It must be true...

I read it in the tabloids

■ Belgian pranksters entered a $2.70 supermarket wine in a prestigious French wine competition, where it won a gold medal. Former top sommelier Eric Boschman and staffers from a Belgian consumer magazine and TV program sought the cheapest wine they could find, stuck on a colorful new label, and renamed it “Le Château Colombier.” The judges at the Gilbert et Gaillard competition deemed it “exceptional,” and “very interesting,” lauding its “suave, edgy, and rich palate” and “clean, youthful aromas that promise a nice complexity.”

■ A Canadian entrepreneur wants to build a 900-foot replica of the moon that would loom over the Dubai skyline and glow at night. Michael Henderson envisions creating a mega-resort inside the giant sphere, which would sit atop a 100-foot building and include a 4,000-room hotel, a 10,000-seat arena, a nightclub, and a “lunar colony” where guests would get the sensation of walking on the moon. He estimates it would cost $5 billion and draw

2.5 million visitors annually.

■ A British IT worker sued her boss for sexual harassment, claiming that innocuous marks in an email were a coded way of asking for sex. A passage he marked with an “XX” to indicate an unknown quantity, said plaintiff Karina Gasparova, was a sneaky way of asking for kisses, while inserted question marks were meant to ask when she would be “ready to engage in sexual acts.” When he added his initials, AJG, to a file name, it stood for “A Jumbo Genital,” she said. An employment tribunal threw the case out, saying Gasparova had a “skewed” perception of her boss’s language.