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10th, May 2012 Key Posts 5

How Barcelona's Lionel Messi triggered a race war

Arguing for the prosecution, is Dutch footballer Royston Drenthe, a former Real Madrid player now on loan at Everton who says Messi called him a "negro"... More »

9th, May 2012 Film

The Greatest Slaps in movie history: Volumes I and II

The Greatest Slaps in movie history: Volume 1 and the sequel Volume II: Slap and Slapier... More »

9th, May 2012 Reviews

With no honest debate the media and politicians further damage the Rochdale rapists' victims

The eight Pakistani men and one Afghani who played parts in the raping children in Oldham and Rochdale have been jailed for a total of 77 years at Liverpool Crown Court. Sentences ranged from four to 19 years... More »

9th, May 2012 Key Posts

The Chinese eat powdered baby flesh - and other Matzah Balls

Did you about those godless Chinese grinding up the bones and flesh of dead babies and turning the desiccated cement into mouth-sized capsules to be taken after meals?.. More »

9th, May 2012 Celebrities

Rip Vidal Sassoon - a life in photos

"When I first came into hair, women were coming in and you'd place a hat on their hair and you'd dress their hair around it." Bald men can dream... More »

9th, May 2012 Celebrities 3

More masseuses to accuse Travolta of indecent proposals

Travolta has invariably had a rough 24 hours after being accused of molesting some poor masseuse in one of the most hilariously worded legal complaints in history... More »

9th, May 2012 Flashback

Flashback to 1900-1910 - great photos of life at it once was

The 19 noughties.... More »

9th, May 2012 Photojournalism

Photos of the day - How to have a black man in the house

How to have a black man in the house; give a nuclear smile; ride a hippo; and down a mysterious sperm cocktail... More »

9th, May 2012 In Pictures 1

London in photos - 1875-1876

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9th, May 2012 Celebrities

Chantelle Houghton exposes the lying press in OK!

Houghton points a strawberry towards her lips, turns her head toward the camera, flutters her eyelashes that are covered in the deep shag pile skins of dead bubble bees and tells OK! readers... More »

9th, May 2012 Money

Another idiot idea: Make those northern suburbs grow like Detroit

Sir Simon Jenkins, very important man that he is, fully paid up member of the Great and the Good, has managed to get infected with yet another of the idiot ideas that flow from the US to the UK... More »

9th, May 2012 TV & Radio

The shopping trolley carousel

Turn your shopping precinct into a big top funfair... More »

9th, May 2012 Madeleine McCann 5

Madeleine McCann spotted in Fuengirola - the witch hunt for Karsten Meyer

The Express has picked up on the Sun's story that Karen Sisson saw a blonde child "identical" to missing Madeleine on a campsite in Fuengirola, Spain... More »

9th, May 2012 In Pictures

John Travolta - a life in rare photos

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9th, May 2012 Flashback

June 5, 1989 - The epic photo of the Tiananmen Square Tank Man

Tanks are rolling into Beijing's Tiananmen Square. AP reporter Terril Jones takes a photograph. Amid the chaos and the panic, a man is stood still... More »

8th, May 2012 Fashion 5

Anja Rubik cuts a *ash at the Costume Institute Benefit Gala at the Metropolitan Museum, New York (photos)

To the Costume Institute Benefit Gala at the Metropolitan Museum – New York, in the company of Anja Rubik, doyenne of the Rubik's Lube, showing us the pelvis bone Angelina Jolie shaves her leg on… More »

8th, May 2012 Reviews 2

How a juror nearly freed the Rochdale child abusers by leaking news to the far right

In the Times, Andrew Norfolk says that hundreds of girls are being used for sex. These girls are often in the care of the State. He says that since 2007, there are 631 recorded incidents of girls being sold for sex... More »

8th, May 2012 Reviews 7

Flashback to 1912 - rare photos of life as it was

Fantastic photos of one hundred years ago... More »

8th, May 2012 In Pictures

1990s elephant is a meme that never forgets

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8th, May 2012 Music 1

Hey Ya? Hey Joe? OutKast's André 3000 to play Jimi Hendrix

Looking out at the world, there's not many people who have matched Jimi Hendrix's joy of raiding the dressing-up box and living life as a pop star peacock, with wild hair, irresistible hips and effectively looking like they've just dropped in from Planet Funk... More »

8th, May 2012 Reviews 8

Nine Rochdale child rapists found guilty - 40 others remain at large

After 11 weeks of testimony at Liverpool Crown Court - in which the child victims of rape were forced by their callous attackers' pleas of innocence to address the court - nine men have been found guilty of running a child sex grooming ring in Rochdale and Oldham... More »

8th, May 2012 Money 1

How Bruce Dickinson and Iron Maiden will save the economy

In the FT, a letter from Peter Cook, of the Academy of Rock, Gillingham, explores how Iron Maiden's Bruce Dickinson will save the entrepreneurial economy... More »

8th, May 2012 Film

All This And World War ll - Watch how The Beatles lost the war

Fans of The Beatles hated All This And World War ll, a film that mashed up actual World War 2 footage with Hollywood actors pretending to fight in war films and set it to people singing songs by the Fab Four... More »

8th, May 2012 Celebrities

John Travolta sued for allegedly trying to fiddle with the wang of a masseuse! (photos)

One author has been very vocal about Travolta's supposed secret sexual liaisons, noting how much the Pulp Fiction actor liked to please Middle Easterners with large weaponry.... More »

8th, May 2012 In Pictures

Sharon Simmons - Dallas Cowboys cheerleader photos

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