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21st, December 2011 Strange But True

Police recruitment poster model is a 'thief'

To Hamburg, where the police have hired a model to be the face of a new €50,000-recruitment campaign.... More »

21st, December 2011 TV & Radio

Peoples falling over on icy stairs (video)

People slipping on icy stairs is a video of people slipping on icy stairs that proves CCTV is useful for getting laugh... More »

20th, December 2011 Reviews

Police will shoot rioters protesting about police shooting Mark Duggan

Next time you burn a business adjoining a residential dwelling, the police can shoot you. And the police always shoot to kill... More »

20th, December 2011 Reviews 2

Happy Chanukah - this is what winning looks like

For a picture of how life overcomes history, look no further than the image of Rabbi Yehuda Teichtal and Rabbi Segal Shmoel installing a giant Hanukkah Menorah at the Pariser Platz square in front of the Brandenburg Gate in central Berlin... More »

20th, December 2011 Reviews

Piers Morgan give Heather Mills her dream moment at the Leveson Inquiry (video)

At the Leveson Inquiry into media standards former Sun reporter and editor of the News of The World and Daily Mirror Piers Morgan refused to answer questions under oath... More »

20th, December 2011 Key Posts 10

Black Luis Suarez's career suicide: Liverpool star did racially abuse Man United's Patrice Evra

Liverpool striker Luis Suarez did racially abuse Manchester United’s Patrice Evra. The Uruguayan has been handed an eight match ban. The FA's Independent Regulatory Commission have buried Suarez... More »

20th, December 2011 Key Posts

Sleeping Kim Jong il is laid out like a fairytale princess

Kim Jong il is dead. His body has been put on display in glass box. Given that this is Christmas time, you can't help thinking Kim's mourners in North Korea and China are waiting for a Prince to ride in and give the leader an awakening kiss... More »

20th, December 2011 Key Posts

Woman has working pen in her stomach for 25 years

Two questions to the 76-year-old female who lived for 25 years with a working plastic felt tip pen in her stomach... More »

20th, December 2011 Money

Little Nicky Clegg misunderstands the Wealth Gap

Now it's true that wealth is unequally distributed and it's also true that wealth inequality is greater than income inequality. However, that 3% to 75% ratio is entire cock and bull, invented shite... More »

20th, December 2011 Celebrities

Kim Kardashian admits marriage mistake at long last

MARRIAGE! What a beautiful, rare and precious thing, right? Well, apart from the fact everyone gets married and that loads of them end in divorce. But still, huzzah for matrimony!... More »

20th, December 2011 TV & Radio

America hates Steve Jones on X Factor

America is a notoriously difficult nut to crack and, if Robbie Williams couldn't do it, then Steve Jones certainly can't in his tenure as The X Factor USA role... More »

20th, December 2011 Celebrities

Dead Jon Bon Jovi warns living that heaven looks like New Jersey

Say Jon Jovi Is not dead. He’s just been living in New Jersey, which might be the closest approximation outside of Lowestoft to actually being dead... More »

20th, December 2011 TV & Radio

Dutch TV presenters Dennis Storm and Valerio Zeno eat each other (video)

Dutch TV, which has given us Big Brother and, Celebrity Big Brother, now brings the world Test Rabbits or Guinea Pigs (Proefkonijnen), the show in which TV presenters Dennis Storm and Valerio Zeno eat each other... More »

20th, December 2011 Sports

Robbie Savage is the pundit who never was

What news of Robbie Savage, the Welsh footballer of whom Tess Daly said, “You came here a footballer and you’re leaving a dancer”?.. More »

20th, December 2011 Politicians 1

Korean News salutes wise comic book fan Kim Jong Un

Anorak has gotten hold of the last photos of Kim Jong il looking at stuff. And while you enjoy those, you can read a few words from the Korean News Agency on the passing of a living double rainbow... More »

20th, December 2011 Madeleine McCann 2

Madeleine McCann: Let's get the Arabs

Anorak’s at –a-glance look at Madeleine McCann in the news: after the gypsies are defamed it's time to get the Arabs again... More »

20th, December 2011 In Pictures

X-Rays: The Weirdest Internal Photos Ever

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20th, December 2011 Sports

Aaron Ramsay missed for Arsenal against Man City and let Kim Jong il live another day

When Arsenal's young blade Aaron Ramsay failed to connect with Robin Van Persie's though ball, Kim Jong il sighed a little... More »

20th, December 2011 TV & Radio

Stewie the cat puts Connar into a trance

Stewie the cat is filmed settling Connar to sleep. Well, so says Aarongrant1 on YouTube. Anorak knows cats. They are self-serving creatures... More »

19th, December 2011 Music

Red Hot Chilli Peppers Flea does The Simpsons Mo Photos)

Face of the day... More »

19th, December 2011 Celebrities 1

Courtney Stodden does Santa - literally (photos)

Demure teen bride Courtney Stodden, 17, has showcased her Santa Claus photoshoot. It's classy stuff from La Stodden... More »

19th, December 2011 Royal Family

Charlene shakes Prince Albert at Monaco Christmas swim (Photos)

When Prince Albert of Monaco married his rushing blushing bride (surely rushing? – ed), Charlene Wittstock, the world swooned... More »

19th, December 2011 Celebrities

The Sun Military Awards In Photos: Prince Harry Dodges The Tampon

The emotive Sun Military Awards at the Imperial War Museum, in Lambeth, featured such fighting personnel as: The Only way Is Essex Falklands veteran James 'Arg' Argent and Lydia Rose Bright dressed in a massive doily; human... More »

19th, December 2011 Gifs

Gifs of the day: suicide cat flies

Gifs of the day are brought to you by: suicide cat; the best dive outside of the Olympics; cats are scary; and the accident everyone save one saw coming... More »

19th, December 2011 Strange But True 1

Body modified Santa get horns and a nose job (photos)

Don't be afraid. Santa has to move with the times, that's all... More »