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 »
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 »
'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 »
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 »
Photos of the day - snow brings out girls in bikinis
BRRRRR! Worra scorcher! More »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
Tumblr of the day - the trippy gifs
Tumblr of the day is DVDP... More »
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 »
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 »
#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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »