Mattress

Last weekend I went for a swim with a 7-year-old child. The boy could not contain his enthusiasm. "This is the happiest day of the quarantine," he said again and again as he dove into the water off an inflatable mattress shaped like a slice of watermelon.

Spanish border guards have discovered two migrants hidden inside mattresses strapped to the roof of a car at a checkpoint on the frontier with Morocco, video footage shows.

The footage, published on social media by a senator in the Spanish parliament, is reported to have been filmed in Melilla, an enclave of Spain on the north African coast.

Four self-confessed lazy Montenegrins have won the so-called World Lazy Olympics, the sixth such event, after competing to be named "laziest person" in the region and win 800 euros as prize money.

Around 30 contestants from Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro competed in the "Lazy Olympics" in the mountain village of Brezna, near the border with Bosnia.

Some 75 tons of under-the-mattress gold has rejoined the Turkish financial system, a sector official has said, noting that the government had been working on new plans to give a significant boost to this amount.

The attic in which Cretan businessman Michalis Lempidakis was being held for the past six months had been transformed into a prison cell. Lempidakis, who was shackled with chains, was living the small attic, sleeping on a mattress while the confined area was sunless, as there were no windows. The photos show an old loom, a chair where one of the gang would sit and guard him.

Firemen on the island of Lesvos were battling a fire at a mattress storage area at the Morias hot spot, authorities said on Thursday. Initial reports suggested the blaze was caused by a short circuit.
  
There were no reports of injuries, authorities added.

Turks still favor a timeless investment strategy: Buy gold and hide it somewhere safe, usually under a pillow or under the mattress.

"I don't understand modern investments like stocks and forex. Gold is my family's traditional investment, as my mother always encouraged me to buy gold for savings," says 36-year-old Selda Kırpınar in Ankara, who stores away her gold at home.