A book about Salman Rushdie co-written by one of his former bodyguards contained "falsehoods," the authors have admitted, and will be amended accordingly. Rushdie threatened legal action after published excerpts of On Her Majesty's Service characterized him as "mean and arrogant," but the enemy-of-ayatollahs novelist hasn't, his lawyer makes clear, asked for any "opinion" in the book to be altered. That, obviously, would be too ironic. [Guardian]