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1st, December 2011 Sports 3

Newcastle United Boss Takes Moral High Ground By Standing On Gary Speed's Coffin: Joey Barton Tweets

How much worse can the PR get at Newcastle Unite?. Derek Llambias has a go at making the club look bad.... More »

1st, December 2011 Film 1

Great Behind The Scenes Photos: Can You Identify All The Movies And TV Shows In This Gallery?

Can you identify all the films and TV shows in this galley of Behind The Scenes Moments? More »

1st, December 2011 Key Posts 14

Jeremy Clarkson Is Raped And Shot In The Face In Joke Taken Too Far, Say Some

Clarkson says of the striking public sector workers: “I’d have them all shot. I would take them outside and execute them in front of their families"... More »

1st, December 2011 Sports

Imanol Harinordoquy's Dad Lucien Charges Into On-Field Rugby Fight And Misses: Federico Mendez Laughs

During the Basque derby between Bayonne and Biarritz, Lucien charged onto the pitch. Upset at the rough stuff being dished out to his France international son, dad tried to punch Bayonne's Jean-Jo Marmouyet in the face.... More »

1st, December 2011 Photojournalism 1

The Oblivious Suburban Mom Is A Meme: Photos

The Oblivious Suburban Mom is a meme - Photos the mother of every teenage boy and her son should see... More »

1st, December 2011 Reviews

Leonardo Alonso Killed His Daughter Federica: In Uruguay Who Police's The Police?

Leonbardo Alonso, 52, tells police he thought his daughter Federica was a burglar - that's why he shot her dead.... More »

1st, December 2011 Strange But True

Man Cut Off And Ate Own Hand In Insurance Scam: Hu Dunnit?

To Taiwan, where a Shilin District Prosecutors’ Office spokesman says suspect Hu Chi-yang ate his own hand in an insurance scam.... More »

30th, November 2011 Reviews 1

Hurrah For Occupy Panton House: Boring Strike Livened Up With Pointless Occupy Romp (Photos)

The Occupy Stock Exchange Movement became the Occupy London today, moving inside Panton House, a building on Panton Street, near Piccadilly Circus in central London. Riot police cleared the building of the protestors, who were almost outnumbered by media... More »

30th, November 2011 Key Posts 6

Therapy Industry Is Using Gary Speed's Death To Advertise Its Services

More Gary Speed opportunism in the Scotsman, where Nicola Peckett, head of communications at the Samaritans, uses the Wales manager's death to promote her own cause... More »

30th, November 2011 Reviews

Stephen Lawrence Murder Trial: Days 10, 11 & 12: 'Spiteful' Police And A Chance In A Billion

Lawrence Murder Trial: Days 10, 11 & 12: Anorak's at--a-glance look at the trail of Gary Dobson and David Norris in the news.... More »

30th, November 2011 Sports

Sunderland Sack Steve Bruce: Blackburn Rovers Stick With The Ridiculous Steve Kean

On the day Sunderland sack Steve Bruce, we look at the world according to Steve Kean, a man still in a job... More »

30th, November 2011 Strange But True

Toy Cat With Batteries Still Working Rescued From Bin In Anglesey: Puss-Puss Still At Large

Where is Puss-Puss? The pregnant Puss-Puss is missing. Is she in the clothes bank recycling centre on Moelfre,Anglesey, North Wales. Passers by heard a meowing from inside the bin... More »

30th, November 2011 Sports 8

Italian FA Advises Gay Players 'Don't Come Out': Damiano Tommasi Say Homosexuals Not Welcome In Changing Rooms

Coming out in football isn't ever going to be easy. Thus far, the only player to be out and proud is Swedish footballer Anton Hysen. He came out earlier this year and asked: “Where are all the others?”... More »

30th, November 2011 Reviews

The Best Signs At The Public Sector Strike: 'I'm Not Really Happy About This'

The Public Sector strike has produced posters that are: brilliant ("I'm Not Really Happy About This"), good (a striking jihadi stating a desire to behead David Cameron), bad (anything that features some child saying "Leave My Dad's Pension Alone") and... More »

30th, November 2011 Key Posts 1

Striking Michael Gove Is Not A Hypocritical Tosser: He Just Understands How Useless Journalists Are

ON this day of industrial action, we journey back to when the curent Secretary of State fo Education, one Michael Gove was a budding journalist, and on the picket line along side his National Union of Journalists brothers and sisters Aberdeen’s Press and Journal... More »

30th, November 2011 Money

Booze Taxes Have to be Reduced Or The Bootleggers Get The Money

The reason we tax booze so heavily isn't, as some might think, to make everyone healthy by keeping them off the sauce. It's actually because demand has a very low elasticity.... More »

30th, November 2011 Money

1%er Doesn't Make Much Of The Working Classes, Unsurprisingly: A Banker Speaks

Occupy Everywhere (it feels like 'everywhere' at the minute) continues, there's not been too many words coming from the bankers. It seems they've been reluctant to speak... More »

30th, November 2011 Celebrities

Demi Moore Is Back Having Baby-Making Sex With Ashton Kutcher In An OK! Exclusive

Moore is in OK!. She wants to tell us about moving forward with her life. To help her move forward, OK! produces a big photo of Demi fooling around with estranged husband Ashton Kutcher.... More »

30th, November 2011 Strange But True 2

Misspelt Letter Earns Ipswich Woman 3 Months Prison Sentence

Jordan, 41, of Bull Road, Ipswich, is embarking on a three-month jail sentence for presenting bogus letters to South East Suffolk Magistrates’ Court... More »

30th, November 2011 Photojournalism

Photos Of The Day: At Home With The Kongs

Great photos with a retro sauce... More »

30th, November 2011 Key Posts 1

Stupid New Mexico Police Say Paedophiles Are Posing As Pedobear: Warn Your Kids

To New Mexico, where the Attorney General's Office says "paedobear" aak "pedobear" is a menace to children.... More »

30th, November 2011 TV & Radio

Teenager Trying To Impress Girls Fails Horribly

Nothing impresses a women like self-inflicted head trauma... More »

30th, November 2011 Sports 4

Exploiting Gary Speed's Death: How Many Footballers Will Die?

We do not know why former Leeds United footballer and Wales manager Gary Speed died. The coroner has yet to rule that it was suicide. Yet the Daily Star manages to produce a front-page headline that warns: "SPEED: FIVE MORE FOOTIE STARS ON BRINK"... More »

29th, November 2011 Celebrities

Culo Book: Kate Upton, Lady Gaga, Pamela Anderson And Fergie Give Christmas The Bums Rush

The 'Culo' book by photographer Raphael Mazzucco features the bottoms of such luminaries as Kate Upton, Alesssandra Ambrosia, Fergie, Lady Gaga, Bianca Balti, Alessandra Ambrosio, Chrinstine Teigen, Edyta Slwinska, Irina Shayk, Lauren Bennett, Leann Tweeden, Nicole Scherzinger, Pamela Anderson and Sarah McLauclan.... More »

29th, November 2011 Film

TWE-TWE-TWENTY SIXTEEN!!!: Ghana Movie Trailer Of The Year

The baby gets kicked... More »