U2's Bono edits UK newspaper

U2 frontman Bono became the guest editor of the UK's Independent newspaper. "No News Today", said the front page headline, adding as a footnote: "Just 6 500 Africans died today as a result of a preventable, treatable disease. (HIV/Aids)."

The paper's cover design was the brainchild of Bono. In line with the motto, the paper's front page was red all over.

The U2 frontman is in the black continent this week on a different kind of tour. He's on a 10-day trip to Lesotho, Rwanda, Tanzania, Nigeria, Mali, and Ghana, and he's looking for evidence of how well his Third World debt relief campaign is going. The Irish singer previously told us that the situation in Africa can be compared to the plight of Jews under the Nazis: "When I was growing up, I remember reading about the Holocaust and I remember thinking, 'Could that really have happened? When my father and my grandfather were alive, did they really send Jews to the gas chambers? That couldn't have happened, really, could it?' And then you realize the everyday Holocaust that is Africa, and it's just mind-boggling that we can't get people's attention on this."

U2 were forced to postpone the last 10 shows this year on their Vertigo tour because of an undisclosed family illness. Bono said the band would probably make up the shows in Australia and New Zealand in November, but no dates have been announced.
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