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12th, December 2012 Reviews

Kansas City Star wants reporters Karen Dillon or Dawn Bormann to pick which one of them gets fired?

Who'd be Karen Dillon or Dawn Bormann?.. More »

12th, December 2012 The Consumer

Hasselt, Belgium has a Christmas tree made from crockery

What is with Belgium and trees? More »

12th, December 2012 Film

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey - the Premiere in photos

Is Peter Jackson's The Hobbit true to JRR Tolkien'a book?... More »

12th, December 2012 Royal Family

Fiji portrays Queen Elizabeth II as a lizard on its bank notes: David Icke delighted

The Queen has been replaced by an iguana on the bank notes of Fiji. More »

12th, December 2012 Celebrities

Andy Kershaw spots Santa Savile doing the Radio 1 Christmas Party

"My Radio 1 colleagues could be categorised into three species: there were those who, by the measures of most people, would be considered unfit to be released into the community..." More »

12th, December 2012 Royal Family

Kate Middleton Pregnancy Watch: The Columnists who spend hundreds of words ignoring her

"Kate Middleton's pregnancy: 10 stories I don't want to read - but want to write about..." More »

12th, December 2012 Royal Family

Kate Middleton Pregnancy Watch: princesses are for girls

Peter Hunt - @BBCPeterHunt - Royal correspondent for the BBC, has a tweet... More »

12th, December 2012 Reviews

Blind man runs over girlfriend after 5 bottles of wine

And so, let us laugh at a story about a man who is registered blind, running over his partner in a car, after drinking five bottles of wine... More »

12th, December 2012 Celebrities

End of Says signs No. 354b: Sir Paul McCartney fronts Nirvana

Rape Me..? More »

12th, December 2012 Money

The reason we've got a PAYE tax system: because we don't notice them taking it

By taking it before we get ahold of it the government is able to take more of it. Because we just don't notice it so much... More »

12th, December 2012 Reviews

CCTV footage of fools in train stations released

Being drunk on a train is the single most soul-destroying experience a human can suffer... More »

12th, December 2012 TV & Radio

Excited North Korean TV news anchor hails launch of Unha 3 rocket

This is how you read the news... More »

12th, December 2012 Gifs 1

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12th, December 2012 Strange But True

Witch doctor sent children to collect toddler poo for medicine

To Uganda, where local witchdoctor Moses Oguiti has been arrested for buying children's poo... More »

12th, December 2012 Royal Family 3

Kate Middleton Pregnancy Watch: The Hobbit, anorexia, Morrissey and Vicky Beckham

Day 11... More »

12th, December 2012 Celebrities 1

Ravi Shankar RIP - a life in photos

Beatles mentor Ravi Shankar dies at 92... More »

12th, December 2012 Reviews

Israeli Spy Vulture downed in Sudan - first they came for the corpses

To Kereinek, a town in the Darfur region of western Sudan, where locals have down an Israeli spy vulure... More »

12th, December 2012 TV & Radio

Spike Jones tooting turkey fights woman

Stuffed ant, kids..? More »

11th, December 2012 In Pictures

Irony in 18 photos

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11th, December 2012 Flashback

1967 Boston Marathon: Kathrine Switzer breaks the sex race

When Kathrine Switzer showed up to run the Boston Marathon in 1967, she wasn't there to make a political statement about a woman's right to compete in a men-only event.... More »

11th, December 2012 Strange But True

Mug shot of the day: Ginger Bush

To Seminhole County.... More »

11th, December 2012 Reviews

Turkey: Apocalypse hotspot

New Age spiritualists claim this tiny village is close to where Virgin Mary ascended to heaven and so, with all this, this piddling little village could be swarmed upon by over 60,000 nutters... More »

11th, December 2012 The Consumer

Christmas holiday hairstyle of the season: the Rudolph bun

Horror hair... More »

11th, December 2012 Sports

Irony overload: FA plans to beat racism by giving backwards foreigners culture lessons

All players and coaches will get “cultural lessons”... More »

11th, December 2012 In Pictures

Nelson Mandela - a life in photos

Nelson Mandela... More »