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4th, May 2015 manchester united 1

Manchester United Balls: In 8 seasons Angel Di Maria has played just 113 times

This is a statistic to make you take notice: Manchester United's most expensive player, Angel Di Maria, has only played 113 matches.... More »

4th, May 2015 Strange But True

Man given 15 years for having sex with a cow he seduced with magic leaves

Is Nothing Safe? In Zambia, a man has been sentenced to 15 years prison for having sex with a cow. The details in the Zambia Daily Mail's report are crucial.... More »

4th, May 2015 Chelsea

Transfer balls: Paul Pogba 'accepts' PSG offer, wants Chelsea and tempts Manchester United

Transfer Balls: it's going to be busy summer of chatter for Juventus star Paul Pogba, 22. .. More »

4th, May 2015 Celebrities

Maya PlisetskayaI: 'I would like to talk about Swan Lake and my handsome partners but it all revolves around Stalin’s terror'

"I would like to talk about ‘Sleeping Beauty’ and ‘Swan Lake,’ about my battements and my handsome partners,” wrote ballerina Maya Plisetskaya, who has died at the age of 89. “But whichever way I look at my childhood, it all revolves around politics and Stalin’s terror...” More »

4th, May 2015 Reviews

Funchu Tamang, 101-year-old, pulled from ruins of a collpased house in Nepal

Good news of the day features Funchu Tamang, a 101-year-old man rescued from the rubble of his collapsed housein Nepal. Amid the destruction and horror of the earthquake that hit Nepal, Mr Tamang's rescue seven days later is a ray of hope.... More »

3rd, May 2015 Arsenal

Chelsea would have got Pogba from Arsenal because Mourinho's success is all about the money

Can Arsenal win the Premier League next season? In short: can they beat Chelsea, this season's best? Jose Mourinho, never one to miss a chance to salute his own genius, says.... More »

3rd, May 2015 Politicians

Operation Midland: Harvey Proctor spanks the self-serving police

Harvey Proctor was a Member of Parliament for Basildon and for Billericay between 1979 and 1987. He's written on the allegations of a VIP peado cover-up. Mr Proctor is not shy of media, telling BBC Radio 4's Today in March that he was keen to be interviewed by police as soon as possible to clear his name.... More »

3rd, May 2015 Politicians

#Milimonument: David Miliband unveils the Labour Party's headstone

You wonder how bad it can get? You wonder what they can next come up with to make us agog. And then Ed Miliband stands in front of a large headstone. It's the #Milimonument.... More »

3rd, May 2015 Politicians

Lord Janner: Scotland in 1972 and company law and not all Jews in the Daily Mail

Lord Greville Janner: A look at the Labour peer in the news... More »

2nd, May 2015 Chelsea

Chelsea balls: Mourinho's men get one hour to celebrate the title

helsea are within a whisker of winning the Premier League. Mourinho's masters are just three 0-0 draws away from the title.... More »

1st, May 2015 In Pictures

Patrick Bergsma‘s sculptures are when trees take over

Humanity clings on... More »

1st, May 2015 TV & Radio

Fascinating Repairmen: A Japanese TV show about mending things like a book and a grater

'Fascinating Repairmen' is a Japanese series featuring people giving a new lease of life to old objects. Some of these are much loved items, like the book in the video below. Others are just bit odd. And the more random the item, the more desperate, touching and intriguing the show gets. ... More »

1st, May 2015 Chelsea

Chelsea balls: Peter Cech defies the tabloids as Arsenal look on

Chelsea goalkeeper Peter Cech is heading out of Stamford Bridge. Arsenal are keen to land him; and Cech would be happy to remain in London... More »

1st, May 2015 Reviews

Westminster paedos: one complaint exposes Lord Bramall of Bushfield to the media's 'witch hunt'

Westminster peados: a look at reporting on an alleged cover up of VIP child abuse... More »

1st, May 2015 Liverpool

Liverpool balls: Who called Brendan Rodgers a 'tactical genius'? Brendan Rodgers did

Liverpool Balls: Who said that Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers was a genius? Says Rodgers... More »

1st, May 2015 Strange But True

Another WTF Japanese game show - Spread Your Legs

Japan out-weirds itself again... More »

1st, May 2015 Strange But True

Wanted man arrested after ‘liking’ his own wanted poster on Facebook

Much as we like the idea that villains are master crimianls who stay one step ahead of the rules and bend technology to their aims, the reality is that many criminals are idiots.... More »

1st, May 2015 Strange But True 1

Naked women broke into stranger's house and asked homeowner: 'Am I Pretty?' (photos)

Intruder of the Day is Makena Marie Haydon. The Arizona Daily Sun 20-year-old Makena broke into a stranger’s house. She then removed all her clothes and bounced up and down on his bed... More »

1st, May 2015 Reviews

Amazon shoot a massive penis into space

This is the unmanned Blue Origin suborbital spacecraft, New Shepard, which has soared 307,000 feet into the skies.... More »

30th, April 2015 Strange But True 1

Is Nothing Safe? Goat in court to see her rapist jailed

To Kenya, where a man is forced to confront the goat he raped, in court before getting 10 years in prison. More »

30th, April 2015 The Consumer

Prepare to vomit with embarrassment: 'Taste & Colour' by Green & Black’s is every sense of terrible

As Robert Popper says: "Prepare to vomit with embarrassment".... More »

30th, April 2015 Arsenal

Arsenal: player's mother banned by club for 'scuffle'

The mother of Arsenal youngster Ainsley Maitland-Niles has reportedly been banned from entering the club’s training ground after scuffling with a member of the Gunners’ back-room staff during a recent Under-21 game. More »

30th, April 2015 In Pictures

South Korean seaweed farms seen from space

NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center has photos from January 2014 of seaweed farms around Sisan Island, South Korea... More »

30th, April 2015 Reviews

Comment is Weird: brilliant Tumblr takes the piss out of Guardian writers

As Xeni Jardin says, "every single one of these is a gem". Comment Is Weird is a parody of the Guardian's Comment is Free. Just when you think something is beyond parody, someone goes and proves you wrong... More »

30th, April 2015 Reviews

A day out in Southend with the skinheads 7th April 1980 (photos)

On 7th April 1980, John Downing photographed skinheads enjoying the bank holiday weekend in Southend, Essex.... More »