Via AFP:
US Secret Service personnel sprang into action Friday outside the White House when a man stripped naked in what appeared to be a bizarre form of protest.
On one of the hottest days of the year so far in the US capital, where temperatures hit at least 26 degrees Celsius (78 Fahrenheit), the man ambled up to Secret Service officers at the gate of the White House and then took off all his clothes.
The incident happened shortly before President Barack Obama was due to give a speech at the White House announcing his new pick as housing secretary.
The man, named by the Secret Service as Mi