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29th, December 2008 Money 1

The Worst Financial Predictions Of 2008: Bush Was Right

"No! No! No! Bear Stearns is not in trouble" More »

29th, December 2008 Celebrities

Celebrity Update: Mariah Carey Still Not Pregnant

Mariah Carey womb update More »

29th, December 2008 Reviews 1

Global Warming Alert: Ice Rinks Cancel Sessions Because Of Ice

Ice dancing affected by ice More »

29th, December 2008 Politicians 1

Caroline Kennedy Catches A Dialogismus

"I'm really coming into this as somebody who isn't, you know, part of the system..." More »

29th, December 2008 Key Posts 2

The Top 11 Unwanted Christmas Gifts

On the 13th day of Xmas I took back two cold sprouts and a Sharon Osbourne audio DVD More »

29th, December 2008 Celebrities 1

Jennifer Lopez To Divorce In Song

“Jennifer is planning on joining Marc onstage for a surprise duet" More »

29th, December 2008 Politicians

The North Korean Fairy Tail

"Pyongyang has been face-lifted and scenery of socialist fairyland has been unfolded in many places" - North Korean press release More »

29th, December 2008 Reviews

Alan Rusbridger On Tesco And The GMG

How Tesco and the corporate Guardian can learn from one another More »

29th, December 2008 Reviews

Scare Stories: Burning Genitals, Horse Killed By Biscuit And Cancer Bacon

“Additive used in bacon and ham linked to lung cancer” More »

29th, December 2008 Reviews

Saudi Arabia Bans Women From The Park

The Commission for Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice closed down the only women's park in Yanbu More »

29th, December 2008 Technology 1

Semaphore Pilot Project Tags All Scots Leaving Scotland

Scots heading south to be fitted with huge chips More »

29th, December 2008 Photojournalism 2

The Barack Obama Vibrator And The ObamaGasm

Because there's a little bit of Obama in us all More »

29th, December 2008 Photojournalism

Get A Mammogram And Smear Test In One Go

The world's first all-in-one check up More »

29th, December 2008 Celebrities 2

U2 Drummer Splits With Bono

Larry Mullen Jr Cringes At Bono More »

29th, December 2008 Strange But True

Thailand's Scorpion Queen Rejects Jodie Marsh

Kanchana now holds the Guinness World Record for holding a poisonous scorpion in her mouth for over two minutes More »

29th, December 2008 Photojournalism

No Standing In the Disabled Section, By Order

Sit down! More »

29th, December 2008 Celebrities

Tom Crusie Wants To Create An Army Of Suri

Suri does not mind, able as she is to go without sleep for 143 years More »

29th, December 2008 Sports 2

Steven Gerrard Arrested

Gerrard Speaks More »

29th, December 2008 Strange But True 2

Trained Goldfish Lives 21 Hours On Carpet

“It’s a miracle,” says Barbara, who accepted the fish as a gift from her husband More »

29th, December 2008 Reviews 2

Alicia Sweeney And the Making Of A Paedophile Story

How to create a media panic More »

29th, December 2008 Key Posts 2

How Barack Obama Will Save Bridgend, End Knife Crime And Sadness

Obama brings light to the saddest place of all in Britain More »

29th, December 2008 Key Posts

2008 Media Year: Russell Brand, Robert Peston, Strictly Come Dancing And Jonathan Ross' Dogger Bank

It's been a great year for media stories about the media More »

29th, December 2008 Key Posts 73

Madeleine McCann: She Speaks To Spaniard And BBC Scores Points

Maddie visited home of Spanish man More »

28th, December 2008 Money

The Russian Capitalist Calendar

Russian calendar satires the West's influence on modern Russia More »

28th, December 2008 Politicians

Sarah Palin Kill Of The Day: Rudolph The Night Vision Prey

Palin bags the big one More »