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A man was shot dead at a Latvian cinema after eating his popcorn too loudly during a screen of Black Swan.

Police said they had arrested a 27-year-old man suspected of shooting a 42-year-old fellow audience member who later died of his wounds. The conflict took place as the credits rolled during a screen of the Oscar-nominated film “Black Swan”, according to police in the Baltic state.

Witnesses said that it arose over how loudly the deceased man was eating his popcorn. Gun-crime is relatively rare in Latvia, a European Union nation of 2.2 million.

The shooting occurred on Saturday evening in the central multiplex cinema in the Latvian capital, Riga, at the end of the psychological thriller about a ballet dancer who loses her mind succumbing to pressure to perform.

The masked crusader, who likes to call himself the Guardian of Seattle, got into a little local difficulty and had his nose broken while trying to protect his beloved city.

And the incident has prompted police to urge him and other self-styled saviours to hang up their capes before anyone gets seriously hurt.

‘Does Superman get his ass kicked?’ one detective – quite fairly – asked. ‘These people should not be called superheroes.’

Mr Jones – who parades around wearing tights, a mask and a skin-tight rubber suit with a bulletproof vest – was hurt while bravely (or stupidly) trying to break up a fight with a man who was armed with a gun.

But he insisted his injury won’t put him off fighting crime.

‘If police aren’t here, criminals feel free to run wild in my city,’ the father of two said. ‘And I’m not going to stand for it.’

Mr Jones insisted he endangered his life ‘with a reason and a purpose’ and claimed he and other caped crusaders all had a military or martial arts background and knew what they were facing.

His eight other colleagues revel in the monikers Thorn, Buster Doe, Green Reaper, Gemini, No Name, Catastrophe, Thunder 88 and Penelope.

He is often driven around the city by a mystery woman; she doesn’t bother with superhero garb.

A United Airlines flight was forced to make an emergency landing after the pilot spilled his coffee.
Flight 940, travelling from Chicago to Frankfurt, had to land in Toronto just after 10pm on Monday.

A spokesperson for the airline said a communications problem had occurred, which led the pilot to choose to divert the flight, instead of crossing the Atlantic with the issue.

However, Transport Canada, the regulator of transportation in the country, said the problem with the equipment was caused by the pilot of the Boeing 777 tipping his coffee over.

The spilled hot drink caused the radio on board the plane to send out a 7500 code, denoting a hijacking. Despite the flight crew being able to stop the faulty signal, they decided to land the plane anyway.

Once in Toronto, the 241 passengers and 14 crew members were put on a different plane, sent back to Chicago and put up in overnight accommodation before starting their journey to Frankfurt again yesterday afternoon.

‘Our review of the communications issue encountered on flight 940 continues, so it’s too soon to comment on any particulars that led to the captain’s decision to divert,’ said United spokesman Rahsaan Johnson.

‘But [it is] important to note the crew did maintain contact with controllers, and the decision to divert to Toronto was the captain’s.’

Recently, in another bizarre air-related incident, an airport in Inner Mongolia was forced to divert flights to nearby travel hubs after it was feared planes might crash into a UFO, which was apparently sighted in the vicinity.

An American neuroscientist has developed a rare condition that leaves him paralysed when he feels the emotion of love. Matt Frerking, 39, from Portland, Oregon, is left immobile if he even has a romantic thought or sees others showing displays of affection.

The affliction has been diagnosed as a combination of the chronic sleeping disorder narcolepsy with cataplexy, a sudden weakening of the muscles which renders the person temporarily immobile but still aware of their surroundings and able to hear.

For Mr Frerking the feeling that sparks an attack is love and being around his family can send him into a state of physical paralysis.

I have to limit those things very carefully.” During an interview with ABC News, he described having to avoid “warm and fuzzy” feelings before passing out after looking at photos in his wedding album. Attacks are also triggered by trailers for romantic films and Mr Frerking said he tries to stave them off by thinking about scientific research. Carol Ash, a sleep specialist at the Sleep for Life Center in New Jersey, said: “In someone like Matt strong emotions are flipping a switch.”