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14th, October 2014 Reviews 5

Oscar Pistorius 'Will Be Gang Raped' In Prison

OSCAR Pistorius shot his lover dead. But he can't got to prison because... More »

14th, October 2014 Sports 2

Liverpool Balls: Raheem Sterling Has Only 18 Hours Off A Week To Sleep, Eat And Call His Agent

Ian Wright adds his view to the Raheem Sterling story - the one about his being too 'tired' to start for England in Estonia... More »

14th, October 2014 In Pictures 1

Rare And Wonderful Photographs Of Syria Before 1940

Syria is a historical hotspot... More »

14th, October 2014 Strange But True

Is Nothing Safe? Blackburn Man Has Sex With A Teddy Bear To The Iggy Pop Beat

IS Nothing Safe? A 38-year-old Blackburn man was arrested for burglarising an allotment after police matched his DNA to semen found inside a teddy bear... More »

14th, October 2014 The Consumer

Along The Underground Railroad At Night

WE can travel down the Underground Railroad with Jeanine Michna-Bales, who created Through Darkness to Light, the slaves' journey to freedom in Canada... More »

14th, October 2014 Arsenal

Transfer Balls: Chelsea, Arsenal, Sami Khedira And A Bouncing Cech

TRANSFER Balls: Much talk about Sami Khedira, the Real Madrid and Germany player linked with a move to Arsenal and Chelsea... More »

14th, October 2014 manchester united

Manchester United Balls: A Killer In The Hotel And The Newspaper Offices

THE Sun leads with news of Manchester United and the killer in the hotel... More »

14th, October 2014 Celebrities

Ched Evans Turns Judy Finnigan Into A Monster

IS there anything that makes you think the Daily Mirror is not siding with Judy Finnigan in the matter of footballer and convicted rapist Ched Evans... More »

14th, October 2014 Reviews

The Detroit Watch Mystery: Sgt. Alex Vinson Does Time

WHEN a man's body was found in Detroit, police noted the smart German-made watch on his wrist... More »

13th, October 2014 Reviews

Why There Are No Zebras In Porton Down

ANTHRAX makes your greass greener... More »

13th, October 2014 In Pictures

Photos Of The Day: October 13 2014

Today's 10... More »

13th, October 2014 Key Posts

FIGHT! The Most Brutal Sporting Punch-Ups Ever

PROFESSIONAL sports (and amateur events) can, as we all know, get a little bit out of hand. Players pump themselves up for the occasion and, sometimes, all the wiring in the athlete goes wrong and that energy is transferred into violence... More »

13th, October 2014 Arsenal

Transfer Balls: Arsenal Take £12m Loss On Mesut Ozil For Not Playing Him In The Middle

TRANSFER Balls: Is Mesut Özil on hio way out of Arsenal? The Guardian has news... More »

13th, October 2014 The Consumer 1

Who Drew This Massive Knob On The Banksy Artwork On A Folkstone Wall?

SAD news for art fans. A critic has augmented a Banksy artwork on Folkestone's Rendezvous Street with a generous penis... More »

13th, October 2014 Liverpool 2

Liverpool Balls: 'Tired' Bighead Raheem Sterling Is No Diehard 'Rested' Leighton Baines

Alongside Alan Shearer's drivel-to-deadline for the Sun about how Sterling is a big-time Charlie who should be ashamed of himself and is unfit to wear the shirt, a small box appraises each England player... More »

13th, October 2014 Liverpool

Liverpool's Raheem Sterling Is Not Nearly As Tired As Alan Shearer, Robbie Savage And All Cloth-Eared Pundits

LIVERPOOL FC's Raheem Sterling is a bright talent. He's a great prospect for England. So. Time for the media pundits to get on his back and apply the pressure. He's 19. He can handle it. Right?... More »

13th, October 2014 Money

Not Only Did Hitler Have Only One Ball, He Was A Wanker

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13th, October 2014 Books

Jack Kerouac’s Google Driving Directions: On the Road for 17,527 Mile

Thanks to Gregor Weichbrodt's work on Google Maps, you can now study this 45-page manual of driving directions to all locations mentioned in the book. On the Road for 17,527 Miles is a treat... More »

13th, October 2014 Key Posts 2

Oil Wars: Saudi Arabian Terror And Obama's Subservience Are At The Heart Of The IS Crisis

Last year, Syria's Bashar al-Assad was the enemy. He had crossed Barack Obama's "red line", the President of America reasoning that shooting people in the face was not as bad as poisoining them... More »

12th, October 2014 Reviews 3

Bad Names: Manchester's Yewtree Grooming Dog Parlour

Might want to look at the name again...? More »

12th, October 2014 Reviews 1

Faces of 1971: GIs Ed Norris And Bob Dickey Smnoke Marijuana In Saigon

Roooooool, another one.... More »

12th, October 2014 Politicians

Things Douglas Carswell Compares The Conservative Party To

UKIP MP, Tory turncoat and man of Clacton Douglas Carswell likes comparing the Conservative Party to things... More »

12th, October 2014 Reviews

Ebola: Sign Tells Liberians To 'Stop Washing Dead Bodies'

Preventing Ebola in Liberia... More »

12th, October 2014 Reviews 1

Captagon Pills Keep The IS Jihadis Cool As Kobane Bleeds

THE People brings readers: Inside Kobane: Drug-crazed ISIS savages rape, slaughter and behead children... More »

12th, October 2014 Reviews

Ebola: Lessons From The SARS Epidemic And Panic

You can’t take a corkscrew with you on an aeroplane, but you can take a deadly virus. However much we want to believe the soothing words from the authorities about how difficult it is to catch ebola — and they are right — we may still feel a primordial shudder... More »