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26th, June 2012 Money

Is Rupert Murdoch going to split up News Corporation? Yes. Probably

There are several stories around today that Rupert Murdoch is warming to the idea of splitting up News Corporation. This isn't a new thing at all: it's that Rupe is warming to it that is... More »

26th, June 2012 Reviews

Vicky Beckham delighted with Spice Girls Musical - photos

Cheese! More »

26th, June 2012 Reviews 1

Julian Assange writes his IQ.org sequel at the Ecuadoran embassy?

Will the Wikileaks founder ever get out?... More »

26th, June 2012 In Pictures

eCards - the best 10 ever

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26th, June 2012 Photojournalism

Photos of the day - 'What you gonna do, stab me?'

Photos of the day are brought to you by the quote from the man ho got stabbed: "What you gonna do, stab me?" More »

26th, June 2012 Technology 2

Facebook makes your email @Facebook.com - email users fear for their children

Facebook has just altered your email address to read @facebook.com. You might want to sort this out, revert to what was once your own address. Here's how... More »

26th, June 2012 Reviews

Daily Mail uses death video to sell Eiffel Tower suicide story

How does the Daily Mail illustrate the news that a young Israeli man has climbed to the top of the Eiffel Tower and chucked himself off?... More »

26th, June 2012 Flashback 1

Holland play Italy at the 1990 Subbuteo World Cup (video)

Alternative Olympic Sports harks back to 1990, when Holland took on Italy at the 1990 Subbuteo World Cup... More »

26th, June 2012 Music

2012 Isle of Wight Festival in photos

Were you there? Then, you might be here in our gallery... More »

26th, June 2012 Strange But True

Falling woman's life saved when dress snags on 7th floor awning (video)

The woman, 74, was yelliing at street musicians when she fell from her 8th floor balcony in Mariupol, Ukraine. She did not die... More »

26th, June 2012 Key Posts

The Twitter hunt for 'racist' Steve @Lapwnge: Ashley Cole and Ashley Young must be avenged

@Lapwnage @JordyEFCBoy, @jordanfoster97 and @johnbcfcmillmanmight be heading to prison.... More »

26th, June 2012 TV & Radio

ITV rip-off phone-in quiz of the day - This Morning asks...

ITV continues to milk its slack-jawed viewers on This Morning with Philip Schofield and smirky Holly Willoughby... More »

25th, June 2012 Reviews

Cadinal Dolan wants priests to give until it hurts - God, how it hurts those kids

In June, 2012, Monsignor William Lynn, chief of priest operating in the Philadelphia Archdiocese, was found guilty of endangering the welfare of a child by covering up child sex abuse in the US Catholic Church... More »

25th, June 2012 Key Posts

Roller Coaster dad says 'Never Again Grace'

For all the dads, everywhere... More »

25th, June 2012 Sports

London Olympics bans rock 'n' roll and free speech

Having cleansed St Paul's of the 99%, purged the Olympic Stadium of knitting and issued Asbos to the walking graffiti, the IOC guns for pop music... More »

25th, June 2012 Reviews

Marijuana pipe of the day - the Chewbacca smocca

Smoking paraphernalia continues... More »

25th, June 2012 Sports 2

Alan Shearer ghostwrites Mario Balotelli's autobiography

When Alan Shearer stops being "Alan Shearer" on the telly, he'll pick up the pen and be "Alan Shearer" the writer. As Alan Shearer says, "You couldn’t have wrote that script."... More »

25th, June 2012 Celebrities

Adele's music can be blamed on her gay chum getting off with her boyfriend

Adele's '21' went and conquered the world. It's not a bad album per se, but it isn't exactly any good. It's the musical equivalent of a baked potato with only butter... More »

25th, June 2012 Sports 2

When Wayne Rooney laughed at Manchester City's penalty losers

England are out of Euro 2012. Thoughts turn to the charmless England journeyman and Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney... More »

25th, June 2012 Money 2

Why we should increase banking bonuses at RBS / NatWest

The entire computing systems messed up as a result of someone trying to improve them. The answer is, of course, that we should increase the bonuses paid within the bank... More »

25th, June 2012 Sports

Viriginie Caprice is your Euro 2012 predictor

How are your Euro 2012 predictions going. Hats off to the Anorak Towers house skink who told us that England would rely on an overweight, patently unfit Wayne Rooney and go out on penalties. More »

25th, June 2012 Photojournalism

10 pieces of sage advice about crocodiles and golf (with bonus pics)

On crocodiles and more besides... More »

25th, June 2012 Key Posts

Who really killed 2-year-old Hadeel Ahmed Al-Haddad in Gaza?

What really happened? More »

25th, June 2012 Strange But True 1

Judge orders mother to cut daughter's hair in court

To Utah, where District Juvenile Judge Scott Johansen tells Valerie Bruno that she can cut off 13-year-old daughter Kaytlen Lopan's ponytaol "right now" with official scissors or justice and reduce the teenager's sentence... More »

25th, June 2012 Strange But True

Thief trapped in Coke vending machine gets rescued

Thief of the day is the 17-year-old who in attempting to nick a can of Coke got his arm trapped in the vending machine... More »