“A Pakistani newspaper vendor in Paris with a unique selling style has won a book deal to have his life story published,” notes a BBC News wire story. Ali Akbar, who arrived in Paris as an illegal immigrant, is known in the St. Germain des Pres neighborhood for the humorous fake headlines he shouts out while hawking copies of Le Monde. Among them: “Monica [Lewinsky] is pregnant by Bush” and “Le Pen assassinated.” Akbar’s book, to be published by Edition Gawsewitch, will be called I Make The World Laugh, But The World Makes Me Cry.”