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5th, May 2009 Reviews 8

Karen Matthews: On Sex, Shopping And Kate McCann

Karen Matthews, mother to Shannon Matthews, is behind bars and in interview with the Daily Mirror... More »

5th, May 2009 Madeleine McCann 17

Madeleine McCann: Kate McCann's Coma Nightmare

Two years of Madeleine McCann news and the Daily Mirror delivers this front-page headline: “I wish I was in a coma”... More »

5th, May 2009 Celebrities 1

Big Brother 10 Hit By Swine Flu

Yes, dear reader, Big Brother is almost upon us. And this season the agonists will be the 27 Britons who’ve swine flu. Right now a lap dancer in Basildon is offering free dances to anyone able to infect her with the deadly bug... More »

4th, May 2009 Celebrities 2

Sasha Grey Opens Up

“I want to tell young women that sex is OK"... More »

4th, May 2009 Reviews 6

Man With Anger-Management Issues Decapitates Wife

In the Ukraine, a man has been arrested for allegedly decapitating his wife after she told him she had much better sex with other men... More »

4th, May 2009 Photojournalism

CUM: Christian Bookshop Sells Hope Of Porn

CUM: Christian Bookshops And Porn - a holy alliance in South Africa... More »

4th, May 2009 Celebrities

Jade Goody's Last Hours: Pictures

As threatened, Mark McGowan has turned Jade Goody's Jade Goody’s post-reality career into work of art... More »

4th, May 2009 Reviews

WHO Is God: The Swine Flu Religion

Belief in swine flu pandemic is a bit like believing in God: if you believe in God then in the hereafter you get to live in Heaven; if you don’t all you get is a split second to say “See!” or eternal damnation up to your neck in pig shit. More »

4th, May 2009 Celebrities

Princess Diana Biographer Morton Writes Angelina Jolie Book

Morton, biographer of Princess Diana is to write on the life and times of Angelina Jolie as his next topic... More »

4th, May 2009 Strange But True 4

Teen Alex Granted Permission To Remove Her Breasts

A 17-year-old Australian girl, has been given permission by the Family Court in Melbourne to have her breasts surgically removed to more closely resemble a boy... More »

4th, May 2009 Key Posts 2

Swine Flu: Spread By Flies

“I was worried and thought it was really serious. Some of my friends were saying it was swine flu. Everyone was really tense, worrying and crying because they thought it was really dangerous and thought they might die"... More »

4th, May 2009 Strange But True

Prison Guard Uses Stun Gun On Children

It’s Take Your Daughters and Sons to Work Day', and Schmidt pulls out his Taser and zaps the kidzzzzz with a 50,000-volt stun gun... More »

4th, May 2009 Strange But True

Dad Has Seizure: Daughter Arrested For Calling Police

In America - land of free speech - a man has a seizure. His daughter, Adrainne Ledesma dials 911 in Lincoln Park: "Get me a "f***** ambulance!". The officer, Sgt Robert McFarland hangs up... More »

4th, May 2009 Celebrities

Cheryl Cole Bitten By Fan

Cheryl Cole has been bitten by a “deranged girl fan”... More »

4th, May 2009 Key Posts 26

Madeleine McCann: Kate McCann's 'Life Sentence'

McCann Watch: In which Our Maddie on on the telly and forgets her name... More »

4th, May 2009 Celebrities

Princess Eugenie And Party Mugged In Cambodia

Day 129 of Princess Eugenie’s Grand Tour, and the young royal is meeting with muggers in Cambodia... More »

4th, May 2009 Celebrities

Britain's Got Talent: Jamie Pugh Beat The Boyle

Jamie Pugh is the latest Britain’s Got Talent singer to show that you can have a beard and a large chest and still sing a dirge from Les Miserables... More »

4th, May 2009 Celebrities

Susan Boyle To Tour Australia And US

Boyle Watch: In which Susan appears on I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here!... More »

3rd, May 2009 Politicians

Michelle And Barack Publish Romance Novella

After a date night out on Saturday evening, President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama decided to take a stroll when their motorcade arrived back at the White House... More »

3rd, May 2009 Celebrities 3

Perez Hilton Cannot Be Satirized

Hilton, the celebrity blogger gone native, says the National Organization for Marriage's video featuring his words on pneumatic Miss California Carrie Prejean is a breach of copyright... More »

3rd, May 2009 Photojournalism

Striding Banned In China

In China: No striding! More »

3rd, May 2009 Reviews

Ayman Udas Murdered By Brothers In Pakistan For Being On TV

In Peshawar, Pakistan, a singer called Ayman Udas in her early thirties, a divorced mother of two and newly re-married was mjurdered by her brothers... More »

3rd, May 2009 Strange But True

Old People Killed And Bodies Sold For Cremation

GANGS are thought to be kidnapping and murdering elderly people, then selling the corpses for cremation to superstitious families who do not want their own dead loved ones incinerated... More »

3rd, May 2009 Key Posts 3

Swine Flu Picture Gallery

SWINE Flu is upon humanity and Anorak has been looking at the evidence as to who it came to be. Our pictorial investigation follows... More »

3rd, May 2009 Reviews

Swine Flu Kills The New York Air Kiss

They worry that whomever they peck — or whoever pecks them — could transmit the virus. What to do?.. More »