headline of the month

Actually two for December.

From the Daily Telegraph (Sydney)

Princess of Whales to pauper: Mimi Macpherson
By Glenis Green
December 27, 2008 12:00am

FROM the Princess of Whales to pauper in just 11 years - how could it have gone so wrong for Mimi Macpherson?

The story is only newsworthy because Mimi is the sister of Elle Macpherson, otherwised nobody would give a toss.

And from Reuters and subsequent variations in media outlets

Peruvian Jesus born to Virgin Mary on Christmas
Fri Dec 26, 2008 12:46pm EST

LIMA (Reuters) - Virgin Mary, a 20-year-old Peruvian woman, gave birth to a baby boy on Christmas day and named him Jesus, Peru's state news agency said on Friday.

The baby's father, Adolfo Jorge Huamani, 24, is a carpenter. Religious Peruvians compared him to Joseph the Carpenter in the Bible.

"Two thousand years later the story of Bethlehem is relived," read the headline about the birth in El Comercio, the main newspaper in Peru, a predominantly Catholic country.

The mother, Virgen Maria Huarcaya, delivered the 7.7 pound (3.5 kg) boy, Jesus Emanuel, in the early hours of Christmas at the central maternity hospital in Lima, the capital.

Not really news as the mother couldn't possibly have been an actual virgin in the biblical sense! In any case, news desk editors could not possibly resist a headline from that story.