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9th, February 2012 Strange But True

Lagarfljótsormurinn wormzilla monster spotted in Iceland - video

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9th, February 2012 In Pictures 1

Fabio Capello - a career in photos

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9th, February 2012 Strange But True 1

Mermaid hold up Zimbabwe water project

The country's Water Resources Minister Sam Sipepa Nkomo says mermaids are holding up projects in Mutare, Manicaland, and Gokwe in the Midlands... More »

9th, February 2012 Key Posts 17

Why Capello really quit England: he mastered English better than Redknapp

Fabio Capello "flees" England (Daily Star), the media goes into overdrive. Will Spurs manager Harry Redknapp now get the nod?... More »

8th, February 2012 Sports 2

'Arryvederci: Fabio Capello out - Harry Redknapp in

Terry is, as ever, badly advised. The pillock who told him that his interests were best served in asking for this racism case to got before the Beak after Euro 2012 was either in on the plot to do down England or mad. Oddly, the courts agreed to his requests (again - Scots?... More »

8th, February 2012 Celebrities

Jay Z and Beyonce try to trademark their own daughter Blue Ivy

What is the nicest thing your parents have ever done for you? Did they buy you that mountain bike you always asked for? Did they pay you through university, where you met your fiancee? Did they split-up?... More »

8th, February 2012 Photojournalism

Photos of the day - snow brings out girls in bikinis

BRRRRR! Worra scorcher! More »

8th, February 2012 Celebrities 9

The Oldie's limp saveloy enlivens the BBC's Jimmy Savile 'Cover Up Scandal'

The Oldie is now the unlikely source (via Guido) of further claims that the mummy-loving hospital worker was the subject of a BBC probe into allegations of his molestation of underage girls. A probe whose results never saw the light of day for reasons swathed in BBC beige... More »

8th, February 2012 Reviews

Britain opens wind farm in Iran - nuclear is dead

The Guardian features a story called "Every windfarm mapped - and the MPs who hate them". There's one in Iran... More »

8th, February 2012 Reviews 2

Sudafed prohibition turns cold sufferers into criminals

West Virginia is not the only place in the United States where law enforcement officials are blaming the law-abiding people for a meth problem that already has pushed behind-the-counter Sudafed and other pseudoephedrine-based over-the-counter medications.... More »

8th, February 2012 Celebrities 1

Ellen takes on Prop8 and One Million Moms

For some reason, the Christian community has a surprisingly unhealthy interest about which orifice is receiving what... More »

8th, February 2012 Reviews

How Murdoch's News International hung Times editor James Harding out to dry

Yesterday the Editor of The Times, James Harding, told the Leveson Inquiry into media standards that he had apologised to a blogger named Richard Horton. Before the Times made his name known, Horton was the anonymous author of the NightJack blog... More »

8th, February 2012 Money

Companies clear cash from eurozone as Greece's March 20 D-day nears

The big crunch day on this Greek thing is March 20. That's the day that they've got to pay back squiddely billions (erm, about £12 billion or so) of money they borrowed years ago... More »

8th, February 2012 Sports

Did Luis Suarez Gouge Scott Parker's eye as Liverpool played Spurs? - photos

What can Liverpool's Luis Suarez do to change perceptions about him?... More »

8th, February 2012 Technology

Tumblr of the day - the trippy gifs

Tumblr of the day is DVDP... More »

8th, February 2012 Sports 2

Harry Redknapp's £8m tax bill wasted trying him for tax evasion

Redknpap, the Spurs manager, did not defraud the taxman. Harry Redknapp has been cleared of tax evasion... More »

8th, February 2012 TV & Radio

John Lennon's Imagine triggers Armageddon in Moscow

To Moscow, where John Lennon's song Imagine plays on the radio as an electrical substation explodes at the end of Vitebsk Avenue.. More »

8th, February 2012 Key Posts 2

#twitterjoketrial - Paul Chambers, Tony Blair and a case of extreme stupidity

Paul Chambers lost his appeal against a conviction of "menace" for threatening to blow up an airport. His "foolish prank" on Twitter would stand as a sign that only quick thinking and rule of law prevented carnage... More »

8th, February 2012 In Pictures

The Falklands Islands in photos - after the first war

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8th, February 2012 Reviews 12

Argentina cranks up rhetoric over Falklands - losers decry militarisation

The United Nations has failed in Syria. Will it now succeed over the Falklands Islands? Argentina plans to complain to the United Nations over Britain’s “militarisation” of the situation in the Falklands... More »

8th, February 2012 TV & Radio

Kardashians open circus - video

To North Korea, a video is doing the rounds. It purports to feature the Kardashian family in their first public engagement. More »

8th, February 2012 Strange But True

Sussex police chase Sussex police in CCTV caper

A junior CCTV camera operator for Sussex Police has spotted someone “acting suspiciously” in the area. An undercover officer is detailed to investigate. There has been a spate of burglaries in the area... More »

7th, February 2012 Strange But True

Massive whaleshark landed in Pakistan - photos

Pakistani fishermen catch the 40ft whaleshark pictured here being handled in Karachi? Or did it wash up dead? Stories will be told… More »

7th, February 2012 Reviews

News in photos - February 7 2012

The news in photos... More »

7th, February 2012 Sports

Legalise all drugs in sport - Alberto Contador was just unlucky

Contador has been banned from sport for two years for doping. Contador has been stripped of his 2010 Tour de France win for steroid use... More »