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A man's Tinder match turned down a date because she was delivering her baby. Brad Galloway from North Yorkshire in the UK was looking for a New Year's Eve date, but he was left shocked by the reason the unidentified love interest gave when she said she wasn't free because she was in hospital.

She replied: "Having my baby. Gutted I'm not out tonight."

Brad shared the exchange with his Twitter followers, many of whom found it hilarious.

One user joked: "Modern dating haha"

Another commented: "Gutted she's not going out. Wow."

An astronaut accidentally dialled 911 from space. Dutch astronaut Andre Kuipers was trying to contact NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston when he accidentally called the number for the US emergency services, instead of dialling 9 for an outside line and then 011 for an international line.

According to Nederlandse Omroep Stichting, he said: "I made a mistake, and the next day I received an email message: 'Did you call 911?' I was a little disappointed that they had not come up."

The 60-year-old also explained how easy it is to communicate with Earth from a space station in orbit, suggesting that terrestrial phones can be reached via satellites around 70 per cent of the time.