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7th, February 2012 The Consumer

Sweden sells cardboard box duvets and pavement linen

People who want to sleep in linen designed to look like cardboard boxes and pavement can head to Stockholm's NK store... More »

7th, February 2012 Celebrities 6

Karl Lagerfeld points out obvious by saying Adele is a bit 'fat'

When Karl Lagerfeld, while guest editing for Metro Paris, took it upon himself to note that Adele is a bit fat, he probably knew that womenfolk would go mental at him for being so shallow... More »

7th, February 2012 Key Posts 1

Anonymous emails tie Syria's Assad to George Galloway's Gaza Flotilla and 'easily manipulated' Americans

Says Asma Assad in an email: “The President is the President of Syria, not a faction of Syrians, and the First Lady supports him in that role”.... More »

7th, February 2012 Sports 1

Chelsea say they never lost to Manchester Untied in Champion League final

Having rebranded Cheslea FC as 'CHELSE', the Blues maketing department are on a roll. Chelsea FC's newsletter is rewriting history... More »

7th, February 2012 Reviews

Global warming makes coral reefs grow

Global Warming good or bad for coral reefs? Let's see... More »

7th, February 2012 Photojournalism

Photos of the day - the baby eyeball remover

Photos of the day are brought to you by: the baby eyeball remover and repositioning tool; microwaved children; children in need of microwaving; caught staring at royal boobs; and some brilliant gifs... More »

7th, February 2012 Reviews 59

Alyssa Bustamante was 15 when she murdered Elizabeth Olten, 9, for kicks

Bustamante, then 15, murdered a nine-year-old neighbour in the Missouri town of St Martins. Alyssa Bustamante stabbed and slit Elizabeth Olten's throat... More »

7th, February 2012 Strange But True 2

Police find stolen TV was too wide for window under victim's bed

To Paignton, Devon, where a middle-aged woman is bewailing the theft of her 52 inch flatscreen TV. The victim tells police the telly has been taken through her lounge window. And that;s magic. Because the telly is wider than the window... More »

7th, February 2012 Reviews 1

Sacramento Bee egrets the error - photographer sacked for cheating

Sacramento Bee has sacked Bryan Patrick for "violating the paper's ethics policy". Patrick, a photographer, claimed to have taken a photo of a great egret More »

7th, February 2012 Sports

Laureus World Sports Awards 2012: more Brits than Oscars (in photos)

Novak Djokovic was crowned the Laureus World Sportsman of the Year. We wondered what he'd do with the trophy. When the cameras click and the sportsmen stands before the serried ranks of media and holds his metal statue, muscle memory or madness takes hold... More »

6th, February 2012 Celebrities

Joan Rivers has had only 739 surgical procedures to look that good

You can achieve much the same effect with a stroke... More »

6th, February 2012 Key Posts

In photos - Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II preparations

The Gold Carpet to be laid in the Coronation Theatre of Westminster Abbey was being made by Messrs. Templeton's factory in Glasgow. The monks at Prinknash Abbey, Painswick, Gloucestershire, were making... More »

6th, February 2012 Royal Family

In photos - the Queen's accession to the throne

Today, the Queen today marked the 60th anniversary of her accession to the throne. It's the formal start of her Diamond Jubilee. Yippee!... More »

6th, February 2012 Politicians

Silvio Berlusconi says he's a Playman who loves the gays

Berlusconi is the Playman - with realistic wandering hands... More »

6th, February 2012 Money 2

Yup, we really should copy the Germans

It's one of those things in the air, you've noticed I hope? All these pieces floating around saying that as Germany has low unemployment then we should obviously be doing what Germany has done in order to have low unemployment... More »

6th, February 2012 In Pictures 1

Madonna Halftime show in photos - Super Bowl 2012

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6th, February 2012 Reviews

News in Photos - February 6 2012

News in photos presented by the NatWest bank in the small Market Town of Bingham, Nottinghamshire, where earlier this morning thieves used a tractor to pull the bank's ATM machine from the wall... More »

6th, February 2012 Sports

Preston North End manager in clear over 9/11 terror tweet

The Sun wants to clear up any misunderstanding. Its issued an apology on 4 February 2012... More »

6th, February 2012 Celebrities

Harry Potter hates the Lib Dems and wants to pay loads of tax

We live in a world where we look to fictional wizards for political guidance, such is the rousing failure of our politicians to engage us all... More »

6th, February 2012 Money

Well of course Economists cannot predict things - it's rock, paper scissors with graphs

ow did we end up with the financial crash if all those clever highly paid people couldn't see it coming: or perhaps are these people clever and why are they highly paid because they didn't see it coming?... More »

6th, February 2012 Celebrities 1

Russell Brand and Zooey Deschanel to become deeply unlikeable couple?

You may think Russell Brand or, indeed, Zooey Deschanel, is attractive enough to warrant a lustful thought. However... More »

6th, February 2012 Reviews

PR's nonsense speak on PR's poor image, by Gerard F. Corbett

"In order to appropriately and objectively quantify public relations’ value, we must have a simple, universal definition that distinctly encapsulates..." More »

6th, February 2012 Reviews

Benjamin Cohen on being an LGBT Jew - Sammy Davis RIP

Channel 4 News correspondent and PinkNews founder Benjamin Cohen has made a video about being Jewish and LGBT... More »

6th, February 2012 Photojournalism

Photos of the day - Snow White's ant pushes a water droplet

Photos of the day are presented by: an ant pushing a drop of water; Snow White gets inked; Pepper spraying snowmen; the inflatable lifeboat dress; the hungriest dog ever; a bad tattoo of you; and lazy sports with an elephants arse... More »

6th, February 2012 Key Posts 33

Courts bans woman, 29, from sex - Child snatching State owns your body and your baby

Mr Justice Hedley says the woman's autism and IQ of 64 is too mentally negligible to understand the dangers of sex. As such, he has imposed a “very restrictive” order on her... More »