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30th, May 2013 Money

Investors worry that the market has reached Peak Facebook?

This might not be good news for people who (follishly) invested in Facebook stock at the IPO... More »

30th, May 2013 Money

We've reached peak farmland! Millions of humans will die (maybe)

EEK! We've reached peak farmland: we'll not expand the fields ever again. That, of course, spells doom for all of us human beans, as there will be ever less food for ever more people. Woe is us... More »

30th, May 2013 Sports

Football boss breaks into mystic's house over love-spell

People in football are all thunderous bores or terrifically crackers. Mercifully, we're looking at the latter here with Jose Laparra... More »

30th, May 2013 Reviews

Stupid criminals steal van filled with corpses

And so, to a group of preposterously simple-minded thieves who have been caught by the police after accidentally stealing a van of dead people... More »

30th, May 2013 Money

Bureaucracy will kill Bitcoin

The thing is, in order for a currency to "work", in the sense of people being able to use it as a currency, it has to interact with the other currencies out there... More »

29th, May 2013 Celebrities

Barbara Eden, 78, looks great in I Dream of Jeannie crop-top and harem pantaloons

Dreams of Jeannie revisited... More »

29th, May 2013 The Consumer

The worst condom adverts of 2013

How you advertise condoms? They can be musical, spiritual, robotic, refreshing, fashionable, seasonal, toothy, oily and tasteless. Here are a few recent ideas: More »

29th, May 2013 Reviews

Parents seek dolphin-assisted birth in Hawaii

Last month, Adam Barringer, 29, and his pregnant wife Heather, 27, boarded a plane for Hawaii. The couple traveled over 4,500 miles in the hopes of welcoming baby Bodhi into the world during a dolphin-assisted birth in Pohoa, Hawaii... More »

29th, May 2013 Strange But True

Baby rescued from small sewage pipe in China (video)

To China, where a very young baby is lodged inside a 10cm diamater sewage pipe leading off a toilet.. More »

29th, May 2013 Strange But True

Rozie the pregnant elephant does her Pilates

Elephants on therapy.... More »

29th, May 2013 Flashback

The Mount Everest story in photos

On May 28, 1953, Edmund Hillary told the rest of the expedition that never made it to the top of Everest, “We knocked the bastard off”... More »

28th, May 2013 The Consumer

The JC Penny Hitler kettle

Tea-total (war) More »

28th, May 2013 Celebrities

Lorra Laughs: Comedians are making even more than footballers

The things is, this increasing inequality of wages, is entirely normal in an industry where technology has allowed one to entertain many... More »

28th, May 2013 Celebrities

Popstar Laura Miller's boob falls out during TV performance

Remember when Janet Jackson had a perfectly orchestrated 'malfunction' with her wardrobe during the Super Bowl, when her boobie fell out?... More »

28th, May 2013 TV & Radio

Doctor Who is racist? And John Simm hates all the fans?

The BBC has had to respond to comments that Doctor Who is 'thunderously racist' after a collection of essays came out called Doctor Who and Race.. More »

28th, May 2013 Sports

Hideous Puma flash mob mocks Borussia Dortmund players after Champions League defeat

When marketing attacks... More »

28th, May 2013 Sports

How much is promotion really worth to Crystal Palace?

Did Kevin Phillips secure a bonus for his decisive goal that saw Crystal Palace beat Watford and qualify for the Premier League?... More »

28th, May 2013 Books 1

Oscar Wilde explains his comment that 'All art is quite useless'

In 1890, Bernulf Clegg wrote asked Oscar Wilde to expand on a line in his preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray: "All art is quite useless." Wilde replied... More »

28th, May 2013 In Pictures

In photos: The EDL demos in Downing Street and Newcastle mean no peace for Lee Rigby

The English Defence League has been making hay form the barbaric murder of Lee Rigby... More »

28th, May 2013 Reviews

Who tossed a puppy at a woman from a moving car?

People can be awful... More »

28th, May 2013 Strange But True

Giant badger attends Folkestone School for Girls

Badgers. Giant badgers! More »

28th, May 2013 Reviews

Brisbane's oldest swingers club forced to close

"We've got single ladies that are crying . . . I mean, we're talking a 20-year-old single lady just crying here.." More »

27th, May 2013 Celebrities 1

Woolwich jihad: Russell Brand compares and contrasts the Koran and The Catcher in The Rye

Likeyou, the Sun knows that when a man is hacked to death as a sacrifice to his alleged killers' god, Russell Brand's view is important... More »

27th, May 2013 Reviews

Boy Scouts accept gay boys through the back door in Albert Lea

The sub-editor's art... More »

27th, May 2013 Reviews

Sweden riots: Police slap parking tickets on burnt out cars

There's been a spate of rioting in Sweden. Every night since May 19, people in a mostly poor immigrant area have been smashing up and burning things... More »