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25th, September 2013 Sports

Bayern Munich sign Manchester United's Robert Lewandowski, says the Sun

orussia Dortmund striker Robert Lewandowski is not going to play for Manchester United... More »

25th, September 2013 Sports

Female referee at kids football match reduced to tears by abusive parent

The Echo reports that Davis was reduced to "floods of tears" at the comments made during an under-15s Hampshire cup match between Wyvern Youths and Pirelli Pirates Youth in Southampton... More »

25th, September 2013 In Pictures

Westgate Shopping Mall massacre in photos

The horror... More »

25th, September 2013 Reviews

Video: mother and daughter play dead in Kenyan mall

Dead lions... More »

25th, September 2013 Money 1

The Robin Hood Tax is illegal so yah boo suckers

Another very stupid idea shot down because the people proposing it didn't even bother to work out whether it was possible to do what they proposed... More »

25th, September 2013 Politicians

Tessa Jowell wants Ed Miliband to expose himself

It might work... More »

25th, September 2013 The Consumer

Is Motel 6, Mishawaka, Indiana the world's worst hotel? (Photos)

These pics were taken at 3AM on a rainy night in Sept. 2013... More »

25th, September 2013 Celebrities

Simon Cowell commentates as Pudsey the dog urinates on a tyre in Sarratt

What news of Britain's Got Talent winner Pudsey?... More »

25th, September 2013 Money

Real Madrid 'stole' Spurs loving Gareth Bale from Manchester United

eal's president Florentino Pérez says that he got Bale at a great price. Sure, it was €100m (£85.3m) but that's a a steal... More »

24th, September 2013 Sports

Manchester City's Jovetic checks to see if Gareth Bale is watching the Capital One Cup

Anyobody there? More »

24th, September 2013 Reviews

The Fourth Plinth Exhibitions: 6 news objects to decorate Trafalgar Square

The six to consider... More »

24th, September 2013 Strange But True

Pig gets drunk on 18 beers and ends up in a fight with cow

Well, this isn't just the behaviour of humans. One feral pig got blotto and went on something of a violent bender... More »

24th, September 2013 Reviews

Fancy dressers salute drug smugglers Melissa Reid and Michaella McCollum

The British women confessed they knew the bags ere full of the Class A drugs. They face six-years in prison... More »

24th, September 2013 Fashion

Ed Miliband's bespoke suit carries the tag: 'Spencer Hart sincerely hopes you get laid in this product'

Do we care that Ed Miliband wore a Spencer Hart suit for his address to Labour Party conference?... More »

24th, September 2013 TV & Radio

Sex Box: Channel 4 to broadcast people silently shagging in a plastic box

So, for those tuning in, we'll see twentysomethings Rachel and Dean having it away, followed by long-termers Matt and John, and childhood sweethearts Lynette and Des... More »

24th, September 2013 The Consumer

Pepsi drop massive clanger thanks to dreadful choice of 'RAPE' typeface

Coke must be laughing their asses off this week as their blue-canned pals made a horrendous error with one of their marketing campaigns... More »

24th, September 2013 Reviews

Don't go faking your online reviews - it's a criminal act

A year-long investigation by New York prosecutors has found 19 local businesses guilty of faking reviews on sites such as Google and Yelp, a practice that has now earned them over $350,000 in fines and penalties... More »

24th, September 2013 Money

Apple's competition is really Apple

We tend to think 0f Apple's competitors being Samsung, Nokia, HTC and so on. But that's not really true in the smartphone market at present... More »

24th, September 2013 Sports

Arsenal: Nicklas Bendtner wears a My Little Pony on his head

He's a striker... More »

24th, September 2013 Photojournalism

News in photos - September 24 2013: death in Nairobi, Damien McBride's collars and Ben Johnson's foot

Today's events... More »

24th, September 2013 Money

Payday loan firms like Wonga don't actually make any money

The reason that Wonga and the like have such sky high interest rates is simply that it's very expensive, as a portion of the money, to lend small amounts of money for short periods of time. And sadly, there is actually no way around this... More »