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6th, April 2012 Strange But True

Nailed-on Catholics gets Crucified for Good Friday - photos

This Holy Week at San Pedro Cutud, Pampanga province, north of Manila, Philippines, around two dozen Catholic devotees were nailed on the cross... More »

6th, April 2012 TV & Radio

Gunther von Hagens crucifies Jesus for Good telly (photos)

Dr Gunther von Hagens, aka Germany’s Dr Death (many have held that title but not all made it big on the telly), has created a new Crucifixion in time for Easter... More »

6th, April 2012 TV & Radio

Behold! The musical man worm's Pink Floyd tribute

The Great Gig In The Sky.... More »

6th, April 2012 Reviews

After the psychopathic polar bear Knut meet cute Anori

Remember when polar bears were used to illustrate the man-made global melting? More »

6th, April 2012 Key Posts

Awkward Easter Bunny photos

The Easter Bunny is coming! The Easter Bunny is coming!! Quick. Look busy!... More »

6th, April 2012 Sports

Jennifer Thompson still a 'tart' - Balotelli is just 'Mario'

Still bad news for Jennifer Thompson, aka Juici Jeni, who despite having scored with Manchester City striker Mario Balotelli and, allegedly, Manchester United's Wayne Rooney, remains a bystander to her own shag 'n' tell... More »

5th, April 2012 Celebrities

Beyonce Knowles' sand boobs - the Tumblr photos

Why do they stare, mommy? Why? More »

5th, April 2012 Reviews

Blackburn police give cannabis plants to allotment farmers

Blackburn police boast that they have seized loadsa marijuana plants and then "donated" them to Little Harwood allotments... More »

5th, April 2012 Reviews

Reports tie the Invisible Children charity to gay-hostile groups

Another reporter, writing on AlterNet, has dug out Invisible Children's tax forms and found it shares funders with many evangelical and conservative groups whose outlooks don't sit well with the likes of Oprah and Angelina Jolie... More »

5th, April 2012 Strange But True

Incredible woolly mammoth found in Siberia - picture

This is a picture of a young woolly mammoth discovered in the ice of Siberia. It's around 10,000 years old... More »

5th, April 2012 Key Posts 1

Ten little boys in blue done for racism - Terrelle Ferguson speaks

The Metropolitan Police Deputy Commissioner, Craig Mackey, stood outside Scotland Yard and stated there was “no room for racism in the Met”.... More »

5th, April 2012 Key Posts 1

Charles Manson in photos - 12 parole hearings and 77 years

The California Department of Corrections has released to media a photo of Manson. His latest parole hearing on April 11. Will Manson, convicted of murder and sentenced to death for the 1969 murder of Sharon Tate and six others, get out? No... More »

5th, April 2012 Key Posts 7

Samantha Brick is the victim of a Twitterhunt - tweeters want her raped, murdered and punched

Brick, troll-bait protagonist and victim du jour of the Mail's misogynistic editorial policy, told ITV's This Morning that she intended her article to be witty. It wasn't.... More »

5th, April 2012 Money

Amazon doesn't pay any tax schocker!

The usual suspects have got all outraged at the fact that Amazon doesn't seem to pay very much tax in the UK... More »

5th, April 2012 Music 1

RIP Jim Marshall - turn the hymns up to 11

Jim Marshall has died. He's the man who created Marshall Amplification - the famous "Marshall stack" sound prop... More »

5th, April 2012 Music 9

The Smiths and the death of Princess Diana

What do The Smiths mean to you? To the Holden Gallery at Manchester Metropolitan University, for a show about the band... More »

5th, April 2012 Reviews 1

Falkland Islands grass up the Argies

With Argentina reduced to invading the Falkland Islands with T-shirt slogans and nasty words, thus not troubling our man with rifle and colander, Andy Beckett tells Guardian readers... More »

5th, April 2012 Celebrities

Whitney Houston had a number of drugs in her system when she died, which is incredibly surprising for all

Everyone immediately assumed it was an overdose and now, there's an autopsy report which confirms the singer had drugs in her system... More »

5th, April 2012 Celebrities 1

Dane Bowers & Pal, accused of rape

Remember when Dane Bowers was a popstar? Us neither. All we can ever remember is his various baffling TV appearances and that awful, awful video where he stuck his big toe up Katie Price's doodah... More »

5th, April 2012 Reviews

Did police kill man's pet cat for fun?

The Mary Bale Fan Club welcomes the Swedish police who rescued a cat "with a limp" . They then shot it and dumped it by the roadside... More »

5th, April 2012 Technology

Car advert says Mitsubishi Magna is great for storing hookers in the boot

How do they sell cars in Australia? Why, by advertising the capacity to transport hookers... More »

5th, April 2012 In Pictures

How to become an internt babe - in photos

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5th, April 2012 Key Posts

In photos - when things are about to get messy

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5th, April 2012 Key Posts 2

Liz Jones is the Daily Mail's hait-bait: Samantha Brick and Kate Middleton get trolled

When Liz Jones read about Samantha Brick, the woman set up to be the Daily Mail's go-too hate figure of the day, she knew she had to step up her game. At the morning editorial, the paper's misogynistic editors looked at the usual faces - Brick, Platell, Moir, The White Witch, Cruella de Vil... More »

5th, April 2012 Strange But True

Fa Kyu - nominatie determinism of the day

What's in a name..? More »