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16th, December 2014 Manchester City 1

Manchester City balls: Barcelona star makes a vow in 2D

Manchester City play Barcelona in the Champions' League and the Sun talk is of war and fighting... More »

15th, December 2014 manchester united

Man United player in match-fixing investigation

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15th, December 2014 Reviews

Tabloid tropes: in 2014 Daily Express readers were living longer

Tabloid tropes: we've seen that 2014 was a big year for Madeleine McCann news (surely no news - ed), Alzheimer's cures, Big Brother and miracles in diabetes. 2014 is also the eyar when the Daily Express realised that the best way to stop its readership falling is to keep its readership alive for longer... More »

15th, December 2014 Reviews

Sydney siege: what we know, don't know and bumping into the gunman's hard centre

To Sydney, where a bearded gunman is holding around 12 people hostage at the Lindt Chocolat Cafe in Martin Place. The hostages are holding aloft an Islamic flag... More »

15th, December 2014 Gifs

Action Panda: the best gif of 2014

Action Panda has it all... More »

14th, December 2014 Reviews

Privacy balls: Jennifer Lawrence is naked and naughty but Sony is fair game

The Sony email hack has attracted no headlines decrying an invasion of privacy. Nick Gillespie wonder why this double standard exists?... More »

14th, December 2014 Celebrities

X Factor miracle Mel B rises again as near-death experience hits headlines

Earlier we learned that Mel B has been at death's door. Had it not been for a driver, she'd be an ex ex-Spice Girl... More »

14th, December 2014 Reviews 1

Anti-gay protester 'marries a horse'

Are all anti-gay pastors nutjobs? To Mississippi, where a pastor has dressed a horse in a wedding dress to protest gay marriage... More »

14th, December 2014 Reviews

78-year-old prosecuted for having sex with his Alzheimer’s afflicted wife

An Iowa state lawmaker says he loved visiting his wife at a nursing home before her death at age 79. But prosecutors have filed felony charges against him, saying that her Alzheimer's made her unable to consent to his sexual desires... Henry Rayhons, 78, now out on a $10,000 bond... More »

14th, December 2014 Reviews

British soldiers told not to shout at jihadis

Can you interrogate the abnormal by conventional means?... More »

14th, December 2014 Liverpool

Liverpool balls: Rodgers' good sports defy Manchester United's bad referee

Henry Winter knows... More »

14th, December 2014 Money

The Guardian ask readers how they survive without a cleaner

The Guardian is not beyond parody yet... More »

14th, December 2014 Money 1

So. I found a secret capsule full of treasure in a Tennessee wardrobe

You ever find treasure? Real treasure? One Reddit user went to his grandpa's home in Tenneessee and found a haul. Evilenglish writes: “I always dreamed of finding something like this." You and use all. .. More »

14th, December 2014 Liverpool

Liverpool fans looking to abuse Manchester United boss Van Gaal will have to top this

As Manchester Unted play Liverpool in the Premier League, the Sun wonders what the most offensive thing United manager Louis Van Gaal has heard... More »

14th, December 2014 Royal Family 1

Kate Middleton was gagging for it in New York: up yours LeBron James

This week columnists have been earning their crust by talking about Kate Middleton, Duchess of Cambridge, who was on a money-raising mission to New York... More »

14th, December 2014 Celebrities

What really happened to X Factor judge Mel B: the driver affair and a magic husband

Mel B - nee Melanie Brown and known later as Scary Spice - is all over the tabloids. The X Factor final is on the tell. And Mel B. one of this show's judges, is ill.... More »

13th, December 2014 Books

Liz Prince On Tomboy: 'I’ve always thought about gender'

"I’ve always thought about gender, as someone who has been categorically ‘gender nonconforming’ for my entire life..." More »

13th, December 2014 Reviews 1

This is your brain on alcohol and marijuana - 2 compare and contrast videos

AsapSCIENCE have produced a video on what happens to your brain on alcohol. This delicious “feelings of release and freedom” allow you to “think very little, but with great clarity”... More »

13th, December 2014 Fashion

Science decides: if you want to defeat men wear high heels

Do high heels make you men go weak at the knees? This just in from science... More »

13th, December 2014 Celebrities

Sex with Bill Cosby is 'like necrophilia' with a white woman

Bill Cosby’s getting a kicking in the Sun. The headline declares: Bill Cosby's hooked on sex with sleeping women... More »

13th, December 2014 Reviews

Starbucks v corn flakes: Cereal Killer hipsters complain about Channel 4 treatment

Dear Symeon Brown... More »

13th, December 2014 Reviews

Westminster paedophiles: Arthur Hutchinson, Geoffrey Dickens, hunting gays and Elm Guest House Tales

Westminster paedophiles: a look at the story of child abuse in the 1970s and 1980s... More »

13th, December 2014 Books

Ray Bradbury: how to burn a book without fire

Thought for the day... More »

12th, December 2014 Liverpool

Liverpool balls: Flirting with relgation

Robbie Savage is sticking up for Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers in the Daily Mirror... More »

12th, December 2014 In Pictures

Spanish artist satirises society with seductive images of lust, greed and censorship

Spanish artist Luis Quiles works under the name Gunsmithcat on DeviantArt... More »