British singer Leona Lewis was attacked by man during a book signing today in London. Lewis, who won stardom by winning the reality television show X Factor, signed her autobiography for her assailant just moments before punching the 24 year old.

A spokesman for the singer told the BBC:

"a guy came up and punched the side of the head".

Miss Lewis didn't need medical treatment but was said to be very shaken by the incident. Police have arrested a man in his mid twenties following the attack.

The Chinese news agency Xinhua recently reported on the existence of a town in Sweden called Chako Paul City, which supposedly is inhabited only by females and where lesbianism runs rampant. Much to the dismay of Chinese readers, Sweden is denying the existence of the town.

According to Xinhua, the town was founded in 1820 in the northern Swedish woods by a wealthy widow and boasts 25,000 residents, as well as a medieval castle. A pair of blonde female sentries stand guard at the town, and men wishing to enter risk being "beaten half to death" by the police. And according to the Chinese news service Harbin News, many of the residents also turn to homosexuality "because they could not suppress their sexual needs".

The Chinese press also claims that much of the all-female population is employed in the forestry industry, with many sporting a "thick waist belt full of woodworking equipment". Women who decide to leave the town to fulfill their sexual needs with men are only allowed to return to the city if they agree to bathe and undertake other measures that are designed to ensure that their trysts won't negatively affect the mental state of other women in the town.

Marking 40 years since the Fab Four famously strode across the famous north London street, hundreds of Beatles fans swarmed Abbey Road on Saturday, singing beloved Beatles songs and blocking up traffic for blocks. The famous photo depicting John, Paul, George and Ringo crossing the street graced the cover of the band's final album recorded together, "Abbey Road."

The image remains one of rock's most iconic and most recognized album covers. It is endlessly imitated and parodied, and remains the subject of speculation and study decades later. While the shoot itself only took minutes to produce the photo, fans have studied the image so carefully, looking for signs and symbolism in the imagery. Some fans eventually came to the conclusion that Paul McCartney had secretly died (he appears barefoot and out of step with the others). McCartney himself has joked about the conspiracy theory, and in 1993 he even poked fun at it by calling his concert album "Paul is Live."

The Beatles decided to shoot the image in August 1969 while they were recording together for the last time. Photographer Iain Macmillan stood on a stepladder while police held up traffic and the band walked back and forth across the street.

A new strain of HIV has been discovered in France, and most worrying is the fact that it may not be detected on standard AIDS tests. The new variety of human immunodeficiency virus appears to have originated in a gorilla disease that was first isolated in 2006.

The three previously known HIV strains were related to a chimpanzee illness. Experts say that the new strain should still be treatable with the same anti-retroviral drugs that help curb the other strains of HIV.

Researchers indicated that they found the new strain in a 62-year-old woman who tested positive in 2004, shortly after she moved to Paris from Cameroon. The woman is not sick, and had lived in a suburb of the Cameroonian capital and had no contact with apes or wild animal meat. She did, however, indicate that she had several sexual partners. Researchers said the likely contracted the new HIV strain from another person infected with it.

Writing in the magazine Nature, researcher Jean-Christophe Plantier of the University of Rouen said that the discovery "highlights the continuing need to watch closely for the emergence for new HIV variants, particularly in western central Africa, the origin of all existing HIV-1 groups."

Professor Paul Sharp of the University of Edinburgh told the BBC that the virus may have jumped from gorillas to chimps to humans. He added:

"The medical implication is that, because this virus is not very closely related to the other three HIV-1 groups, it is not detected by conventional tests.

The original strain of HIV is believed to have jumped from apes to humans about a century ago, from either the bite of an infected animal, or a person killing and eating a sick chimp. Analysis of tissues perserved by doctors in colonial-era Belgian Congo show that HIV-1 began to spread among humans between 1884 and 1924.

In the country of Austria there is a town called Fucking. With a name like that and the signs that are most certainly erected in the city to display its name, one can only imagine the kind of things that tourists and others might get up to. The town has a very real problem on its hands, with tourists constantly posing for photos underneath the signs in the town and having their pictures taken while having real or simulated sex.

Town officials are attempting to curb the problem, and have decided to install cameras to catch them in the act. They are hoping that the cameras will be a deterrent as people will then know they are being watched, and instead of doing what the sign suggests, they'll instead pose for a much tamer picture.

ES Group, who is the stage company that Madonna has been using on the tour, released a statement about the incident that has claimed two lives and injured 6 more yesterday. The London based group writes:

"We were incredibly saddened by the tragic accident during the construction of a stage at the Velodrome at Marseille. Our thoughts at this current time go out to the families and loved ones of the two men who died and to those who have been injured.

Two of our Directors have flown out to Marseille to visit the injured and to get a better understanding of what caused the accident. At present, it would not be appropriate to speculate on potential causes of the accident, but we are working closely with the French authorities to investigate what caused this incident. This is normal practice for such an incident and we will provide a further update as soon as it is possible.

There is absolutely no technical or other connection between the incident at the Dodgers Stadium in November 2008 and the tragic accident yesterday (July 16 2009) at the Velodrome in Marseille."

According to the Marseille hospital authority, a second person has died after the roof of a stage being built for an upcoming Madonna concert collapsed. The British worker died Friday from injuries suffered in the accident.

A French worker was killed instantly on Thursday when the roof fell apart on top of several workers. Eight others were injured, including an American who is currently in serious condition. None of the victims' identities have yet been revealed.

The cause of the roof collapse is not yet known. Police suspect that a faulty power winch may be partially to blame.

Madonna cancelled the performance after the accident.

Pope Benedict XVI broke his wrist after a fall in his chalet during a vacation in the Italian Alps. Hospital officials and the Vatican confirmed the accident, and said that he underwent successful surgery Friday.

Tiziano Trevisan, a spokesman at the Umberto Parini hospital in Aosta, said that the operation was performed under local anesthesia and went well. Surgeons operated on the Pope's wrist to reduce the fracture, a procedure which is done to realign the broken bone fragments.

The Vatican also issued a statement revealing that the pope fell in his room in a nearby chalet overnight. Despite the accident, the 82-year-old celebrated Mass and had breakfast before heading into the hospital. Upon arriving at the hospital, an X-ray was done of the pope's right wrist and a fracture was found.

One of the sets that Madonna uses on her "Stick & Sweet" tour collapsed Thursday in France. One person was killed and six were injured. Police are still trying to rescue others who are trapped in the rubble.

The accident occurred at 5:15pm local time (11:15am EST) at Nice's Stade Velodrome during preparations for the Material Girl's next show. The stadium is being shut down by police and fire officials while they attempt to rescue those who are still trapped.

Each year during the second week of July, Spain holds its annual Running of the Bulls. There are usually a few injuries, mostly because when you get a bunch of people who are drunk on red wine running around with 1,000lb. beasts, there's bound to be a couple run-ins. Most of the time, however, the injuries are not fatal. But this year, for the first time in fourteen years, one of the participants suffered a fatal wound.

A rogue bull gored a young Spaniard in the neck as he tried to run for cover beneath a wooden barrier, sliding under it feet first. The 1,130-pound bull named Capuchino had strayed from the pack, spooked and began charging at anything that moved.

The young man, 27-year-old Daniel Jimeno Romero, probably would have survived if he had dove head first instead of feet first. He was the son of a Pamplona native, and an experienced bull runner.