Here’s Bono having a grand old time with UK minister Claire Short at the launch of “a new health blueprint which seeks greater medical investment for the world’s poor.”

But what was he thinking? No prizes, just the fun of competing, folks.

(Pictures taken at the Commission on Macroeconomics and Health press conference held at the Department for International Development, in London.)

U2 are mentioned in this article on Jay Leno and someone called Johnnie Morton (“the Lions’ top wide receiver”). “I hear you’ve been making jokes,” Morton said. “You know the difference between U2 and the Lions? U2 is playing at the Super Bowl.” We’re slapping our thighs.