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9th, May 2009 Celebrities

Winehouse Booed In Rainy St Lucia

Having seen Amy Winehouse perform, Anorak can confirm the audience at her comeback performance in St Lucia was made up of... More »

9th, May 2009 Madeleine McCann 15

Madeleine McCann: The McCann's Documentary Video

Madeleine McCann: The McCann's Documentary Video... More »

9th, May 2009 Politicians 1

Gordon Brown Stars In New Wallace And Gromit Film: Video

A video of Gordon Brown, made by Oscar-winning Stop Motion exponet Nick Park. Brown is to star alongside Wallace and Gromit in... More »

9th, May 2009 Key Posts 1

Man Gives Birth To Twin Brother

"I have him in a jar at home and I call him little Gav. I haven’t told many people. I feel like a bit of a freak...” More »

9th, May 2009 Strange But True

Heidelberg Zoo's Whistling Orangutan Releases CD

Ich Bin Ujian" ("I Am Ujian"), features Ujian, a 14-year-old orangutan, giving full throat to a jaunty pop-rock number with reggae elements... More »

9th, May 2009 Sports

Pole Dancing To Be Olympic Sport: Video

Pole Dancing is to be an Olympic Sport at the 2012 London Games. Anorak has obtained footage of US athletes going through their paces at the US Pole Dance Championship 2009... More »

9th, May 2009 Celebrities

Britain's Got Talent: Thomas Herron, Greg Pritchard And Pole Dancers

Another weekend of Britain’s Got Talent, and with it news of Thomas Herron, a five–year-old magician who sings like a woman... More »

9th, May 2009 Celebrities

Susan Boyle Watch: Boyle Moves To London

SUSAN Boyle Watch: In which Susan Boyle battles swine flu, joins G20 and writes a book... More »

9th, May 2009 Celebrities 2

Susan Boyle On Oprah: After the McCanns The Fat Lady Sings

Susan Boyle is to sing on the Oprah Winfrey show. How do you follow the McCanns? With the fat lady... More »

8th, May 2009 Celebrities 4

Perez Hilton Is Beyond Parody: Sues Perez Revenge And Wins

Celeb Blogger gone native Perez Hilton, aka Mario Lavandeira, has sued a site called PerezRevenge and won... More »

8th, May 2009 Key Posts

Dick Cheney Got A Child And Missed The Draft

Dick Cheney's first daughter, "Elizabeth, was born 9 months and 2 days after the Selective Service System announced that childless married men were to be drafted." Paul Walker notes... More »

8th, May 2009 Celebrities

Nominative Determinism: Heidi Montag Is Heidi Pratt

Heidi Montag has married Spencer Pratt. If there were ever a cause of nominative determinalism by design then this is it... More »

8th, May 2009 Strange But True 1

Robot Miss Saya Teachers Class At Japan Primary School

IN Japan, the substitute teacher is Miss Saya. Saya was created as a receptionist robot in 2004 by professor Hiroshi Kobayashi of the Tokyo University of Science... More »

8th, May 2009 Technology

The 10 Most Bizarre Things About Kindle

ALL hail the Amazon Kindle, the electronic reader that will to do for newspapers and books what the iPod did for music. The Kindle is the device that pronounces Barack Obama as "black Alabama". More »

8th, May 2009 Flashback

Football: A History Of The Throw In

Should the long throw-in be banned from football? That, believe it or not, is a discussion that has cropped up among those fans dismayed by the havoc wreaked by Stoke City’s Rory Delap this season. Premier League defences have been unable to cope with the bombardment, and so up goes the cry ‘Foul!’... More »

8th, May 2009 Reviews

Adira Amram Wishes You A Stoned Mother's Day

News Spotter - life is out there... More »

8th, May 2009 Photojournalism

Swine Flu: World Health Organisation Saves World From World Health Organisation

Flu is going to kill us all. You are fuc... But, what's this? The World Health Organisation will save us all. Phew!... More »

8th, May 2009 Celebrities 1

The Keep Susan Boyle Ugly Campaign

"Here's a woman who, at my age, was perfectly content to live in a little village in Scotland and sing in a pub, and then she came and did this and 200 million people saw her. That's like being hit by a tidal wave" More »

8th, May 2009 Celebrities 8

Susan Boyle Secret Picture Gallery

Anorak’s looks at Britain’s Got Talent agonist Susan Boyle in the news - with picture gallery... More »

8th, May 2009 Celebrities 1

Susan Boyle Presents The X Factor

"Hats off to X Factor host Dermot O’Leary for promoting his talentless fest by way of Susan Boyle, of Britain’s Got Talent fame" More »

8th, May 2009 Strange But True

Italian Co-Workers Get Toilet Sex Cramp

To Bergamo, Italy, where Salvatore Mazzi, 37, and Angelina Marcelo, 26, are partaking of lunchtime delights in the toilet at the clothes shop where they both work... More »

8th, May 2009 Politicians 1

Gordon Brown's Cheap Plumber Leaks On RBS

Did you know that he signed off a war in Iraq that cost…? Did you know that he raided your pensions, a move that cost..? Did you know that he raised taxes at a cost to you of..? Did you know that Gordon Brown’s cleaner earns over 18k a year? More »

7th, May 2009 Strange But True 2

Naked Soul Wins Miss Saudi Arabia Beauty Contest

Saudi Arabia, where Sukaina al-Zayer is the queen of feminine beauty. Draped in black robes and veil, Miss al-Zayer is "Miss Beautiful Morals". More »

7th, May 2009 Reviews

Journalists Caught In Wikipedia Hoax

On the Wikipedia page of French composer Maurice Jarre, who died at the end of March, is a quote – one made up by Shane Fitzgerald, a final-year undergraduate student studying sociology and economics at University College Dublin... More »

7th, May 2009 Reviews

News Spotter: Chelsea Sign Footballing Dog, Video

The best of the rest of... More »