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15th, December 2013 Reviews

Daily Mail Letter Of The Year: Obesity Is Human Evolution

Congratulations to Faye Campbell... More »

15th, December 2013 Technology

Robot Librarians Are Fighting Robot Thieves For Control Of The Internet

Did you know that 61% of all web traffic is created by robots? ... More »

15th, December 2013 Celebrities

Peter O'Toole 1932-2013 - A Life In Rare Photos And Cigarettes

O’Toole, an Irish bookmaker’s son with a hell-raising streak whose magnetic performance in the 1962 epic film Lawrence of Arabia earned him overnight fame and put him on the road to becoming one of his generation’s most accomplished and charismatic actors, died... More »

15th, December 2013 Film

Jmes Bond's Drinking Linked To 2.5 Million Deaths Every Year Around The World

Rachel Nuwer looks at the work by British doctor Patrick Davies, from Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, and a colleague... More »

15th, December 2013 Reviews 7

In 2008 Al Gore Said 'Entire north polar ice cap will be gone in 5 years' - Syrians Make Snowballs

More bad science from Al... More »

15th, December 2013 Arsenal

Arsenal Sign Language Balls: Jack Wilshere Was Asking Manchester City For The Toilet

Sure, it looked as if he was giving Manchester City fans the finger at the Etihad. But... More »

15th, December 2013 In Pictures 3

Nelson Mandela's State Funeral: In Photos

After the pubic show, the private burial... More »

15th, December 2013 Flashback 1

1944 In Photos: Making Cheese With The Trappist Monks Of Rochefort, Belgium

Shhh. Keep it yourselves... More »

15th, December 2013 The Consumer

What Is An Alien Chest Buster Soft Toy?

Who came up with the name? More »

15th, December 2013 Madeleine McCann

Madeleine McCann: The UFO Spy Plane Theory

With no weather to report on, the Express returns to Our Maddie... More »

14th, December 2013 Flashback

In 1966 The Beatles Burned For Jesus

On March 4, 1966, John Lennon, 25, was talking to Maureen Cleave, reporting for the London Evening Standard. The article was entitled How Does A Beatle Live? John Lennon Lives Like This. It was behind-the-scnes look at John... More »

14th, December 2013 Sports

Everton Balls: Robbie Savage Tips Martinez's Marvels To Finish 8th, 7th and 4th

An expert says... More »

14th, December 2013 TV & Radio 1

Tennessee's Stella And Ella Brown Perform Their Pantomime As Perry Como Croons Silent Night

Stella and Ella (she's on the left) are the Brown Twin Sisters... More »

14th, December 2013 Strange But True

Panther (Not Leopard) Spotted In Epping Forest

To Epping Forest, where the big cat is on the loose... More »

14th, December 2013 Reviews

Who Damaged The Scrabble Artwork?

“It's become quite a feature in the area and it’s disappointing to see some low-life cretin come along and do something like that to it,” says former Labor MP Bob Kucera... More »

14th, December 2013 Books

Bob Carey Travels The World In His Pink Tutu To Make His Cancer-Suffering Wife Laugh

A husband's love... More »

14th, December 2013 In Pictures

11 Worrying Restaurant Names

Meet you at the Shat Inn... More »

14th, December 2013 Flashback

Christmas Disco! The 70s Songs Played At Christmastime In Hell

Disco, once an underground movement, flooded pop culture in the latter half of the 70s to such an extent that a backlash was inevitable... More »

14th, December 2013 Key Posts

Top 5 Sign Language Moments That Don't Involve Nelson Mandela

After a man, stood onstage at Nelson Mandela's memorial waving his arms around wildly, making up sign language as he went along, leaving deaf South Africans wondering if they were watching someone being attacked by invisible wasps, it got us appreciating what those who do sign-language can do... More »

14th, December 2013 Music

Copyright Treasure Trove: Fans Of 60s Music - A Goldmine Awaits You

The news that rare Beatles recordings are being released on iTunes next week, all 59 tracks of it! Recordings from '63 will be unleashed on the world, but weirdly, without the usual fanfare of usual Beatle releases... More »

13th, December 2013 Celebrities

Jaden Smith’s Words of Wisdom: The Movie

Wise beyond his years (how old is he?)... More »

13th, December 2013 manchester united

Manchester United Balls: Zlatan Ibrahimovic To Bring Moyes Harmony

Robbie Savage has a deadline to hit... More »

13th, December 2013 Books

Buy An Angel And Keep A Cartoonist In His London Home This Christmas

Brian Davis has been handing out free drawings in London... More »

13th, December 2013 Key Posts 4

Life Copying Borat: Romania Celebrates The Holocaust

Sung by the Dor Transilvan ensemble, it featured the lyrics: “The kikes, damn kikes, Holy God would not leave the kike alive, neither in heaven nor on earth, only in the chimney as smoke, this is what the kike is good for, to make kike smoke through the chimney on the street.”.. More »

13th, December 2013 Music 1

Spotify Launch Free Music Service For Mobiles

Of course, there'll be ads... More »