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4th, February 2012

Revealed: What The Queen keeps in her handbag (mints, hook and blanket)

Want to know what the Queen keeps in her handbag? Sally Bedell Smith, author of Elizabeth the Queen: The Woman Behind The Throne, says he knows… Read More »

Royal Family

News

4th, February 2012

Britain freezes in photos: Sea ices over in Poole

How cold is it out there? We’ve seen photos and it looks very cold – cold enough for the sea to freeze in Poole Harbour… More »

News

4th, February 2012

Syria still wants that seat on the UN Human Rights Council – Russia, Arabs and China agree

The Syrian Government has started to use machine guns and tanks to bombard its own people living in the city of Homs… More »

4th, February 2012

Pippa Middleton and George Percy prepare for the War Of The Middletons

Middleton continues her drive to create a Alternative Royal Family – something more modern that ranks a good arse and jogging over blue bloods, chinlessness and horses – by dating a George Percy, heir to the Duke of Northumberland…. Read More »

Royal Family

4th, February 2012

Victoria Beckham and Angelina Jolie enter baby race

Victoria Beckham is not like Angelina Jolie. Victoria has been telling OK! readers “HER TIPS FOR A HAPPY MARRIAGE”…. Read More »

Celebrities

The Consumer

4th, February 2012

Qataris make Paul Cézanne’s The Card Players world’s most expensive artwork

The work has been sold at auction for $250 million (£160 million). It is the world’s most expensive work of art… More »

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4th, February 2012

Hospital displays items removed from inside patients: needles, salt pots and a remote control (photos)

A hospital in Sibenik, Croatia will bedeck its wall with a collection of items harvested from inside patients over the past 80 years.. Read More »

Strange But True

4th, February 2012

Student hurt by bottle rocket fired from student’s anus – sues

Louis Helmburg III puts it to the law that “firing bottle rockets out of one’s own anus constitutes an ‘ultra-hazardous’ activity”…. Read More »

Strange But True

3rd, February 2012

Manchester United fan charged with racial abuse

Who is the Manchester United fan charged with shouting racist abuse at Stoke City players during a Premier League match? Why, he’s Howard Hobson, 57, of Weaver Walk, Openshaw, Manchester… Read More »

News

3rd, February 2012

Demi Moore and the heroin spoon

Moore may have read the story of Elinor Zuke, who attempted to buy a packet of teaspoons at the self-service checkout at Sainsbury’s, West Green, Crawley, West Sussex… Read More »

The Consumer

3rd, February 2012

Madonna previews new track ahead of Super Bowl 2012!

Madonna, who simultaneously is quite fit, yet somehow turning into Iggy Pop, is readying herself for the huge Super Bowl halftime show… Read More »

Celebrities

News

3rd, February 2012

Photos of the Day – February 3 2012

The news in photos… More »

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3rd, February 2012

Met and FBI keen to advertise the skills and power of Anonymous

Anonymous, the hactivist collective, have posted an audio on YouTube of the Metropolitan Police’s e-crime unit talking with the FBI… Read More »

Technology

3rd, February 2012

Rinehart V Rinehart: World’s richest woman fights children in court

Gina Rinehart is a billionaire iron ore magnate (worth: £13.5 billion and predicted to rise very fast) whose daughter Hope Rinehart Welker, 26, emails that she is “down to my last $60,000″…. Read More »

Money

3rd, February 2012

Rihanna gets naked to show off her new hair – photos

She can’t help herself can she? See, Rihanna posed topless so we could get a really good look at her new bleached blonde hair… Read More »

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Photojournalism

3rd, February 2012

Photos of the Day – spot the cat

It’s a Friday challenge: can you spot the cat..? Answer at the end… More »

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3rd, February 2012

Man charged with stealing glacier

A man has been arrested for stealing parts of the Jorge Montt Glacier, located in the richly named Bernardo O’Higgins national park… Read More »

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3rd, February 2012

Green Chris Huhne undone by driving allegation – oh, the irony

Huhne has resigned from the Cabinet following allegations that he got his then wife Vicky Pryce to take the rap for his speeding… Read More »

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3rd, February 2012

Westminster bars Top Totty: Kate Green or Katie Green?

Top Totty, the smooth-skinned amber-skinned lovely with a good head, will not be in Westminster’s The Strangers’ Bar. The image has been deemed offensive to sherry drinkers and other women… Read More »

3 Key Posts

3rd, February 2012

Trump and Romney dupe media with unimportant story, says media

Romney is now supported by Donald Trump, he of the tsunami fringe. The Guardian reports this nugget in an unusual fashion… Read More »

Politicians

3rd, February 2012

The Funniest TV Captions ever – sex with cotton chicken balls

The best TV captions is a gallery of words that defy explanation. Written by TV researcher to succinctly explain the confessional show’s victim, they are cultural artifacts. Each is funny. Some are hilarious… Read More »

TV & Radio