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18th, January 2012 Reviews

Global warming threatens Bermuda slide and sand pit

What news from Bermuda? Well, the Bermuda Sun reports on the encroaching horror at Shelly Bay Beach... More »

18th, January 2012 Key Posts 10

Costa Concordia: Francesco Schettino, Dimitri Christidis and Silvia Coronia fell into a lifeboat

Costa Concordia captain, Francesco Schettino, says he was not the last man to leave the stricken vessel because he fell into a lifeboat More »

18th, January 2012 Reviews

Occupy London is evicted by the High Court - protest is too untidy for free London (photos)

Occupy London Stock Exchange protesters were at the High Court to hear news that the City of London Corporation has won its High Court bid to evict the self-declared 99%... More »

18th, January 2012 Celebrities

George Lucas: quitting movie making to make Howard The Duck: Strikes Back

Have you heard that George Lucas is quitting the movie industry?! Kinda. Of course, many of you could well be pleased to see the back of him thanks to his endless tinkering with the Star Wars franchise... More »

18th, January 2012 Celebrities

Marine sues 'prostitute' Lindsay Lohan to be sued over her role in Osama bin Laden's death (?!?!?!?!)

When Lindsay Lohan stopped all that Getting In Trouble Almost Constantly thing, we all feared she'd become something of a dullard. Some even feared she might find God or something awful like that. Instead, she did a Playboy spread and showed us her freckled boobies,.. More »

18th, January 2012 Key Posts

How Maradona can prevent the next Falklands War

There's one 80s revival that I absolutely don't want to see and that's a Falklands War... More »

18th, January 2012 Money 13

Why breaking up Ikea prove Marx was wrong

What's the problem with Ikea? Should it be broken up? And why does it prove that Marx was wrong?... More »

18th, January 2012 Reviews 4

Belfast Telegraph and Guardian compete for biggest Costa Concordia photo fail

Newspapers compete for most awful juxtaposition prize... More »

18th, January 2012 Reviews

Train operators use Total Wipeout tactics to kill fare dodgers

Indonesia, where the local fans of Total Wipeout are hanging concrete balls over train tracks to try to enliven the lot of the poor fare-dodging passengers who travel on the carriage roofs (or kill them)... More »

18th, January 2012 Strange But True

Two-headed pig born in China (photos)

Deng Xiaochun, who toils in east China's Jiangzi Province, has a piglet with two noses, two mouths but only one ear and one eye on each of its two heads.. More »

18th, January 2012 Key Posts

Darts: two world champions and one dad dance (doo-dah, doo-dah)

At Alexandra Palace, we saw Adrian Lewis stung by a wasp and his game with James “The Machine” Wade affected by the “crosswinds” promoter Barry Hearn blamed on “global warming”.... More »

18th, January 2012 Sports 4

Margaret Court says abominable gays made a godless choice

Australian tennis great Margaret Court says gays engage “abominable sexual practices”.... More »

17th, January 2012 Celebrities

Ashton Kutcher tries to punch thin-air as he swears to catch hacker

Not the sharpest spoon in the drawer, Ashton Kutcher is having a rough few months... More »

17th, January 2012 Celebrities

Madonna takes on Elton John and just about everyone else in the world. Again.

NOW that Madonna's pop-crown is slipping Lady GaGaward, largely thanks to her taking herself far too seriously and spreading herself too thinly, she's remembered that nothing gets you column inches like a beef. .. More »

17th, January 2012 Politicians

Yes, of course the Government lies to us but.....

YOU can usually find the truth if you go looking hard enough. You know, the real numbers about what is happening, not what the politicians' spinmeisters have cooked up for that day's newspaper stories.. More »