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England cricket fan not killed when ball hits his head

Hard cheese on Alex Dettman, 30, who was smacked on the head by a cricket ball... More »

Terrible tributes: man had sex with now dead pig named Michael Jackson

A tribute act dies... More »

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Jon Venables knew my mother: James Bulger's killer unites country in hate

Is Venables "my dad?" So asks a "young mum" from the cover of the Daily Mirror. The answer should come in two words: Jeremy Kyle. This televised patenity test would pack them in... More »

Google Streetview records something odd in Temperance Street, Manchester M126HR

Taxi! More »

Holly Madison trumps Ivy Blue with a baby called Rainbow Aurora

Madison, former queue jumper to Hugh Hefner, has named her child Rainbow Aurora Rotella... More »

Picky Portsmouth eater finds hairy lump in her mum's lasagna

To Portsmouth, where Shani Stock has found "a grisly hairy lump" in her mum's lasagna. No, not the lodger. This was a lump of substance in the dish mum Trudy made using a £3 bag of frozen mince from Iceland.... More »

Gun drawn in Jordan's parliament (Video)

Scraps in overseas parliaments are much, much better than the ones we have in England.... More »

Woman hides loaded gun in vagina

"I observed at that time a wooden and metal item sticking out from her vagina area..." More »

Cressida Bonas knows hard work - some time ski instructor shows us her CV

Cressida Bonas, Prince Harry's latest flame, appears in an OK! magazine feature about her working days... More »

Courageous Samira Ibrahim rejected by Obama for her 'racist anti-American' tweets

Ibrahim, 26, was declared an international woman of courage. The ubiquitous Michelle Obama was to award the Egyptian with an award. And then someone saw the tweets... More »

The Playboy Bunny Club Manual 1968 (know your rights, Bunnies)

How to smoke like a Playboy Bunny... More »

Nominative determinism: the reduced Mr Bump Easter Egg

Does what it says on the tin... More »

Denver police seek the dirty Thong Bandit

To Sloan's Lake, Denver, Colorado, where police are seeking a man wearing a thong. Oddly, police have nicknamed him the Thong Bandit, although he appears to be sporting his own knickers... More »

Operation Elveden: Ex-police officer guilty of telling on John Terry's mum

Tierney was a police constable with Surrey police who sold information about Rolling Stone Ronnie Wood and Chelsea footballer John Terry's mother to the Sun in 2009... More »

Retro masks - when hiding makes you wonder

Masks look terrifying at the best of times. View them in fade black and white and they look macabre... More »

Seems Legit: ignore the label and dive right in

A gallery of things that says something out of kilter with the facts... More »

Faint Justin Bieber skips the drugs and the madness to become his generation's Val Doonican

Bieber's London shows are making news. He left the stage mid-song because he was “light of breath”. He then fainted backstage... More »

Junk (food) science: BBC says your sausage and bacon are killing you but offers no proof

"Sausages, ham, bacon and other processed meats appear to increase the risk of dying young.... Diets high in processed meats were linked to cardiovascular disease, cancer and early deaths..." More »

Paul Rand drones on for 13 hours to stop King Obama

The homepage of the BBC website has no mention of Republican US senator Paul Rand's momentous filibuster... More »

Yvette Prieto: photos of Michael Jordan's new wife

She used to date Julio Iglesias, Jr. The couple once posed on a beach for Hola magazine... More »

York student who cooked live hamster should have eaten it

James White, 21, fried his flatmate's Syrian hamster in a pan at their York University digs. He had been drinking... More »

Why did the New York Times lose the argument on manmade global warming?

The Climate Change war is over. The New York Times has closed its climate change desk and Green Blog. Why?... More »

The move to shut down Nobokov's Lolita with violence

"Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta.” So it begins. The line is memorable and notorious... More »

Sock puppets: How the European Union spends your money

Citizens have not been consulted directly, however. Instead they have been ventriloquised through ‘sock puppet’ charities, think tanks and other ‘civil society’ groups... More »