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28th, January 2012 Royal Family

Kate Middleton is America's Hat Person of The Year - Princess Beatrice shocked

Middleton has seen off the challenge of Osama bin Laden, Elton John (it's a hat, right?), Prince Harry Baseball Cap, The Queen, Camilla More »

28th, January 2012 Celebrities

The Simpsons - Homer scores Anna Wintour and a Vogue cover

Alexsandro Palombo has nailed the fashion industry with his take on Anna Wintour and The Simpsons... More »

28th, January 2012 Sports

Anti-racist QPR lose to cheating Chelsea - photos

Was it sensible for the FA to call off the pre-match shaking of hands when Anton Ferdinand's QPR played John Terry's Chelsea in the FA Cup? More »

28th, January 2012 Sports 12

Why did Liverpool fans boo Manchester United's Patrice Evra? -Photos

Did the Liverpool fans boo Manchester United's Patrice Evra because he was the victim of racism or because he waved the imaginary yellow card, going to the referee after the match to complain that Luis Suarez had repeatedly called him "negro"?... More »

28th, January 2012 Celebrities

Frankie Cocozza represents Team GB at Athletics match - photo

How talented is Frankie Cocozza, the Big Brother runner up and rusticated X Factor contestant?... More »

28th, January 2012 In Pictures

Amazing illusions for your dirty mind

Photos of the day are brought to you by amazing illusions. They are safe for work – but your dirty mind could be looking for trouble… More »

28th, January 2012 In Pictures

Pin-ups - from yesteryear

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28th, January 2012 Photojournalism

Photos - Tumblr of The Day: BabyButthole surfs

Photos of the Day are brought to you via Tumblr of the Day: Babybutthole - a site "addicted 2 nuns & mermaids, i am fabulous": More »

28th, January 2012 Photojournalism

Emoticons are real people - meet the actors

Emoticons are not the grammar of the humourless. They are actors plying parts in the great Internet play. @Wowser interviews the Emoticons... More »

28th, January 2012 Strange But True 1

Baby Imad Gadir bites off snake's head - photos

Gadir, a 1-year-old living in Shfaram, northern Israel, bit off the head of a live coin snake. And ate it. More »

28th, January 2012 Celebrities

Rare celebrity photos

Before the paparazzi and the internet, photos of stars were more controlled, staged and shaped by the art director. Occasionally, a candid shot would emerge... More »

28th, January 2012 Key Posts

The Daily Express and weather reporting

The Daily Express loves weather. The weather is often freezing cold and deadly... More »

28th, January 2012 Strange But True 1

Man withdraws mouse from ATM

To Ersboda, northern Sweden, where Gholam Hafezi has withdrawn a mouse from an ATM machine... More »

28th, January 2012 TV & Radio

Alternative Olympic Sports: the stairwell dive

Alternative Olympics Sports features the no-stairs stairwell dive. The Polish athlete approaches the bar... More »

27th, January 2012 Key Posts 7

In photos - Denise Welsh beats off Frankie Cocozza to win Celebrity Big Brother

Big Brother has been won by embarrassing, self-pitying mum Denise Welch, who beat off the challenge of bewilderingly untalented X Factor renegade Frankie Cocozza... More »

27th, January 2012 Reviews

Holocaust Remembrance Day 2012 - in photos

The remembrance day marks the day of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camps 67 years ago. Outside the death camps - beyond those gates with their demonic joke - survivors gathered... More »

27th, January 2012 Reviews 2

Costa Concordia: Is Father Massimo Donghi to blame?

When he told his flock he was heading to a retreat he forgot to tell them that he would making the journey by luxury liner... More »

27th, January 2012 Sports 2

Sun reader sends Anton Ferdinand bullet to shoot Chelsea's John Terry with?

Ferdinand, the QPR player allegedly called a "f**king black c**t, f**king knobhead" in a racially abusive manner by Chelsea captain John Terry, has received a bullet in the post.... More »

27th, January 2012 Celebrities 1

Susanna Barrett sues Daily Mail and TMZ for sexualising her five-year-old daughter

Meet Susanna Barrett. You might already know her from the TV show Toddlers & Tiaras, which stars her five-year-old daughter Isabella and other decorated children in what seems to be an interactive audition for the role of most disturbing child on Earth... More »

27th, January 2012 Politicians 1

Are Julia Gillard, Tony Hodges and the Tent Embassy ambassadors the most stupid politicians in Australia?

What really happened in the Australia Day protest that saw the county's Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Opposition leader Tony Abbott besieged by the Aborigine Tent Embassy in Canberra?... More »

27th, January 2012 Money 2

The German way of dealing with unemployment

The actual truth of the matter is that Germany looked at its labour market good and hard in the late 90s. And didn't like what it could see: German labour was unproductive (that is, output compared to the cost of the labour) compared with labour elsewhere... More »

27th, January 2012 Sports

London Olympics Opening Ceremony: The Tempest, The NHS and Fearful Noises

The opening ceremony will begin with a big ding-dong from a 27-tonne bell (inspired by Shakespeare’s play The Tempest). On the bell is the legend: “Be not afear the Isle is full of noises"... More »

27th, January 2012 Celebrities 13

Authorities to release jolly 911 recording of Demi Moore

Despite the fact it goes without saying, that Demi Moore was in a state of high distress when she called for the emergency services to come take her to hospital, that simply isn't enough... More »

27th, January 2012 In Pictures

Andy Murray loses to Novak Djokovic in Australian Open - photos

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27th, January 2012 Money 3

Is Labour really being this damn stupid? Rent control don't work

Something I simply could not believe in Polly Toynbee's column today. And believe me, I've seen an awful lot in that column over the years but nothing to quite match this... More »