Save the date for 15 November this year, when the world’s population is set to hit 8 billion. And by 2080, the United Nations reckons we’ll be up to 10.4 billion. We’re not fond of big crowds, so we might have to check out by then… 

Indian authorities have shut down an elaborate online cricket hoax featuring labourers posing as players in the Indian Premier League. Russian punters parted with $6,000 on live-streamed games embellished with fake crowd sound effects and commentary. Points for effort?

And in a clampdown on “indecent behaviour”, the mayor of Italy’s Sorrento has proclaimed that tourists caught walking around town in their togs or without a shirt will be fined between €25-500. We’re guessing the fine’s incremental depending on the quality of the rug…