News of the World - Musical Death Edition.

1. Former Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren has died at his home in New York, his spokesman said, adding that he had been suffering from cancer. Two punk music managers go round the outside, round the outside...

2. A 20-year-old man has died, and two others have been seriously injured, after falling two storeys from a Gold Coast nightclub. Police say the men fell through the window of a Surfers Paradise nightclub on Orchid Avenue just before one o'clock this morning (AEST). Just how do you do that without being stupid or a drunken daredevil? Cause of death, machismo?

3. Not death, but certainly the end: Australian band Powderfinger will call it quits after more than 20 years together following a national tour later this year. The Brisbane band has announced its biggest tour to date in September and October to farewell fans.

4. Not musical, but to do with dead stuff after a fashion (and I do mean fashion!!): The latest beauty treatment craze sweeping the world is a fish pedicure.

In the procedure, a person plunges their feet into a tank of water filled with tiny carp called Doctor fish or Garra Rufa, who have a fondness for dead skin. The toothless fish nibble away any dead skin on the foot, leaving them silky smooth.

As the fish do not have any teeth, the procedure is painless, but does tickle.

It tickles, eh? Interrogators at Gitmo should take note - after all, giving your captive a pedicure is hardly torture, is it?

"You have two choices - talk... or gradually be lowered, feet first, into this vat of hungry, swarming fish."