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4th, February 2012 Reviews

Syria still wants that seat on the UN Human Rights Council - Russia, Arabs and China agree

The Syrian Government has started to use machine guns and tanks to bombard its own people living in the city of Homs... More »

4th, February 2012 In Pictures

Pippa Middleton and her men - in photos

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4th, February 2012 Royal Family

Pippa Middleton and George Percy prepare for the War Of The Middletons

Middleton continues her drive to create a Alternative Royal Family - something more modern that ranks a good arse and jogging over blue bloods, chinlessness and horses - by dating a George Percy, heir to the Duke of Northumberland.... More »

4th, February 2012 Celebrities

Victoria Beckham and Angelina Jolie enter baby race

Victoria Beckham is not like Angelina Jolie. Victoria has been telling OK! readers "HER TIPS FOR A HAPPY MARRIAGE".... More »

4th, February 2012 The Consumer 1

Qataris make Paul Cézanne's The Card Players world's most expensive artwork

The work has been sold at auction for $250 million (£160 million). It is the world's most expensive work of art... More »

4th, February 2012 Strange But True

Hospital displays items removed from inside patients: needles, salt pots and a remote control (photos)

A hospital in Sibenik, Croatia will bedeck its wall with a collection of items harvested from inside patients over the past 80 years.. More »

4th, February 2012 Strange But True

Student hurt by bottle rocket fired from student's anus - sues

Louis Helmburg III puts it to the law that "firing bottle rockets out of one's own anus constitutes an 'ultra-hazardous' activity".... More »

3rd, February 2012 Reviews

Manchester United fan charged with racial abuse

Who is the Manchester United fan charged with shouting racist abuse at Stoke City players during a Premier League match? Why, he's Howard Hobson, 57, of Weaver Walk, Openshaw, Manchester... More »

3rd, February 2012 The Consumer

Demi Moore and the heroin spoon

Moore may have read the story of Elinor Zuke, who attempted to buy a packet of teaspoons at the self-service checkout at Sainsbury's, West Green, Crawley, West Sussex... More »

3rd, February 2012 Celebrities

Madonna previews new track ahead of Super Bowl 2012!

Madonna, who simultaneously is quite fit, yet somehow turning into Iggy Pop, is readying herself for the huge Super Bowl halftime show... More »

3rd, February 2012 Reviews 1

Photos of the Day - February 3 2012

The news in photos... More »

3rd, February 2012 Technology

Met and FBI keen to advertise the skills and power of Anonymous

Anonymous, the hactivist collective, have posted an audio on YouTube of the Metropolitan Police's e-crime unit talking with the FBI... More »

3rd, February 2012 Money

Rinehart V Rinehart: World's richest woman fights children in court

Gina Rinehart is a billionaire iron ore magnate (worth: £13.5 billion and predicted to rise very fast) whose daughter Hope Rinehart Welker, 26, emails that she is "down to my last $60,000".... More »

3rd, February 2012 Photojournalism 2

Photos of the Day - spot the cat

It's a Friday challenge: can you spot the cat..? Answer at the end... More »

3rd, February 2012 Strange But True 1

Man charged with stealing glacier

A man has been arrested for stealing parts of the Jorge Montt Glacier, located in the richly named Bernardo O'Higgins national park... More »

3rd, February 2012 Politicians 2

Green Chris Huhne undone by driving allegation - oh, the irony

Huhne has resigned from the Cabinet following allegations that he got his then wife Vicky Pryce to take the rap for his speeding... More »

3rd, February 2012 Key Posts 4

Westminster bars Top Totty: Kate Green or Katie Green?

Top Totty, the smooth-skinned amber-skinned lovely with a good head, will not be in Westminster's The Strangers' Bar. The image has been deemed offensive to sherry drinkers and other women... More »

3rd, February 2012 Politicians

Trump and Romney dupe media with unimportant story, says media

Romney is now supported by Donald Trump, he of the tsunami fringe. The Guardian reports this nugget in an unusual fashion... More »

3rd, February 2012 TV & Radio

The Funniest TV Captions ever - sex with cotton chicken balls

The best TV captions is a gallery of words that defy explanation. Written by TV researcher to succinctly explain the confessional show's victim, they are cultural artifacts. Each is funny. Some are hilarious... More »

3rd, February 2012 Strange But True 1

Man, 74, swallows dentures and dies during sex with prostitute, 62

To New Taipei City, Taiwan, where 74-year-old Chen has died after swallowing his dentures during sex with a 62-year-old prostitute.... More »

3rd, February 2012 Sports 2

Craven FA kowtows to anti-racist bigots and strips John Terry of England captaincy

Terry is no longer the England captain. An allegation of racism was enough to deny Terry the chance of leading his country, as he does Chelsea... More »

3rd, February 2012 Politicians 4

Right-wingers are more stupid than left-wingers, say researchers

"Individuals with lower cognitive abilities may gravitate towards more socially conservative right-wing ideologies that maintain the status quo. It provides a sense of order..." More »

3rd, February 2012 Reviews

Rhino poachers get longer sentences than lesbian killers

In go-ahead South Africa, the law places rhinos above gays... More »

3rd, February 2012 Reviews 2

Sex addict Chrystal Warren was born a man - her 1000 conquests choke

Warren breaks men's love organs and makes women smirk by telling the Sun thats he used to be a man named Christopher Snowden... More »

2nd, February 2012 Celebrities

Gisele Bundchen wants God to defeat the New York Giants

Bundchen has gone to the study in her $20m green ark and crafted an email. In it, Gisele asks her friends and family to pray that husband Tom Brady wins another Super Bowl ring... More »