GOOD news for people who've packed on the kilos - it's now easier to join the US Air Force if you're a little overweight.
Revised rules announced this week include looser restrictions on body fat for recruits.
Leslie Brown, a spokesperson for the US Air Force Recruiting Service, confirmed the new rules which now allow 26% body fat for men and 36% for women.
The previous benchmarks for "acceptable fat" were 20% for males and 28% for females, with the organisation changing the requirements partly in a bid to increase the potential pool of new applicants.
Officials noted that regardless of body composition upon joining up, recruits will still be subject to the same standard annual fitness tests as existing servicemen and women.
Also in the USA this week, a man has been arrested for running an illegal dental operation from a motel room.
Police paid a visit to a La Quinta Hotel in Danbury, Connecticut after receiving reports of the illicit operation, finding an "impromptu operating set-up with dental drills, suction machines and a portable X-ray machine".
While officers spoke to the alleged offender, a man left the bathroom with gauze in his mouth and told police he had just had a dental procedure.
The "dentist" was arrested and charged with practising dentistry without a licence, and illegal sale of prescription drugs.
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