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10th, September 2012 Reviews 2

Tory headmistress issues students with toilet 'tinkle cards' (one per week)

Birmingham's Castle Vale Performing Arts College, where all pupils have been issued with a “tinkle card”. The cards carry the message: “I am missing a super important learning opportunity because I need to tinkle.”... More »

10th, September 2012 Flashback

1993: The Independent salute peacenik Osama bin Laden

"Anti-Soviet warrior puts his army on road to peace"... More »

10th, September 2012 In Pictures

The World’s Worst Product Names (2)

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9th, September 2012 Reviews 1

Obama gets bear hugged and lifted and a female biker rides Joe Biden (photos)

The battle for the White House is on... More »

9th, September 2012 Celebrities

Terry Nukins - tribute video

It's w'otter he would have wanted... More »

9th, September 2012 Reviews

Christian pastor Yousef Nadarkhani is free: The West will beat Iran by showing it humanity

Yousef Nadarkhani, the evangelical Protestant Church of Iran pastor sentenced to death for apostasy, is at home with his loved ones... More »

9th, September 2012 Key Posts

The 27 best photos of the 2012 London Paralympics

Did you watch the 2012 Paralympics on the telly? Or were you just glad it was one but didn't think it worth a viewing... More »

9th, September 2012 Reviews

Paraguay's Natividad de Maria in photos: dropping money for Jesus

To Paraguay, where youngsters vie to catch 50,000 Guarani bannotes, (around £9), during Natividad de Maria... More »

9th, September 2012 Celebrities

Two great hours with Lady Gaga in Twickenham: the photos

How can you not enjoy Lady Gaga, a little, lithe, twenty-something New Yorker who dresses from the deli counter and emerges on the Twickenham stage from a giant eyeball-veined womb... More »

9th, September 2012 Flashback

Remembering Eddy Huntington and My Friend Dick

Flashback remembers Eddy Huntington, the model discovered by Italy's Baby Records. Eddy's biggest hit was USSR. But Meet My Friend was worthy of note, it being Huntington's only UK release... More »

9th, September 2012 TV & Radio 1

One year in Yellowknife, the Northwest Territories, Canada

Filmed entirely in and around Yellowknife, the Northwest Territories, Canada from January to December, 2011. Features Northern staples like frostbite, bison, and singalongs... More »

9th, September 2012 The Consumer

Cargo Collective's Urban Lights are objects of desire

Love these... More »

9th, September 2012 Flashback

1954: Marijuana is the dreaded weed. In SWEETHEARTS 'I Was a Musician's Girl'

FLASHBACK to 1954: Marijuana is the dreaded weed... More »

9th, September 2012 Politicians

Arnold Schwarzenegger takes Boris Johnson's boots, clothes and Barclays cycle

Johnson is in talks to become an MP after his time as London mayor is up... More »

9th, September 2012 Strange But True

Nominative determinism: consultant Dangli Wang

More nominative determinism when we see it... More »

9th, September 2012 Key Posts

Annecy Lake Murders: media focuses on Zaid Al-Hilli and ignores Suhaila Al Saffa and Sylvain Mollier

The murders of Saad Al-Hilli, his wife Ikbal Al-Hilli, 74-year-old Suhaila Al Saffa and Sylvain Mollier in the media... More »

9th, September 2012 The Consumer

Wiesnkoks festival cocaine banned from Oktoberfest

'Wiesnkoks' - or festival cocaine - is a 5euro sachet filled with dextrose and menthol that comes in a wrap with a straw... More »

8th, September 2012 Politicians

On the Romney-Ryan campaign trail with Instagram: photos

Associated Press photographers have been using Instagram to follow Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan's Republican bid for Presidency of the United States... More »

8th, September 2012 Fashion

The corset: before and after photos

Before Spanx, Body Magic, liposuction and Lycra, there was the corset... More »

8th, September 2012 Reviews

Lake Annecy murders: Kadhem's will and the mystery Swedish women

Still no name for the older woman shot dead in the car with Saad al-Hilli and his wife, Iqbal... More »

8th, September 2012 TV & Radio

Channel 4 finally runs out of ideas and US imports: The Audience is the idiocy of crowds

The idiocy of crowds... More »

8th, September 2012 Key Posts

Use the Flintshire Doggy Do app to harvest the turds and feed them to slack owners

Happy days for John Waters fans and other dog poo enthusiasts. Councils in Blaenau Gwent and Vale of Glamorgan have taken up the free Flintshire Doggy Do app... More »

8th, September 2012 Strange But True

Mug shot of the day: Hubert Leverich's "INSANE' face

The Bogey Man has a face... More »

8th, September 2012 Money 1

Lies and more lies on setting a minimum price for alcohol

Damn, I do get cheesed off with people trying to lie to us so that they can change the law... More »

7th, September 2012 Key Posts 5

Lake Annecy murders: the double-tap, nuclear fuel and pointing the finger

The murders of Saad al-Hilli, 50, his wife Iqbal, 49 (many news sources say she was 47), and her 77-year-old mother in a clearing above Lake Annecy, near Chevaline in the French Alps, are big news... More »