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20th, August 2012 Key Posts 1

Dog Shaming: because your dog is shamed (photos)

Tumblr of the day is Dog Shaming, in which dogs confess to any number of sins and moments of moral turpitude More »

20th, August 2012 TV & Radio

Woman falls through glass table (video)

The kids are playing. Mum is grumbling. Mum is falling face first into a glass table. Someone is filming it and giving out advice... More »

20th, August 2012 Money

Lord save us from newspaper fools: on the Thames Estuary airport and Severn Barrage

Especially the fools who write the editorials. Here's the Daily Telegraph shouting that we must have lots more infrastructure spending... More »

20th, August 2012 Politicians 14

Rape victims who fall pregnant should blame their female bodies, says Todd Akin

Let's just blame the women... More »

20th, August 2012 Reviews 2

Julian Assange: English law would prosecute a sleep rapist

It's not just in Sweden where his alleged crimes would be of interest... More »

20th, August 2012 Reviews

The view from Julian Assange's window - photos inside the Ecuadorean Embassy

What did Julian Assange see from the balcony at the Ecuadorean Embassy, London? Here you go... More »

20th, August 2012 Celebrities

Top Gun director falls to his death in thoroughly awful suicide

Top Gun director Tony Scott, younger brother of Ridley, has committed suicide after falling to his death from a bridge in Los Angeles... More »

20th, August 2012 Reviews

Users don't all want to legalise marijuana in Seattle - they must be mad

In Seattle, they're voting to legalise marijuana. Not all stoners are in favour... More »

20th, August 2012 Flashback

Car Talk In A Woman's Language - 1956 brochure

It was "the inside story of your car and it's engine - written by women expressly for women".. More »

20th, August 2012 Politicians

Chris Stewart: Republican congressman tells of End of Times and Saudi King as 'pawn of Lucifer'

Meet Chris Stewart, a Republican and a US congressman. He's former Air Force pilot and a best-selling author. He used to fly the B-1B bomber. He says the USA is a "nation built upon the back of miracles"... More »

20th, August 2012 Strange But True

Police blow up marijuana 'pipe bomb' bong

In Sherman Heights, San Diego, police have spotted a device that they think looks like a pipe bomb... More »

20th, August 2012 Strange But True 1

Willy the cockatoo has been trained to call the neighbour a 'whore'

"It’s directed exactly at me, I’m 53 years old and I’ve never been called a fu*king whore in my life. This woman is a lunatic... More »

20th, August 2012 Music

V Festival 2012: photos of bands, fans and Manchester's tambourine men

Bez... Still go it! More »

19th, August 2012 Reviews

Everything you wanted to know about Julian Assange in one front page

Who is Julian Assange and why is he famous? The Independent explains it all one neat front page... More »

19th, August 2012 Flashback

Circus magazine asks 'Will they survice the 70s?'

Guess who died... More »

19th, August 2012 TV & Radio

After the Olympics tears, dama and talent the X Factor is disqualified

IS the X Factor suffering from the Olympics, where real jaw-dropping talent, high drama, great backstories and tears were in abundance? What can the X Factor do to make itself relevant? More »

19th, August 2012 Sports

Kevin Pietersen v Andrew Strauss: doos and don'ts

Want to know why cocksure England cricketer Kevin Pietersen isn't playing for England?... More »

19th, August 2012 Strange But True

Jackmeoff Mudd arrested in Florida

To South Florida in seach of nominative determinism - and finding a man arrested last Friday in Fort Lauderdale. Meet Jackmeoff Mudd.. More »

19th, August 2012 Celebrities

Tulisa, the Rampant Rabbit and an Olympic gold medal winner

The X Factor is underway, and with it comes more news on Tulisa, the show's designated star... More »

18th, August 2012 Strange But True

Eduardo Leite was pieced in the brain by a 6-foot metal pole - and lived

He was on site when a 6-foot metal bar fell and hit him in the head. The pole passed though his hard hat and into his head... More »

18th, August 2012 Reviews

Face of the Day - the world's foremost vuvuzela enthusiast

A devotee his face smeared with color and sacrificial blood, dances, during the two-day long Deodhani festival at Kamakhya temple in Gauhati, India... More »

18th, August 2012 Reviews

Dorset police force yobs to buy pump and reinflate car tyres they'd vandalised

Direct policing in action down in Weymouth, Dorset... More »

18th, August 2012 Politicians 1

That Chicago monument to Barack Obama and Michelle's first kiss

America loves a landmark. So. Off we go to see the 3,000-pound granite marker sits at the corner of Dorchester and 53rd Streets where President Barack Obama first kissed first lady Michele Obama... More »

18th, August 2012 Photojournalism 2

Your dirty mind photo of the day: girls night out

What do you see..? More »

18th, August 2012 Reviews

Pussy Riot explain why they used the Church

"The fact that Christ the Savior Cathedral had become a significant symbol in the political strategy of our powers that be was already clear to many thinking people when Vladimir Putin’s former [KGB] colleague..." More »