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Police seek three men after rape of 12-year-old girl in Walthamstow
Wednesday 31 July 2013
A manhunt has been launched after a 12-year-old girl was raped by two men.
Body politic: After Movember, here comes Armpits4August
Thursday 18 July 2013
New campaign aims to raise awareness of Polycystic Ovary Syndrome by encouraging women to grow their armpit hair for the month of August
David Suchet: Agatha Christie's family warned me not to make Poirot a joke
Tuesday 04 June 2013
Poirot star David Suchet has revealed that Agatha Christie's family warned him not to play the Belgian detective as a joke when he was first approached about the role.
Facial hair: Cat beards and the purrrsuit of excellence
Thursday 23 May 2013
Designer stubble’s dead. Save your ’tache for Movember. If you want to get on board with the latest facial-hair fashion, you don’t need to spend hours on grooming. In fact, you don’t even have to be a man. All you need is a cat.
Theatre review: The Hothouse, Trafalgar Studios, London
Friday 10 May 2013
Simon Russell Beale has transformed himself into a manic version of Ronnie Barker in this merciless, very funny revival of Harold Pinter’s second major stage play, one he wrote and discarded between The Birthday Party and The Caretaker, before directing it himself in 1980.
Top ten essential stationery for students
Friday 15 February 2013
Whether you're a pen and paper person or a digital demon, we've compiled 10 of the best stationery essentials and accessories to make sure that you can be the envy of the library and study in style
Marvin Miller: Sports executive who pioneered the concept of free agency
Saturday 01 December 2012
Marvin Miller was the founding executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association who led a revolution in sports by expanding the concept of free agency, which made many leading athletes multi-millionaires. "I loved baseball, and I loved a good fight, and, in my mind, ballplayers were among the most exploited workers in America" he wrote in his memoir, A Whole Different Ball Game.
The winners of the iQuiz first round
Wednesday 28 November 2012
It was a blistering night of vital trivia in 18 student unions across Britain yesterday, as more than a hundred teams took part in the inaugural iQuiz.
Why should I be allowed to marry? I chose to be gay
Thursday 22 November 2012
Our writer says that there's something to good-old English bigotry after all: being gay is a way of choosing strife instead of choosing life - and he should know
IoS radio review: Enquirer, Radio 4, Friday
Free Thinking Festival, Radio 3, Tuesday
Sunday 18 November 2012
The press condemned by its own mouth
Movember: The 10 Best Moustaches in History
Sunday 04 November 2012
Want to grow a moustache and raise funds for prostate and testicular cancer, but in need of some inspiration? Flavourwire has come to the rescue with this photo gallery of the greatest moustaches of all time to mark the start of "Movember".
US Election Diary: Pill-popping to overcome election fatigue
Thursday 01 November 2012
The Tampa rally over yesterday, reporters travelling with Governor Romney were herded on to the candidate's plane. But if they were frazzled by more than a year on the trail, there was help from top Romney aide Stuart Stephens, who handed out packets of pills. "David Cameron asked me to give you this," he said, spotting the man from The Independent. The six little capsules were nothing more than vitamins, he assured me. Duly ingested.
What To Do, See & Buy: Sous Chef; Cult Shoes: Classic and Contemporary Designs; Vintage Seekers; Original BTC
Saturday 20 October 2012
Create a stir
The 10 Best corkscrews
Friday 12 October 2012
Don’t hide it at the back of a drawer. Once a simple thing, the waiter’s friend is now a hi-tech piece of kitchen kit...
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- 2 Channel 4 to 'provoke' viewers who associate Islam with terrorism with live call to prayer during Ramadan
- 3 US army doctor returns arm to Vietnamese soldier fifty years after he took it as a souvenir
- 4 Police seize possessions of rough sleepers in crackdown on homelessness
- 5 Demand for food banks has nothing to do with benefits squeeze, says Work minister Lord Freud
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