Ali G escapes hotel suicide bullet

Sacha Baron-Cohen - the man behind Ali G - has survived a stray bullet in Israel after two guests in an adjoining hotel room killed themselves.

According to The Times newspaper, the comic was asleep in his hotel room when a bullet struck his window.

One of the bullets tore through the wall to his room following the incident at the Intercontinental Hotel, in Tel Aviv.

Israeli police say the two dead men were a 19-year-old soldier and 24-year-old civilian. It's understood they left suicide notes.

Baron-Cohen did not initially realise anything was wrong, but later reported the incident.