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10th, January 2012 Key Posts

What gifts Kate Middelton and Prince William got in 2011: Prince Harry got laid

What gifts did Prince WIlliam and Kate Middleton - the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge - score for their post-wedding tour?... More »

10th, January 2012 TV & Radio

How skipping stones work - a scientific video on Holy Balls

Holy Balls! More »

10th, January 2012 TV & Radio

Media Week with Kerrang! radio's Alex Baker is beyond parody

Media Week catches up with Alex Baker, presenter and commercial programming manager at Kerrang! and Q Radio. He is not a work of parody nor of Bret Easton Ellis... More »

10th, January 2012 Celebrities 1

Russell Brand and Katy Perry reveal ordinary, boring, spiteful marriage

When celebrities get wed, they're no different. Look at Russell Brand and Katy Perry. They let go of their wild past and settled down with each other. Of course, they could've been really cool and had a swinger's marriage, but no, they opted for the whole 'bitter and seething' thing that befalls so many... More »

10th, January 2012 Reviews

Leveson Inquiry: Sun editor Dominic Mohan, Cheryl Carter and Ryan Giggs

Dominic Mohan was made successor to Rebekah Brooks as Sun editor in 2009. Brooks and her PA Cheryl Carter have been arrested as part of Operation Weeting, the Metropolitan police's investigation into phone hacking. Carter was up until late 2011 the Sun's beauty editor... More »

10th, January 2012 Politicians

Was Mahmoud Ahmadinejad photoshopped into Venezuela?

Mahmoud's on a tour of Latin America, making friends and gnashing teeth against the Great Satan to the North... More »

10th, January 2012 Technology

The suit that helps you play tennis like Nadal

This year's hot new fashion trend. Suits that tell you how to improve your sporty prowess More »

10th, January 2012 Reviews

Lalita Tati was murdered by capitalism, local custom and hunger

Tati is the seven-year-old Indian girl abducted and then murdered. Police have arrested two men, Ignesh Kujur and Padam Sukkuboth, "poor farmers", for the crime. The claim is that Lalita Tati was murdered because the killers wanted to please the goddess Durga and secure a good harvest... More »

10th, January 2012 Sports 3

When QPR owner Tony Fernandes backed Neil Warnock

Neil Warnock, the likeable football manager, has been sacked by QPR with the team just above the relegation zone. More »

10th, January 2012 Flashback

The Chevrolet Newsreels: when cows smoked and pussy cats boxed

IT'S 1937, and the Chevrolet 'Newsreels' feature boxing cats being scored by judgemental dogs... More »

10th, January 2012 Reviews

Georgia school solves eight-year-olds' slavery problem

To illustrate match problems at Beaver Ridge Elementary in Norcross, Ga., the teaching staff are counting slavery and beatings... More »

10th, January 2012 Celebrities 3

Was Antony Worrall Thompson stealing to order?

Worrall Thompson, the TV chef caught shoplifting wine and cheese form Tesco in Henley-on-Thames, says sorry and: "Hopefully I can make amends"... More »

10th, January 2012 Strange But True

Made Snana: why poor Indians roll in the rich man's food leftovers

To India's Karntaka state, where Hindus are performing 'made snana', the act where low caste Hindus roll in the remains of food eaten by high-caste Brahmins in the belief that it will cure skin conditions... More »

10th, January 2012 Sports

Bevan Small and Michael Mason showcase cricket's relay catch

Bevan Small and Michael Mason perform the cricket relay catch to dismiss Northern Knights batsman Brad Wilson. This is brilliant... More »

10th, January 2012 Key Posts

Photos of the Day: Modern Gelatine Cookery the Star Trek Way

Photos of the Day are presented by the Anorak's Retro Christmas Hamper - gifts that keep on giving... More »

9th, January 2012 Politicians

Is Ron Paul damned by his racist homophobic newsletters?

One newsletter ridiculed black activists who wanted to rename New York City after King, suggesting that “Welfaria,” “Zooville,” “Rapetown,” “Dirtburg,” and “Lazyopolis” were better alternatives... More »

9th, January 2012 Sports 1

Of course Thierry Henry scores the winner for Arsenal (photos)

Hard luck on Leeds to be on the receiving end of the perfect backpage comeback story... More »

9th, January 2012 Key Posts

Kopimism has been officially recognised as a religion in Sweden

Founded by 20-year-old philosophy student, Isak Gerson, the Church of Kopimism sees the copying, spreading and remixing of information as ethical rights... More »

9th, January 2012 Celebrities

Justin Bieber Likes To Talk To God - God To Blame For Dreadful Music

Maybe it is down to the fact that Justin Bieber is roughly 4 years old that he likes to talk to his imaginary friend. Lots of children have them don't they? They run around with their little fingers wagging shouting "RED RUM! RED RUM!" in the most adorable way... More »

9th, January 2012 Sports

London Olympic park loses 75% book value: Londoners wince

The London Olympics are coming and The Olympic Park is looking like a bad investment. The 500-acre site was to be sold off for between £1billion and £2billion after the Games... More »

9th, January 2012 Film

Warhorse Premiere photos: Kate Middleton brings the allergies

To the Premiere of the firm Warhorse, featuring Kate Middelton, the Duchess of Cambridge, who is allergic to horses. W More »

9th, January 2012 Celebrities 1

Snooki wants to "rape" Lady GaGa

RAPE. Hardly a laughing matter (quick! Someone tell those 6th form comedians who are under the assumption that saying 'rape' is a quickfire way to look 'edgy'). In fact, there isn't a single funny thing about rape. It's just thoroughly horrible.... More »

9th, January 2012 Politicians

Vladimir Putin exposed over fake photo to discredit Aleksey Navalny

The picture in the newspaper created in the Urals city of Yekaterinburg carries the caption “never hidden”. It's a lie... More »

9th, January 2012 Flashback 6

41 Don'ts for women riding bicycles in 1895 New York

Here is a list of 41 don’ts for female cyclists as published New York World, 1895. As Brainpickings says, the author is of unknown gender... More »

9th, January 2012 Royal Family

Kate Middleton is allergic to horses at 30

Middleton is 30 years young today. In the Daily Telegraph's 30 facts about the Duchess of Cambridge, we land that: "23: Kate is allergic to horses."... More »