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7th, December 2010 Sports

The Ashes: Ruthless England Show Australia How To Kill Off An Opponent

England 1, Australia 0. Did you get that? Would you like it in the reverse? Australia are playing at home, so we should pay our due respects lest the old enemy cut up rough... More »

7th, December 2010 TV & Radio

Donald Trump's Hair Tsunami Takes Off

Don and Don's hair are getting snuggly in the Gillette Stadium Skybox. But, then, one of them wants away... More »

7th, December 2010 TV & Radio

Video Flashback: IBA Engineering Announcements (2) 1984

TV has never been so pure... More »

7th, December 2010 Key Posts 1

Julian Assange Not Dead After Run In With Met Police

Assange was hiding out in London. The Met Police knew where he was. He was not selling newspapers under the alias Ian Tomlinson... More »

7th, December 2010 Reviews

Christopher Hitchens Wants To Be Julian Assange?

Christopher Hitchens calls Assange “a middle man and peddler who resents the civilization that nurtured him”... More »

7th, December 2010 Key Posts

X Factor 2012: Next Year's Finalists - Lori Watt

So. Here's to next year's finalists. And in 2012, we will surely thrill to Ladies Chill in my Veins by Lori Watt... More »

7th, December 2010 Reviews

Sydney Morning Herald Puts Journalists On Twitter Course

In 140 characters of fewer tells us what is wrong with newspaper journalism... More »

7th, December 2010 Reviews

Julian Assange's Arrest: Photos, Snowmobiles And London

Anorak stood outside Westminster Magistrates Court in London to see if the helicopter would arrive on cue. We looked for the snowmobile to slide into view... More »

7th, December 2010 Key Posts

Facebook: A Gallery Of Anti-Paedophile Cartoon Profile Picture Fails

Facebook users are combating child porn, violence against children and paedophilia by using cartoon portraits on the profiles... More »

7th, December 2010 Sports

The Ashes: Ian Botham And Ian Chappell In Televised Bag Fight

England are toying with an Australia team that look like, well, England used to. And in the Adelaide Oval car park, Ian Botham and Ian Chappell are going toe-to-toe... More »

7th, December 2010 Reviews

Daily Mail Shames Britain: Dave Gorman's Origami Scare Story

The Daily Mail shames Britain. Well, so goes the headline in Dave Gorman's origami masterclass... More »

7th, December 2010 Strange But True 2

ASBO Prevents Man From Playing Dead In Blackburn

Mr Sergeant has taken to laying in the road pretending to have suffered a heart attack.... More »

7th, December 2010 Sports

Never Propose To At A Sports Event: Five Video Rejections

Not only have you taken your girlfriend to watch the game, but you then try to inject a dose of romance into the break in play... More »

7th, December 2010 TV & Radio

The 12 Days Of Chavmas: And A Knocked Off Nintendo Wii

Five sovereign rings - from Argos! More »

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Coronation Street: Who Dies With Alistair Stewart's Credibility (Photos)

Coronation Street death mayhem Tram-down and the soap opera scores its audience for five years. If only they could kill a few characters every week, the show would return to former glories... More »

7th, December 2010 Reviews

Polina Cowburn And Katia Zatuliveter Photos: Russians Are Big In Adlington, Lancashire

The Lancashire Evening Telegraph goes to work. It doorsteps some locals in Adlington, where Polina lives... More »

7th, December 2010 Strange But True 5

Wife Forces Husband To Live In Kennel With Dog

Romanian Vlad Popescu, 48, has beeneliving in a kennel... More »

7th, December 2010 Reviews 5

Mastercard Cuts Off Wikileaks

Mastercard has followed Paypal and the Swiss in declaring that Wikileaks’s money is not welcome... More »

7th, December 2010 Key Posts 1

Rory Peck Awards: Najibullah Quraishi Delivers Comedy Gold Behind Taliban Enemy Lines

In this video we join Rory Peck winner journalist Najibullah Quraishi behind the enemy lines with the Taliban. It is an extraordinary film... More »

7th, December 2010 TV & Radio

The Chinese Taxi Driver Is Going The Right Way

The Chinese taxi driver is going the right way. It's everyone else who is wrong... More »

7th, December 2010 Reviews

The Bali Green School: Bastion Of Jet-Set Green Colonialism

It is so green that the school’s website has a section about relocating to Bali, perhaps by canoe or rowing boat... More »

7th, December 2010 Celebrities

Green Gisele Bunchen's Christmas Lights Spectacular Is Visible From The Air

For those of you having trouble finding Gisele Bündchen's eco-Ark, there is good news... More »

7th, December 2010 Reviews

The Sun Explodes: A Photo

That tail is a 400,000 mile long “solar prominence”... More »

7th, December 2010 Strange But True

Scientists Dress As Panda Bears To Give Cubs A Taste Of Reality: Photos

Boffins at the Wolong panda reserve in Sichuan province, China, are dressing as panda bears to prepare captive-bred cubs for life in the wild... More »

7th, December 2010 Madeleine McCann 6

Madeleine McCann And Claudia Lawrence Advertise Dr Sentamu's Christmas Market

The Archbishop of York name checks his pet cause in the manner of an OK! magazine reviewing a celebrity wedding... More »