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15th, January 2013 Celebrities

Anne Hathaway is back for her Les Miserables sequel (video)

"Thank you for this lovely blunt object that I will forevermore use as a weapon against self doubt"... More »

15th, January 2013 TV & Radio

The wonderful shadows of the Pilobolus dance group

This is fantastic... More »

15th, January 2013 Reviews 4

Victory for right to wear religious symbols at work but religious conscience defeated

It is a curious notion of religious liberty that puts symbolic trinkets above the religious conscience... More »

15th, January 2013 Sports

Mouhamadou Habib Habibou

During a Zulte-Waregem game against Lokeren, Habibou grabbed and threw a duck over advertising hoardings because it had wandered onto the field.... More »

15th, January 2013 Politicians 1

A Nation Rises: Obama is staunchly Pro Life (video)

Marvellous stuff... More »

15th, January 2013 In Pictures 1

No Pants Subway Ride 2013 - the best of

"Random passengers board a subway car at separate stops in the middle of winter without pants..." More »

15th, January 2013 Gifs

You are not the father: the best of the Maury Povich Show

One recurring theme of the The Maury Povich Show is the paternity test. When the results come in, some see it as reason to celebrate... More »

15th, January 2013 In Pictures

Photobombs - in the club

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15th, January 2013 Reviews

How the 'Brazilian' waxing J Sisters wiped out pubic lice

Bad news for pubic lice. Bloomberg news says the remaining lice can blame bikini waxing... More »

15th, January 2013 Reviews 1

A right to die: 'happy' Belgian twins euthanised

In Belgium ,where euthanasia been legal since 2002, male identical twins 45, from the Antwerp region, have been killed... More »

15th, January 2013 Reviews

Echidna news: 'The little bastard crapped in my hat'

Quote of the day comes from Munro Hardy, 25, a gold miner in Australia's Northern Territory... More »

15th, January 2013 Reviews 2

April Jones: Mark Bridger is 'stony-faced' and 'close to tears'

April Jones is on the cover of the Mirror and the Sun.... More »

14th, January 2013 Strange But True

Behold/Kill the dubstep singing parrot!

What we have on our hands is a bird that can perform dubstep... More »

14th, January 2013 Reviews 8

Observer editor John Mulholland displays typical male cowardice in the Julie Burchill transsexual Twitstorm

A media row. The media love them... More »

14th, January 2013 In Pictures

Things found in Texas school books (how to spot the French and Mexicans)

So. That's a Mexican... More »

14th, January 2013 Reviews 9

April Jones: Is Mark Bridger an abattoir worker or a lifeguard?

Mark Bridger was “probably responsible” for the death of five year old April Jones. But he says he didn't kidnap her. He says he didn't murder her.... More »

14th, January 2013 Reviews 2

The NRA paid Holocaust fetishist Wayne LaPierre $972,000 in 2011

Between 2008 and 2010, the NRA paid LaPierre compensation in an amount ranging from $948,858 and $1,263,101 per year.... More »

14th, January 2013 Celebrities 2

How the inconsistent rich and rewarded socialists want us to live

"For some, professions of egalitarianism and socialist belly fire are a kind of rhetorical chaff..." More »

14th, January 2013 Reviews

Peter Howson's crucifixion of Christ is hung on the wall

Jewellers are thought to be delighted... More »

14th, January 2013 Flashback 2

Sugar rationing in World War 2 - photos

Sugar was in limited supply during WOrld War 2. Sugar was the first food the US rationed, in the spring of 1942.... More »

14th, January 2013 Strange But True

Woman fails to find Belgium with GPS - ends up in Croatia

What is Belgium? More »

14th, January 2013 Money

Sugar: the latest godawful health scare

It has to be the Mail reporting this, doesn't it? But here it is, the shocking news that UK cereals contain more sugar than US cereals... More »

14th, January 2013 Celebrities

The Golden Globes and other slave auctions

What are we bid..? More »

14th, January 2013 In Pictures

Golden Globes 2013 - red carpet photos

The red carpet grins... More »

14th, January 2013 Celebrities 4

Piers Morgan co-opts the Sandy Hood dead into a rolling freak show

"...we got a rolling freak-show designed entirely for ratings, since Morgan has never actually practised anything but gutter tabloid journalism...' More »