Impatient Harry Potter fans have started an online frenzy with thousands of copies of the seventh book pre-ordered in the first two days - six months before it goes on sale.
There's the flicking kiss, the ice-cream kiss, the vacuum kiss, the Hollywood kiss and another 50 or so smoochy variations.
Think you deserve a throne? A U.S. plumbing firm has created a luxury toilet equipped with laptop computer and flat-screen TV which it plans to give away in an online sweepstake.
A model presents a creation from the Betsey Johnson fall collection show during New York Fashion Week February 6, 2007. [Reuters]
Iconix announced that superstar artist, Fergie will appear in the Company's popular junior brand, Candie's, Spring 2007 multi-media advertising and marketing print and television campaign.
Singer Beyonce Knowles, actress Scarlett Johansson and footballer David Beckham are among the stars appearing in a new Disney advertising campaign.
In an era when jeans and jumpers serve most of us perfectly well, it requires a suspension of disbelief to watch a gold brocade suit with a curvy onion-shaped skirt and matching gold shoes flounce down the catwalk.
New York's Madame Tussauds museum put on display figures of the football idol and his wife, a former Spice Girl, dressed for the red carpet.