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20th, May 2013 Key Posts

Newsnight jumps the shark hunt: 99% of Clark County, Ohio, viewers polled say Ian Katz must go

The new editor of Newsnight, the BBC news show that spiked the Jimmy Savile expose, is the Guardian's Ian Katz. What can we expect..? More »

20th, May 2013 Strange But True

Eagle snatches fisherman's haul

And mercifully for us, the whole incident was caught on camera... More »

20th, May 2013 Reviews

Photos: The most miserable brides in the world at a mass marriage held on ‘Akshaya Tritiya’ in Bhopal

SMILE! It's the happiest day of the groom's parents life!.. More »

20th, May 2013 Money 2

Global warming will boiled us all to death, say Manhattan experts

This is a fascinating little example of how the debate of climate change gets very skewed. In fact, the report is more interesting for what it says about that than it is in its intended actual result... More »

20th, May 2013 Music

National Anthem Disasters: Alexis Normand forgets the words to the US anthem

Here's one for the file marked National Anthem Disasters... More »

20th, May 2013 Politicians

Man jailed for calling Robert Mugabe a dirty donkey - Animal Rights activists outraged

Leading foreign dictator Robert Mugabe - some say he's the best in his field - has seen to it that a lecturer who called him "a rotten old donkey" has been jailed for three months... More »

20th, May 2013 Celebrities

Chubby Michael Jackson loses his trousers (video)

And that's how he got to be naked from the waist down, yer honour... More »

20th, May 2013 In Pictures

Terrible taxidermy - 15 animals that suffered bad cosmetic surgery

Ugly pets live forever... More »

19th, May 2013 Reviews

No News special: Lancaster University students get on a bus

What news from Lancaster University? AlexSiddle tweets... More »

19th, May 2013 Reviews

The Orthodox Church of Moldova wants gays to expect 'severe consequences'

The Orthodox Church of Moldova have issued a statement about a Gay Pride at the “Rainbow Over the Dniester” festival... More »

19th, May 2013 Sports

Faces of the day: 67th annual Eastern Athletic Association for the Blind Track and Field tournament

Sports brings joy... More »

19th, May 2013 Money

The elite are manipulating petrol prices

There's a slight problem with this sort of story. It assumes that these manipulators know that the price is going to rise in advance... More »

19th, May 2013 Sports 1

The best reactions to Arsenal's traditional final day triumph over Spurs

Football fans can be witty... More »

19th, May 2013 Key Posts 7

Arsenal send AVB and Spurs into a 'negative spiral' - 18 years of hurt in quotes

As Arsenal take fourth place in the Premier League ahead of arch rivals Tottenham Hotspur, we look back at the words of Spurs' manager Andre Villas-Boas... More »

19th, May 2013 Sports

In photos: Arsenal beat Newcastle and pip Spurs to the Champions League AGAIN

Final day drama in photos... More »

19th, May 2013 Flashback

Test Your Patriotism: how artists tested their value to the US in 1963

Test Your Patriotism with the Intelligence Centre Inc., New York, and stand a chance to win a scholarship worth $495!.. More »

19th, May 2013 Key Posts

In photos: David Beckham celebrates last match with an ashtray

Moments of confusion surely even for such a seasoned trophy holder as Becks. Was he meant to hold it aloft of sit back and spit olive stones into it?... More »

19th, May 2013 Strange But True

Nominative Determinism: Dr Unk arrested for drunk arriving

Dr. Unk... More »

19th, May 2013 Strange But True

Poultry farm rears a four-legged, two-bottomed chicken you can weigh in cats

In what country do you think a woman reared a four-legged, two-bottomed chicken?... More »

19th, May 2013 Madeleine McCann 6

Madeleine McCann: the couple who heard a child crying at night and went to help

In "WHO SOOTHED WEEPING MADDIE, the Daily Express leads with a Madeleine McCann "exclusive". It adds: "Police seek couple who entered McCann apartment when Madeleine was crying"... More »

18th, May 2013 Reviews 1

Amanda Knox and that kiss: Italians weep and wail at death while Americans do the splits and yoga

Italians weep and wail when an flatmate is murdered. Americans do the splits. Knox makes it easy to for readers to make her a talking point... More »

18th, May 2013 Flashback

1970s: Kellogg's Sugar Smacks and "FREE DR Who Badges!"

In the 1970s, badges were huge... More »

18th, May 2013 Music

The Smiths' Girlfriend in a Coma sung to the tune of Tiptoe through the Tulips

On Sorry I Haven't A Clue, Tony Hawks sings The Smiths' Girlfriend in a Coma to the tune of Tiptoe through the Tulips... More »

18th, May 2013 Strange But True

Robber making escape hit by bus (video)

Wheels of justice... More »

18th, May 2013 The Consumer

Pigeons deliver KFC in Gaza

The French fries arrive soggy, the chicken having long since lost its crunch. A 12-piece bucket goes for about $27 here — more than twice the $11.50 it costs just across the border in Egypt... More »