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28th, January 2012

Baby Imad Gadir bites off snake’s head – photos

Gadir, a 1-year-old living in Shfaram, northern Israel, bit off the head of a live coin snake. And ate it. Read More »

Strange But True

Celebrities

28th, January 2012

Rare celebrity photos

Before the paparazzi and the internet, photos of stars were more controlled, staged and shaped by the art director. Occasionally, a candid shot would emerge… More »

28th, January 2012

The Daily Express and weather reporting

The Daily Express loves weather. The weather is often freezing cold and deadly… Read More »

Key Posts

28th, January 2012

Man withdraws mouse from ATM

To Ersboda, northern Sweden, where Gholam Hafezi has withdrawn a mouse from an ATM machine… Read More »

Strange But True

28th, January 2012

Alternative Olympic Sports: the stairwell dive

Alternative Olympics Sports features the no-stairs stairwell dive. The Polish athlete approaches the bar… Read More »

Anorak TV

Key Posts

27th, January 2012

In photos – Denise Welsh beats off Frankie Cocozza to win Celebrity Big Brother

Big Brother has been won by embarrassing, self-pitying mum Denise Welch, who beat off the challenge of bewilderingly untalented X Factor renegade Frankie Cocozza… More »

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27th, January 2012

Holocaust Remembrance Day 2012 – in photos

The remembrance day marks the day of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camps 67 years ago. Outside the death camps – beyond those gates with their demonic joke – survivors gathered… Read More »

News

27th, January 2012

Costa Concordia: Is Father Massimo Donghi to blame?

When he told his flock he was heading to a retreat he forgot to tell them that he would making the journey by luxury liner… Read More »

2 News

27th, January 2012

Sun reader sends Anton Ferdinand bullet to shoot Chelsea’s John Terry with?

Ferdinand, the QPR player allegedly called a “f**king black c**t, f**king knobhead” in a racially abusive manner by Chelsea captain John Terry, has received a bullet in the post…. Read More »

Sports

27th, January 2012

Susanna Barrett sues Daily Mail and TMZ for sexualising her five-year-old daughter

Meet Susanna Barrett. You might already know her from the TV show Toddlers & Tiaras, which stars her five-year-old daughter Isabella and other decorated children in what seems to be an interactive audition for the role of most disturbing child on Earth… Read More »

Celebrities

27th, January 2012

Are Julia Gillard, Tony Hodges and the Tent Embassy ambassadors the most stupid politicians in Australia?

What really happened in the Australia Day protest that saw the county’s Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Opposition leader Tony Abbott besieged by the Aborigine Tent Embassy in Canberra?… Read More »

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27th, January 2012

The German way of dealing with unemployment

The actual truth of the matter is that Germany looked at its labour market good and hard in the late 90s. And didn’t like what it could see: German labour was unproductive (that is, output compared to the cost of the labour) compared with labour elsewhere… Read More »

2 Money

27th, January 2012

London Olympics Opening Ceremony: The Tempest, The NHS and Fearful Noises

The opening ceremony will begin with a big ding-dong from a 27-tonne bell (inspired by Shakespeare’s play The Tempest). On the bell is the legend: “Be not afear the Isle is full of noises”… Read More »

London Olympics

Celebrities

27th, January 2012

Authorities to release jolly 911 recording of Demi Moore

Despite the fact it goes without saying, that Demi Moore was in a state of high distress when she called for the emergency services to come take her to hospital, that simply isn’t enough… More »

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27th, January 2012

Is Labour really being this damn stupid? Rent control don’t work

Something I simply could not believe in Polly Toynbee’s column today. And believe me, I’ve seen an awful lot in that column over the years but nothing to quite match this… Read More »

3 Money

27th, January 2012

Bayern Munich’s new singing is a…Facebook app – fans go mad

The German clubs efforts at social media have cheesed off their entire fanbase. Yesterday, Bayern began tweeting rumours of a “big new signing”…. Read More »

Sports

27th, January 2012

A Roman brothel token for London

Is this a “brothel token”, as used by Romans and those who accepted their coinage in 1st century AD London?… Read More »

The Consumer

27th, January 2012

Joy Division inspire new Disneyland Oblivion scare ride

Did anyone buy a Mickey Mouse T-shirt inspired by Joy Division? It’s the item with the artwork inspired by HJoy Division’s Unknown Pleasures…. Read More »

3 The Consumer

27th, January 2012

Libel and censorship on t’Internet – 190 countries control your words

When you post something on the internet you are not liable for the libel and censorship laws of where you posted it. You are liable for the libel and censorship laws in the countries where it is read… Read More »

Technology

27th, January 2012

Photos of the day – the naked fast food frog rectums

Photos the day feature: the naked fast fooder; that ice-cream is not for sharing; froggy pals; Godzilla attacks and more… Read More »

Photojournalism

27th, January 2012

The sequel to the 1986 film Ferris Bueller’s Day Off is here – video shivers

The sequel to the 1986 film Ferris Bueller’s Day Off is looming… Read More »

Film

Celebrities

27th, January 2012

Amy Winehouse’s celebrity dad Mitch bares his pain to the Sun – Gaultier laughs

In “INSULT TO MY AMY”, the Sun says Amy Winehouse’s father Mitch Winehouse is in a state of “fury”. Why? And why not “Our Amy”, is Winehouse not what the tabloids call a “national treasure”?… More »