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17th, April 2012 Madeleine McCann 6

Madeleine McCann is spotted in Spain

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17th, April 2012 Money 2

Yet more Argie stupidity over the Falklands - stealing Repsol

THE Argentinian Government has just decided to "nationalise" - that's steal - a Spanish oil company. More »

17th, April 2012 Books

Old books smell of grass and acid

Chemists at University College, London have investigated the old book odor and concluded that old books release hundreds of volatile organic compounds into the air from the paper... More »

17th, April 2012 Reviews

Anders Behring Breivik: Enoch Powell, The Hitler Youth and the Knights Templar

He says he was inspired by Al Qaeda’s methods in venerating and creating martyrs. He says... More »

17th, April 2012 Politicians 3

Barack Obama warns of war in the Maldives

In attempting to suck up to Latin America at the Summit of the Americas in Cartagena, Colombia, Obama called the Falkland Islands The Maldives... More »

17th, April 2012 Money

Fracking turns every household tap into a flame thrower (video)

The Government is expected to give the thumbs up to fracking - extracting natural gas by hydraulic fracturing.... More »

17th, April 2012 Flashback

The erotic pictures of Art Frahm - women in peril with celery sticks

Art Frahm, the American creator of pin-ups, worked on one overriding principle: gravity plus everyday objects, notably celery, equals art. More »

17th, April 2012 Celebrities

Courtney Love says sorry to daughter, not that anyone believes she's any less mental (Dave Grohl tweets)

If you missed it, Courtney has been saying that Dave Grohl tried to hump her daughter, Frances Bean... More »

17th, April 2012 Gifs

Gifs of the Week - Panda bear gets the bill

Jennifer Lawrence spots us in the crowd... More »

17th, April 2012 Photojournalism 1

Photos of the day - Ridiculously Photogenic Guy meets Good Guy Greg

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17th, April 2012 Key Posts

Pippa Middleton pops a cap in da ass of gun culture

No longer is waving a gun - imaginary or with hooked fingers - the stuff of the urban warrior. It's now the kind of thing entitled braying ninnies do on their way to a fancy dress party in gay Paris.... More »

17th, April 2012 Strange But True

Blue-clad hosepipe-wielding Scarborough woman dressed as boy sentenced

To York Crown Court, where Scarborough woman Serena Moon, 36, is in the dock.... More »

17th, April 2012 Strange But True 3

Dog gets parking ticket

When Ingeburg Kaminski, 75, left a shop in Essen, Germany, she noticed that her dog Tessa had given a €35 fixed penalty notice... More »

17th, April 2012 In Pictures

Simon Cowell and the women - photos of TV star's 'lovers'

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17th, April 2012 Celebrities 4

The Simon Cowell Sex Factor: lover stole TV star's wallet and X Factor secrets but never told anyone

Day Three of Simon Cowell's orgy of print, according to Tom Bower's serialised biography. Having not had sex with Cheryl Cole, Natalie Imbruglia and sat next to "brave" Dannii Minogue on the telly, the Sun says the macho TV mogul took a "woman" back to his LA hotel room.... More »

16th, April 2012 In Pictures

Boston Marathon 2012 - photos

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16th, April 2012 Key Posts 4

Inanimate objects that look like Ed Miliband

Ed Miliband has inspired the mind behind Rather Like Ed Miliband to crete a Tumblr site of things that look like the Labour Party leader... More »

16th, April 2012 Royal Family

Pistol Pippa Middleton continues her morphing into Prince Andrew (video)

Pippa Middelton may have to stop going commando after one of her party waved a pistol at photographers in Paris... More »

16th, April 2012 In Pictures

Awkward engagement photos are brilliant

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16th, April 2012 Flashback

Peter Rand's faces of the 1960s

Subjects include Ian Holm, Harold Pinter, Fenella Fielding, Dusty Springfield, Sarah Miles, Richard Branson and Mike Sarne, singer, of course, of the number one hit, Come Outside... More »

16th, April 2012 Celebrities 1

Grace Dent v Mufadal Jiwaji - send for The Women

Dent upset Twitter user Mufadal Jiwaji for being not beautiful on BBC TV's Have I Got News For You. He tweeted: "@gracedent reminds me of a girlfriend I once had. By girlfriend I mean that time I accidentally made love to an ugly abhorrent horse.”... More »

16th, April 2012 Politicians

Brian Paddick appeals to every Londoners' inner hooligan

His poster commands: "You Break It. You Fix It." Is there anyone out there who can look at this poster and not instantly think of breaking it?... More »

16th, April 2012 Celebrities

Brad Pitt & Angelina to get married and move their 30,000 children into British schools

After spending their whole relationship sneering about marriage, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are going to get hitched... More »

16th, April 2012 Key Posts

Six-legged baby born in Pakistan - photos

Imran Sheikh, the father, wants help... More »

16th, April 2012 Photojournalism

Photos of the day - I was Hitler's fish-alike

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