An Air Canada passenger has been handed out a $1,350 bill as compensation for delaying a flight he boarded on March 15. The Toronto-bound flight in London was delayed by 27 minutes after passenger, Gus Fuentes, landed into an argument with a flight attendant. Fuentes was escorted out off the plane and had to find another way home. But that was not the end of it. Fuentes later filed a complained with the Canadian Transportation Agency, which in a ruling last week dismissed his complaint and upheld Air Canada's conduct.

One of the main backers of London Fashion Week Sunday rejected British government calls for a ban on wafer-thin models as the fashion industry faced a furor over its catwalks. Marks and Spencer chief executive Stuart Rose, who is chairman of the British Fashion Council that is organizing the event starting Monday, tells Reuters, "Outright bans and indeed legislation is definitely not a route we want to go down. "

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.

Dropping an earlier plan to censor the photo, the subway walls in Tokyo will now feature a nude and pregnant Britney Spears. The advertisement space at the posh Omotesando station next week will be rented by HB Japan Inc. , publisher of the Japanese edition of Harper's Bazaar. They aim to promote their October issue with Spears posing naked on the cover. The AP reports that the advertisement that will appear in Tokyo is the same that was used in the August issue of the magazine's U. S. edition. It shows the 24 year old Spears baring her belly but she covers her breasts with her hands.

A farmer in Hamburg, Germany is fitting his flock of sheep with miniature Wellington boots to prevent them from getting infections. Businessman Wilhelm Fennen from Boesel designed the PVC shoes for the sheep.