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25th, July 2013 Sports

Transfer balls: Liverpool slash Luis Suarez asking price to entice Arsenal

Is Liverpool's Luis Suarez for sale or not?... More »

25th, July 2013 Royal Family

How Belfast and Dublin received news of Prince George's birth

Births and deaths... More »

24th, July 2013 Sports 6

Transfer balls: Liverpool allow Luis Suarez to talk to Arsenal (and his tribunal lawyer)

Is Luis Suarez leaving Liverpool for Arsenal? Today we learnt... More »

24th, July 2013 Celebrities 2

The decline of man: the steady emasculation of our role models

. One thing is true, though: ‘ball ironing’ (or ‘male laser lift’) is available at the Beauty Park in Santa Monica for just under $600, and it is proving very popular... More »

24th, July 2013 Reviews

Teacher sacked for saving all the children's lives

Hammack went back to her class to make sure everything was okay, woke the kiddiewinks up, guided them outside, before going back in and successfully extinguishing the fire... More »

24th, July 2013 Celebrities

Homecoming Queen wants Nirvana in campaign video... just one problem

You know how Kurt Cobain famously killed himself and joined the infamous '27 Club' back in the '90s? Well, one poor cheerleader missed the memo... More »

24th, July 2013 Sports

Transfer balls: Arsenal beat Spurs and Liverpool to Brazil winger and defender Bernard

Such are the facts... More »

24th, July 2013 Money 2

Crystal Palace underground toilets are now a compact and bijou home (photo)

Architect Laura Jane Clark has transformed these ancient Crystal Palace Parade underground toilets (built: 1929; closed in the 1980s) into a 600 square foot home... More »

24th, July 2013 The Consumer

A sex act and three mayonnaise enemas spice up Canadian Fringe Festival

The Hen Pit show at the Winnipeg Fringe Festival features naked actors Doug Melnyk and Ian Mozdzens, three mayonnaise enemas and a sexual act... More »

24th, July 2013 Strange But True 1

Zonkey: rare zebra-donkey born in Italy

To Florence, where a zonkey is making news. A zonkey is a cross between a zebra and a donkey... More »

24th, July 2013 Sports

Transfer balls: Higuain wants 'dream' move to Arsenal as he signs for Napoli

What news of the Argentine..? More »

24th, July 2013 Sports

Transfer balls: Real Madrid sign Spurs star Gareth Bale on six-year contract for no money

Talking balls... More »

23rd, July 2013 Flashback

Jane Elliott's experiments in racism - blues eyes v brown eyes

In 1968, in response to the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a third grade teacher, Ms. Jane Elliott, in all-white, all-Christian, Riceville, Iowa, involved her students in an exercise in discrimination based on eye colour... More »

23rd, July 2013 In Pictures 1

12 Royal baby photos - first look at the future King's face

The first photo... More »

23rd, July 2013 Sports

Transfer balls: Manchester United buy Barcelona's Cesc Fabregas for three David Moyes

Will Manchester United buy Cesc Fabregas from Barcelona? Will Arsenal step in to scupper any bid for their former captain? Will David Moyes turn into Brendan Rodgers? ... More »

23rd, July 2013 Film

Classic movies sing Ice Ice Baby

Over 280 different films have been spliced together to replicate the lyrics, and it flows like a harpoon (daily and nightly)... More »

23rd, July 2013 Celebrities

Beyoncé's hair gets Stuck in a fan - the videos

No.1 fan... More »

23rd, July 2013 Reviews

Did the media go overboard for Trayvon Martin?

Did the British medi make too much of the Trayvon Martin story? Roger L. Simon looks at the facts... More »

23rd, July 2013 Money

The idiocy of gambling on dumb luck

Jordi Brandts and colleagues got a group of [fourth-year finance] students to predict a sequence of five coin tosses.. More »

23rd, July 2013 Sports

Andy Murray Royal Mail stamps are just product placement for his watch

These Andy Murray stamps to mark his status as Wimbledon Champion are a move away for celebration to product placement... More »

23rd, July 2013 Reviews 2

Transfer balls: Arsenal striker Higuain signs for Napoli but won't leave Real Madrid

Transfer Balls: a look at the news that Arsenal have missed out on Real Madrid striker Gonzalo Higuain. Or have they..? More »

23rd, July 2013 Money

The Guardian makes a hash of biomass and gasoline use

Thisis really rather good in The Guardian. Further evidence that the people who produce it just don't understand numbers... More »

23rd, July 2013 Reviews

Watch as explosion goes off live in newsroom!

ITV and Sky are determined to make explosive news, however, neither hold a candle to KIII-TV in Texas... More »

23rd, July 2013 Royal Family 1

The Guardian's snobby Republicans replace the Royal baby news of Comic Con and 2D heroes

The Guardian gives its online readers two versions of its front page... More »

23rd, July 2013 Royal Family

Royal Baby: 'Its a black boy' on Sky News with Kate Burley (video)

At one point she asked the crowd what they thought of the news... More »