Bono has used an interview on Fox TV during the Republican Party Convention in New York to push the US government to do more about the ever-present AIDS epidemic in Africa.
Asked by Fox as to why Americans would want to help Africans who did not practice safe sex, the U2 singer replied: "If you see a car crash, somebody's lying there in the middle of the road bleeding and it turns out they're a drunk driver, you're still going to call an ambulance."
Elsewhere in Bono news, the U2 frontman has been booked to speak at next year's Hay Book Festival. Festival director Peter Florence told the BBC yesterday: "What's interesting about it is Bono's political influence. He is one of the few people who has brought positive changes out of Bush. He has extraordinary political credibility. People like him and Michael Moore are not in the system, but operate outside it."