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2nd, January 2013 Celebrities 4

How to write a Daily Mail story: the D-list celebrity attack

"Facing 2013 alone... Tamara Ecclestone's balding ex Omar Khyami looks stressed as tries to relax poolside in Miami.." More »

2nd, January 2013 Celebrities

Jennifer Metcalfe photos

Wooden you believe it - here's Jen... More »

2nd, January 2013 Celebrities

Jade Ewen - photos

Ewen me... More »

2nd, January 2013 Reviews

Sandy Hook gun on sale in UK - also tanks

"MASSACRE GUNS ON SALE IN UK," yells the Sun. "Lethal assault rifles like the one uses in America's Sandy Hook massacre are being LEGALLY sold in Britain."... More »

2nd, January 2013 Reviews

Public cycle pumps are out of order

What air costs... More »

2nd, January 2013 Key Posts

The Top 10 newspaper apologies of 2012

"C.W. Nevius’ column about Most Holy Redeemer banning drag queen performers incorrectly stated that entertainer Peaches Christ appeared at an event at the church’s hall with a dildo shaped like a crucifix..." More »

2nd, January 2013 Reviews

Kidogo is the tightrope walking gorilla

You'll believe a gorilla can walk to freedom... More »

2nd, January 2013 Strange But True 3

Dolphin walks on land (video)

In the Ukraine, a Black Sea bottlenose dolphin named Gosha has learned how to crawl on land... More »

1st, January 2013 Books 1

Self-help book of the day: How to Good-bye Depression: If You Constrict Anus 100 Times Everyday

Book of the day is for those of viewing the gaping year ahead with apathy and misery... More »

1st, January 2013 Reviews

New Year's Eve 2013 - photos of global celebrations

Have a good one... More »

31st, December 2012 The Consumer

The greatest keep-fit videos and TV shows ever

In 2013, we will be working out with Jim Body the gymfantastic pride of Wausau, Wisconsin... More »

31st, December 2012 Celebrities

Anaïs Ni's break-up letter to C. L. (Lanny) Baldwin

"My poor Lanny, how blind you are! A woman is jealous only when she has nothing..." More »

31st, December 2012 Key Posts 3

Paul from Clerkenwell calls Julia Hartley-Brewer on LBC

Paul makes the case for cutting benefits... More »

31st, December 2012 Reviews

Nick Cave is not University of Brighton alumnus of the year

The Watford Observer carries a headline that might not distract you from the photo beneath... More »

31st, December 2012 Reviews 2

George Monbiot is The Day Today's roving reporter

He's visited an A&E centre... More »

31st, December 2012 Reviews

Hapless rescuers follow man into frozen lake in Wrightwood, California (video)

Others dashed to help. And one-by-one they too slid into the freezing waters... More »

31st, December 2012 Strange But True

Man impaled on bed headboard

Bed knobs and worse... More »

31st, December 2012 Technology 1

Pakistan lifted YouTube ban for 3 minutes

What did Pakistanis view on YouTube when the site was live for three minutes?... More »

30th, December 2012 Books

1941: Home Meat Curing Made Easy (with Pig FISTING)

Fun for all the family... More »

30th, December 2012 Strange But True

Spiders make spider art and statues in Peru

To Peru. to meet the spider that forms twigs and dead insects into spiders More »

30th, December 2012 Flashback

Spider-Man fought in World War 2 - photo

A tangled web... More »

30th, December 2012 Royal Family

Kate Middleton Pregnancy Watch: Diana, Bond and lavender biscuits on ice

"Duchess Catherine craving lavender shortbread". Available from... More »

30th, December 2012 Money 1

How China's Eight Immortals carved up the country's wealth

The immortality of greed... More »

30th, December 2012 The Consumer

On diamonds and other jewels of divine semen

About that Cartier diamond necklace and rare orchid you were given for Christmas... More »

30th, December 2012 Celebrities

Kate Winslet - a life in photos

Kate Winslet in pictures... More »