Cash without the card

New technology to enable people to withdraw money from cash machines using their smartphone has been unveiled, and is in use by two British banks. Customers who use the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) or NatWest mobile banking app can now request cash, up to £100, via their smartphone. They are given a six-digit code to enter into an ATM to release the cash. But this could raise a very serious security issue: if somebody stole your phone, then all they'd need would be your password and they could use the app to take all the money out of your account - 100 quid at a time. But enough about that because a Canadian national has been arrested in Colombia after trying to board a flight to Toronto with a phony pregnant belly stuffed with cocaine. The tourist had entered Colombia at the beginning of August and was about to board a flight to return to Toronto, when a policewoman asked her how long she had been pregnant. "She didn't like the question, which made the official suspicious. Instinctively, she then very delicately touched the lady's belly, realising it was too hard and extremely cold," said the deputy director of Colombia's police anti-narcotics section, Colonel Esteban Arias Melo. After performing a body search, the police found two sealed bags stashed inside the latex belly, which contained 2kg of cocaine. Colombian authorities say the Canadian national will be charged with drug trafficking, possession, and production. She could be sentenced to between five and eight years in prison.