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14th, January 2013 Books

Photos from Armed America: Portraits of American Gun Owners in Their Homes

Why do you have a gun? More »

14th, January 2013 Celebrities

Golden Globe 2013 - the Fox Party photos

The grinners... More »

14th, January 2013 Reviews

Daily Express sees double snow ploughs in Cumbria

New news for old... More »

14th, January 2013 The Consumer 1

Pointless vegetarian foods: ham that tastes like chicken

Does it..? More »

13th, January 2013 Celebrities

Mallory Hytes Hagan - Miss USA photos

The blonde wins... More »

13th, January 2013 Books 2

Helping the Retarded to Know God

Terrible books... More »

13th, January 2013 Reviews

Gun Appreciation Day twinned with Martin Luther King Day

If only they'd have had guns... More »

13th, January 2013 The Consumer

Coca-Cola defends Vitamin water: no-one said it was healthy

Vitamin water. Yum. Sounds healthy. Vitamins. lovely vitamins... More »

13th, January 2013 TV & Radio

I can haz magick catburgers (video)

Magic! More »

13th, January 2013 Reviews

Local news: the Sex shop in Kent is for slingers

When the headline and the accompanying photo are unusual... More »

13th, January 2013 Reviews 3

Finding happiness in poverty with TINA (‘there is no alternative’)

The politics of happiness encourages us to accept our lot, breathing life back into the patronising idea that you can be ‘poor but happy’.... More »

13th, January 2013 In Pictures

Googly eyes on things in a Target store

The eyes have it... More »

13th, January 2013 Celebrities

Kieran Hayler marries Katie Price: Mr and Mrs Loud Hayler photos

She's marrying him for her name... More »

13th, January 2013 Technology

A words on Aaron Swartz, your RSS writer

At 14, Mr. Swartz helped create RSS... More »

13th, January 2013 Reviews

473,000 adult victims of sex crimes every year in England and Wales?

What's a sex crime? More »

13th, January 2013 Flashback 8

1977: The Lyons Maid lolly and ice-cream poster (bring back Zooms)

It's1977. Lyons Maid is tempting you with its ices... More »

13th, January 2013 Strange But True 1

School worker makes huge frozen cow dung cobra for the kids to play on

Put the iPad down, kids, Mikhail Bopposov has something for you to play with in the great outdoors... More »

12th, January 2013 Reviews

Ex-police chief and weapons trainer vows to fire first bullet in war on guns

Wayne LaPierre, the NRA leader, has a competitor for the USA's biggest nut-job gun supporter. Meet James Yeager, CEO of Tactical Response... More »

12th, January 2013 Celebrities

Lawyers win as all Jimmy Savile claimants are treated as victims

Savile's alleged victims are vying for a shared of his £4.3 million estate plus compensation form the NHS, schools, the BBC and what institutions failed to stop Savile and provided a venue for his deviancy.... More »

12th, January 2013 Sports

Oprah Winfrey hails the Lance Armstrong Foundation for Scientific Excellence

What questions will she ask? Will she be tough? Will it be a confessional? Sources say Armstrong plans to admit to doping throughout his career... More »

12th, January 2013 Reviews

New York Times closes Environment Desk - climate change reporting is dying

After the Cold War Desk, the Environment Desk closes... More »

12th, January 2013 Reviews

Shaving a shih tzu and the thinking skills programme

To Hertford, where Robert Davey, 26, of Cotton Drive, Hertford, is guilty of shaving his ex-girlfriend’s shih tzu dog... More »

12th, January 2013 Celebrities

David Bowie's no limit cocaine albums

"During the making of Young Americans [1975] he was taking so much cocaine it would have killed a horse..." More »

11th, January 2013 Celebrities

Who or what killed Jorge Selaron?

Fame. Drugs. Spectacle. Death... More »

11th, January 2013 The Consumer

View from my loo: the toilet on the 68th floor of The Shard

The toilet window is not frosted glass... More »