A British pilot has avoided a fatal crash after going blind while flying his small plane over England as a Royal Air Force (RAF) plane and pilot guided him to a safe landing.

Businessman Jim O'Neill, 65, revealed his death defying ordeal from his hospital bed in Romford, East London Friday and thanked the RAF for saving his life. He is recuperating from the temporary blindness caused by the swelling of a blood vessel in his eyes due to a stroke.

Swedish researchers said that an extra hour of sleep may reduce the likelihood of having a heart attack as most countries, including the United States, shift from daylight saving time to normal standard times.

The extra hour of sleep brought about by shifting of the clocks back an hour may prevent the risk of a heart attack, compared with the heart attack risks during the first week of DST's implementation in spring, which were higher.

A former U.S. Air Force pilot based at Britain's Royal Air Force station in southeastern England confirmed a recently declassified report stating that he was ordered but failed to shoot down an unidentified flying object in 1957.

Retired U.S. airman Milton Torres confirmed that he and a co-pilot were ordered to intercept the UFOs that appeared on the radar of the RAF airfield in Manston in Kent, England.

A criminal court in northern England sentenced a chef to 30 years in prison for killing his boyfriend, cooking and then eating part of the victim's body in April.

The Leeds Crown Court issued the verdict against Anthony Morley, 36, who stabbed Damien Oldfield, 33, in bed. Morley then chopped part of Oldfield's leg, cooked and ate it before telling staff at a restaurant outside his home that he killed a man.

Professional divers have located the wreck of the sunken 19th century steamship SS Portland 460 feet deep in Massachusetts' Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary and found artifacts but no human remains.

Five divers led by Bob Foster were the first to see the shipwreck nearly 20 years after it was discovered by underwater explorers Arnold Carr and John Fish. At the time, the wreck was not confirmed as that of the Portland, which sunk amid a storm in 1898 while sailing from Boston to Portland, Maine.