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For the discussion of news articles and current events.

  1. Sticky thread Sticky: How to use the News Room

    This forum is for discussing current events, be they politics, disasters, scientific breakthroughs or something else. If it's a topic that would be appropriate in a serious newspaper or news magazine that doesn't fit into another one of our forums,...

    Started by Zuul‎, 14 Aug 2010 12:26 PM
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  1. Carbon Tax passes

    I have no real opinion on whether a Carbon Tax is a good idea. And who can blame me. Too much rhetoric flying around. Having said that, if you held a gun to my head and made me take one side or another, I'd say I'm in favour of it. Taxing...

    Started by AllWalker‎, 12 Oct 2011 01:11 AM
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  2. Breaking News: Catholic Church seeks to ban something

    Well okay, I can see why they might want to ban this: Even if I don't agree with them. In fact, should they succeed, not only will I spam this image to as many people as possible (yeah, I've already saved it off for when the inevitable...

    Started by AllWalker‎, 21 Nov 2011 12:01 AM
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  3. World's largest offshore wind farm opens

    The Largest offshore windfarm has just opened off the coast of Kent. It's still being built, but the 100 turbines there will start generating electricity, with the expectation that there will be 341 turbines in total.Apparently, the 100 turbines...

    Started by CatInASuit‎, 23 Sep 2010 09:19 AM
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  4. Las Vegas Death Ray - Modern, not 1920's style

    It looks like the design of a Las Vegas hotel is such that it is concentrating the sunlight falling on it to the area by the swimming pool. Several guests have experienced burning from it and it is capable of melting plastic bags. Sounds like the...

    Started by CatInASuit‎, 29 Sep 2010 09:54 AM
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  5. Another Airline PR Disaster

    After the fun and games of United Airlines and United Breaks Guitars, it seems that SouthWest Airlines decided that the fat guy in the seat should be ejected from the plane on the grounds he was a safety hazard. Now Kevin Smith may be slightly on...

    Started by CatInASuit‎, 15 Feb 2010 08:36 AM
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  6. Sleepy Devon Village surprise

    You know, it's amazing what you can find in those sleepy little English villages. There were a lot of strange noises coming from a detached house in a sleepy village in Devon and so the police paid them a visit. When they investigated, they found...

    Started by CatInASuit‎, 03 Mar 2010 09:30 AM
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  7. Police force recognises Pagans

    Pagans within the police force in the UK will now have the right to take their festivals as official holidays. Each of the 8 days will be given the same respect as Christmas, Ramadan or Passover depending on your religion. These festivals will...

    Started by CatInASuit‎, 10 May 2010 09:27 AM
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  8. The 2012 Apocalypse, coming a year later

    Someone has obviously slowed the Sun down or is playing silly buggers with the Mayan Calendar. It looks as though the sun is coming out of a quiet phase in 2013 and is due for massive solar flares that will knock out electrical grids and...

    Started by CatInASuit‎, 15 Jun 2010 08:14 AM
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  9. The Malaria Proof Mosquito

    Yup, they have genetically engineered a malaria proof mosquito. It's incapable of transmitting the disease to people and if they manage to get it interbreeding with the existing mosquito population could have a dramatic effect. Genetic mucking...

    Started by CatInASuit‎, 16 Jul 2010 09:15 AM
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  10. Who wants a $1m? All you have to do is...

    ..streak in front of Barack Obama in a place where you are not going to get arrested for indecency with a logo written across you stomach. British Billionaire Alki David has offered the prize to the first person to pull this prank for the...

    Started by CatInASuit‎, 17 Aug 2010 09:14 AM
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  11. BBC Weatherman gets timing wrong

    Whern making rude gestures to your co-presenters who are on-screen, make sure you get your timing right. Otherwise everyone is going to see you making rude gestures when they cut to you. I'm not sure what's more amusing, the fact he made the...

    Started by CatInASuit‎, 18 Aug 2010 04:33 AM
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  12. Jennifer Aniston calls herself a retard

    Following her last statement about women no longer requiring men, you would think she would be be slightly more careful about what she was going to say live on TV. Nope, she decides to offend people by calling herself a retard. Although it seems...

    Started by CatInASuit‎, 20 Aug 2010 09:02 AM
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  13. A cure for the common cold?

    It's been one of those promises that has been around forever, but now it seems that a Cambridge Laboratory has shown that the body deals with viruses in a far more expansive way than originally thought. It was assumed that once a virus has...

    Started by CatInASuit‎, 02 Nov 2010 08:36 AM
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  14. BP Blowout preventer arrested

    Arrested isn't perhaps the right word , but the 350-tonne 50 foot high blowout preventer has been raised and siezed by the US authorities in the ongoing search to apportion blame for the oil disaster. Given that it is the key component in...

    Started by CatInASuit‎, 06 Sep 2010 08:56 AM
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  15. HMRC gets tax wrong

    Despite being the government department for setting and collecting tax from normal people, it seems that they couldn't get it right. It seems that over 5.7 million people have been paying the wrong amount of tax either. 4.3 million are due a...

    Started by CatInASuit‎, 07 Sep 2010 08:26 AM
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  16. Lawyer smokes pages of Bible and Koran

    In today's news, someone decides to inflame religious tensions. An athiest lawyer in Australia decided to make two roll ups made from the pages of a Bible and a Koran. The video, of course, was uploaded to Youtube and has since been deleted. ...

    Started by CatInASuit‎, 13 Sep 2010 09:30 AM
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  17. Pentagon to buy first print run of Spy expose

    Operation Dark Heart is the expose of how the USA could have won the war aganist the Taliban and didn't due to interference from the top brass in the military. It has already been passed by the DoD and was due to be printed. However, once the...

    Started by CatInASuit‎, 14 Sep 2010 08:10 AM
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  18. Poll Poll: France votes for full veil ban

    France has now officialy voted in the ban on the wearing of the face covering veils. Barring a left-field challenge it will become law next spring. This goes further than just the original idea which was to ban them in places of public service. This...

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  19. Christine O'Donnell - Tea Party Witch

    According to newly released footage it appears that Tea Party Winner Christine O'Donnell has a more chequered past that some would give her credit for. Apparantly she dabbled a little in witchcraft, although never joined a coven. But she did once...

    Started by CatInASuit‎, 20 Sep 2010 08:18 AM
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  20. Lesbian martial arts expert frees under age lover in Indonesia

    The underage girl was having an affair with her tae-kwon-do teacher, although it is unlikely they can be charged with anything. Her father put her into "protective custody" in an attempt to cure her "orientation". Apparently, the teacher found...

    Started by CatInASuit‎, 28 Sep 2010 07:36 AM
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  21. A Big Benefit Shakeup in Britain

    From the reports, it looks as though Ian Duncan Smith is going to carry out one of the biggest shake-ups in British Social Welfare. He is going to scrap all the existing and separate benefits and replace it with a single Universal Credit. He is...

    Started by CatInASuit‎, 01 Oct 2010 09:27 AM
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  22. Europe is a dangerous place.

    Both the USA and now Japan have started warning their citizens of terror threats when visiting Europe. Apparently the threat level has been raised from 'general' to 'heightened'. It looks like Al-Qaida have decided to pick on Europe as an easier...

    Started by CatInASuit‎, 04 Oct 2010 09:55 AM
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  23. So Long BIOS, hello UEFI

    This caught me by surprise, although its something that has outlasted it's original purpose. They are finally looking to get rid of BIOS and replace it with something that can handle the moden computers and all that goes with it called UEFI...

    Started by CatInASuit‎, 05 Oct 2010 08:25 AM
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  24. I'm not a Witch....

    For those who haven't seen it, this is how the latest ad from Tea Party member Christine O'Donnell starts. I'll be honest, though I don't have much time for the Tea Party, I recognise a good political advert when I see it. uxJyPsmEask So,...

    Started by CatInASuit‎, 07 Oct 2010 03:53 AM
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  25. The Bonfire of the Quangos

    Today the British government will reveal their plans for the ubiquitous quangos which have grown and multiplied in the running of the country and cover everything from canals to company watchdogs to arts and media. Quangos are basically a...

    Started by CatInASuit‎, 14 Oct 2010 04:47 AM
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  26. EU wants control over Arctic

    The EU has decided that the current countries around the Arctic Circle who are supposed to steward the area and keep it a natural habitat are failing in their role as custodians. This may have something to do with the deep water oil drilling that...

    Started by CatInASuit‎, 15 Oct 2010 09:51 AM
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  27. £113million lottery win, but no ticket.

    This appears to be the fate for an unnamed pensioner in Coventry who is claiming she won the massive Euromillions rollover. She has one problem, her husband threw away the ticket. They have 180 days to turn the house upside down to find the...

    Started by CatInASuit‎, 19 Oct 2010 08:45 AM
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  28. The Tweeting Police Force

    Greater Manchester Police carried out an experiment where they would tweet out every time they had to handle a 999 call under the hashtag of #gmp24. The point was to highlight all the work they carry out in answering emergency calls. It went...

    Started by CatInASuit‎, 19 Oct 2010 07:08 AM
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  29. Big Brother Surveillance idea revived in Britain

    It appears as part of the strategic review that the Coalition government is going to revive the plans to monitor all email, phone and website traffic and store said data for up to a year, for "security purposes". Effectively allowing the police...

    Started by CatInASuit‎, 20 Oct 2010 07:36 AM
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  30. Electronic backup of your brain.

    This is the latest prediction of leading scientist Raymond Kurzweil, that within the next two decades you will be able to back and store all your thoughts and memories electronically. All your thoughts, dreams, experiences, everything that makes...

    Started by CatInASuit‎, 21 Oct 2010 08:36 AM
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  31. World's most advanced nuclear sub runs aground.

    It brings to mind the classic phrase. Designed by computers... Built by robots... Driven by morons!!! It's beached somewhere off the coast of Scotland near the Isle of Skye. :fail: More fail here.

    Started by CatInASuit‎, 22 Oct 2010 09:45 AM
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  32. The end of the Sony Walkman

    After 30 years of production, Sony is finally calling time on the Sony Walkman. A piece of music history ends today. I must have gone through so many portable cassette players of so many different brands, but its a shame it is finally over. ...

    Started by CatInASuit‎, 25 Oct 2010 09:05 AM
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  33. Google Street View - Privacy is not an option

    It looks as though Google has been guilty of several breaches of picking up a lot of personal and private data while driving around mapping streets. First off, they mapped all the wi-fi hotspots. Of course if they were open, the downloaded any...

    Started by CatInASuit‎, 29 Oct 2010 07:12 AM
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  34. Crocodile attacking Baby Elephant

    This reptile thought it had got lucky when a baby elephant wandered down to the watering hole for a drink and it got the drop on the young calf. Fortunately, the rest of the group heard it's cries for help and came thundering down. It's not...

    Started by CatInASuit‎, 28 Oct 2010 07:52 AM
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  35. Women don't like sex?

    There has been a certain amount of outcry of the claim that straight women only go to bed with men "because sex is the price they are willing to pay for a relationship". The claimer being Stephen Fry, whose view on it is that if women liked sex...

    Started by CatInASuit‎, 01 Nov 2010 09:03 AM
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  36. Quantas Airbus lose engine mid-flight

    A Quantas Airbus A380, one of the superjumbos, was forced to make an emergency landing in Singapore after the failure of one of its engines midflight. There was a large explosion and parts of the engine fell away shortly after it had taken off...

    Started by CatInASuit‎, 04 Nov 2010 08:48 AM
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  37. Large Hadron Collider creates Big Bang

    Fortunately, this was a controlled mini Big Bang, in which scientists are hoping to study the Quark-Gluon plasma soup created, instead of a large and horrific Big Bang in which the world ends. They manage to smash several Lead ions together that...

    Started by CatInASuit‎, 08 Nov 2010 08:09 AM
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  38. Another animal in the war against land mines

    and this time its a rat. It seems that great African pouched rats are being trained to detect the smell of the explosives in landmines and as they are not heavy enough to set them off, they can safely show where they are. Whether this is true...

    Started by CatInASuit‎, 09 Nov 2010 10:45 AM
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  39. California Coast Missile Launch

    Well, now we know where Dr Evil is located, it's somewhere near the California Coast. An Object was seen shooting across the sky about 35 miles west of Los Angeles leaving behind a contrail for all to see. The Pentagon and Military are...

    Started by CatInASuit‎, 10 Nov 2010 08:32 AM
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  40. A Two Minute Silence

    When 11am comes round on the 11th day of the 11th month, spare two minutes silence for those who have died in conflict.

    Started by CatInASuit‎, 11 Nov 2010 06:23 AM
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  41. Giant Space Bubbles

    Scientists have been baffled by the detection of two giant gas bubbles spreading out from the centre of the Mily Way, both 50,000 Light years across. They haven't expanded as far as our solar system yet and I wonder if they ever will. ...

    Started by CatInASuit‎, 12 Nov 2010 07:40 AM
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  42. Ireland on verge of financial bailout

    Well, it may or it may not happen, but if the financial markets push then Ireland is in a lot of trouble, Due to having the Euro as its currency and having its interest rates set in Brussels, Ireland has gone into depression with little sign of...

    Started by CatInASuit‎, 15 Nov 2010 07:52 AM
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  43. Prince William & Kate Middleton to marry

    Apparently they got engaged in October in Kenya and have been keeping it quiet since. The wedding should be some time next year, so time to bring London to a halt for the celebrations. Congrats to the happy royal couple.

    Started by CatInASuit‎, 16 Nov 2010 06:31 AM
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  44. Antimatter captured by CERN.

    No this is not a Dan Brown novel, they actually have managed to capture anti-matter in an electric field at CERN. Apparently, they managed to capture 38 particles of anti-hydrogen in an electric field for one sixth of a second. It will not be...

    Started by CatInASuit‎, 18 Nov 2010 04:36 AM
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  45. Winning the lottery and then paying the ex.

    Lottery Winner Nigel Page has been forced to pay up £2m of his £56m lottery win to his ex-wife who left him ten years ago taking thier daughter with her. When he won the lottery, he did the decent thing and offered her £1m of the prize, which is...

    Started by CatInASuit‎, 22 Nov 2010 08:17 AM
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    22 Nov 2010 01:25 PM Go to last post
  46. German man castrates daughter's lover

    A German man has pleaded guilty to the castration of his 17yr old daughters lover who was aged 57. The police were powerless to do anything about the situtation, and indeed it has nothing to do with them, so with the aid of two colleagues, he...

    Started by CatInASuit‎, 13 Dec 2010 08:27 AM
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    13 Dec 2010 06:12 PM Go to last post
  47. TIME person of the year.

    And for 2010, the TIME person of the year is Mark Zuckerberg the head of Facebook for changing the way we live our lives. Of course, Julian Assange was winning the online poll (wonder how that was being fixed...) So, who would be your person...

    Started by CatInASuit‎, 15 Dec 2010 11:07 AM
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  48. A Lunar Eclipse

    Tonight at some stage, the Moon, Earth and Sun will be in perfect alignment with the Moon in the Earth's shadow causing the moon to turn pink or possibly red. The best view will be from North America, but if the skies are clear here I may see if...

    Started by CatInASuit‎, 20 Dec 2010 10:47 AM
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  49. Don't Drink and Drive in South Africa

    A new public information film has been shown in South Africa to stop people drinking and driving over the festive season. According to them, if you drink and drive you get to go to jail and meet lots of nice men who will never let you go and are...

    Started by CatInASuit‎, 24 Dec 2010 01:29 PM
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  50. Northern Ireland short of water

    It seems that due to the extreme weather a lot of water pipes have burst in Northern Ireland leading to a lack of fresh water of any kind. This has apparently been going on for up to 8 days in some parts. They are having to set up areas for...

    Started by CatInASuit‎, 29 Dec 2010 03:06 PM
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