Bono Discharged From Munich Hospital Following Surgery. Bono has now been discharged from Ludwig Maximilians-University (LMU) Hospital in Munich where he underwent emergency surgery on Friday, following a back injury. In order to fully recover, he is under doctor's orders to start a rehabilitation program and to recuperate for at least eight weeks.

Bono has today undergone emergency back surgery for an injury sustained during tour preparation training. He was admitted to a specialist neuro surgery unit in a Munich hospital, and is under the care of neuro surgeon Prof. Dr. Jorg Tonn and Dr Muller Wohlfahrt. Bono will spend the next few days there, before returning home to recuperate.

Thanks for all the greetings you've been posting to mark Bono's birthday this week. The good folk at The African Well Fund are celebrating in their usual fine way - funding a clean water project in Zimbabwe.

It was fifty years ago today, 10th May 1960, that Iris and Robert Hewson presented a son to the world. Happy Birthday Bono.