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22nd, June 2011 Photojournalism

Photos Of The Day: Presented By Blow Jobs On The BBC News

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22nd, June 2011 In Pictures

Ryan Cleary Photos

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22nd, June 2011 Sports

Nastasha Giggs Loses Face - Literally: More Ryan Giggs Sex News

Natasha Giggs is "Ryan's Girl" on the Daily Star's cover, a place the paper has awarded the Manchester United footballer in light of his services to the sensational headline where the twin pillars of football and sex collide... More »

21st, June 2011 The Consumer

State Of Vermont Says It's Maple Syrup Takes Like Urine (Photo)

State of Vermont Syrup tastes like urine, says the State of Vermont... More »

21st, June 2011 Reviews

Daily Telegraph Uses Canadian Student's Work To Attack Rowan Williams And Help David Cameron

Is the Daily Telegraph attacking, sorry, "revealing" Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, to make life easier for David Cameron? Let's see... More »

21st, June 2011 Technology 2

Ryan Cleary - The Hackers Hacker: Everything You Need To Know About Alleged LulzSec Hacker (Photos)

In May 2011, Cleary was named by The ‘Anonymous’ as the person responsible for breaching two of its own sites. He was, allegedly the hacker who hacked the hackers... More »

21st, June 2011 Celebrities 4

La Toya Jackson Claims That Michael Was Murdered Like A Mad Conspiracy Theorist (Photos)

MURDER! That's what Officer La Toya Jackson is crying at the moment about the untimely passing of her very dead brother, Michael Jackson... More »

21st, June 2011 Technology

Teenager From Essex Commuter Town Arrested For Hacking CIA, NHS and Sony

We know there's not a lot to do in Essex but - nineteen year old Ryan Clarey seemed to have surpassed himself in making his own fun - he's just been taken in for questioning by the police for hacks on the CIA, the NHS and Sony. More »

21st, June 2011 The Consumer

New Cigarette Packet Warnings Make Fat Smokers' Hair Fall Out: Photos

From September 2012, cigarette packets in the USA will feature newer, darker more mind-changing photos of people in states of despair, or dead... More »

21st, June 2011 Reviews

Trevor Phillips Champions Equality By Saying All Black Christians Are Homophobes And Non Believers Are Unfulfilled

Trevor Phillips wants to talk about religion. Phillips is chairman of the Equality and Human Rights Commission. That means equal rights for all people and all beliefs... More »

21st, June 2011 Celebrities 5

Barely Known Actor From Green Mile Gains Notoriety For Being 51 And Marrying 16 Year Old Beauty Queen

You may not know the name Doug Hutchison and indeed, may look at his face and think 'Uh... maybe... was he in... wait... no... that's someone else. Go on, what has he done?' Well, if by 'done' you mean 'roles as an actor', then he was in The Green Mile and Lost.... More »

21st, June 2011 Royal Family

Queen And Duke Luncheon WIth Camerons At Number 10: Photos

It's not a time to talk over a return to absolute monarchy - one of Dave's true goals. Not yet... More »

21st, June 2011 Celebrities

Lauren Pope And Kirk Norcross Get Matching Nose Jobs: TOWIE Stars Get New Holes

La Pope and Kirk Norcross, of TV's The Only Way Is Essex, have had matching nose jobs at London's Highgate Hospital... More »

21st, June 2011 Strange But True

Bulgarian Statue To Soviet forces Portrays Them As Superman, The Joker And Ronald McDonald (Photo)

To Sofia, to see the monument to the Soviet Armed Forces... More »

21st, June 2011 Reviews 1

Kyron Horman: A Year Of Bad Policing, A Witch Hunt And No News

This is Anorak's round up of news on the boy who went missing from his Portland, Oregon school on June 4, 2010.... More »

21st, June 2011 Sports

Wimbledon 2011 Photos: On Trend Venus Williams' Tucks Her Jumper Into Her Knickers

WIMBLEDON. Let's consider the events three central planks: The Shaggable; Andy Murray; Venus Williams' clothes.... More »

21st, June 2011 Strange But True 1

How German Are You? Good British Sports Should Take The Test

Those Boffins at the University College London say that half of all British men have German blood in their veins. So. How German are you..? More »

21st, June 2011 Reviews

Texas Finds Way To Keep Incandescent Bulbs

In the EU - and that means you in the UK - those bright light bulbs you grew up with are being replaced by low-glowing, expensive greener ones. But in Texas, a loophole has been found... More »

21st, June 2011 Reviews

Scare Story Tuesday: When Sleep Kills

It's Scare Story Tuesday in the Daily Mail - also known as Health Day... More »

21st, June 2011 Reviews 1

Spotting The Sun At The Stone Henge Summer Solstice: Photos

The caption to our photographer's images are "revellers watch the sunrise of the Summer Solstice at Stonehenge, Wiltshire". Yeah. That's where the sun went to... More »

21st, June 2011 Strange But True 2

Pub Landlord Told To Leave Welsh Pub For Asking Gun-Toting Man To Speak English

Regulars at the Royal Oak in Penrhyndeudraeth, near Porthmadog in Gwynedd, Wales, are ordering their drinks in Welsh. they say things like 'I'll have a Malibu and Cocacocoghcococogh"... More »

21st, June 2011 Strange But True

Woman Has Huge Tumour Removed From Face (Photo)

Having heard that Cheryl Cole is alright - phew! - our thoughts turn to Tshey, a 21-year-old Ethiopian with a 10-inceh wide tumour on her face... More »

20th, June 2011 Celebrities

Dominic West Slams Factory Farming In Article That Showcases All That Is Wrong With Journalism

All you needed to know about newspapers, the Sunday Telegraph, reporting on the environment.... More »

20th, June 2011 Reviews 9

Trolls Attack Owen Wightman's Parents Over His Hit-And-Run Death

The death of six-year-old Owen Wightman in Wakefield moves from the accidentual to the callous... More »

20th, June 2011 Strange But True

Police Say 15-Year-Old Girl Who Saw Herself In Lewd Photo Guilty Of Child Porn Offence

The San Bernardino Sun - awesome tagline: "San Bernadinao & The Inland Empire" - reports that the local Sheriff's Department is impounding all copies of the Big Bear High School's 2011 yearbook... More »