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10th, June 2013 Reviews

In photos: The Party at Serralves art festival

Wrapped in art... More »

10th, June 2013 Celebrities

Psychic Derek Acorah cancels show dues to unforeseen circumstances

Ha-ha... More »

10th, June 2013 Sports

Donald Trump honoured that his Aberdeen golf complex won six star Donald Trump golf complex award

Hairy tycoon Donald Trump's Scottish golf course is the world's best. The American Academy of Hospitality Sciences has awarded Trump's Aberdeen course its Six Star Diamond Award.... More »

10th, June 2013 Strange But True

Chimpanzee eats boy's buttocks

Paddy's friends says the chimpanzee attacked him from behind... More »

9th, June 2013 Strange But True

In pictures: Oleksiy Pinko sticks his head in a lion's mouth

Mr Pinko performs with Veronika Pinko at Ukraine's National Circus. They tame lions... More »

9th, June 2013 Reviews

In photos: the 2013 Appleby Horse Fair

Lady Godiva is away... More »

9th, June 2013 Strange But True

World's faster clapper Bryan Bednarek manages 802 claps in one minute

The world's fastest clapper is... Bryan Bednarek... More »

9th, June 2013 Sports 1

Gareth Bale: Now worth £100m the Spurs star snubs Real Madrid for the USA

Having reported that that Bale is ready to sign a £1300,000 / £200,000 deal to keep the "£50m" player at Spurs, the sports media has more facts. We've rounded them up... More »

8th, June 2013 In Pictures

Colonel Meow is the internet's angriest cat - 13 photos

And how was your day..? More »

8th, June 2013 Reviews

The best local news photo of 2013? There's a live rat in my toilet what am I gonna do?

This is a new contender for the greatest local news photo of all time... More »

8th, June 2013 Strange But True

Bear filmed opening cars door and looking for cash and phones

Before I read The Worst-Case Scenario Survival Handbook, I'd supposed the best way to dodge a bear would be to show it a picture of drippy Rupert Bear in his hideous trousers and hand it a pass to a local golf club... More »

8th, June 2013 In Pictures

Rock Hudson - a life in 51 photos

The Hollywood great... More »

8th, June 2013 Celebrities

On January 21, 1958, Rock Hudson told his wife he was gay - a Private Dick made this recording

Phyllis: "You told me you saw thousands of butterflies and also snakes. [A therapist] told me in my analysis that butterflies mean femininity and snakes represent that male penis..." More »

8th, June 2013 Reviews

Wife attempted to murder husband in fight over remote control

Seems reasonable... More »

8th, June 2013 Technology

Photoshop Live - hidden cameras make photobomb selfies of people waiting at the bus stop

Photobombing with photoshop... More »

7th, June 2013 Sports

Why are England rubbish? Blame the foreigners says Graham Taylor

How bad are Roy Hodgson's England? The Daily Mail's Riath Al-Samarrai says England are in danger of missing out on the Brazil World Cup. And he knows why... More »

7th, June 2013 Flashback

In 1979 Philip Glass taught Sesame Street viewers the Geometry of Circles

Continuing our occasional look at Sesame Street, arguably the greatest ever children's TV show, we look back at Philip Glass's appearance on it... More »

7th, June 2013 Film

11 pictures of actors laughing between takes

The more serious the film, the better the laughter appears... More »

7th, June 2013 Reviews

Man breaks into bar, steal and drinks beer, passes out on floor

The end for Bell... More »

7th, June 2013 Politicians

Mexico elects cat as mayor

Morris has been put forward as the citizens' candidate for elections taking place on July 7th and cat-lovers are probably chortling to themselves as they say "Well! He can't do any worse than the humans! HAR HAR!".. More »

7th, June 2013 Reviews

Who photobombed the Queens BBC news photobomb?

Who photobombed the BBC news photobomber? More »

7th, June 2013 Flashback

Photos and video: The Coronation Review of The Fleet at Spithead, 1953

On July 14 1953 the newly crowned Queen was piped onboard... More »

7th, June 2013 Reviews 2

Selfridges watch raid: photos of the burkas bandits and the man who caught one

They didn't all get that far. The six men dressed in burkas who smashed the watch display units at Selfridges on Oxford Street, London, ran out and into a waiter called Mohamed Hussein... More »

7th, June 2013 Celebrities

Justin Bieber's philosophical and spiritual views on space travel and God are top secret

What happens at Bieber's stays at Bieber's... More »

7th, June 2013 Celebrities

Example reads his new wife a 10-minute poem in Bora Bora

10 minutes... More »