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11th, March 2013 Strange But True 1

New Chicago man has sex with a guinea fowl

Is nothing safe?... More »

11th, March 2013 Sports

Marten the Marten enlivens the Thun v Zurich football match (video)

IF Switzerland were outside your bedroom window, would you bother to open the curtains and take a look? More »

11th, March 2013 Strange But True

Man tries to get off tain - fails miserably

All aboard. I said ALL aboard! More »

11th, March 2013 In Pictures

TV captions from local news are too weird

So. What do you do..? More »

10th, March 2013 Key Posts

Terrible adverts: the world's greatest one-bedroom apartment (with cracking photos)

The End Is Near! More »

10th, March 2013 Politicians

Senator Chuck Schumer and Paris Hilton are stuck in a lift

Senator Chuck Schumer has taken to holding imaginary conversations to dodge the media... More »

10th, March 2013 Madeleine McCann 3

Madeleine McCann: Interpol seek Russell Hobbs and Morphy Richards

Do you know Russell Hobbs? What about Morphy Richards? Following news of a family of kettle thieve in Cyprus, who was accompanied by a child the victim claims looked like Madeleine McCann, the Express announces... More »

10th, March 2013 Music

Waltz of the Two Lips (Trombone Silliness)

Putting the bone in More »

10th, March 2013 Reviews

The Falklands referendum: photos of a loaded vote

It's more loaded than Prince Harry at a frat house party... More »

10th, March 2013 Sports

When wasted Paul Gascoigne ended up on the wrong plane to southern Mexico

"Anyway, just before I left the rehab clinic over there, the docs had given me some medication to take with me..." More »

10th, March 2013 Flashback

1956 Hard Disk Drive - loading IBM's storage unit on a PAA jet

The walk in disc drive... More »

10th, March 2013 Technology

The Moon Towers of Austin Texas

Ever seen a moon tower? In the 19th Century moon towers were “the future of municipal lighting was glowing orbs suspended high above cities”... More »

10th, March 2013 Celebrities

Justin Bieber challenges a photographer to a fight (shanking with laughter)

"What did you say?" Repeat to fade... More »

10th, March 2013 Reviews

Pizza thief too fat to attend court

Mr Johnston tips the scales at 40 stone... More »

10th, March 2013 Strange But True

Police warning: if you bought a fridge from skull-face man it might be stolen

"It's the oddest thing I’ve ever seen in 20-plus years of law enforcement. I’ve seen horns on foreheads and stars on necks, but I’ve never seen..." More »

10th, March 2013 Technology

Irish senator wants laws to stop fraping (Facebook rape)

Ever been fraped? Galway Senator Fidelma Healy Eames has been highlighting the perils of fraping to the Oireachtas communications committee... More »

10th, March 2013 Reviews 2

Vengeful woman kept names of Jimmy Savile's BBC paedophile 'ring' in her autograph book

In "REVENGE OF SAVILE VICTIM", the Express introduces us to Leisha Brookes, 45... More »

9th, March 2013 Reviews 1

TV shooting show presenter Gregory G. Rodriguez shot dead by angry husband

So. About those guns… More »

9th, March 2013 Strange But True

Man live tweets getting dildo stuck up his anus

To the hospital,where @Grawly is telling the world about his ordeal: he has vibrator stuck inside his anus... More »

9th, March 2013 Reviews

The truth about those Israeli apartheid buses

About those separate buses for Israelis and Palestinians. You know, the story Prada headlined: "Israel rolls back to Apartheid." ... More »

9th, March 2013 In Pictures

Crufts 2013 photos: backstage, dogs, owners and winners

Do they all look like their chums..? More »

9th, March 2013 The Consumer

Must haves: The Mystery Science Theater 3000 vinyl wall decal

So. What does go with your Mystery Science Theatre 3000 headboard? ... More »

9th, March 2013 Politicians

Hugo Chavez funeral photos: a charismatic bigot who knew his crowd

Hugo Chávez has been lying in state in an open casket in Caracas. The poor looked on and in. Many wept... More »

9th, March 2013 Music

Alvin Lee goes home (RIP)

Lee left Ten Years After in 1973. He then recorded 14 solo albums. But this was his defining moment. Not every musician get one... More »

9th, March 2013 Sports 7

Spurs' Gareth Bale teaches Liverpool's dumb foreigner Luis Suarez the Great British dive

oth Bale and Saurez cheat when they dive. But only one of them is vilified in the British press. Is it the swarthy Uruguayan? Or is it the Welsh lad? Take a guess... More »