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4th, January 2010 Politicians 1

Barack Obama Is 'Murdered' In Jimmy Carter's Home Town

The Barack Obama Death Cult moves to Plains, Georgia, where a likeness of Obama is hanging by a noose... More »

4th, January 2010 Sports

Phil Taylor Beats Simon Whitlock With Walk-On Girls: World Darts In Pictures

The Power beat the Wizard, despite the winner “looking sick as a chip in cold fat”... More »

4th, January 2010 Strange But True

New York Teaches Smokers How To Inject Heroin

New York City is teaching its non-smoking citizens how to relax by shooting up heroin... More »

4th, January 2010 Celebrities

Big Brother: Katie Price's Foot Muff And Alex Reid's 'Bloodbath'

Shocks upon shocks as Bowers and Reid face off and Katie Price pops up... More »

3rd, January 2010 In Pictures

Celebrity Big Brother Launch 2010

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3rd, January 2010 Celebrities

Bono Kicks Off World Cup With Nelson Mandela

In January 2009, Bono, the U2 frontman, Mr G9, wrote an OpEd for the New York Times that we believed to be a parody. He's back... More »

3rd, January 2010 In Pictures

Vinnie Jones Is Hard

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3rd, January 2010 Celebrities 2

Celebrity Big Brother: Hard Men Bowers, Vinnie Jones And Alex Reid Do It With Fists

What a fitting way to end the last Big Brother, with eveyone dead and impaled on one another? It's the next logical step... More »

3rd, January 2010 Reviews

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, Said Ali al Shihri's Crayon And Danish Cartoons

UMAR Farouk Abdulmutallab wears hotpants and tries to sets fire to his genitals in a bid to shag loadsa virgins in paradise and bring down a passenger jet. Abdulmutallab, a man banned from entering Britain, puts a device in his Liverpool FC knickers and at Heathrow, Islamists – that’s you – are permitted only one hand luggage item. Do you follow? More »

3rd, January 2010 Sports

Leeds United Beat Manchester United In 27 Pictures

Because Man United were playing at home on the telly and Leeds scored in the middle of first half lots, it meant lots of Man U fans between sanwhiches and trips to the club shops saw the goal - save for a few thousand who left early to miss the rush back to London... More »

3rd, January 2010 Madeleine McCann 14

Madeleine McCann: British Police On Operation Task Will Not Release Files

News is that Leicestershire Police files on the hunt for Madeleine McCann will only be made public when anyone involved in her alleged kidnapping is brought to justice... More »

1st, January 2010 Reviews

The First Top Ten Of 2010

2009 is so yesterday.... More »

31st, December 2009 Reviews

The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg Iran Fail, Moussavi And SatNav

The Atlantic's Jeff Goldberg's RSS feed laments the death of Iran's Moussavi - he was run over and then shot - and salutes the satnav... More »

31st, December 2009 Strange But True 1

Sweden Engulfed In Vaginal Coroner Aura

Happy Vagina Coroner to you. Or as you say in Sweden, slidkrans. Vaginal Coroner replaces the world 'hymen' (mödomshinna), as in "What time is hymen - I'm famished?" More »

31st, December 2009 Key Posts 1

Sarah Palin Introduces The Best Fake Twitter Accounts Of 2009

Sarah Palin, Rahm Emanuel, Anderson Cooper, Cheryl Cole, Mrs Stephen Fry, Michael Bay and Chuck Norris introduce the Top Fake Twitter accounts of 2009... More »

31st, December 2009 Reviews

Irshad Manji On Jews And Muslims Uniting Against Swiss Racism

Via Harry, Irshad Manji writes about Switzerland's bigoted moves against Islam and free will... More »

31st, December 2009 Sports

Rooney Leads Manchester United To Thrash Wigan 5-0 In Premier League Pictures

Manchester United thrash Wigan Athletic 5-0 in the Premier League and we are reminded once more that the division is not the best league in the world – it just features a few sides that are much better than the rest. More »

31st, December 2009 Sports

Vinnie Jones, Thierry Henry And Maradona Are Footballers With Hands

News of Vinnie Jones going into the Big Brother house encouraged us look back over his career. The man whose contribution to football is so great that he is most famous for using his hands (just like Thierry Henry and Maradona) More »

31st, December 2009 Celebrities

Celebrity Big Brother: Vinnie Jones to Mind Paul Gascoigne

The New Year is nigh and that means the season of Celebrity Big Brother, serving as a reminder that the EU Celebrity Mountain has not claimed all our stars and that Vinnie Jones is at large... More »

31st, December 2009 Celebrities

Kerry Katona Sells Mum's House: The Kebab Museum Is Born

Already this month, we have been told that Kerry is not going on Big Brother, and that Kerry has a “stalker”. It’s terrifying for Our Kerry... More »

30th, December 2009 Celebrities

Brooke Hogan's Bikini Dimmer Switch: Photos

Brooke Hogan is daughter to neon-topped wrestler Hulk Hogan. Hollywood Tuna has pictures of reality TV star Brooke and her day’s lover in Miami... More »

30th, December 2009 Sports

Arsenal On Song To Thump Portsmouth 4-1: In 28 Premier League Pictures

Portsmouth Football Club was "shocked and surprised" by the winding-up petition by HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) against the club but less so by being beaten 4-1 by Arsenal in the Premier League. More »

30th, December 2009 Strange But True

The Clitheroe Jesus Miracle

Would the people who "stole" the Baby Jesus, Mary, the two-foot tall plaster cast figures of a shepherd, angel, sheep and donkey from Clitheroe's nativity display please return them. More »

30th, December 2009 Celebrities 1

Alicia Duvall's Cheryl Cole Toe Job

In “I cut off my toe to get feet like Cheryl Cole” Now magazine looks at “the model's pursuit for perfection”... More »

30th, December 2009 Celebrities

Emma Chawner Walks Out On Lorraine Kelly's Get The Stupid Fatso TV Show

Thanks to Susan Boyle, who “broke the grip of this sneering world” Emma Chawner is OK. She’s on Lorraine Kelly’s Big Challenge, a TV show win which the fat are brought down to size, literally buy a faux folksy TV presenter with a heart of gold and firm thighs... More »