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11th, July 2013 Flashback 1

The 22 most unusual names in American political history

What's in a name, Govnor Teats? More »

11th, July 2013 Reviews

Photos of the 2013 Belfast Battle of the Boyne Bonfire season

The summer is here. The heat is high. Time, then, to build a gigantic bonfire at New Mossley on the outskirts of Belfast... More »

11th, July 2013 Sports 1

Spurs' Gareth Bale taught Liverpool's Luis Suarez everything he knows about moving to Real Madrid

The Sun has a Luis Suarez scoop worthy of its back-page... More »

10th, July 2013 Celebrities

Jennifer Lopez lives her life as if walking in a perfume advert

Jenny a Jenny who owns the block and can get you evicted is the subject of a W Magazine article in which she returns to her roots in New York's Bronx... More »

10th, July 2013 Reviews

Global warming tuns pet lizards into man eaters

Is there anything global warming can't do?... More »

10th, July 2013 Books

Apple conspired to keep e-book prices artifically high as libraries die

The BBC reports on a ruling that Apple "conspired with publishers to fix the price of electronic books"... More »

10th, July 2013 Reviews

Fugitive caught after tweeting 'catch me if you can' (cough PRISM)

Imagine being a cocky criminal and going on the running, taunting authorities via Twitter yelling: "Catch me if you can!" Only one thing was ever going to happen wasn't it?... More »

10th, July 2013 Politicians 4

Irish Senator Terry Leyden says Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini were 'good Christians'

Fianna Fail Senator Terry Leyden tells the Senate that Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini were "good Christians"... More »

10th, July 2013 Sports

Transfer balls: Alan Pardew models Newcastle United on Blanc's PSG

With most eyes on Newcastle United's recruitment of Joe Kinnear, the club's manager Alan Pardew has been largely overlooked... More »

10th, July 2013 Sports 1

Transfer balls: Spurs target David Villa replaces Wayne Rooney at Manchester United

A look at David Villa, the Barcelona striker on his way to Spurs. Well, so they said... More »

10th, July 2013 Reviews

Royal hoax DJ Mel Grieg blames her employers for nurse's death - but that's ridiculous

Mel Greig is suing Southern Cross Australia, her employer, for "failing to provide a safe workplace over her involvement in the prank"... More »

10th, July 2013 Sports

Desperate PR: Man decaptiated at football match makes you money

Classy stuff.... More »

10th, July 2013 Money

Fact v fear: nine scare stories that make mugs of the British

A survey for the Royal Statistical Society and King’s College London looks at scare stories and the facts behind them. These are the popular misperceptions... More »

10th, July 2013 Strange But True

Flat blown apart by rhubarb chutney

When she went to investigate, she saw that her fridge door had been blown off and knocked a chunk from the opposite wall. Not only that, the roof had also temporarily come off, leaving cracks in the wall... More »

9th, July 2013 Sports 2

Transfer Balls: Luis Suarez leaves Liverpool to be Arsenal's next Higuain

Liverpool's Luis Suarez will not be a Red for much longer if the experts are right... More »

9th, July 2013 Reviews

All hail the Wife Carrying Championships!

Last weekend, hundreds of people entered the with each competitor tackling a track that is 253.5 metres in length... More »

9th, July 2013 Reviews 1

PokerStars to Celebrate 100 Billionth Hand With $5 Million Giveaway

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9th, July 2013 Key Posts 5

The Internet and the old-guard media disagree on the cult of Edward Snowden

Thank Zod for the Internet, especially Twitter, because without them you’d be hard-pressed to know anybody here in America is rooting for poor Edward Snowden these days... More »

9th, July 2013 In Pictures 1

20 WTF signs

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9th, July 2013 TV & Radio

A cockatiel plays peekaboo

Peek..a...boo More »

9th, July 2013 Sports

Gareth Bale Balls: Spurs make Bale an offer he can't refuse

The Daily Bale: A look at Spurs star Gareth Bale in the news... More »

9th, July 2013 Reviews

Flight attendant accused of smuggling live rats in her knickers

The allegation is that American Airlines stewardess Louann Giambattista, 55, smuggled rats inside her underwear... More »

9th, July 2013 Flashback

Virginia Wade heads a list of British Wimbledon champions erased from the record books

When Andy Murray won Wimbledon some of you might have picked up the whiff of misogyny... More »

9th, July 2013 Celebrities

Michael Caine explains the power of blinking in this acting workshop

Caine shares with us the power of not blinking,. He keeps on going.... and going... in this acting workshop... More »

9th, July 2013 Reviews

Oliver Sacks: old age is a time of freedom and exploration

Last night I dreamed about mercury — huge, shining globules of quicksilver rising and falling. Mercury is element number 80, and my dream is a reminder that on Tuesday, I will be 80 myself... More »