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28th, September 2011 Sports

Shagging Stefan Effenberg Adds Irony To Manchester City's Carlos Tevez Debate

German legend Stefan Effenberg wades into the debate over whether or not Manchester City's Carlos Tevez refused to play against Bayern Munich. His comments are riddled with irony... More »

28th, September 2011 Politicians 1

FundaMENTAL Christian Shouts At Obama

At a fundraiser in Los Angeles, Prez Obama was playing it cool to a bunch of supporters when the jovial atmosphere was cut in two when some nutjob started howling "one true Christian God!", followed by the lovely "antichrist" jibe... More »

28th, September 2011 Key Posts 1

Rugby World Cup Dances: Kiwi Haka Undone By England Player's Sob Stories And Nelson Mandela

How do you facedown the Haka? Giggling would be easy, but possibly trigger a diplomatic incident. Better, perhaps, if each nation brought their own version of pre-match ritual to the rugby field... More »

28th, September 2011 Sports

Carlos Tevez Is Heading To Spurs: Manchester City Begin Desperate Search For New Rich Brat

"This is not the right time to go into specific details as to why this did not happen but I wish to state I never refused to play. There was some confusion on the bench and I believe my position was misunderstood..." More »

28th, September 2011 Reviews

How To Write A Feature For The Daily Mail (Like Sophie Walker But Not Anna Bundy)

Anna Bundy wants to tell you what it's like writing a feature for the Daily Mail. Anorak has some experience of this. My friend Sophie Walker once worked at the Mail's Femail section... More »

28th, September 2011 Flashback

On This Day In Photos: The Spaghetti House Siege

In 1975, police and media united to give the would-be robbers no chance... More »

28th, September 2011 Reviews

Police Slam Blackpool's Christian Cafe For Broadcasting 'Homophobic' Passages

Mr Murray's Christian cafe broadcasts passages from the Bible on a telly... More »

28th, September 2011 Celebrities

The Only Way Is Essex Features An Abortion As Entertainment

The Only Way Is Essex's Lauren Goodger appears on the cover of OK! to assure readers: "I've aborted Mark's baby"... More »

28th, September 2011 Key Posts 2

Anatomy Of A Climate Change Story: It's The Economics, Dummy

We get endless stories about how we really can beat climate change. Easy peasy. There's always a catch somewhere in them though: for it it were easy to beat climate change then there wouldn't be a problem, would there? It would be easy peasy... More »

28th, September 2011 Technology

Canadians Are Cashing In On The Tea Party.com

A sum of $1 million would put the musicians in elite company... More »

28th, September 2011 Celebrities

Michael Jackson Is Not Dead: But Micheal Jackson Is

Dear Anorak, are you working on the case?... More »

28th, September 2011 TV & Radio

Jimmy Savile: The Jingle Jangle Song

Mental health break... More »

28th, September 2011 Photojournalism

Photos Of The Day: Batman Murdered In Liverpool And Amanda Knox's Halo

Photos of The Day are presented by Merseyside Police's appeal for the killer of Bahman Faraji, aka Batman. More »

28th, September 2011 Celebrities

Elizabeth Taylor's Jewels In Photos: The Crown Jewels of Hollywood And Other Golden Eggs

The bangles are big, flashy, real and include a 33.19 carat rock. Princess Margaret, once of the Royal family and thus an expert in the gauche, said it was "vulgar". Taylor slid it onto the finger of the Queen's sister and uttered, “It doesn’t look so vulgar now, does it?”... More »

28th, September 2011 Reviews 2

Dale Farm: The Scaffolding As A Battlefield Monument And Rumblings From Flintshire

Is the scaffolding outside the gates of Dale Farm near Basildon, in Essex, worth saving... More »

28th, September 2011 Key Posts

The Utah Undie Run In Photos: Knickers To Anti-Gay

The Utah Undie Run aims to show the world that Utah is not all about prudes... More »

28th, September 2011 Strange But True

Jack The Lamb Thinks He's A Dog: Video

Jack The Lamb is billed as the sheep that thinks he's a dog. Jack lives at Alison Sinstadt's farm in Market Drayton, Shropshire. Says she in News Today... More »

28th, September 2011 Gifs

Gifs Of The Day: The Rude Wake Up Fall

Never fall asleep in class... More »

28th, September 2011 Strange But True 1

Man Smuggles 12 Birds In His Pants: Little Peckers Survive

A traveller has been found with a dozen live hummingbirds secreted into the inside of his underwear at Rochambeau airport in Cayenne, French Guiana... More »

28th, September 2011 TV & Radio

Radio Presenter Mark Esterhuyse Signs Off With F*cking Outburst: Audio

The 23-year-old has been sacked for an on air rant in which he said the F-word 13 times in just 40 seconds... More »

28th, September 2011 In Pictures

Michael Jackson: Conrad Murray's Trial In Photos

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28th, September 2011 Celebrities 7

Michael Jackson's 'Murder': Jacko Died Too Rapidly To Close His Eyes

DAY one of this years's Trial of The Century... More »

27th, September 2011 Photojournalism 3

News In Photos: September 27 2011

All the news that's fit to photograph... More »

27th, September 2011 Money

Alessio Rastani Is A Hoaxer? Bankers And Traders Only Pretending Just Out For A Laugh

Rastani, the trader who admitted that money marketeers act in their own self-interest (who knew) and thrive on panic and fear is a fraud?... More »

27th, September 2011 Key Posts 2

Ed Miliband's Plan To Increase Political Corruption

It's not that I mind people having different ideas, different biases, to mine, it's that I do mind people spouting total and complete nonsense about how the country should be run. To take an example from Ed Miliband's ideas of today... More »