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3rd, May 2012 Key Posts

Patricia Krentril took her toddler to a tanning salon

New Jersey, USA, Patricia Krentril has been arrested for taking her 5-year-old daughter to a tanning salon and sneaking her into a stand-up booth More »

3rd, May 2012 Strange But True

The Fourth Valley College campus spelling error

The sign outside the new Forth Valley College campus in Stirling welcoems tudents to "Fourth Valley Collage”... More »

3rd, May 2012 Reviews

Airbrushed images of super-skinny models don’t make you sick

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3rd, May 2012 Sports 4

Sun gets 'vile' Jonathan Ross to defend its Woy Hodgson attack

The ideal, presumably, is that Sun's spiteful mocking of England manager Roy Hodgson's speech can be excused because Jonathan Ross says it's ok... More »

3rd, May 2012 Strange But True

Plymouth drink-driver had gin, tonic and slices of lemon in car

"She ran out of alcohol and went out to the supermarket to purchase some more," Bill LaHive, representing Janice Hawke, tells Plymouth magistrates, and describes his client calling the incident "crazy"... More »

3rd, May 2012 In Pictures

Bad Parenting - photos to enjoy

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3rd, May 2012 Strange But True 2

Zoo worker licks monkey's bum for an hour to retrieve peanut

What do you do when your young leaf monkey is constipated? Zhang Bangsheng knows... More »

3rd, May 2012 Strange But True

Sign of the day: 'Introdwction to the Chamberpet'

To WuHu China, where the sings are that Roy Hodgson has been moonlighting as sign writer... More »

3rd, May 2012 Photojournalism

Photos of the day - Why is Samuel L Jackson always the black guy?

Wise Moves for an unwise move; Boris Johnson's look-alike; the windmills is not for turning; Robert Pattinson is nto staring at boobs; Why is Samuel L Jackson always the black guy?... More »

3rd, May 2012 Key Posts 6

Madeleine McCann: A PR mistake with Antonio Castela

Five years ago today the child who became the media's Our Maddie disappearded. The papers react to the sensational news that the Maddie Story is not dead yet.... More »

2nd, May 2012 Music 1

Record of the day - The Beatles and Jesus Christ

Yeah, not Jesus Christ and The Beatles. John Lennon was right... More »

2nd, May 2012 Key Posts 7

How Barack Obama seduced Genevieve Cook - Barry's four-point plan

We've picked out the sections that reveals how to pull Barack Obama. Obama met Cook met at a Christmas party in New York's East Village in December 1983. He was 22. She was 25... More »

2nd, May 2012 In Pictures

Genevieve Cook - photos of Barack Obama's first lover

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2nd, May 2012 Reviews

The best photos from the Occupy May Day protests in the USA

In Oakland, California, Seattle, Washington, Miami, Florida, and New York, New York, protestors against greed, the rich, poverty, the right, war, unfairness, police and whatever else took their fancy... More »

2nd, May 2012 Sports

In Photos - Fabrice Muamba makes public appearance at Bolton V Spurs

Just 46 days earlier Muamba had collapsed on the pitch at White Heart Lane. His heart stopped beating independently for 78 minutes... More »

2nd, May 2012 Celebrities

Tulisa Contostavlos and the big vibrating Rabbit lie

Contostavlos is the world's sexiest woman according to readers of FHM magazine, who may have voted before Samantha Brick appeared on the radar... More »

2nd, May 2012 In Pictures

Demotivational Posters - Album II

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2nd, May 2012 Reviews

How tabloids work: The Sun undermines Rupert Murdoch with Madeleine McCann scoop

This is how the Sun speaks truth to power... More »

2nd, May 2012 Flashback

Flashback to May 2 – Photos from this day in history

On this day... More »

2nd, May 2012 Key Posts 4

Madeleine McCann: What 72-year-old Antonio Castela saw

Gerry and Kate McCann have been on ITN News, Sky News and what 72-year-old Antonio Castela saw... More »

2nd, May 2012 Reviews

Is CNN dying?

24/7 rolling TV news is not the must-see broadcast it was... More »

2nd, May 2012 Celebrities

Danny From The Voice turned down Cameron Diaz's sexual advances

Apparently, while Danny was doing whatever it is he does in America, Diaz tried to chat him up and get him to go on a date. That's because he's got a girlfriend... More »

2nd, May 2012 In Pictures

Rihanna and the strippers - photos

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2nd, May 2012 Money 1

So Murdoch's not fit to run a media company then? Why then is that company so popular?

That's interesting really. The idea that the man who has built the world's largest media conglomerate isn't the right person to run a media conglomerate... More »

2nd, May 2012 Reviews 1

Oetzi - what really happened to the 5,30-year-old Ice Man

The 5,300-year-old Ice Man discovered in the Italian Alps is back in the news... More »