilight’s last gleaming” instead of “O’er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming” during her performance of the Star-Spangled banner in front of hundreds of millions of viewers worldwide.

The singer’s mistake was quickly picked up by social networks including Twitter and Facebook as fans were left shocked by the mistake.

The Green Bay Packers eventually won the Super Bowl by beating the Pittsburgh Steelers by 31 points to 25, but Christina Aguilera’s fluffed lines has grabbed much of the headlines.

New York City councillors have approved plans to ban smoking in public parks, beaches and Times Square. The ban will make it illegal to smoke in any of the city’s 1700 parks and along 14 miles of coast line near and around the city.

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said, “This summer, New Yorkers who go to our parks and beaches for some fresh air and fun will be able to breathe even cleaner air and sit on a beach not littered with cigarette butts,” after the 36-12 vote was cast in favour of the ban.

The city’s Parks Department will be given the power to impose fines of up to $100 for those caught smoking in public parks or on beaches.

Those opposing the ban have branded the measures an infringement of human rights.

An office worker from Denver, US, caught a thief red-handed after recording him rifling through her bedroom on her webcam and iPhone app. Claire Blevins set up the iCam app on her iPhone to watch her terrier dog playing, but instead caught the thief as he triggered the motion sensor on the webcam.

The 23 year old office worker said, “I’m really thankful I had the app. It’s good to know what he touched, what he went through and things like that but it’s still the creepiest thing that’s happened to me”.

A suspect has been remanded and is on trial for the burglary after the video was shown on local television last month. He denies the charge.

A flag carried by General Custer and the 7th Cavalry troops in the last stand Battle of Little Bighorn went under the hammer and fetched $2.2m (£1.4m) at Sotheby’s auction house in New York. The flag, which is the only one to survive the battle was valued at around $5m, but only managed less than half the price at the prestigious auction.

The sellers, Detroit Institute of Arts had aquired the flag in 1895 and originally bought it for just $54; Graham Beal the museums director said, “We’ll be using the proceeds to strengthen our collection of Native American art, which has a rather nice irony to it I think”.

The Battle of Little Bighorn saw General Custer and more than 200 of his soldiers defeated by Lakota Sioux and Northern Cheyenne warriors as they tried to reclaim the Black Hills as part of the government campaign.

A US Airways plane from Newark to Phoenix was forced to land in Pittsburgh after a passengers dog was let out of its carrier and bit two people.

It turns out that the dog’s 89 year old owner had let the Manchester terrier out of its cage and when the tranquilisers wore off it started biting the passengers. The pilot decided to land at Pittsburgh so that the injured parties could be treated and to ensure passenger safety.

The dog was locked back in its cage, but it is still unclear whether its owner will be prosecuted or fined for letting it out in the first place.