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17th, June 2010 Money 8

BP Disaster 2: Carl-Henric Svanberg Feels For The 'Small People'

Obama's vanity and desperation versus BP's unoiled PR machine. It's one helluva fight. More »

17th, June 2010 Strange But True 2

Man Attacks Police Who Wake Him From Good Dream

Meadows is lying down in his pickup truck at a Chevron petrol station near Sunrise, Arizona. A worker at the station looks inside the vehicle. He knocks on the window... More »

17th, June 2010 Strange But True 7

Big Live Fish Swims Into Man's Windpipe

To Kanhangad in Kerala, where the fish trader is holding a live fish between his teeth as he removes another fish from his nets... More »

17th, June 2010 In Pictures

Peter Andre: Me And My Chest

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17th, June 2010 Celebrities

Peter Andre Kisses Celebrity Dad Trophy - But Would Rather Be Kissing Kidzzz

Pete won the award – a white chain plate embedded into a vhs tape - for talking about his kidzzz more than any other celebrity... More »

17th, June 2010 Politicians 6

Married Glasgow Labour MP Frank McAveety Resigns Over 'Dusky' Maiden

Microphone picks up married Scottish Labour MP for Glasgow Shettleston's artistic leer... More »

17th, June 2010 In Pictures

Shannon Matthews

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17th, June 2010 Key Posts 1

Shannon Matthews: Half Truths, Family Fun And Fairy Tales

The police view seemed to have been ignored in the current salient headline points of Kirklees' version of events... More »

17th, June 2010 In Pictures

World Cup Costumes

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17th, June 2010 Sports 11

Diego Maradona Introduces Uses For The Vuvuzela: The Blow Blower

The vuvuzela has many uses. No.2 is illustraed by Diego Maradona... More »

17th, June 2010 Politicians 8

Barack Obama Is Less Popular Than Offshore Drilling: BP News Round-Up

BP oil spills into the US Gulf. Barack Obama tries to sound Churchillian, talking of an “assault” on America’s beaches and nation under “siege”. And then things go wrong... More »

17th, June 2010 Politicians 3

The Truth About Non-Smoking Vegan Winston Churchill's Vanishing Cigar

Might it be that Churchill never smoked and the wartime propaganda machine needed a way of making him look cool and not like Hitler? More »

17th, June 2010 Celebrities 2

Cheryl Cole And Derek Hough Do Tanzania: In Pictures And Nibbled Tattoos

And it is a “secret trip”. Look, there’s secretive Cheryl walking through Heathrow Airport with her Hough and an assistant... More »

16th, June 2010 Sports 3

World Cup Photos: Saint Diego Forlan Stops The Vuvuzela And Saves South Africa

Diego Forlan – Patron Saint of World Music – have killed the vuvuzela as the South Africa side lose in the World Cup 3-0... More »

16th, June 2010 Politicians 2

In Photos: Gay Pride At Pride Minister's Drinks - No David Laws

With Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg and Prime Minister David Cameron to the Gay Pride reception in the garden at 10 Downing Street. No sign of David Laws... More »

16th, June 2010 Sports

How The Sun Patronised Football Bloggers - And Failed

WhoAteAllThePies is doing great things - without The Sun's patronising iPhone app... More »

16th, June 2010 In Pictures

Kate Middleton

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16th, June 2010 Key Posts 5

Kate Middleton 'Pregnant': Prince William Shoots And Scores: Pictures

Middleton is pregnant. So says Star magazine, which claims Middle-class is pregnant by Prince William... More »

16th, June 2010 Celebrities

Kesha Mistakes Dog Poo For Her CD: Hilarity Results

Pop strumpet Kesha - "I always hairspray my hair as big as possible because then everything else looks smaller [brains, talent etc.] - says she gives her pals bag of dog turds... More »

16th, June 2010 Reviews 10

Why Joran Van Der Sloot Will Head Back To Aruba: Photos

Joran van der Sloot is in jail in Peru having confessed to killing one Stephany Flores. The Dutchman might also have killed American Natalee Holloway in Aruba in 2005... More »

16th, June 2010 TV & Radio

The Oddest IMDB Biographies

ere are some choice parts they played – look out for the woman who has a little accident, the old woman who doesn’t have sex and the “lesbian in a restaurant”… More »

16th, June 2010 Politicians 2

After BP the US Labels Milk As The Next Big Pollutant

BP will place $20 billion in an escrow account for the Gul clean up - and the US Environmental Protection Agency considers the next bio-hazard: milk... More »

16th, June 2010 Reviews

Shannon Matthews: The Story Of Media Greed And Karen Matthews' Tears In Pictures

In February 2008, Shannon Matthews was ‘abducted’ by her mum, a Buzz Lightyear look-alike called Karen Matthews (pure evil), and her uncle, a pasty Crazy Frog impersonator called Michael Donovan, and a school uniform pervert to boot.... More »

16th, June 2010 Key Posts 1

Devon James: Tiger Woods Paid 'Son's Mother' For 'Dirty Sex': Pictures

Devon James says she has given Tiger Woods the other son he always wanted. The boy is called Austin T James. Devon James says the ‘T’ is a tribute to the boy’s dad – Austin Todger James..? More »

16th, June 2010 Flashback 5

RIP Michael Wojas - The Colony Room's Last Man Standing: Pictures

"One acquaintance described him as looking like a blade of grass growing under a bucket..." More »