Brice Jones has found a papyrus fragment of John for sale on ebay - see here (it all looks plausible to me).
Winchester Cathedral is trying to recover illuminations stolen from the twelfth-century Winchester Bible.
The British Library has published a list of the 1220 manuscripts with new digital images in A New Giant List. Meanwhile the British Library is now allowing personal digital photography of items in the collection (applauded by Roger Pearse).
Among the top selling books and manuscripts at auction in 2014 were a number of biblical related manuscripts, including the editio princeps of the Hebrew Torah printed on vellum ($3,871,845)
Duke University is returning a tenth-century Greek manuscript to Greece (not sure what it is a manuscript of, doesn't look like a NT, but I could be wrong).
Meanwhile some responses to the ill-informed on-line article about the Bible at "Newsweek" can be found from Mike Kruger (two parts, with comments from the author of the article); Ben Witherington; Darrell Bock (two parts); Pete Enns (I'm not sure how this online "Newsweek" relates to the respected old print magazine, the ownership looks murky).