In an industry first, a top-level fashion show in Madrid has banned models who are too thin. The move has resulted in a furor among modeling agencies and increased the possibility of restrictions in other venues. Madrid's fashion week responded to protests that young women were aspiring to copy the models' rail-thin looks and adopting eating disorders by rejecting underweight models.

An Albanian artist gained himself an entry to the Guinness Book of World Records by making the biggest portrait ever. Saimir Strati, 40, used nearly 500,000 industrial nails to do a three-dimensional portrait of Italian master Leonardo De Vinci on an eight square meter surface, according to Scott Christie, a Guinness jury member.

Osama bin Laden is obsessed with singer Whitney Houston, even though her music is "evil," claims a Sudanese poet and novelist. The writer, Kola Boof, says bin Laden told her he had a "paramount desire" for Houston, wanted to possess her, and talked about having her husband, Bobby Brown, killed. The 37-year-old writer's autobiography, Diary of a Lost Girl, is excerpted in the magazine Harpers' Bazaar.

One grandmother decided to celebrate her birthday with a flare and fulfill a dream. On her 90th birthday, widower, Mary Armstrong, from East Moseley, Surrey jumped out of the plane at 12,000 ft and plummeted back to earth at 120 miles per hour. Due to her advancing age, she was strapped to an instructor. The Daily Mirror said the grandmother of seven and great-grandmother of nine more, was in a freefall for more than 30 seconds before her parachute finally opened at around 6,000 feet over Ashford, Kent in England.