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8th, November 2009 Key Posts 2

David Haye Beats Nikolai Valuev In Pictures Designed To Make The Russian Look Even Larger

Photojournalism master class, now, as we get to see how narrative - David V Goliath - can be shaped by angles. Enjoy... More »

8th, November 2009 Celebrities 3

X Factor: Danyl Johnson 'Touches' Olly Murs and Lucie Jones' Sex Life

It’s Ex-week in the tabloids, as the X Factor singers’ former loves tells all, featuring the exes of Joe McElderry, Cheryl Cole and Lucie Jones, plus Dannii Minogue’s womb and Danyl Johnsons on Olly Murs skin, literally… More »

8th, November 2009 Celebrities

X Factor: Peaches Geldof Piles On the Misery For Jedward

Cock-sure twins are, er, bullied. and just when you thoght Jedward had suffgered enough... More »

8th, November 2009 Madeleine McCann 6

Madeleine McCann: 29 Muslim Countries Refuse To Join Hunt For Our Maddie

But can it be that 163 police forces have committed to help find Madeleine McCann? And if police in South African, Canada, Chile, Japan and Romania are looking then why not the Portuguese? There are 192 coutries in the UN. This means that 19 countries are not helping find Our Maddie. Which is shocking... More »

8th, November 2009 Reviews 6

Detective James Arthur Ray Investigates Sedona

New Age guru, motivational speaker, and Spiritual Warrior James Arthur Ray isn’t stopping his crusade for the truth... More »

8th, November 2009 Key Posts 9

The Ten Craziest Reasons Why Nidal Malik Hasan Did It

Ten Reasons Why Nidal Hassan did It. As he saluted anyone in sight with two loaded handguns, Major Nidal Malik Hasan yelled "Allah Wakbar!" – God is great!” He then opened fire and murdered 13 people... More »

7th, November 2009 Celebrities 1

X Factor: Jedward Spray Simon Cowell With His Next Tan

X FACTOR: Jedward - Ghostbusters. The most overrated underrated act. Peter Andre appears to make Jedward look talented. Horrific... More »

7th, November 2009 Celebrities 7

X Factor Live Blog: Olly Murs Marries And Danyl Johnson Does Prince Over

X Factor Live blog. It's Movie Week. Or as Dermo O'Leary puts it: "IT'S...MOVIE WEEK"... More »

7th, November 2009 Celebrities

Elvis Presely's 'Private' Hair On Sale

A STRAND of Elvis Presley's hair which is expected to fetch up to £250 at auction by Henry Aldridge and Son, in Devizes, Wiltshire, on November 14. The strand of Elvis' hair collected by his personal barber is 12 by 22 inch and is mounted in a frame alongside a photograph of The King... More »

7th, November 2009 Reviews 1

Nidal Malik Hasan's Clothing Trained in Canada

If you want to see Nidal Malik Hasan not as a mass murderer but only as a Muslim, you write something like this - it's truly incredible... More »

7th, November 2009 Celebrities

X Factor Playlist: Danyl Johnson Sings Prince's Purple Rain, Stacey Solomon Does Springfield

On tonight’s X Factor, Daniel Lloyd will be singing Stand By Me in the manner of Pinocchio before The Change, and Stacey Solomon will squeak out Son Of A Preacherman, not in the style of Amy Winehouse gargling baby milk. More »

7th, November 2009 Madeleine McCann

Madeleine McCann: The Fund Is Investigated, In Pictures

MADDIE WATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann: The Fund is investigated... More »

7th, November 2009 Key Posts

Katie Price's Burning Sensation X Factor Presents The Week In Pictures

The week, featuring Halloween, The Cheeky Girls, Madonna, West Ham, Stephen Fry, Danyl Johnson, Marlon King, Ollie Murs, Iggy Pop, Muhammad, Madeleine McCann, Al Gore, Sharia Law, Nazis, Katie Price, Susan Boyle, Lindsay Lohan, Ringo Starr, Carrie Prejean, Katie and Peter, Sharon Osbourne, Jedward, Elizabeth Lambert, Beyonce, the X Factor and Nidal Malik Hasan.... More »

7th, November 2009 Reviews

Somali Rebels Ban Ringtones, Like Captain Pugwash

Muslim group bans non-Koranic ringtones and women's breasts... More »

7th, November 2009 Celebrities

X Factor: Bon Jovi Sign Jamie Archer, Alexandra Burke Urinates And Jedward Fix

It's Saturday and that means it’s X Factor Day in the tabloids. Well, it’s always X Factor Day in the tabloids but today they get to spice our quotidian offerings with the thought that it might be the last time we see John And Edward Grimes perform like fame’s singing testicles wired up to the car battery. More »

7th, November 2009 Reviews 7

US Forced Fort Hood Murderer Nidal Hasan To Join The Army

Hasan joined the military to get his education paid for and thus owed them years of service. He had made it very plain in writing many times to the military he was a conscientious objector and speaking out very much against the war and and had fear of going over. He even offered to pay back the military what his education cost them.... More »

7th, November 2009 Celebrities 1

X Factor Reject Rachel Adedeji Lost Because She Is Blacker Than Alexandra Burke

Considering all things black and white, Rachel Adedeji and X Factor, Yasmin Alibhai-brown asks Daily Mail readers: "Why are so many black and Asian women desperate to be white?"... More »

7th, November 2009 The Consumer

Fisting A Chicken Demonstations In Sainsbury's

TO Winchester Sainsbury's, where shoppers can learn how to fist a chicken all this week... More »

6th, November 2009 Politicians

Gordon Brown Says Jedward Are Part Of 'Axis Of Evil'

Having achieved the impossible and made Simon Cowell’s Botox-face form an expression, John And Edward Grimes, aka Jedward, have attracted the attention of Gordon Brown... More »

6th, November 2009 Celebrities 1

Katie Price And Peter Andre Back Together By Christmas

Peter Andre would like us all to know that Harvey Yorke-Price-Andre-Price is not suffering form swine flu... More »

6th, November 2009 Sports 1

David Haye's Mouth Takes On Nikolai Valuev's Hairy Back

Haye: "It's fairytale stuff. When I envisaged winning the heavyweight title it was against someone big, obviously, but not this big!” More »

6th, November 2009 The Consumer

Belfast Gets Own Monopoly Game: Get Out Of Jail Free Cards All Round

The dice are green. Although you can have red, white and blue ones, if you prefer. Title Deeds are NOT proof of ownership, although placing “safe houses” on the land and building big high wall around it can make a powerful argument that it is yours. Hotels are best avoided.... More »

6th, November 2009 Sports

For Sale: 5,000 Beijing Olympic Condoms

Wanna buy some Official Beijing Olympics 2008 condoms? Leftovers. One careful owner. Any takers? Each condom packet bears the legend “faster, higher, stronger”. (Faster. But not too fast.) More »

6th, November 2009 Strange But True

Suspected Swansea Burglar Sends Police Updated Mugshot

Matthew Maynard called the Swansea Evening Post to complain about the mugshot they were using of him. Wanted by the police in connection with burglary, Matthew Maynard, 23, then submitted a picture of himself standing by a police van. More »

6th, November 2009 Celebrities 3

Britain's Got Talent Hollie Steel Guns For X Factor's John And Edward

Hollie Steel. Remember her? The little girl in the ballerina’s tutu who sang like an old woman running her teeth down a blackboard on Britain's Got Talent? The one who, allegedly, ate Susan Boyle's hamster and was bullied? She who nearly died? More »