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27th, May 2013 Reviews

Burger King bandits' getaway car 'stolen'

They've had their chips... More »

27th, May 2013 TV & Radio

Branded A Witch: The church that purges bed wetters of evil

At another church, a five-year-old boy is subjected to a distressing ordeal to remove a “witchcraft telephone” from inside him, by which he supposedly communicates with other witches... More »

26th, May 2013 Reviews

Enlightened bigots say Lee Rigby is a victim of Woolwich and 'Sarf' London's dragons

When the barbaric, racist loons responded to the voices in their heads by murdering Lee Rigby in Woolwich, London, the chattering classes went to work analysing them and us... More »

26th, May 2013 Reviews

Police say middle-aged men in Lycra are now the norm

Mr Burton later tweeted: "Just got stopped by the police for 'not wearing Lycra' but being on a road bike."... More »

26th, May 2013 Flashback

The creepy Mattel Roller Skating Doll returns from the 1980s

She's coming to get you.... More »

26th, May 2013 Reviews

Lee Rigby news round-up: Did Greenwich council pay for his killers to be radicalised?

The latest facts... More »

26th, May 2013 Strange But True

Man arrested for sex with inflatable doll in cinema never even bought her a ticket

"It is not unheard of that a couple will go to the cinema for a bit of privacy, but in this case he didn't even buy a second ticket..." More »

25th, May 2013 Sports

In photos: Bayern Munich win the 2013 Champions League

Germany wins! More »

25th, May 2013 Reviews

The five best responses to the Guardian and Glenn Greenwald's excusing of the barbaric Woolwich murderers

I really have to try restrain my anger here. First off, Glenn’s adoption of the view that the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan amounted to “continuous violence by western states against Muslim civilians” seems a new step toward the memes of Islamist propaganda... More »

25th, May 2013 Music 2

Who owns Commander Chris Hadfield's version of Space Oddity? Copyright issues are trickier than space travel

If lawyers built space ships... More »

25th, May 2013 Reviews

Ugandas Coalition for Advancement of Moral Values delivered this ludicrous and scary anti-homosexual pamphlet to MPs

Who'd be gay in Uganda..? More »

25th, May 2013 Reviews

Man stole beef joint because it looked like his dead grandmother

What do the women in your family look like?... More »

25th, May 2013 Sports 3

President Mugabe says Liverpool's Luis Suarez has gone too far

You know you've over-stepped the boundaries of human decency when.... More »

25th, May 2013 Celebrities 1

What did Prince Philip say to a Polish research scientist as he toured Cambridge's Medical Research Council’s Laboratory of Molecular Biology?

A, b. c or d.... More »

24th, May 2013 Reviews 1

What does Times executive editor Roger Alton think of the Leveson Report, Hacked Off and that Royal Charter?

Analyse that... More »

24th, May 2013 Technology

iNotRacist - the world's most effective non-racist app.

URacist? More »

24th, May 2013 Technology

How a teenage girl uses her iPhone - Yahoo! might want to reconsider that Tumblr deal

How do teenage girls use their phones? Answer: all the time. Bianca Bosker spoke to a 14-year-old girl about her life on a white iPhone S... More »

24th, May 2013 Money 1

Is this the worst application to be a journalist ever?

A writer rights... More »

24th, May 2013 Key Posts

A wonderful history of German football clubs in Europe: 1960 til now

German football didn’t turn professional until the mid-sixties, but by that time the (West Germany) national team had already won the World Cup, and one of their clubs had reached the final of the European Champions Cup... More »

24th, May 2013 Celebrities

Katie Price: Will anyone smile at Alicia Douvall's daughter Papaya?

Price uses her Sun column to opens up on Alicia Douvall, the ambulatory cosmetic surgery menu... More »

24th, May 2013 Reviews

Bride murdered groom on their wedding day

Why did she do it? Well, the trigger was, apparently, his late return home from a bachelor party... More »

24th, May 2013 Reviews

Dear Artists: Michael Jackson's chimp is making more money than you as a painter

The ape, now a remarkable 27-years-old, needs £13,000 each year to pay for his upkeep. Those diamond nappies and cigarettes won't buy themselves, clearly... More »

24th, May 2013 Sports

Gibraltar is now a Uefa football team able to play in the European Cup

The big rock at the back... More »

24th, May 2013 Sports

Argentinian football fan throws his teeth at players in disgust

You may recall someone throwing a whole pig's head at Louis Figo in Spain, but an Argentinian fan beats that with sheer spontaneity, by hurling their teeth at the pitch in abject disgust... More »

24th, May 2013 Reviews

Bus driver pranks kids in ace video!

Students of a school were told by the driver that school had been cancelled for the day, and the children fell for it hook, line and sinker... More »