Daredevilry, after two German slackliners claimed a new world record by stringing a line between hot air balloons, and walking across it at an altitude of 2,500 metres. Afterwards, one of them jumped off the line and skydived to the ground.
Salman Rushdie, with news that his novel, The Satanic Verses, could finally go on sale in his native India. Days after the book’s publication in 1988, New Delhi said it was banning its import, fearing a backlash from Muslims who claimed that the book was blasphemous. But when a reader challenged that decision, he couldn’t trace the official notification of the ban. Last week, a court ruled that if there was no paperwork, there was no ban.…