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9th, May 2015 In Pictures

Photos of the anti-Tory, anti-austerity, pro-tax and anarchy rally in London

Today protesters marched on Downing Street and Conservative Party HQ. They were protesting againt austerity, Eton college, Tories, democracy, tax avoidance, order, authority and more. We've got photos of the slogans and banners, someof which are a tad sweary. More »

9th, May 2015 Reviews 1

Armed police threaten and arrest man with 666 tattooed on his forehead in church

Here's a story from Florida to get your teeth into. Michael W. Holman, 44, visited the First Assembly of God Church in Milligan at around 9:15pm last Wednesday. He was making some ungodly noise and apepared to have been drinking. He was "unsteady on his feet". When asked to leave, he did... More »

8th, May 2015 The Consumer

The Lean Muscle Suit turns wimps into bulging, venin-popping gym gods

Hey, you, skinny!. Yeah, you. It's time to get ripped, man. You need a muscles that draw you skin tighter than a Hollywood wife's smile. But you're too lazy and weak to work out. So why not step inside a Lean Muscle Suit?.. More »

8th, May 2015 Strange But True

China's Window of the World amusement park offers a cremation simulator

Chinese looking for a thrill can take the "death simulator" at the Window of the World amusement park in Shenzhen, China. The Indy reports... More »

8th, May 2015 Film

Listen as fans react to seeing Star Wars for the first time in 1977

As Star Wars: Episode VII gets ready to hit the silver screen, you can listen to what it was like watching the first film in 1977... More »

8th, May 2015 Manchester City

Transfer Balls: Manchester City pay £20m too much for Paul Pogba in the Star

Transfer Balls: a look at reporting on Paul Pogba in the tabloid press.... More »

8th, May 2015 Reviews

Woman delighted to find cocaine in Nature Valley granola bar

"It's a somewhat disturbing case," says Sgt. Javier Salazar of the San Antonio Police Department... More »

7th, May 2015 Key Posts

The Moral Council calls Megara Furie and Mistress R'eal - criminalised by new anti-porn laws

The first miscreants to fall foul of the news laws on online pornography are two dominatrix whose videos feature "heave whipping" and hard and repeated kicks to the genitals. The footage breaches the Authority for Television on Demand's code... More »

7th, May 2015 Sports

Gareth Bale to Chelsea or Manchester United is English football's only Champions League news

Transfer Balls: A look at football reporting in the tabloids. Today the Daily Mail says Gareth Bale is not heading to Manchester United. In "LEAVE BALE ALONE", we hear Carlos Ancelotti, the Madrid manager, saying "Bale should not be sold under any circumstances" - "his faith in Bale remains absolute."... More »

7th, May 2015 Reviews

Censors force Cerne Abbas giant to lose his penis

"It seems a sad indictment of the times when a legendary landmark like the Cerne Giant - which any man, woman or child can visit any day of the week - must be covered up in a comic book," says a spokesperson for Eco Comics... More »

6th, May 2015 In Pictures

Mastectomy body art: breast cancer survivors get ink

Tattoo artist David Allen, puts it poetically: “What was clinical became beautiful again… we turned sterile into sensual. We took back control.”... More »

6th, May 2015 TV & Radio

Price is Right contestant in wheelchair wins a treadmill

Danielle Perez won a treadmill on The Price is Right. Perez is in a wheelchair. She also won a sauna... More »

6th, May 2015 Reviews

Epic spelling bee typo from the Quincy Patriot Ledger

"Sucess...." More »

6th, May 2015 Sports

Battering Demin: AFC Bournemouth bashing in the Daily Mail

Now for a spot of AFC Bournemouth bashing in the Daily Mail.... More »

6th, May 2015 manchester united

Transfer Balls: Radamel Falcao competes with De Gea to be Manchester United's 'keeper

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6th, May 2015 In Pictures 1

Every one of the Sun's Ed Miliband piss takes

The Sun is no fan of Ed Miliband. Throughout the election the paper has spent part of page 2 asking 'How Red is Ed?' You get a photo of Ed Miliband in varous shades of red. And that's not all... More »

6th, May 2015 Politicians

UKIP only offer a free pint to ever Daily Star reader and the EDL

In today's Daily Star, UKIP leader Nigel Farage is offering readers a free pint... More »

6th, May 2015 Reviews

Free Speech: Bath Student Union and chaplains banned this Mohammed and Jesus joke

You won't see Bath University's Comedy Writing, Improvisation and Performance Society's sketch Cooking With Christ. It's been censored by the Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice, known locally as the Student Union.... More »

5th, May 2015 Reviews 1

Free speech and anti-Islam in Garland: 'Never assume that you can outgun an art show in Texas'

Thoughts on the Garland, Texas, shootings. Was it a show of free speech to host a let's draw Mohammed art show? Was it deliberate provocation? I'd say, yes and yes... More »

5th, May 2015 Sports

Transfer balls: Eden Hazard, Morgan Schneiderlin and the magic of the Spurs transfer list

Transfer Balls: The Mirror says that Bournemouth's Callum Wilson "tops Spurs wishlist". The Cherries' striker is, apparently, heading to Spurs for £12m. Well, maybe.... More »

5th, May 2015 Chelsea

Transfer Balls: Chelsea are in for Raheem Sterling, Robert Green, Koke and seven more

Transfer Balls: a look at players linked to Chelsea FC in today's tabloids... More »

5th, May 2015 Reviews

Ryanair flight takes of without any toilet paper

Ryanair says it is "regrettable" that its flight from London Stansted to Murcia in Spain took off without any toilet paper onboard... More »

5th, May 2015 Celebrities

UKIP-lite Russell Brand Occupues Ed Miliband: Reactions To The Trews

Russell Brand isn't registered to vote. But he says you should vote Labour, unless you live in Brighton, where you should vote Green. Also, Scots should only vote for a Scot - "If you're Scottish, you don't need an English person telling what do to do..." More »

4th, May 2015 Reviews

Watch this rare colour film of Berlin in July 1945

Chronos Media has this footage of Berlin in July, 1945. World War II has ended. Life does on. .. More »

4th, May 2015 Politicians

Lenin's corpse is 145 years young thanks to paraffin, glycerin and carotene

Anyone keen to have their beloved leader preserved as a relic, should know that the bodies of Vladimir Lenin, Ho Chi Minh, Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il are waxed and dipped in aspic by the "Mausoleum group." Scienific American reviews their work.... More »