QPR playmaker Adel Taarabt is considering changing his name - because he's getting fed up with people mispronouncing it.
"Everyone gets it wrong, it's pronounced 'Ter-rat' - but hardly anyone says it properly," he said after finishing training tod...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fl.--Plain and train spotters now have a new cousin: falling dead satellite spotters.
A dead UARS (Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite), which weighs 6.5 tons and is about the size of a school bus, is expected to enter Earth's atmo...
Laboratory tests carried out over the weekend have confirmed initial suspicions that custard served with apple crumble to MP's for dessert in the restaurant of Parliament last Friday was the source of contamination when an as yet unidentified person...
Washington DC - The Bush Administration will go down in history as the "Prankster Presidency," according to revelations made in a classified chapter of former Vice President Dick Cheney's recently published memoirs.
The top-secret material, which...
After another controversial weekend on the Twitter front, Joey Barton's agent has claimed his player is not overly obsessed by Twitter, in fact it actually helps him stay away from more trouble.
"Joey's a good lad, so what if he likes to 'Tweet' n...
HOLLYWOOD - Jane Lynch, the star of Glee, won the unofficial award for being the tallest celebrity to ever host The Primetime Emmy Award Show.
Lynch who is listed in The American Amalgamated Almanac of Heights stands six-foot-six-inches tall in st...
HOLLYWOOD - Charlie Sheen proved to himself and to everyone else that he still knows how to wear a suit and tie. He actually asked to be a presenter at The 63rd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards Show which was held at The Nokia Theater.
He said that he...
Wrapping up their annual summer coupon promotion for industrial strength feminine hygiene products, unbreakable mirrors and quart sized lip hair remover, Waltmart stores in the Southern US capped off the week long event by announcing this year's top...
Essex - Mind control experts today blamed warped subliminal messages broadcast by pylons for 'daft' UN eviction advice to Dale Farm pikeys.
The high voltage electricity transmitters are said to be 'notorious' for their mind-bending effects, consid...
The Premier league game between Man Utd and Chelsea was absolutely flabbergasting as both teams put on an astonishing performance in how to miss 100% chances.
TV fans and fans lucky enough to have witnessed this crazy game live saw both sets of p...
MALIBU BEACH - The star of the Twilight series movies Rob Pattinson was sitting on the beach in front of his Vampire Villa Beach House when he was spotted by an entertainment media reporter.
RPattz has always been noted for being very cordial to t...
TV historian David Starkey was put out of his misery earlier today when controversial colleague Ken Lucid accepted a new job at Hounslow University.
The academic community has been waiting with bated breath since earlier this summer when the autho...
Proposed new European Union regulations could see an increased police presence in some of the great tourist centres.
The new law enforcement officials will be tasked with monitoring the footwear of visitors and residents alike and issuing on-the-s...
English tourists are being advised by a travel expert to adopt bizarre accents if they want to be understood by waiters and sales staff abroad.
EIF News & Features' Travel Editor Peregrine Trip reckons the traditional method of making yourself...
Barnsley: Internationally renowned philosopher Archibald Cudworth is to publish his latest work Treatise On Yorkshire Self-Centrism As Lately Witnessed In God's Own County. "Aye, it's a reet long read," said the great thinker. "But in t'nutshell it boils dahn to 'see all, 'ear all, say nowt; eat all, sup all, pay nowt; an' if tha can get owt fer nowt, get it for thisen."
Bradford: Local boffin...
The popular science fiction series 'Torchwood' is to have Members of Parliament starring in some lead role in the next series.
The series editor explained: "With the politicians who were caught, and those who were not, fiddling expenses, only allowing themselves a 30% increase in expense allowances in an effort to rid themselves of the habit, we thought it a good idea to offer the little mites...
This months winner of the Littlend Gazette Political Ode competition, was the only entry received.
Sent in by Ms Barb Dwyer, of Hampton Virginia.
POLITICIANS
Most of them display a great persistency in loquacity,
The fiddle their expenses, as if it was a necessity,
They regularly lie with open uncaring audacity,
Their hatred for the proletariat shows great capacity,
Together the...
NFL Week 2 Highlights
Packers 30, Panthers 23: Cam Newton passes for 432 yards against the Pack, which experts feel may distract most of the country from his three interceptions.
New England 35, San Diego 21: Vice Wilfork earns his first career interception, demonstrating in 15 seconds more athleticism and awareness than Tony Romo has in his entire life.
Buffalo 38, Oakland 35: Buffa...
Austin, TX - As The Spoof's foremost music reviewer, I am given countless CDs, have to interview thousands of potential, has been and a few really awesome bands, and sometimes I get free tickets to festivals, such as The Austin City Limits Music Festival where I was supposed to have a sit down interview with Chris Martin from Coldplay. However, I gave festival tickets to a highway patrolman so th...
AUSTIN, Tex.--Governor and Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry is proud of Texas, often bragging that it's an economic powerhouse.
Certainly, the numbers don't lie. Perry's Texas ranks 2nd in the nation in GDP and as a state, the Lone Sta...