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17th, May 2012 Film

Cannes 2012: the opening Gala in photos

The talk in Europe is all about austerity versus debt. Cannes is somewhere else... More »

17th, May 2012 Technology 2

Man invents perpetual motion car

YAZOOKS! Tang Zhenping, a 55-year-old farmer living in Banjiehe, China, has invented the world's first wind-powered car.... More »

17th, May 2012 TV & Radio

Some kid tries to mess with a marching band - never do this (video)

Do not mess with a marching band.... More »

17th, May 2012 Key Posts

The best blow job faces in the world - photos

The best blow job faces in the world, as taken by "Tadao Cern" in his series"Blow Job." ... More »

17th, May 2012 TV & Radio

When Jacob met Tyler - uplifting video of the day

In this video Jacob - he's blind and autistic - meets Tyler, who's playing music in Lawrence, Kansas on May 13, 2012... More »

17th, May 2012 Money 6

Sam Hallam's going to have to pay the government bed and board

I'll guarantee you in a day or two you're going to be seeing pieces shouting about how unfair it is that Sam Hallam, unfairly convicted and now released, will have to be paying bed and board for the time he was in prison... More »

17th, May 2012 Music

RIP hard-working Queen of Disco

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17th, May 2012 In Pictures 1

Donna Summer - a life in photos

Celebrating the "Queen of Disco”. She was 63. And she was brilliant... More »

17th, May 2012 Celebrities

Gym employee joins long queue of people touched by Travolta

“The gym was opened as a courtesy to John Travolta so that he could avoid the public yet maintain his fitness in this physically challenging role that he was doing at the time. The gym employee says that John Travolta groped and fondled him against his will,” a source said... More »

17th, May 2012 Key Posts 2

Andre Breivik needs an idiot to get Call of Duty banned: here's Keith Vaz creating a moral panic

What you need for the words of a murderous lunatic to be taken at face value and turned into a moral panic to create censorship and curtail freedoms is a willing fool in a official post. Step forward vain Keith Vaz, chair of the Home Affairs Select Committee... More »

17th, May 2012 Reviews 1

Man sentenced for farming cannabis butter to help wife's severe arthritic pain

COMMON SENSE ALERT! Common sense alert!! Well, partial.. More »

17th, May 2012 Film

Cannes 2012: Day 2 photos – Marion Cotillard adds star quality to Rust and Bone

The film is about a woman with no legs who falls in love with a bare-knuckled boxer in Antibes on the Cote d'Azur... More »

17th, May 2012 Reviews

A warning to all Facebook thieves from Colombia

NOTE to thieves: if you really must check your Facebook account on your victim's computer it would be in your interest to log out before you take their money and run... More »

17th, May 2012 Strange But True 4

Israel adds honey bees to its army of vultures and sharks

The Israelis are not only using sharks and vultures to do their spying, but also birds, specifically the European bee-eater (Merops Apiaster)... More »

17th, May 2012 Celebrities

Kerry Katona's DIY tummy tuck

Katona wants to tell OK! readers about her tummy tuck... More »

17th, May 2012 Celebrities

Kym Marsh and Jamie Lomas - meat the lovers

Loverly story in this week's OK! about Coronation Street actress Kym Marsh and her man Jamie Lomas... More »

17th, May 2012 Strange But True 6

Iceland MP moves elves' boulder home to his garden

As the economy plunges into the abyss, we look to Iceland's politicians for guidance. Over there, Árni Johnsen, an MP for the Independence Party, will move a 30-ton boulder, home to three generations of elves, to his garden... More »

17th, May 2012 Photojournalism

Photos of the day - a spoonful of Viagra for one

Spoon or cone, sir..? More »

17th, May 2012 In Pictures

Linda Hogan - photos

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17th, May 2012 The Consumer

Obese man pickets restaurant over failed all-you-can-eat deal

Can you be too fat to eat? Bill Wisth weighs 350 pounds. He is six-feet-six-inches tall. He likes to eat... More »

17th, May 2012 TV & Radio

Chips, Cheese, Trams and Es - the Edinburgh song

One of our writers once wrote an article for Esquire on 'Things You See From A London Bus'. One of them was a sleeping Glaswegian. Up in Edinburgh, the view is no less inspiring... More »

17th, May 2012 TV & Radio

Is this the best Stag do prank ever?

Kokovtsov is blindfolded. He is taken to a ledge. He is told he is about bungee from a 50 feet high platform. Will he jump? More »

17th, May 2012 Key Posts

How LOCOG cheated the Woolsack knitters - UPS could help

Maybe the unpaid knitters of Woolsack, an official Olympic scheme to knit 14,000 woolly cushion covers to brighten up the athletes' rooms in the London Olympic Village, should get in touch with UPS... More »

16th, May 2012 The Consumer

The Pizza Hut F*ck You Pizza From Pizza Hut is d'lish - video

Pizza Hut has finally stopped dicking around... More »

16th, May 2012 Technology

Canadian MP says everyone who eats is a copyright thief

Copyright is a big issue. And the debate involves all manner of idiots. Take Canada's Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs Dean Del Mastro.. More »