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Twee-Q: The thought provoking experiment lifting the lid on your Twitter gender bias...
Sunday 12 May 2013
Twee-q.com trawls through a users’ 100 most recent re-Tweets and measures the amount of times a user has re-posted comments from men and women
Chris Brown's neighbours complain over 'devils' painted on his wall
Sunday 12 May 2013
Brown invokes constitutional right to free speech to defend bizarre cartoons
Sam Allardyce signs new contract with West Ham
Saturday 11 May 2013
Sam Allardyce signs a two-year contract extension to remain with Hammers till 2015, co-owner David Gold has revealed
Man arrested on suspicion of sending racist tweets to footballers Adebayo Akinfenwa and Clarke Carlisle
Thursday 09 May 2013
A 25-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of sending racist tweets to two League Two footballers.
Alex Ferguson dominates Twitter as he does football, but he won’t have noticed
Wednesday 08 May 2013
Few people could dominate a sphere of public life, like social media, of which they have the most rudimentary understanding
Cleveland kidnapping: Son reveals his father padlocked doors to basement because 'we weren't allowed to go there'
Wednesday 08 May 2013
Kidnapped as young women between 2002 and 2004, Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight were widely given up for dead. Now they have emerged - one with a child, but what really happened during their years of captivity?
The Sport Matrix: Wednesday 8 May 2013
Wednesday 08 May 2013
Wasteful Wigan blow chance to move clear
Sir David Attenborough: Britons care more than any other nation about wildlife
Tuesday 07 May 2013
Britons are the most concerned nationality when it comes to wildlife, says veteran broadcaster Sir David Attenborough.
Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta's UK visit causes inevitable controversy
Monday 06 May 2013
Sky News' decision to label a story on the visit as 'Criminal president' angers Kenyans
The Weekend's Viewing: In Russell Lewis, Endeavour has a writer who knows when to stop
Monday 06 May 2013
Endeavour, Sun, ITV1 // The Genius of Marie Curie – the Woman Who Lit Up the World, Fri, BBC2
Tesco keeps chemistry set as a boys' toy despite protests
Sunday 05 May 2013
Tesco has defended its decision to label a children’s chemistry set a boys’ toy, despite criticism from gender equality campaigners.
Brazilian football champions Fluminense call for an end to fans' 'Taliban' web campaign
Sunday 05 May 2013
Club says Islamic militants are 'not healthy warriors'
Tales from the water cooler: How can you joke with a headline like that?
Friday 03 May 2013
Sometimes a story's comic spark burns out before the first line
Metal community mourns Slayer guitarist Jeff Hanneman, 49, who died three years after contracting flesh-eating disease from spider bite
Friday 03 May 2013
American thrash metal guitarist Jeff Hanneman, a member of the seminal heavy metal band Slayer, has died aged 49 from liver failure in Southern California.
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- 2 Mothers' diets may harm IQs in two-thirds of babies
- 3 Gay couple beaten in park urge MPs to moderate language on gay marriage
- 4 After woman sells virginity for $780,000, here are the results of our prostitution survey
- 5 Far-right French historian, 78-year-old Dominique Venner, commits suicide in Notre Dame in protest against gay marriage
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