A commercial fisherman in Florida had a lucky escape after netting an unusual catch – a live air-to-air missile. Long-line fishing boat captain Rodney Solomon reeled in the missile in the Gulf of Mexico, about 50 miles (80km) off Panama City in Florida. Finding a hole in the missile, Mr Solomon assumed it had gone off. He kept it as a souvenir and went on fishing for more than a week.

He said it was “a fright” to discover that “any time it could have exploded”. The local fire chief, Derryl O’Neal, told the BBC that Mr Solomon had reported the find on his return from his trip. The area in which the missile was discovered is in or near a zone used by defence forces for testing.