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30th, August 2011 Strange But True 3

Woman Buys iPad: Gets Piece Of Wood Painted Black With An Apple Logo

McDowell, 22, bought an iPad that turned out to be a "piece of wood painted black with an Apple logo”.... More »

30th, August 2011 Key Posts

On Day Ian Redmond Is Buried Scary Daily Mail Says Great White Sharks Have The UK Surrounded

Can Ian Redmond's death be used to spread fear in the UK? Yes... The Daily Mail can turn anything to its advantage... More »

30th, August 2011 Photojournalism

News In Photos: Dn Choi, Hot Sauce Boy And Famine In Africa

The News in Photos What you might have missed on the mainstream news... More »

30th, August 2011 TV & Radio

Mr Paparazzi And Ex-Mrs The Hoff Up For Big Brother Eviction Unsurprisingly

BRILLIANT. That's what we are. That's because we correctly predicted who would be voted out of the Celebrity Big Brother house over the weekend, seeing the terminally unpopular Sally Bercow getting sent back to the obscurity from whence she came... More »

30th, August 2011 Politicians

Why We Won The War In Libya: Gaddafi Had Neither Soldiers Nor Power

How did we win the war in Libya? Oh, yes, it was us - the West Wot Won It. Or was it the rebels? Or was Gaddafi defeated because - get this - there was nothing to defeat? His regime was knackered... More »

30th, August 2011 Key Posts 1

X-Ray Photo Of Man Impaled On Shears While Gardening

X-Ray of the day features the head of Leroy Luetscher, a man of 86 years who while gardening in Arizona became impaled on a pair of pruning shears, or secateurs, as the best people call them... More »

30th, August 2011 Politicians

Belgian Mayor Of Aalst Filmed Having Sex On A Tower

On a clear day you can see Ilse Uyttersprot, the Mayor of Aalst, Belgium getting euro-zoned on top of a tower in Belga with her fiance... More »

30th, August 2011 Sports 1

Arsenal's South Korean Striker Park Chu-Young Is A 6ft-Tall Midget

for the inside line on the player's tactical know-how and skills we turn to the Daily Star's Brian Woolnough... More »

30th, August 2011 Reviews 1

How Journalists Used Dominique Strauss-Kahn And Nafissatou Diallo For Their Own Agendas

This is not about the criminal case. This is about how DSK and one woman's complaint of rape was turned into a cause to hit all manner of targets... More »

30th, August 2011 Money

Things Can Only Get Better: The Internet Will Save The Economy

In the long term the only real determinant of per capita economic growth is how fast is technology advancing? How much more value can we add to the resources we have at our command is another way of putting the same point... More »

30th, August 2011 Celebrities

Lost's Matthew Fox Punches A Bus Driver Right On Her Minge

Do you remember the hunkbag star of the show, Matthew Fox? The one who was also in Party Of Five (Dawson's Creek for hipsters). He seemed like a nice enough bloke - that is until he was accused of punching a bus driver right on her mons pubis... More »

30th, August 2011 Reviews

GMP's chief constable Peter Fahy Says Police Need To Be More Like Argos: Not Fit For Purpose

“When you order your table from Argos you expect them to get back to you and tell you what time they will call round. There's no reason why GMP should be any different..." More »

30th, August 2011 Photojournalism

Photos Of The Day: Danny DeVito Shows Us His Tits

Photos of The Day are never quote what you expect... More »

30th, August 2011 Celebrities 1

Kim Kardashian's Fairytale Wedding In Photos: Jack Off And The Giant Beanstalk

Over 25 pages, we get to see Kim and her family appear in a wedding that with an added backdrop of a log fire could double as an advertorial for every cosmetic surgery procedure going... More »

30th, August 2011 Strange But True 1

False Leg Makers Rejoice As GS4 Staff Tag Villain's Prosthetic Limb

In what is being seen as a triumph for the false limb industry, two G4S staff placed an electronic tag on a felon's false leg believing it was real... More »

30th, August 2011 Strange But True

Crash Survivor Killed By Drunk Driver On Pilgrimage To Virgin Of Miracles

The victim and his two aunts- also killed in he accident - were on a pilgrimage to thank the "Virgin of Miracles" for his survival in a road crash.... More »

30th, August 2011 Sports 1

The Greatest Football Injury And Foul Ever - A Thing Of Wonder

This is absolutely amazing... More »

30th, August 2011 Royal Family

Prince Harry, Two Croatian Models And A Wet Patch: Video Of Hal's Chicken Dance Cocktail Dive

While royal watchers debete where Harry tumbled into the drink to mask an earlier, er, spill on his smart denims, the Mail tells us that "Really" happened when Harry got pissed and left a club with wannabe models Ana Simovic, 23, and Svetlana Gavrilovic, 28 More »

29th, August 2011 Politicians

Michele Bachmann Will Save America With Prayers For Wet White People (Video)

This woman wants to be President of The USA of A. She's secured the wet people demographic... More »

29th, August 2011 Politicians

News In Photos: Nicki Minaj's Mask, Nuon Chea's Trial And Metal Detecting With Hurricane Irene

The News in photos - what you might have missed...in photos: More »

29th, August 2011 In Pictures

Reading Festival 2011: The Best Photos

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29th, August 2011 In Pictures

Plastic Surgery Fails

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29th, August 2011 Photojournalism

Photos Of The Day: TWT Squad Are Here To Help

Photos of The Day are presented by: the man who knows a bikini top when he sees one; the world's best haircut; pigeon's peep show; bun head; the chick is so ruddy cute; and more... More »

29th, August 2011 In Pictures

Aline Skaf - Mrs Hannibal Gaddafi

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29th, August 2011 Key Posts 4

Can Tortured Shweyga Mullah Help Us To Hate Colonel Gaddafi: Hannibal Gaddafi And Aline Scaf Are Here To Help

We need an image that shows Gaddafi to be a murderous, sadistic thug. Is this is it...? More »