Scientists announced last week they may have discovered a cure for baldness. They reckon that they can now create working follicles which can grow new hair, doing away with the need for wigs and elaborate comb-overs. But won't the world be a duller place?
It's been a while coming, but the country's first synagogue in more than 60 years has opened. The Nazis closed the last one in 1944. A kosher restaurant has been launched next door, to cater for the hungry congregants.
Unlikely as it sounds, a bus driver has been caught going too fast. Generally, we'd be all in favour of a bit of extra speed for the sake of commuters, but this time, he was on a motorbike going to work and making a V-sign at a speed camera. The U2 singer and activist has found himself campaigning on issues closer to home.
His Central Park penthouse in Manhattan is being infiltrated by fumes from chimneys on the lower levels of the exclusive block. He was reportedly 'very nice' in making his complaints known to the building's management committee. The former Sun editor was 'outed' as Scientology's favoured spokesman when he was asked to give the cult's side of the story against Panorama.
John Travolta reportedly tried calling the BBC's director general to complain, but couldn't get through. Usually, we're first to congratulate her as she picks up yet another award. But being named 'icon of our times' by the Campaign for Museums survey makes her sound a little past it.
What next - fossil of the year? The Hollywood starlet is being sued by a paparazzo who says she drove into him as he was about to take her picture as she sat in her mother's BMW. In unrelated news, her boyfriend Calum Best allegedly kissed two other women in the lobby of the hotel in which they were staying.
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