Bono battling New York neighbours

U2 frontman Bono is speaking out about something other than issues affecting the Third World. Bono owns a penthouse co-op in a luxury building in New York City, and he says the fireplaces in the building are pouring their smoke into his apartment. He's offered to help everyone do what's best in the situation, and he told the co-op board, "Listen, whatever I can do to get these things working, but it's emptying into my apartment, and I can't have smoke like that," according to The New York Times. Bono has also said that he's concerned because one of his children has asthma.

The co-op board is studying the issue and has banned the use of fireplaces in the building while the investigation is underway, and that's bothered some of the residents, including Billy Squier, who lives on the third floor. Squier's tour manager said, "It was just assumed that because they could see the exhaust, that would present a problem to their children," and that there's no evidence the smoke is actually getting into Bono's apartment and affecting his family.