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Barack Obama in Cuba at start of historic visit

President Barack Obama has arrived in Cuba for a historic visit to the island and talks with its communist leader.

He is the first sitting US president to visit since the 1959 revolution, which heralded decades of hostility.

Mr Obama  will meet President Raul Castro, but not retired revolutionary leader Fidel Castro, and the pair will discuss trade and political reform.

The US president emerged smiling from Air Force One with First Lady Michelle and their daughters Sasha and Malia.

President Obama's visit is the highpoint of a recent easing of ties, which included the opening of embassies last year.

But only hours before his arrival, protesters calling for the release of political prisoners were arrested in the capital, Havana.

Police took away dozens of demonstrators from the Ladies in White group, formed of political prisoners' wives, from outside a church where they attempt to hold weekly protests.

Now students have to be shown how to use the toilets: Top university puts up bizarre warning signs in campus loos after complaints about 'awful' mess 
Their students may be among some of the brightest in the country.

But that hasn't stopped the University of Sheffield from telling their scholars how to use the toilet.

The signs explain basic toilet techniques, such as: 'Do not put toilet paper on the floor' and 'put toilet paper in the toilet bowl and flush.'

Some also demonstrate the rules through graphics.

The post received hundreds of responses and the seriousness of the signs was questioned by disbelieving students.

One person commented: 'Please tell me this was made by a student as a joke.' 

Another source explained the reasoning behind the cards. 

'These cards are clearly designed for international students. But they're all over campus - and it's raising quite a few laughs.'

The University of Sheffield declined to comment.  

He's completely lost his head! Photographer captures perfectly timed shot of fish eagle just as it looks backwards

The bird of prey was merely the subject of a perfectly timed photograph captured in Chobe, Botswana.

The picture appears to show the fish eagle has been decapitated while sitting on a branch next to a friend.

But according to Mark Drysdale, who took the one-of-a-kind photograph, the bird threw its head back theatrically just as he pressed the camera shutter.

The 55-year-old photographer said the eagle was attempting to call another bird behind him at that very moment and its head completely disappeared from view.

This resulted in one very peculiar photograph capturing the abilities of the flexible bird.
Mark, from Johannesburg, South Africa, said: 'I was on a photographic tour taking pictures of the fish eagle when it threw its head back to call.

'I just happened to capture a photo at that precise moment.'