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8th, January 2013 Royal Family

Kate Middleton Pregnancy Watch: Prince Charles warns against population growth

The Vogue writer asks a teenager why she loves Kate: "Because he's not flashing her crotch."... More »

7th, January 2013 Reviews

Why Adam Lanza murdered only women: no male teacher brave enough for primary school

"In many boys’ journey from a fatherless family to an almost all-female staff elementary school such as Sandy Hook, there is no constructive male role model..." More »

7th, January 2013 Reviews

The Rocky Mountain Gun Show and Second Amendment fan clubs (photos)

Guns and America... More »

7th, January 2013 Key Posts

Why did Sara Ege beat 'always smiling' son for months before killing him?

Cardiff's local safeguarding children board says Yaseen's death could not have been predicted. Really..? More »

7th, January 2013 TV & Radio

Health nut smokes and eats packet of cigarettes (video)

Before giving up smoking for 2013, and thus giving yourself life-damaging stress and no excuse to pop out of the office / restaurant / bed for a ciggie, you should have seen this video... More »

7th, January 2013 Key Posts

On the trillion dollar platinum coin

There's one little wrinkle in the law though. The executive (the bit the President controls) is allowed to make platinum coins of any value that they like.... More »

7th, January 2013 In Pictures

Russian gravestones are larger than life

When you die in Russia, you get to live forever in a headstone seemingly modelled on a gun range target... More »

7th, January 2013 Strange But True

Brazilian cat gets arrested with a saw and phone strapped to it

That's right. A cat got nabbed as it made its way INTO a jail, trying to sneak its way through the gates with a saw and a mobile phone strapped to its back... More »

7th, January 2013 Reviews

First Atheist church in UK opens

A Catholic parish priest from nearby Finsbury told reporters that while it was "important" for non-believers to be engaged with faith, "for them to establish a church like any other religious denomination is going too far.... More »

7th, January 2013 Technology 2

How space changes time

The GPS system... More »

7th, January 2013 Celebrities

Doug Stanhope's interview as John Lydon (audio)

"I had an interview scheduled with this same guy at noon so he'd obviously put the wrong phone number to the wrong guest..." More »

7th, January 2013 In Pictures

Russian weddings get photoshopped - terribly

In sickness and in small flutes of white wine... More »

7th, January 2013 Money

It's official: minimum alcohol pricing is illegal

Why you'd want minimum pricing instead I cannot understand: all that does is increase the manufacturers' profits... More »

7th, January 2013 The Consumer

Kate Middleton Pregnancy Watch - The Kate Effect dresses up fashion PR as news

"The 'Kate Effect' overstated due to Duchess's thriftiness." Overstated. By whom?... More »

7th, January 2013 Key Posts 13

Of course Liverpool's Luis Suarez is a cheat

The experts debate the rules for football... More »

6th, January 2013 Flashback 1

A teenager recalls the Moon Landing (in analogue)

"This is my entry for 20 July 1969..." More »

6th, January 2013 The Consumer 1

Bargain of the year: save £7,119,520.01 on camera equipment

RRP: £7,120,000.00.... More »

6th, January 2013 Reviews

Is anyone still debating gun control?

The news cycle rolls on... More »

6th, January 2013 Celebrities 1

'Dear Internet' by Tina Fey - letter of the decade

"I’m not one to toot my own horn, but I feel safe with you, jerkstore, so I’ll say it. Everything you ever hated on SNL was by me.." More »

6th, January 2013 Celebrities 4

Weedy Justin Bieber blunts his copy book

TMZ claims theses are marijuana joints rolled by Bieber's best pal Lil Twist, who was driving Justin's car at the time the paparazzo was killed... More »

6th, January 2013 Reviews

Alabama's Department of Homeland Security active shooter event training video

Pay attention... More »

6th, January 2013 Film 3

Stick Guns - war in the woods (the film)

"The excitement was too much..." More »

6th, January 2013 Strange But True 1

The Flogsta screamers

It's 10pm, and students living in the Flogsta neighborhood of Uppsala, Sweden scream... More »

6th, January 2013 In Pictures

Creatures from the Mariana Trench

From the deep... More »

6th, January 2013 Reviews

School pastor stuck in handcuffs and mouth gag

I’m going to need help getting out before this becomes a medical emergency..." More »