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23rd, December 2011 Photojournalism

Photos of the day: the child tree killer

Global warming education has way to go... More »

23rd, December 2011 Reviews

The police failed Charlene Downes with incompetence and 'lies'

We do not know what happened to Charlene Downes, the 14-year-old child who disappeared for Blackpool, Lancashire, in 2003. We do know that DS Jan Beasant bugged the home of Blackburn man Iyad Albattikhi... More »

23rd, December 2011 Reviews

Police beat up sausage lifter who grabbed cop's groin

Frank Slowick, 44, was beaten up when he grabbed hold of a policeman's groin... More »

23rd, December 2011 Celebrities 2

On Piers Morgan, Heather Mills and Louise Mensch's vanity

Morgan's performance at the Leveson Inquiry has pricked Heather Mills... More »

23rd, December 2011 Celebrities 1

JWoww’s stick-on bikinis for female suckers and male 'gluesticks'

Jersey Shore's JWoww has a new range of bikinis and poached egg boilers that stay on by suction power... More »

23rd, December 2011 Reviews 3

Sheikh Ahmed Al Maktoum, Nivin El Gamal and super rich chavs

Was Nivin El Gamal married to Dubai’s Sheikh Ahmed Al Maktoum, a royal sat on an oily £19 billion fortune?... More »

23rd, December 2011 Reviews

Infectious Tim Flannery hears Abigail Borah's mosquito cry

The latest scare story is not that Miss Borah is going to read the news, rather that Tim Flannery, Australia's Chief Commissioner, sees disease in the hills you're heading for... More »

23rd, December 2011 Key Posts

The 12 best Nativity scenes of all time

The Nativity is the story of Christ’s birth. But what was it really like?... More »

23rd, December 2011 Strange But True

Spanish model hid cocaine in big false breasts and buttocks implants

That Spanish model with the generous boobage and bumage walking through Rome airport has 2.5kilograms of neat cocaine hidden in her false breasts and buttock implants... More »

22nd, December 2011 The Consumer

Breast Cancer awareness advert features real breasts poking through a billboard

The advert for the Associação da Luta Contra o Câncer in Mozambique uses real women to push their real breasts through glory holes... More »

22nd, December 2011 Celebrities

Kirsten Dunst and the Christmas Restraining Order!

Unfathomably, she's got an extension of a restraining order to keep a French fan away from her until the new year. A man. A French man. Stalking her from Spiderman... More »

22nd, December 2011 Key Posts

Queen rents Kensington Palace to Russian Olympic team

The Queen is cashing in on the London 2012 Olympics by renting a field adjoining Kensington Palace to Russian visitors... More »

22nd, December 2011 In Pictures

Mark Cavendish wins BBC Sports Personality Of The Year (photos)

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22nd, December 2011 Sports

Peta Todd's lover Mark Cavendish Is BBC Sports Personality Of The Year

Cavendish (not a woman) is the 2011 BBC Sports Personality of the Year winner. More »

22nd, December 2011 Reviews

New York Police Department recruits graduate (photos)

If Occupy Wall Street could organise themselves so well, it might be a fair fight… More »

22nd, December 2011 Sports

Liverpool's Luis Suarez employs the Sepp Blatter Defence

Luis Suarez is not a racist. We know this because his lawyer Alejandro Balbi has photos of Luis Suarez with his arm about the shoulder of small black boy. This is known as 'The Blatter Defence'... More »

22nd, December 2011 Celebrities

America Idol star Adam Lambert smacks Miss Helsinki Sofia Ruusila (photos)

Lambert, former American Idol runner-up and man most likley to replace Freddie Mercury as the Queen frontman, has been arrested in Finland for fighting with his lover Sauli Koskinen... More »

22nd, December 2011 In Pictures

Who has the widest neck in the NFL?

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22nd, December 2011 Celebrities

Kardashian family unhappy about sweatshops which might be making their stuff

What would you get a member of the Kardashian family for Christmas? Obviously, they've got the money to buy anything they want in the whole world, including you probably... More »

22nd, December 2011 Money

Apple v AT& T: Who Ends Up With The Money?

OK, so this example is from the US but the same things happens in the UK as well. It's an example of a basic truth about money and business: whoever has the scarce thing gets to make all the money... More »

22nd, December 2011 Key Posts 1

There's nothing "ethical" about these patronising Christmas gifts

. Every year, charities like Oxfam, Christian Aid and World Vision encourage us to give up presents in favour of certificates for things like goats, dung, condoms and hygiene instruction for people in the developing world... More »

22nd, December 2011 Reviews

Rose Devlin is 'just a shoplifter who ran out of petrol' in Oldham

Devlin ran out of petrol as she attempted to make off with loads of booze she'd stolen from Asda's Chadderton store in Oldham. A man comes to her assistance. He pushes Devlin's car to the petrol station... More »

22nd, December 2011 Strange But True

Jealous penguins throw poo at panda mad Edinburgh Zoo

he Rockhopper penguins are on Corstorphine Hill, a spot that offers them a clear view of the pandas. Have the pandas upset the penguins? More »

22nd, December 2011 Key Posts 8

The X Factor Voiceover Man Strikes Back

It's The X Factor uncut. Peter Dickson is the X Factor voiceover man striking back... More »

22nd, December 2011 Reviews

British Transport Police video of drunk falling under a train is a fake?

Want to see a drunk train passenger tripping and falling under the train at Barnsley station? The Daily Mirror says the CCTV footage of the woman stumbling backwards and falls on to the tracks is “horrifying”... More »