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18th, May 2013 Flashback 1

How I Killed The Tiger - Being An Account of My Encounter With A Royal Bengal Tiger: pictures from a 1902 hunt

"My main purpose in writing this little book, was to place in a permanent form a description of my wonderful preservation from death in a chance encounter with a Royal Bengal Tiger..." More »

18th, May 2013 Politicians

Can a person's physical strength dictate their politics? Yes

Men who are physically strong are more likely to take a right wing political stance, while weaker men are inclined to support the welfare state, according to a new study... More »

18th, May 2013 Madeleine McCann

20 new Maddie suspects help Detective Chief Superintendent Hamish Campbell retire in a blaze of publicity

The Daily Mirror's report pretty much sums up the no-news news... More »

18th, May 2013 Reviews

Mechanic threatened by man wielding large black dildo over 'lost' Mercedes-Benz

Aaron Sabbah is accused of using his rubber dick to extort money from a mechanic named Michael Monajed... More »

18th, May 2013 Reviews

Man set fire to neighbours' home over refusal to mow lawn

Bennett, 58, was so upset by his neighbours' reluctance to mow their lawn in Bartow County, Georgia, that he set fire to their house... More »

18th, May 2013 Music 1

The weekend starts with misheard 90s lyrics!

2 Become 1 by the Spice Girls takes a sinister, Operation Yewtree turn, while Britney Spears single ...Baby One More Time makes her look even more mental than usual... More »

17th, May 2013 Key Posts 1

In photos: Indian Muslim Sufi devotees use sharp objects and self flagellate during the Urs festival

The Urs festival procession to mark the death anniversary of Sufi Muslim saint Hazrat Khwaja Muinuddin Chishti, in Ajmer, India... More »

17th, May 2013 Key Posts

Bigot Pride in photos: Georgian Gay Pride march cut short after violent protest by hatted and hairy straights

Calm Down! Calm Down! More »

17th, May 2013 Reviews

In photos: The Hong Kong Bun Festival

Currant Buns. Chelsea Buns. Up you.... More »

17th, May 2013 Royal Family 3

Is Princess Charlene of Monaco doing a Diana with 'tampon' Byron Kelleher?

Can it be that Princess Charlene of Monaco thinks Prince Albert not enough for her?... More »

17th, May 2013 Reviews

Watch the video of a stupid deer leaping through a bus window

The deer jumped across the path of the bus in Johnstown, Pennsylvania and smashed through the windscreen and was caught on video... More »

17th, May 2013 Flashback

1951 manual: How To Use a Dial Telephone

"This is what a telephone dial looks like..." More »

17th, May 2013 Reviews

A man responds to a PR: dear Kacey-Lee...

“Dear Kacey-Lee. Thank you for your interest in the well-being of myself and my family. Unfortunately I couldn’t get out in the sun to enjoy myself because I am twice-divorced..." More »

17th, May 2013 Madeleine McCann 1

Madeleine McCann detectives identify 'potential suspects' but won't tell us how many or why

McCann vanished six years ago. Another summer of sighting looms, all eagerly reported by newspapers looking for easy news in the shark-spotting season... More »

17th, May 2013 Music

When the Beatles met Yoda Love was all you needed

All you need is Love.... More »

17th, May 2013 Politicians 2

UKIP leader Nigel Farage looks like Joe E. Brown

Some like it not... More »

17th, May 2013 Politicians 3

Scottish Nationalists attack Nigel Farage for being too much like them

Farage, the UKIP leader, was shouted and screamed at in Edinburgh. The MEP was forced to escape the crowd in a police riot van. The gaggle of self-declared anti-racists and Scottish nationalists joined forces to create an illiberal mob... More »

17th, May 2013 Reviews 1

Kai Nicodemus, aka Caleb Lawrence McGillvary, did not murder Shane Dixon Kavanaugh

Remember Kai, the hero who gave TV the greatest interview of 2013 (before charles Ramsey) when he smu-ashed a ne'er-do-well with a hatchet?... More »

17th, May 2013 Sports

David Beckham Retires: Sun salutes the English legend with bottle of German beer

Bottle of Becks... More »

16th, May 2013 Reviews 3

Racism map reveals the world's most and least racist places

Pakistanis are more racially tolerant than even the Germans or the Dutch... More »

16th, May 2013 Strange But True

Police chase stopped by ducks on the road (video)

Why was it crossing the road..? More »

16th, May 2013 TV & Radio

Eric Dunn is 'running though white people neighborhoods' (video)

And he's gonna nick your stuff... More »

16th, May 2013 Strange But True 1

Behold! The Irishman stuck in a baby seat in McDonald's!

And so, we go to a McDonald's in Cork (bring back the Oriental McRib, please) where a man managed to get himself stuck in a baby seat like a big buffoon... More »

16th, May 2013 Flashback

The Mickey Mouse gasmask was utterly terrifying in 1942 - and it still is

War is utterly terrifying. It's ugly. But in 1942, T.W. Smith, Jr., owner of the Sun Rubber Company, and designer, Dietrich Rempel, created something to give children nightmares: the Mickey Mouse gas mask... More »

16th, May 2013 Flashback

1936: How to die by electrocution in 30 pictures

How to die by technology... More »