A Russian billionaire has just waved goodbye to an astonishing €39 million Euro ($53 million). The sum was put down as a deposit on a mansion that is one of France's most beautiful homes. Villa Leopolda is a sprawling 19 bedroom mansion set on 20 acres of pristine lawns.

Sarah Palin appeared on the Jay Leno show last night and did a comedy routine. Just as she as an uncanny ability to divide people down the middle, she put in a performance that was both funny and cringe inducing in equal measure. Whilst seated next to Leno she was warm, funny and in the zone. Trading barbs with Leno produced some genuinely funny moments that were unscripted. When she stood to do her monologue, the bumbling half-wit Sarah Palin came to the fore. It was awful.

We were wrong. In our bowing down to an industry bible we towed the industry line. When we reported just this week that an Action Comic's #1 had made $1m we kowtowed the spin that an original Batman (in Detective Comics #27) would make less. Because Superman was the first flying crusader. Not Batman.

Shoppers went scurrying for cover in Dubai on Thursday as a shark filled aquariumm in Dubai Mall sprung a leak. The leak, coming from the aquarium that runs over the heads of shoppers, seemed to be gushing gallons of water onto the mall floor. Authorities shut much of the Mall as rescue workers rushed to stem the flow from a crack in the glass roof.