Long-distance selfies make Brother Orange famous

A man dubbed "Brother Orange" who took selfies on an iPhone in China has become an online celebrity after the images appeared on the phone of a person living in the United States, more than 13,000 kilometers away.

The photos were sent to Matt Stopera in New York over Apple's iCloud picture sharing service. He had lost an iPhone early last year, and it is believed the handset found its way onto the secondhand market in China and was acquired by Brother Orange, according to a report in Beijing Youth Daily on Monday.

Stopera had signed into his iCloud account on the old phone before it went missing. He was checking the photos on his replacement iPhone when he found hundreds of images that he had not taken.