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10th, June 2012 Key Posts 5

Nick D'Arcy and Kenrick Monk: Olympic swimmers in gun-toting stupidity massacre

Nick D'Arcy and Kenrick Monk are Austrlian Olympic swimmers. They posted photographs of themselves posing with guns on Facebook. No, not their own guns used in crime. These were hired guns they'd been firing legally on a range in California... More »

10th, June 2012 Key Posts

The football teams that changed their kits and won and lost their identities

Amid all the Euro hype, one piece of football news has largely slipped under the radar: Cardiff City FC have confirmed what many suspected – that they will now play in red, because the colour is more appealing to the club’s Malaysian owners than the traditional blue strip... More »

9th, June 2012 Music

Capital FM's Summertime Ball at Wembley Stadium - photos

Bieber, The Wanted, Cheryl Cole. Coldplay, FloRida, Jessie J, Katy Perry and Kelly Clarkson perform during Capital FM's Summertime Ball at Wembley Stadium, London... More »

9th, June 2012 Celebrities 1

Lindsay Lohan car accident photos

Walking tabloid car crash and bit-time actress Lindsay Lohan has been in accident with her Porsche and a large truck.. More »

9th, June 2012 Strange But True

Penguins have sex with dead females and 'children'

The Natural History Museum, London, is promoting its upcoming exhibition Scott's Last Expedition by showcasing the birds collected on the tour and sharing Levick's news... More »

9th, June 2012 Sports

Euro Championships: Ireland fans have fun with German Chancellor Angela Merkel

Do the Germans know you're here...? More »

9th, June 2012 Music

Boise Weekly critic Josh Gross reviews Nickelback without holding back

That good, eh..? More »

9th, June 2012 The Consumer

Harvey Nichols promotes female ejaculation with racy ad

The flyers for the Harvey Nichols shops (Leeds and Knightsbridge) features a woman with damp patch on her groin and the legend: "The Harvey Nichols Sale... Try To Contain Your Excitement."... More »

9th, June 2012 Key Posts 1

Luka Magnotta fed Jun Lin to his pet rabbit and worked as a detective

Magnotta, nee Eric Newman, is the international tabloid star. The Daily Mirror leads with the headline: "MY BABY-FACED CANNIBAL". NOW READ ON>>>> More »

9th, June 2012 Reviews

Store owners snares robbers with bear spray and spanking (video)

Hero of the day is Zhen Yang, owner of Dépanneur J A C Line store in Gatineau. QC, who saw off two would-be armed robbers with bear spray and spanking... More »

8th, June 2012 Flashback 2

Flashback photo: 1926 - St Kilda goes without

September ,3, 1926 - St Kilda, the island in the outer Hebrides, whose inhabitants are short of stores owing to storms. Click to photo to make it huge… More »

8th, June 2012 Celebrities

Shilpa Shetty names her son A History

When Shilpa Shetty gave birth, her husband, Raj Kundra, mused about the child's name on twitter: “Dear #babyK You’re born without anything but u die with you’re name. so that name must not be a WORD…it must be a HISTORY…!!”... More »

8th, June 2012 Celebrities

Lauryn Hill to go to jail?

Despite being the only talented one in The Fugees (no-one remembers Pras and Wyclef's obvious lack of talent is underlined in will.i.am stealing his career off him), Lauryn Hill hasn't been having a good time of it... More »

8th, June 2012 Celebrities

When Fearne Cotton met Paloma Faith the BBC got the Diana and Fergie we don't miss

Was Fearne Cotton's chat with pixie-voied Paloma Faith the nadir of the BBC's Diamond Jubilee celebrations?.. More »

8th, June 2012 Celebrities 1

Bee Gee Robin Gibb's funeral - photos

Only Barry Gibb remains of the Be Gees line up... More »

8th, June 2012 TV & Radio

The world's smallest police chase (video)

...using the world's smallest video projectors... More »

8th, June 2012 Sports 3

Uefa says Dutch training session was like a party (no, not the Nazi Party)

Mark van Bommel, the Holland captain, says a few hundred of the Polish fans watching his side train in Krakow made monkey noises at the black players. Here's how Uefa reported the incident at the European Championship finals. It was a "party atmosphere"... More »

8th, June 2012 Strange But True 3

The Bathini Goud family cure asthma with herbs and live sardines - photos

Have you met the Gouds? They're the Indian family who administer fish medicine” to asthma patients in India... More »

8th, June 2012 TV & Radio

Overly attached girlfriend - the video that sparked a meme

If I was your girlfriend... More »

8th, June 2012 Politicians 3

Funny thing this democracy lark, best left to the snotty elite

As Guido is reporting Doug Carswell is one of the 20 backbench MPs who won the ballot to be able to inrtoduce a private members bill this session. Carswell then asked people to nominate and then vote upon which bill he ought to try and introduce. The winner being... More »

8th, June 2012 Reviews 8

Trent Barton driver refused to let woman on bus for 20p fare - then she was raped

When a driver for Trent Barton buses refused to let a 22-year-old woman board the bus because she was 20p short of ther £5 fare he could not have known she would soon after be raped... More »

8th, June 2012 Reviews

Juxtaposition of the day: the Sun's paedo paradise goes Disney

Mickey Mouse must die! More »

8th, June 2012 TV & Radio

Vicks the Rotterdam polar bears tries to break out

He's breaking rocks.... More »

8th, June 2012 Technology 2

The troll hater song

This is great... More »

8th, June 2012 Sports

Dutch suffer Poland's racists in silence

Racism is back. After John Terry, Luis Suarez and Sepp Blatter's belief that anything said on the pitch should end with post-match handshake, comes news that Holland players have been racially abused by a Polish football fans at a training session in Wisla Cracow's Stadion Miejski stadium... More »