TECHNOLOGY can be a challenge as we age - just ask an adventurous octogenarian in Europe, who ended up in Germany this week, rather than Italy, after typing the incorrect city into his vehicle's satellite navigation system.
The devout 81-year-old living in the UK was hoping to visit the Pope before he died, and decided to drive himself.
However when the GPS in his Jaguar told him he had arrived in at his destination he was somewhat surprised not to see any of Rome's famous landmarks.
It turns out he had omitted the "e", and instead ended up in the small German village of Rom in the northern Rhine Westphalia region of the country.
And then there were six...
Doctors in Krakow, Poland are still recovering from their shock this week after delivering the country's first ever sextuplets.
The instant family was a special surprise for the parents, who had been told to expect five babies.
Dr Ryszard Lauterbach from the University Hospital Krakow described the scene, saying "we were prepared from early in the morning to help deliver five tiny citizens. So we are in the operating room, there are five teams of doctors ready to take care of five children.
"They are being delivered one after another until all five places were occupied. Then all of a sudden it turns out there's another one waiting in there".
The infants, born at 29 weeks, were in "surprisingly good condition," Lauterbach added.
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