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20th, May 2010 Celebrities

Justin Bieber Pwnd By A Glass Door: Video

Lesbian Donny Osmond tribute act Justin Bieber has walked into a glass door thinking it was open... More »

20th, May 2010 Reviews 12

Lianne Smith: Martin Smith, Paedo, Ghosts And Blaming The Police

Lianne Smith is in jail. Her children, Rebecca Smith, 5, and her brother Daniel, 11 months, are dead. Their father is in jail... More »

20th, May 2010 Key Posts

Ivor Novello Awards 2010: Winners And Pictures

"Really, truly, from the bottom of my heart, it's the songs I'm most proud of. This song [The Fear] is so much about feeling lost in a lot of ways. All of a sudden, this has made me feel found" - Allen, L... More »

20th, May 2010 Politicians

Alabama Teacher Educates Class In How To Murder Barack Obama

In Jefferson County, geometry teacher Gregory Harrison, of Corner High School, is using the example of shooting Obama in the face to impart in the class the value of knowing your angles... More »

20th, May 2010 Celebrities

KP Baby: Katie Price Gets Her New Twin Babies Out For Kids (Pictures)

Price posed with her babies out at the launch her new baby clothing range, KP Baby, at the Worx studios in west London. KP once did only nuts. Now they do babies.... More »

20th, May 2010 Celebrities 6

Igor and Grichka Bogdanoff Present Plastic Surgery Face Swaps

Can that be Igor and Grichka Bogdanoff, former French television star brothers, attending the Chopard 150th birthday party event during the 63rd Cannes Film Festival, France? More »

20th, May 2010 Politicians

David Cameron Dot Com Is Nick Clegg's Joker: Cam's Tech Horror

On-trend our new Prime Minister may like us to think he is - so it is distressing to discover that David Cameron has failed to buy up his .com domain name. More »

20th, May 2010 Strange But True

STDs: Weird And Scary Venereal Disease Posters

The message was simple: foreign women give you and yours STDs... More »

20th, May 2010 Celebrities

Pimp Premiere In Pictures: Danny Dyer's Shallow Grave

To the premier of Pimp in Soho, where Dyer-bolical genital torcher Danny Dyer is trying to bury the British film industry in a grave so shallow it makes the average adolescent boy’s daydreams look like Stephen Hawking’s morning porridge... More »

20th, May 2010 Strange But True 10

Woman Dies When NHS Doctor Fails To Spot Toilet Brush Wedged In Her Bottom

Peter Corton's wife Cindy died in 2007 after media failed to spot a toilet brush wedged in her buttock... More »

19th, May 2010 Celebrities 12

The World Music Awards in Pictures: Paris Hilton's Chest, Jennifer Lopez Arts, Peter Andre's Man and More...

To the World Music Awards in Monte Carlo, the foremost meaningless awards do in the world music awards calendar... More »

19th, May 2010 Strange But True 3

Bad Science Made Good: A Handy Guide To The Truth In Pictures

In today’s Bad Science class, we bring you good science, a look at how boffins and egg heads get away with telling us lies and scare stories... More »

19th, May 2010 Celebrities 2

Mark Hamill Does Star Trek In A Boat For Darth Vader's Black Pearl

Mark Hamill... You know, the guy from Biker Mice From Mars? The Pierre Fluffbottom? Yep, the guy with the laser… Lasterhawk’s Bob Sheridan... More »

19th, May 2010 Celebrities 2

Stockard Channing Is Lady Bracknell

You know you are getting old when Stockard Channing is playing Lady Bracknell in Rough Magic's production of The Importance of Being Earnest... More »

18th, May 2010 Sports 1

Australia Cricket Wins World Bukkake Championships: England Settle For Twenty:20 Series

England cricketers end 35 years of hurt by taking the huge cardboard cheque in the Twenty:20 and the Australians - the losers - react with typical good grace... More »

18th, May 2010 Strange But True 7

Woman Banned From Drinking Alcohol in England And Wales

Laura Hall is Miss United Kingdom front runner... More »

17th, May 2010 Reviews 1

Anorak Is In Paris

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17th, May 2010 Sports 1

In Pictures: England Win The World Cup And A Big Cardboard Cheque

England's cricketers have ended the 35-years of hurt for a one-day World Cup victory. Granted this one was for the Twenty20 over game, where the cheque is bigger than the cup... More »

17th, May 2010 Strange But True 1

Man Jumps From Speeding Car To Escape Nagging Wife

A man has jumped from a moving vehicle rather than listen to his wife. More »

17th, May 2010 Key Posts

In Pictures: The Life Of Brooke Greenberg, The Girl Who Never Grew Up

Brooke Greenberg, the girl who can’t grow up. Brooke is 17 years old. She is trapped in the body of a toddler... More »

17th, May 2010 Strange But True 1

The Annual Ferret Legging Contest Upsets The National Ferret School

The National Ferret School will not be competing in the ferret down the trousers contest at Whittington, Staffordshire... More »

17th, May 2010 Politicians

Alabama's Dale Petersen Challenges Nick Clegg To a Joust

Dale Petersen is our political hero of the day. Can Alabama be the benchmark for all elections? More »

17th, May 2010 Celebrities

Lindsay Lohan In Public Spat: What Would Linda Lovelace Say?

Lindsay Lohan is on her way to Cannes. She’s going to play Linda Lovelace in a biopic of the “Deep Throat” porn star and wants to tell one and all. And she's been in a - oh, the irony - public spat... More »

17th, May 2010 TV & Radio 13

When Bambi Attacks: Deer Mauls Man

Bambi turned his back on showbiz and went to live on the Benji Refuge a refuge in Arizona... More »

17th, May 2010 Sports 4

Lord Triesman Shafted By Melissa Jacobs In No Sex Tape

What next for Melissa Jacobs, the flame-haired woman who undid Lord Triesman, now former chairman of the FA? More »