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23rd, September 2011 Reviews

Cultural Wars In France: Vote Kenza Drider

What kind of freedom are you into? More »

23rd, September 2011 Madeleine McCann 2

Madeleine McCann: Trolling For Jokes With Jack Tims

The Sun 's target A Troll campaign to name and shame anonymous web commentators focuses once more on Jack Tims... More »

23rd, September 2011 Key Posts

Nicholas Cage's Hair Is Proof That Vampires Exist: Photos

Cage has been outed by an eBay user named Jack Mord, an "antique image dealer" who has a photo from 1870 of man who looks like the slack-jawed actor... More »

23rd, September 2011 TV & Radio

The Bird Helps The Turtle Learn To Fly: Awwww Shucks

In this video, the adorable bird helps the poorly turtle realise a lifelong dream and fly into a bin. Either that or else the bird is a bully auditioning.... More »

23rd, September 2011 Photojournalism

Photos Of The Day: The Dive Of Certain Doom

A fine collection of cheery photos of your mental wellbeing... More »

23rd, September 2011 In Pictures

Arsenal Swoop For Barcelona Starlet Guim Laporta

Arsenal have moved to secure the services of Guillem Laporta, aka Guim Laoporta, aka son of former Barcelona president Joan Laporta... More »

22nd, September 2011 Key Posts

The Anti-Sex Trafficking Adverts Are Like A Sex Trafficker Road Show

The advert states that last year 200,000 girls in south east Asia were tricked into the sex trade. A group called Traffick Lights wants it to stop... More »

22nd, September 2011 Photojournalism

News In Photos: Kweku Adoboli, Hind Ahmas And The Irton Tree

Faces of the day... More »

22nd, September 2011 Reviews 1

Marijuana Can Lessen Effects Of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

Researchers at Haifia Universit, Jerusalem, Israel, say that to work, the weed needs to be taken soon after the traumatic event, ideally within 24 hours... More »

22nd, September 2011 In Pictures

Hayden Panettiere For Interview Magazine (Photos)

22nd, September 2011 TV & Radio

Man Climbs Moscow Skyscraper Pursued By Electric Organ Playing Monkey

You are about to see a electric-organ driven climb up Moscow's Gates Administrative Building, one of the seven Stalin Skyscrapers in Moscow... More »

22nd, September 2011 Technology 1

Nasa's Falling UARS Satellite Misses North America But Hits Eurovision - Which Is Lucky

What's it feel like to get hit by a satellite failing from space? You may soon get to answer that question because the UARS satellite is heading this way. The chance of you getting hit by the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) is 1 in 3,200. And that's not too shabby.... More »

22nd, September 2011 Reviews 1

Shock As German Gays Hate Pope!

There may be only one letter difference between pop and Pope, but the gays of Germany can certainly tell them apart... More »

22nd, September 2011 Key Posts 6

Daily Mail's Pornographic Mind Pollutes Cardiff By Night: Photos Of Life Being Lived

To the untrained eye the photos show a lively cityscape. There is warmth in the photographer's eye and love of his subject matter. But to the Daily Mail's Robert Hardman they "look like images you might find in some depressing police dossier"... More »

22nd, September 2011 Reviews

Divine Arabic Markings Appear On American Passenger Jets

When Fox News reported of "Mysterious messages that appeared to be scrawled in Arabic writing on the underbellies of several Southwest Airlines jets", we raised an eybrow... More »

22nd, September 2011 Sports 7

QPR's Kindly Joey Barton Orders His PA To Throw Away His Childish Cars And Watches

"I thought it was so wrong that I had a collection of designer watches worth hundreds of thousands. People are struggling to put food on the table and there I am with flash watches and cars..." More »

22nd, September 2011 Celebrities 1

Our Royal Wedding Baby: Jodie Albert And Westlife Singer Kian Egan Are Beyond Parody

Royal Wedding Balls presents the most vapid OK! magazine report of the Year, featuring actress Jodie Albert and Westlife done-the-phone-singer Kian Egan... More »

22nd, September 2011 Flashback

On This day In Photos - September 23, 1927: The Battle Of The Long Count

At the end of the fifth round, a Chicago policeman named Bill Smith climbed to the ring apron and told referee Dave Barry to stop Dempsey's rabbit-punching or "...be carried out of here dead!"... More »

22nd, September 2011 Money 1

Nonsense About Planning

You know, the "concreting over of the countryside", the National Trust on the march, all that. My problem with these people is not just that I don't believe some of their arguments: I don't believe that they're stupid enough to believe their own.... More »

22nd, September 2011 Gifs

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