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10th, April 2010 Key Posts 18

Susan Boyle Heathrow Airport Rant Is A Repeat Performance: Pictures

Susan Boyle has been in an “Air Rage” scrape. Susan Boyle has given full throat to a “four-letter rant over a flight delay”. More »

10th, April 2010 Celebrities

Amy Winehouse's Breasts Revolt, In Pictures

Amy Winehouse’s breasts are hurting. Winehouse’s breasts – rumoured to have teets made from optics dispensing strawberry Vitamalt (right) and gin (left) - are giving her gip... More »

10th, April 2010 Reviews 2

The General Election In Pictures: Gordon Brown's Cafe Zoo

The General Election In Pictures presents Gordon Brown in the cafe zoo. Also, look out for Cameron going bananas and Nick Clegg hitting the wall... More »

10th, April 2010 Reviews 1

Newspaper Caption Of The Week

A fire in Hampton, New Hampshire give us our caption of the week... More »

10th, April 2010 Celebrities 11

Cheryl Cole Confesses Her Love To Norway

Did you know that “nation’s sweetheart” Cheryl Cole “LOVES CAREER MORE THAN ASHLEY”? More »

10th, April 2010 Reviews

Shen Neng 1 Attacked By Politicians In Oil Burning Aircraft

Chinese tanker Shin Neng 1 has run into trouble on the Great Barrier Reef. and in the skies, more trouble... More »

9th, April 2010 Reviews

Did Swedish Nazis Steal The Auschwitz Sign?

Swedish neo-Nazi leader Anders Högtröm was arrested on February 11 on suspicion of being involved in the theft. Now, he's been extradited from Sweden to Poland.... More »

9th, April 2010 In Pictures

Signs - Restaurant Ones

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9th, April 2010 Celebrities 2

Frankie Boyle's Down's Syndrome Laugh In

Lately, Boyle’s been making jokes about people with Down’s Syndrome at Reading's Hexagon Theatre. In the audience is one Sharon Smith, whose five-year-old daughter Tanzie has Down's... More »

9th, April 2010 Strange But True

KKK Says Westboro Baptist Church Too Extreme

The Church that picketed Heath Ledger’s funeral is too much for the KKK... More »

9th, April 2010 Politicians

In Pictures: Loloahi Tapui Guilty Of Conning Attorney General Baroness Scotland

Loloahi Tapui was spotted leaving Southwark Crown Court after she was found guilty today of conning Attorney General Baroness Scotland into hiring her as a cleaner.... More »

9th, April 2010 Key Posts 4

The Grand National Winner Is You: Free £25 Bet And Ladies Day Pictures

In Pictures: Ladies Day at Aintree. In readiness for the Grand National, the fillies, blood mares and nags pulled on their slap and Spanx to head to the big meet. More »

9th, April 2010 Fashion 1

In Pictures: Proof That Kim Jong-il Is A Fashion Leader

Kim Jong-il is a fashion leader. North Korea's Gary Glitter prototype is a leader of fashions. AFP reports... More »

9th, April 2010 TV & Radio

Hull Beats Alexander Guttenplan In University Challenge Final You Didn't See

THE final of University Challenge 2010 and boy wonder Alexander Guttenplan –captain of Emmanuel College, Cambridge - is up before Jeremy Paxman – know all. More »

9th, April 2010 Reviews

Good News - Bad News: LibDems Score A Celebrity Backer: It's Heather Mills

The LibDems can rejoice! They’ve scored a celebrity fan. Good news. Goooood news! Who is it? Why, it’s Heather Mills. More »

9th, April 2010 Madeleine McCann 6

Madeleine McCann 'Befriends' A Paedo

The BBC’s Bob Howard wonder if “’befriending’ them be the best way to stop them committing more crimes?” More »

9th, April 2010 Reviews

Labour's Stuart MacLennan Sacked But David Cameron Not In Coma

Goodbye Stuart MacLennan. The Labour candidate for the Moray seat in the north of Scotland, has been sacked for offensive posts he made on Twitter... More »

9th, April 2010 Celebrities

Pin Up Of The Day: Strictly Come Dancing Babe Toneeta Beckford

Beckford might look angelic and draped in perpetual glaze of soft focus loveliness, but it turns out that beneath the beauty she was not all the pleasant... More »

9th, April 2010 Key Posts 4

Wikileaks And Julian Assange Caught In Bias Storm Over Reuter's Iraqi Journalists 'Slaughter'

Reuters journalists Namir Noor-Eldeen and Saeed Chmaghand 11 other Iraqis died when on June 12, 2007, a US Apache gunship opened fire on a group in Baghdad’s Sadr City. Two children were wounded. And then we examined the story... More »

9th, April 2010 Strange But True

Habitual Panties Thief Captured At Rugby Club

Women's panties - knickers, to you – are going missing from washing lines in Dunedin, New Zealand... More »

9th, April 2010 In Pictures 4

Fat Cats & Other Bankers

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9th, April 2010 Strange But True 1

Woman Dies When Hijab Scarf Gets Tangled In Go Cart

In Post Stephens, Australia, a young woman died after her hijab scarf became entwined in the working of a go kart she was driving. More »

9th, April 2010 Celebrities

Cameron Douglas: Michael Douglas, Crystal Meth, Zeta Jones And A Wild Ocelot

The image is of Michael Douglas, his first wife Deandra De Morrell Douglas, and their only child Cameron. The story is remarkable... More »

9th, April 2010 Reviews 5

The General Election In Pictures: David Cameron's St Custard Belly

So long as David Cameron doesn’t speak, the Tories will win the election. But the shiny one can’t help himself. More »

9th, April 2010 The Consumer

World's Worst Restaurant Signs

Anorak's consumer spotter brings you a collection of the world’s least appealing restaurant signs. Some are lost in translation, especially where the shrimp is shagging the lettuce. More »