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22nd, May 2015 Strange But True

You never see a grown man naked at the airport? You have now

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22nd, May 2015 Politicians

Sign language interpreter illustrates perfectly the perils of swearing in parliament

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21st, May 2015 Royal Family

Read the Queen's letter to an Arsenal fan who asked her for FA Cup final tickets

Dear Charlie... More »

21st, May 2015 Key Posts

Westminster paedos and celebrity nonces: of 1,433 alleged offenders not a single one is a policeman

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21st, May 2015 Sports

Knob Watch: Raheem Sterling's agent denies saying his client is definitely leaving Liverpool

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21st, May 2015 Politicians

Chris Bryant joins Labour Party's silent chorus on Mirror Group phone hacking crimes

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21st, May 2015 Politicians

Hacking: Will John Prescott discuss Paul Gascoigne's £188,250 compensation in his Daily Mirror column?

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21st, May 2015 Liverpool

Transfer Balls: Manchester United mock Liverpool with Raheem Sterling broadcast

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21st, May 2015 Strange But True

Dubai tourist imprisoned for tapping policewoman's shoulder to ask for directions

To the fascistic hellhole that is Dubai, where a Kazakh tourist has been arrested for tapping a policewoman on the shoulder and asking her for directions to Dubai Mall... More »

21st, May 2015 Strange But True

Deliah Smith is away: man arested in row over how to boil an egg

In the 1980s, TV cook Delaih Smith taught the British how to boil an egg. She did not tour the US, an oversight that has led to a row in Florida.... More »

20th, May 2015 Politicians

Howler of the year: Washington Post accuses Prince Charlie of being an IRA member

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20th, May 2015 Chelsea

Transfer balls: Chelsea get Paul Pogba for less than half Manchester City paid for him in March

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20th, May 2015 The Consumer

London property madness: former Chelsea council flat on sale for £1.1m

A third floor flat in unlovely Keppel House on Brompton Cross, Chelsea, is on sale for £1.5m... More »

20th, May 2015 Reviews

Hive Mind: watch the first 21 days of a bee's life in 60 seconds

The first 21 days of a Bee’s Life in 60 seconds is a video by photographer Anand Varma and the bee lab at UC Davis.... More »

20th, May 2015 Reviews

Highlights of the Universal ShowQueen Pageant 2015: the world's greatest transgender and drag divas compete

The Universal ShowQueen Pageant 2015 features the world's greatest transgender and drag divas in competition. The winner was Aleeciya Ashton, aka Jerrica Benton... More »

20th, May 2015 Strange But True

Rhyl man broke into girlfriend’s house and wrote 'Cheating cow' on carpet with brown sauce

At Prestatyn magistrates’ court Martin Roberts, aged 34, pleads guilty to burglary in Rhyl. His crime was not in the taking, rather in what he broke into his girlfriend's house and wrote “Cheating cow” with brown sauce on her carpet... More »

19th, May 2015 Strange But True

Teachers ate school hamster to teach children about value of life

Yu, a teacher in South Korea, reportedly killed the school's pet hamster in front of children and ate it.... More »

19th, May 2015 Celebrities

Former Thompson Twins singer Alannah Currie stuffs her furniture with roadkill

Alannah Currie, once of the three-piece 1980s band The Thompson Twins, now works as an upholsterer... More »

19th, May 2015 Strange But True

Hong Kong Pooey! Woman spotted and photographed taking a poo in public

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19th, May 2015 Music

Mike Young's YouTube Channel is the greatest kamikaze karaoke this side of Tokyo

Richard Metzger points us toward the work of Mike Young, whose YouTube channel is a beautiful horror of kamikaze karaoke. A few highlights appear... More »

19th, May 2015 Liverpool

Liverpool: The Sun passes off the BBC's Raheem Sterling scoop as its 'Exclusive'

Last night the BBC reported that Raheem Sterling was arranging his Liverpool departure... More »

18th, May 2015 Chelsea

Watch Chelsea's Cesc Fabregas earn the season's most ridiculous red card

Chelsea's Cesc Fabregas has been sent off for kicking the ball at West Bromwich Albion' Chris Brunt.... More »

18th, May 2015 Sports

Migrants working on Qatar's glorious 2022 World Cup are living in Shangri-la says BBC report

The Qatari government wanted to show invited journalists how well its's treating migrant workers toiling on its World Cup Sandlantis. But four BBc journalists thought it an idea to do some actual journalism, peeling away from the group to see things not on the official tour. .. More »

18th, May 2015 Sports

Injured ball boy teaches Maria Sharapova the art of silent comedy

The thing I noticed was that when the ballboy face planted (into actual plants) at the women’s final of the Internazionali BNL D’Italia he made less noise than Maria Sharapova does executing a drop shot... More »

18th, May 2015 Reviews

Henry Scott Holland on death: 'I have only slipped way into the next room'

A note on death by Henry Scott Holland (27 January 1847 – 17 March 1918)... More »