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30th, March 2012 Celebrities

Romeo Beckham and David Beckham at the Lakers game - in photos

To the LA Lakers v Oklahoma City Thunder match. And what with this being basketball, Anorak spent the game browsing the stands for famous faces and the exit.... More »

30th, March 2012 Politicians

George Galloway wins Bradford West for Iraq - in photos

MP George Galloway is Bradford West's man in Westminster. The cat impressionist has landed on his feet... More »

30th, March 2012 Celebrities

Charlie Sheen wishes his massive breakdown on anyone else

Tiger Blood is nothing something Charlie Sheen runs on any longer, which is a shame because he was kinda fun when he looked like he was about to die from sheer lunacy, porn-overload and suitcases of cocaine... More »

30th, March 2012 In Pictures

Self-Portraits Under Influence Of Different Drugs

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30th, March 2012 In Pictures

Album Covers - even more terrible ones

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30th, March 2012 Key Posts

Apple's Foxconn interns paid better than Lib Dem interns

So there was this great big campaign, with petitions and plays and online sign ups and the usual ignorant outrage displayed on Twitter and Facebook about how appalling the working conditions and pay were at Foxconn... More »

30th, March 2012 In Pictures

Children being inappropriate in class

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30th, March 2012 Film

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Danny DeVito to follow up Twins with Eddie Murphy in Triplets

What you're about to read is one of the most disturbing and potentially brilliant things you'll ever digest. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito will be revisiting their awful family comedy, Twins.... More »

30th, March 2012 Music

The Teenage Cancer Trust Gigs 2012 - in photos

Teenage Cancer Trust Gigs 2012: Paul McCartney, Example, Devlin and Fenech-Soler, Pulp, Cat's Eyes, Jessie J, Professor Green, Roger Daltrey, Paul Weller and Kelly Jones… More »

30th, March 2012 Reviews

The Sun's London Olympic's cyanide plot is thin on facts

No more news on the Sun's alarming news that “al-Qaeda fanatics are plotting a deadly cyanide poison attack on the London Olympics”. The paper had news from a website forum (unnamed) that one "Abu Hija Ansari” had published instructions in Arabic for blending hand-cream with cyanide... More »

30th, March 2012 In Pictures

The meanings behind national flags

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30th, March 2012 The Consumer 1

Lego Taxidermy - the non-speaking in pursuit of the inedible

Wonder if David Cole has much call for the black fox?... More »

30th, March 2012 Sports 1

Alex Ferguson is wrong - It's Arsenal who suffer most from bad decisions

Manchester United boss Sir Alex Ferguson says Manchester City's Patrick Vieira is wrong and United are not helped by favouritism from referees... More »

30th, March 2012 Reviews

Great Moobs: It's National Cleavage Day (photos)

It's National Cleavage Days, that day when women unite their breasts for good causes and builders loosen their belts a notch... More »

30th, March 2012 The Consumer 6

York woman sets herself alight filling petrol decanter - Dorset erupts

Shocking news of the fuel panic as we hear that a woman from York, England, has set herself while alight decanting petrol to another vessel in her kitchen... More »

30th, March 2012 Technology

The Amazon Kiva robot in action - video

When Amazon bought robot-making company Kiva for $775m we wanted to see how the things worked. It's brilliant.... More »

30th, March 2012 The Consumer

Mystic Coalition forsaw fuel shortage coming - Maude sparks panic in Waitrose

These are heady days for the UK's jerry can industry. But already there are rumours that workers are demanding better working conditions... More »

30th, March 2012 In Pictures 1

The 10 happiest animals of all time - photos

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30th, March 2012 Photojournalism

Photos of the Day - fear of a black President

The safe texting advise telling drivers not to text; she's dressed to undress; the limberiser; Nokia riot ad placement; Punch magazine imagines a Black President; the cow gets the horn - a big one; and pensioners regress... More »

30th, March 2012 Flashback 1

The AKAI 'portable' VTR 1/4" video tape recorder - the birth of home-made porn

When was user-generated pornography born? Before the camera phone it was 1972 and amateur filmmakers were getting to grips with the AKAI "portable" VTR 1/4" video tape recorder... More »

30th, March 2012 Strange But True

Cannabis farmers arrested after calling police for theft of crop

When thieves stole £10,000 worth of cannabis from the home of Colin Roberts, 47, and Mandy Coghlan, the victims called the police... More »

30th, March 2012 Sports

The Belly Flop Championships - my man boobs don't bounce

So. This is what stars of 1980s professional darts ended up doing... More »

29th, March 2012 Celebrities 2

An interview with Neville Thurlbeck: The NoW was all about human frailty

What's Rebekah Brooks really like? When did he lose his virginity? Who should play Rupert Murdoch in Screws: The Musical? He kindly indulged me with answers, and then some.... More »

29th, March 2012 TV & Radio

The drunk sings Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody in the police car

Mercury Auditions take us to the back of a police car, where the budding star is singing Bohemian Rhapdosy.. More »

29th, March 2012 Strange But True

Mug Shot of the day: Jesse James Thomas and his boxing sombrero

Mug Shot the Day is Jesse James Thomas, 55, 0f Sacramento. He was dressed in a sombrero and boxing gloves when he jumped on police car and began to shout hi own name. It;s' a look not everyone can carry off. It's all in the eyes... More »