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26th, April 2012 Celebrities

Molly Ringwald drinks Kirsten Stewart's blood

Celebrity Quote of The Day: Molly Ringwald responds to the question: "How did you manage to get hotter with age?!” More »

26th, April 2012 Flashback

Flashback to April 26 – Photos from this day in history

On this day in history... More »

26th, April 2012 Reviews

Gareth Williams inquest turns into a homophobic character assassination

The Daily Mail piles in on Gareth Williams... More »

26th, April 2012 Strange But True 1

On Die-Guillotine.com you vote for a lamb to live or die

Rezai and Rouven Materne will use their homemade guillotine to off a lamb. The duo, student at the Berlin University of the Arts, are, we imagine on budget, so have stopped short of getting a live shark, an elephant, a million quid or John Terry.... More »

26th, April 2012 Reviews

When atheists mock Islamists in Melbourne things get funny

The Islamists are making theirs usual threats in Melbourne. They are outside the Global Atheist Convention. They are chanting... More »

26th, April 2012 Sports

Ched Evans: Three arrests for twitter posts and Sheffield United's hair don't

Ched Evans is appealing his conviction. If things go his way Ched Evans may be out of prison before the three men who tweeted the name of his victim... More »

26th, April 2012 Reviews 22

No peace for John Kercher, Amanda Knox and Meredith Kercher - murder brought to book

Kercher is talking to the Times' Lucy Bannerman. John Kercher is Meredith Kercher's father. She's the young British woman murdered in Perugia, Italy. Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito did not murder her. Bannerman writes... More »

26th, April 2012 The Consumer

Stonehenge is bouncy castle - now for the Kaaba Snow Globe

Stonehenge has been turned into a bouncy castle entitled Sacrilege by British artist Jeremy Deller More »

26th, April 2012 Strange But True 1

Manchester man blames steak and ale pie for drink driving ban

To Manchester, where Lee Handford, 38, seeks to explain his positive breathalyzer reading by blaming the booze on a steak and ale pie he'd eaten... More »

26th, April 2012 Celebrities

Alex Reid stands for Parliament, Question Time and your lunchbox

Alex Reid, the walking Toffee Crisp once married to Katie Price, wants to be an MP... More »

26th, April 2012 Music 15

The Smiths to reform aka Morrissey's mortgage payments must be getting tight

THERE is a rumour that never goes out. That's right, it is that time again to talk about the reforming of The Smiths... More »

26th, April 2012 Film

Kate Middleton at the African Cats Premiere - Photos

Around one year ago, commoner Kate Middleton married royal Prince William an a massive display of pomp and wealth sat neatly on Pippa Middleton's taught buttocks. For their anniversary Prince Charles is being urged to give William the throne... More »

26th, April 2012 Books

Book of The Day - How To Pick Up Women, by Eric Weber

Weber self-published his book He took out an advert in Penthouse magazine and waited. And then the orders started to come in.... More »

26th, April 2012 Key Posts 3

What was up with that "racist cake"?

Is Sweden's international image as a country dedicated to tolerance and egalitarianism a mirage? Is the Scandinavian nation, in reality, a deeply bigoted place where dark-skinned people are routinely discriminated against..? More »

26th, April 2012 Strange But True

Escaped cow heads to McDonald's drive-thru

To Brush, Colorado, where escaped cow Darcy has arrived at her destination, a McDonald’s drive-through... More »

26th, April 2012 Sports

Great British Olympic Champions - photos

The London Olympics are coming. Quick! Look busy. Only joking, they're gonna be great. In readiness for the big patriot push, we've compiled a gallery of some Team GB gold medal winners of old, right from the 1908 Olympics up to the last shindig in Beijing... More »

26th, April 2012 Gifs

Teaching ducklings to swim in a pool

Duckling get up early to beat the Germans to the sunbed... More »

26th, April 2012 Photojournalism

Photos of the day - the wife gets the beers in for Hell's turtle

The wife gets the beers in; spot the odd one out; Hell's turtle; Wee garden; kids on a bus; ice-boxing; and man who thinks he's a banana split... More »

26th, April 2012 Key Posts 2

Madeleine McCann: distorting the facts with Detective Chief Inspector Andy Redwood

She is alive. Fact. Well sort of. The Metropolitan Police have issued a photo of Madeleine McCann at age 9. Only, it's not an actual photo. It's a guesstimate likeness created by an artist.... More »

25th, April 2012 The Consumer

The Mystery Science Theater 3000 headboard is a thing of wonder

If they're looking at the wall, he might be ok because if they're looking at his bed antics... More »

25th, April 2012 In Pictures

Space - Amazing photos of photos of planet Earth

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25th, April 2012 Sports 1

Photos: UEFA Champions League - Real Madrid v Bayern Munich at the Santiago Bernabeu

No Jose Mourinho. No weeks of listening to millions of pundits banging on about Mourinho's return to face Chelsea. Hurrah! Hurrah for Bayern Munich! ... More »

25th, April 2012 Key Posts

Why Claire Squires did it - London Marathon athlete was running for herself

The self-serving tabloid drive to own Claire Squires, the woman who died during the London Marathon, can now be put to bed... More »

25th, April 2012 Strange But True 1

Manchester robbers caught posing with photos of their stolen goods

Idiots of the Day are Manchester thieves James Robinson, 17, Joseph Mahoney, 16, and Jacob Lynch, 16, who having robbed a Texaco garage with an imitation gun of £1,000 worth of cash and ciggies posed for photos with their swag.... More »

25th, April 2012 TV & Radio

How to scare the crap out of your girlfriend - a video

"I got off of work early and snuck into my girlfriends apartment with a spare key. I waited for her..." More »