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8th, August 2013 Technology 4

Life mirrors the Skylarks of Space - military workers killed by telepathy

One theory is that telepathy caused four young Turkish engineers to kill themselves in 2006 and 2007. Some suspect foul play had a hand in the deaths ASELSAN engineers Hüseyin Başbilen, Halim Ünsem Ünal, Evrim Yançeken and Burhaneddin Volkan... More »

8th, August 2013 In Pictures

Faces in inanimate objects - volume 2

Do you see faces in things? Do you see Ed Miliband in a train? We do. We see faces in inanimate objects. If they have a face, do they have a brain, a heart and feelings? Is that light switch watching you?.. More »

8th, August 2013 Sports 46

Transfer Balls: Arsenal offer £51m for Liverpool's Luis Suarez and Brendan Rodgers just won't shut up

Transfer Balls: News of Liverpool's soon-to-be-former striker in the news media... More »

8th, August 2013 Flashback

A pictorial history of King's Cross Station

King's Cross Station is named in honour of George IV. Fitting, perhaps, that our pictorial history of the grand London terminus (born: 1852) should feature many images of the Royal Family to-ing and fro-ing... More »

7th, August 2013 Sports 1

Transfer Balls: Luis Suarez wants Arsenal and Spurs teach Liverpool how to strike a deal

Liverpool and that Luis Suarez saga continues... More »

7th, August 2013 Flashback

Brompton Road Tube Station: photos of the secret bunker in the smart part of London

Torture chamber for sale... More »

7th, August 2013 Celebrities 2

How to pull and mate with Brittany Furlan, Queen of Vine

She gets it...in six seconds... More »

7th, August 2013 Sports 1

Monty Panesar: Bothers women and urinates on bouncers

Spin on that... More »

7th, August 2013 Politicians 3

How newspapers work: David Cameron's family holiday in The Guardian

To the journalisomobile... More »

7th, August 2013 Money 2

How can we tax Amazon's Profits if Amazon doesn't make any profits?

You'll have seen all the furore about how Amazon are such bastards for not paying any taxes on their vast profits made by selling us stuff for cheap... More »

7th, August 2013 Money

Real Madrid and Barcelona: Buying Spurs Gareth Bale and other stars is part of a tax scam?

ax story is really getting out of hand: they're insisting that Real Madrid and Barca are tax scams now... More »

7th, August 2013 Sports

Spurs Balls: Arsenal and Liverpool in race for Gareth Bale

Only 9 Gareth Bales. Nine Gareth Bay-alls.... More »

7th, August 2013 The Consumer

Marmite advert 'mocks' child protection agencies and fat police

AdWatch spots this Marmite advert which parodies the work of animal welfare officers... More »

7th, August 2013 Strange But True

Chinese man 'beaten to death' by council workers wakes up in the heat

It's 4pm. More than 10 men are holding Han's "corpse" on a gurney near the Jianghan Road subway station in the provincial capital Wuhan.... More »

7th, August 2013 In Pictures

Misspelled road signs - 23 of the best

Bmup in the road... More »

7th, August 2013 Key Posts 1

The media-stoked moral panic over Ask.fm suicides and Twitter hate

Trolling is big news. The latest story is that young people using the site Ask.fm are dying. This follows news that women are being subjected to vile abuse on Twitter. But only women to whom the mass media is sympathetic are featured as victims. And that is odd.... More »

6th, August 2013 Sports 5

Transfer Balls: Luis Suarez says Liverpool told him he could leave for Arsenal this summer

And lo, Liverpool's Luis Suarez did speak to the the Guardian... More »

6th, August 2013 Strange But True

Prophet steals women's panties and changes into funny creature and a child

"As if that was not enough, whenever I try to go to another church, I will be seeing the goblins which will be ordering me to return to Prophet Grinder's church..." More »

6th, August 2013 In Pictures

Epic family photos - more epicures of holiday hell

So. You went on holiday with the kids / mum and dad / your sister / brother and they embarrassed the hell out of you with their clothes and their breathing. Photos were taken. Or evidence, as your defence lawyer calls them... More »

6th, August 2013 Money 3

How cutting bankers' bonuses buggers up bankers' pay

There's a new EU rule that says that bankers cannot get a bonus of more than two times their basic pay. So, what are people doing to make sure that they can meet this new law? They're raising that basic pay. More »

6th, August 2013 Politicians

Sydney Leathers Tweet and tell: 10 ways to get Anthony Weiner to send you a signed picture of his dick

Sydney Leathers, recipient of Anthony Weiner's dirty photos and texts, has published her 10 Secrets for Seducing a Politician... More »

6th, August 2013 Politicians

M'Lords are now referring to each other by their twitter names in Parliament

Lord twitter... More »

6th, August 2013 Flashback

Judge John Crater: On August 6 1930 Supreme Court judge became The Missingest Man in New York

The missingest man in New York... More »

6th, August 2013 Strange But True 3

Massive bus-sized lump of fat blocks London sewer

The water company wants its customers to know how valiant it is, reporting that had it not been removed it "could have led to sewage flooding many homes, streets and businesses"... More »

6th, August 2013 Strange But True

Massive walking prawn found in jungles of Marang

Chuck it on the barbie, Ismail Jusoh, 49, who found a huge prawn-like creature among the flora in Kampung Alor Tuman, Marang... More »