Shorter cuts: news doesn't get any smaller

Rock god? Tom Cruise is the latest cover of W magazine, appearing in just leather trousers and lashings of eye makeup to promote his new movie Rock of Ages. The film trailer is as bad as this cover. Ken Livingstone: last year's model Things are just going for bad to worse for Ken Livingstone . His wax work has already been removed from Madam Tussauds. A spokesman for the museum said it was 'unlikely to be seen again.' Don't be an ass, Bob Bob Geldof , father of daughters Peaches, Pixie and Fifi Trixibelle, hates the name Peaches has given her son - Astala Dylan Willow Geldof-Cohen. He worries Astala be abbreviated to 'ass' in the playground. Nothing to be jealous of Azerbaijan , host of this month's Eurovision song contest, has again been forced to defend its human rights record after recent criticism. Azerbaijan's president Ilham Aliyev said that people were "blowing up a couple of events" because they were jealous of his country's national and spiritual values. It seems unlikely Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International are motivated by jealousy... A row is brewing Brewdog recently won a prize for their craft beers. Or they were meant to until Diageo , sponsors of the event, demanded the award go elsewhere. BrewDog blogged about it . Now it's a fullscale Twitter row. Follow it at #andthewinnerisnot .