Zut alors!
Francois Hollande's London photo op has gone down badly at home, where critics pointed out that the Coldstream Guards beat Napoleon at Waterloo and made France's new president look like a "dwarf".
Water sports
Good to know that Olympics organisers have ordered thousands of plastic ponchos for potentially rain-sodden spectators. But what to wear under them? Belt or no belt? It's a style conundrum.
No laughing matter
Richard Herring is under fire for putting down a female heckler with a Rohypnol-based "joke". He denies it was about rape. Either way, it's not very funny.
Natty name
It's the ultimate honour: a species named after Bob Marley. Shame that Gnathia marleyi is a parasitic crustacean that infests Caribbean coral reefs, feeding on fishes' blood ...
Wanted
... some kind of clever web tool to filter out all news stories about the record-breaking US heatwave. We don't want to know if it's 55C in California's Death Valley.
