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10th, July 2012 TV & Radio

Kate Moss Clam licks up table salt (video)

The self-seasoning shellfish... More »

10th, July 2012 Key Posts

The 10 most vital local TV news stories of the decade

Local news can be entertaining stuff. The trick is in highlighting the part of the story that matters most... More »

9th, July 2012 Strange But True 4

X-Ray photo: Couple smuggle baby to Dubai in hand luggage

To the hellishly hot fascist enclave of Dubai, where an Egyptian couple are transporting their five-month-old baby in their hand luggage... More »

9th, July 2012 Sports

Faces of the day: New York's Honeys and Bears synchronized swim team

Members of the Honeys and Bears synchronized swim group gather for directions from their coach Oliver Foote at Harlem's Thomas Jefferson Park pool... More »

9th, July 2012 Reviews

In photos: the San Fermin cock and bull run 2012

"Two Britons have been injured by the bulls. Liam Tarff, 29, was gored in the left thigh. Nick Couchman was gored in the right thigh.Says Tarff (-Luck).." More »

9th, July 2012 Reviews

If a typo is bad journalism we're all doomed

Journalism site HoldTheFrontPage gets pathetically snooty about a local news report headlined: "A dead Boby has been found on Southsea beach"... More »

9th, July 2012 The Consumer

Racist ad of the day: 1976 McDonald's

"Get down with your food" at the place where yo mama's legs are optional... More »

9th, July 2012 Sports

John Terry racism trial day 1: Rio Ferdinand's film choice and Vanessa Perroncel

The Chelsea captain was at Westminster Magistrates' Court, London, for the start of his trial for allegedly racially abusing QPR's Anton Ferdinand. The trial will last five days... More »

9th, July 2012 Money 1

There's economic myths and economic myths - the Laffer minute Greens don't get it

Economics is packed full of myths: not the subject itself, but what people think they understand about it. The Economist has a look at a couple... More »

9th, July 2012 Music 6

Buy 10cc of Stone Roses Heaton Park perfume

Did you go to the Stone Roses show in Manchester's Heaton Park? More »

9th, July 2012 The Consumer

The greatest advert of 2012: Hahn Super Dry beer is hotter than a wasabi enema

This is the best advert of 2012. This Australian advert for Hahn Super Dry beer won a Gold Lion at Cannes Saturday. It's brilliant... More »

9th, July 2012 Reviews 1

Media blames marijuana for Rudy Eugene's cannibal attack

The drug-crazed, Miami zombie cannibal Rudy Eugene was not high on bath salts bath salts when he attacked Ronald Poppo... More »

9th, July 2012 TV & Radio

He makes a wig from his own hair for a laugh (video)

This is Elton John got started... More »

9th, July 2012 Photojournalism

Photos of the day - Truncheon or Truneoff?

Your family holiday just got memorable... More »

9th, July 2012 Strange But True

Idiot of the day: Michael Baker steals from police and posts criem photo on Facebook

Villain of the day is Kentucky local Michael Baker, 20, who having stolen petrol from a Jenkins City Police car, advertised his crime... More »

9th, July 2012 The Consumer

With Libresse your vagina no longer smells of stinky socks and dead pigs (video)

Your vagina now smells like green tea. It used to smell like a Durian fruit... More »

9th, July 2012 The Consumer

Nottinghamshire Police sell cannabis at auction

For just £21.50, Nottinghamshire Police sold a Sony PSP games console made of cannabis... More »

9th, July 2012 Reviews

German town gives men harder parking places because they 'like the challenge'

Triberg, Germany, where the town's mayor, Gallus Strobel, has marked out car park spaces for men or women... More »

9th, July 2012 Books 1

The Blood We Share: Ian Huntley's brother Wayne investigates Soham murderer's path to murder

Wayne Huntley has written a book, published to coincide with the 10th anniversary of the murder of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman, the schoolgirls murdered by his older brother Ian Huntley in Soham, Cambridgeshire... More »

9th, July 2012 Sports

God and maybe a British Muslim wanted Roger Federer to win

IT turned out that praying to win Wimbledon was a waste of time. You will recall that the Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu More »

8th, July 2012 Sports 1

Anyone for Ennis? Kate Middleton Wimbledon defeat reduces Andy Murray to tears

In the end it was ll about Kate Middleton... More »

8th, July 2012 Film

March 21, 1956: The Oscars, as presented by Grave Kelly

FLASHBACK to March 21, 1956: Award presenter Grace Kelly, center, poses with Oscar winners at the 1955 Academy Awards... More »

8th, July 2012 In Pictures

Ernest Borgnine - a life in photos

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8th, July 2012 The Consumer

Racist ad of the day - See Asia Like Asian Do

'BUT that's racist!' advert of the day features the work of Ukrainian travel agency Multipass, keen to promote their trips to Asia... More »

8th, July 2012 Flashback

When the Sex Pistols toured the USA and hit Cain's Ballroom

This Land Press and Lee Roy Chapman have produced a cool film about that Cain's show, and what it meant to be on the bill with the band who wanted to be ugly... More »