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9th, August 2012 In Pictures

The best animal photobombs ever

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9th, August 2012 Money

Covent Garden booms and busts as London 2012 fever takes hold

How the media works... More »

9th, August 2012 In Pictures

Memes - a selection of ones you loved

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9th, August 2012 Reviews

The Green Shirt Population Institute wants lots of you dead

You are the human virus - says human virus... More »

9th, August 2012 Reviews 4

Gay Day celebration attacked by Rapists For God

Never trust a man who colours in his Bible.... More »

9th, August 2012 Strange But True 1

Fayzarahmanist Islamists lived in underground bunker for 10 years

Reuters reports that 70 people (including 20 children) lived in the bunker with neither heat nor light... More »

9th, August 2012 Key Posts 3

Journalism student relives newsroom horror: the intern's story

Journalists should especially enjoy this report from a Melbourne University journalism student who spent two weeks toiling at a newspaper's off... More »

9th, August 2012 Sports 2

McDonald's medal table says Team USA are beating Team China

How is Team USA getting along in the 2012 Olympics? Well, it turns out that in spite of winning fewer gold medals than China, the Americans are winning... More »

9th, August 2012 Sports

Russian high jumper Ivan Ukhov hits the (vodka) bar - video

Olympic watch focuses on Russian high jumper Ivan Ukhov, winner of the gold medal in the men’s high jump... More »

9th, August 2012 Reviews 7

Tia Sharp: The Daily Express smells 'bodies and blood' in New Addington

Tia Sharp is now front-page news. So too is Stuart Hazell. The 12-year-old girl has been missing for 6 days. The Daily Star leads with... More »

9th, August 2012 Strange But True

Man ate Glasgow Rangers fan's ear in Whispers bar

To a pub in Tranent, East Lothian, where Alastair Park, 30, is fighting with Graeme Aitken... More »

9th, August 2012 Politicians 3

David Cameron does porridge (photo)

Caption this... More »

9th, August 2012 Sports

London Olympics 2012 day 12 – the best photos

Our daily look at the best photos of the London 2012 Olympics. Day 12… More »

9th, August 2012 Music

The Stranglers and a Mariachi band sing Golden Brown

Always the drugs... More »

8th, August 2012 Money 1

How to lose $440 million in an hour - Knight Capital advise

The American company, Knight Capital, managed to lose $440 million in an hour last week on the New York Stock Exchange... More »

8th, August 2012 Sports 4

Piers Morgan v 'Bradley Wiggins' on Twitter - only one winner

This is great... More »

8th, August 2012 Sports 1

Australia's Olympic losers get Taiwanese animation treatment (with tasteless dingo)

Still. There's always Aussie Rules... More »

8th, August 2012 The Consumer

Grazia's shopping tips features plug lots of in-house shopping expert's clothes

Recently, Grazia has been plugging beachflamingo.com, a site flogging gear like the £350 "tummy tamer" bikini and a dress costing £434... More »

8th, August 2012 Celebrities

Pictures emerge that suggest Chris Brown is gay?

So, do we mock or shrug? More »

8th, August 2012 Sports 1

Aussie media boxes itself into a racist Corner over Katie Taylor

Journalist Peter Hanlon of Australian media group Fairfax has produced a stunningly stereotypical piece on the success of Irish Olympic boxing star Katie Taylor... More »

8th, August 2012 Sports

Daily Mail wonders if Z is for Zara Phillips or Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz?

The Daily Mail's quest for a twitter story took in Mike Tindall and his wife, Zara Phillips, who won a gong riding a horse in the London 2012 Olympics... More »

8th, August 2012 Reviews

Tia Sharp: When is a police car not a police car?

The media focuses on Stuart Hazell. He has been charged with no crime. The police have not arrested him. Still, the media are painting a picture of a man... More »

8th, August 2012 Celebrities

Katy Perry defecates in a bucket these days

Divorces often do strange things. Mostly, they're booze induced. However, Katy Perry tops the lot after her split with Russell Brand... More »

8th, August 2012 Reviews

The Boy Scouts of America perversion files feature not a single gay

Grim news in the latimes.com that the Boy Scouts of America has a secret dossier of "perversion files" used to tracks sexual deviants in woggles... More »

8th, August 2012 Sports

Daily Mail says golden Olympic dressage hero Carl Hester is 'gay' - horse deeply upset

More dressage (say it to rhyme with message) rubbish in the tabloids as the Daily Mail proiles two part of Team GB's 'three-man' winning Olympic team, Laura Bechtolsheimer and Charlotte Dujardin... More »