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The first British warship to visit Cuba since before the 1959 revolution sailed into Havana Bay yesterday, to the strains of “God Save the Queen.” played by a Cuban Navy band. In the first formal visit since 1957 when the frigate HMS Bigbury Bay was in Havana, HMS Manchester is […]

From the Telegraph today we hear: A superinjunction preventing the naming of Take That star Howard Donald with regards to a former relationship he had with a female musician was lifted today by the Appeal Court.The judgment represents the blow to public figures who obtain so-called “gagging orders”, although under […]

The world really has gone mad. New rules have been introduced in the US to make full-body scanning compulsory – with an opt out to get a full groping instead. Okay, this picture is three years old but in light of the extra rules on searching travellers it’s worth another […]

It seems that shipbuilders BaE (Big and Expensive) are well on their way to having the world’s largest navy…of ships they finish building just before the owners decide they don’t want them any longer through project overruns, shoddy management and spiralling costs. Famously just avoiding ending up with a spare […]

Please say this is a spoof? April Fool? [checks date] No [checks pulse] Damn. It’s real.

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From Imperial War Museum data.

Peter Skaarup, foreign policy spokesman of the Danish People’s party, certainly thinks so. If you can’t bear bare breasts, he says, then Denmark might not be the place for you. According to Skaarup, a documentary film about Denmark, which forms part of the immigration test for foreigners, lacks breasts. He […]

If anyone needed any demonstration of kind of freedom that the BBC’s “brave Palestinian fighters” are fighting Israel for, here it is…to have a Taliban lifestyle imposed on themselves. Using screen shots of a customer’s Facebook profile, owners of a West Bank internet cafe helped Palestinian intelligence forces capture a man […]