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ASH TO Reuters — Secret Service police on Friday arrested a man who stripped naked outside the hite House fence and fought with officers.

A Secret Service spokesman identified the man as Michel Bechard, and said he was charged with assault and indecent exposure.

Bechard had approached uniformed Secret Service officers at a hite House security checkpoint at about 3 p.m. T 1900 MT and then “proceeded to get fully undressed,” the spokesman said. Officers subdued the man, covered him and sent him to a hospital for treatment of minor injuries suffered in the tussle.

A reporter for the Daily Caller website, who was entering the hite House through the same checkpoint, said the man had told the Secret Service officers he had a 3 p.m. appointment with US President Barack Obama and presented his identification.

The reporter said the was rejected because it was from a foreign country and the man then began undressing while insisting that he had to keep his appointment with Obama.

TO O AFP — Japan successfully launched a new mapping satellite yesterday that will be used to survey damage from natural disasters and changes affecting rainforests.

The Advanced and Observing Satellite-2 will be able to see scars left by catastrophes such as Japan’s 2011 tsunami as well as monitor progress made in reconstruction, officials from the Japan Aerospace xploration Agency said.

“The satellite was successfully put in orbit,” said an official from Mitsubishi Heavy ndustries, whose H- A rocket was used in the launch from a space center on the southern island of Tanegashima.

The satellite will provide valuable data for Japan, which sits on the Pacific Ring of Fire and experiences 20 percent of all major earth uakes.

Memories are still fresh of the deadly 9.0-magnitude earth uake in March 2011 that unleashed a tsunami that devastated the northern Pacific coast, killing more than 18,000 people and triggering the Fukushima nuclear crisis.

The island nation is also routinely hit by typhoons while scientists say Mount Fuji could erupt at any time.

A O AFP — A 5.6-magnitude earth uake hit the border between Myanmar and hina early yesterday, geologists said, but there were no immediate reports of casualties or damage.

The epicenter of the uake, which hit at 2049 MT on Friday, was located 65 kilometers southeast of Myitkyina, capital of achin state in northern Myanmar, the United States eological Survey said.

The earth uake struck at a depth of 24 kilometers.