FRENCH bishop Jacques Gaillot (60), sacked by the Vatican for his liberal views and given title to a Saharan diocese that no longer exists, has responded by making himself the first bishop in cyberspace.
Dr Gaillot, a continuing irritant to Catholic traditionalists, has begun preaching on the Internet a year after Pope John Paul removed him as bishop of Evreux.
"Getting on to the Internet is a dream for me, a dream of a child who walks along the shore of a sandy beach and looks at the ocean," Dr Gaillot says in his first electronic "pastoral letter".
Paul Gascoigne has been warned by police about unruly behaviour in an Indian restaurant.
The Glasgow Rangers star was with friends eating in the Last Days of the Raj in Gateshead when officers were summoned. Police also want to talk to him about a chip shop door damaged after the restaurant incident.
Star Trek captain William Shatner had an undignified run in with an elephant while visiting Africa.
"Elephant dung. It's enormous," Shatner told a recent Star Trek convention in Texas. "It was all over me. I had . . learned something," he said.
Crown Prince Willem Alexander of the Netherlands has come under fire for hunting wild boar and deer.
Under the headline "Your Highness, do not lower your self any longer" a newspaper advertisement called on readers to shower the heir with demands that he hang up his guns for good.