In Brief: Ferrari boss wants Mosley out

Max Mosley (pictured) may have won a resounding vote of confidence on Tuesday to remain president of FIA, Formula 1’s governing body, but Luca di Montezemolo, the head of Ferrari, still wants him to resign, feeling that the lurid headlines about his sado-masochistic orgy with five call girls brings the sport into disrepute. He says: “I think that he should realise that sometimes it is necessary to say to yourself I have to leave for reasons of credibility"...Sebastian Faulks’s new James Bond novel, Devil May care, has proved a resounding success, smashing the record for publisher Penguin Book’s fastest-selling hardback fiction title with 44,093 copies sold in the first four days…Meanwhile, John Prescott's biography, published in the same week and for which he recieved a reputed £300,000 advance, sold 1,202 in the same period...David Hockney has railed against the government’s proposals to extend current anti-child pornography laws to cartoons and drawings of young children. He says it is "mind-blowing in its ignorance"…London mayor Boris Johnson has stood down as Tory MP for Henley; a by-election will take place in three weeks time…Former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev says that Lenin’s body should be removed from where it currently resides, behind a glass case in a mausoleum in Red Square. He wants to "give him to the earth as his family had wanted"…