British father, 53, becomes first man in the world to have his prostate removed in bid to beat Angelina Jolie cancer flaw

Mother of Oxford sex gang pair blames their victims: She says schoolgirls ‘should have been playing with toys’

Bieber’s monkey: Abandoned animal is German state property after singer fails to claim it back

Pope Francis admits he falls asleep during nighttime prayer but thinks God ‘understands’

No News special: Lancaster University students get on a bus

WHAT news from Lancaster University? AlexSiddle tweets:

BONG! “Residents help Lancaster University research roadside particulate pollution”

BONG! “Billion-year-old water could hold clues to life on Earth and Mars”

BONG! “First, carbon footprints… now you can calculate your ‘nitrogen footprint’”

And:

BONG! “Staff and students get on the bus”

Imran Khan condemns killing of senior member of his reforming party after she was gunned down outside her home

The Orthodox Church of Moldova wants gays to expect ‘severe consequences’

GAY Rights are hard won in Moldova. The Orthodox Church of Moldova have issued a statement about a Gay Pride at the  “Rainbow Over the Dniester” festival:

His Eminence Metropolitan Vladimir addressed a message to General Mayor of Chisinau, Mr. Dorin Chirtoaca, pleading that the authorities do not allow the organization of a gay pride planned for the 19th of May.

It is mentioned in the message: “The Metropolis of Chisinau and All Moldova continues to believe that this is a defying initiative, conflicting with moral values and decency. At the same time, a potential march of sexual minorities on the streets of Chisinau will be nothing else but a strong provocation with severe consequences, taking into account general repulsion of the population towards the deviant behavior of homosexuals and lesbians…”

Nice, eh. Blame the people seeking freedom and  the right to be themselves for violence against them.

Photo: Moldovan nationalists knock on the door of the gay and lesbian headquarters in Chisinau, Moldova Sunday May 11, 2008. Organizers for the gay and lesbian group said they were forced to call off the Gay Pride march on Sunday because they felt police could not guarantee their safety.

Faces of the day: 67th annual Eastern Athletic Association for the Blind Track and Field tournament

FACES of the day:  sports bring joy and laughter. It’s not all about winning and money.

Kelsey Lora, from the New York Institute for Special Education, celebrates after winning the 50-yard dash during the 67th annual Eastern Athletic Association for the Blind Track and Field tournament at Perkins School for the Blind in Watertown, Mass., Saturday, May 18, 2013. 

Haley Valente, a student at the Governor Moorehead School for the Blind in Raleigh, N.C., holds a guide wire as she competes in the 50-yard dash 

Britani Witten, from Overbrook School for the Blind, competes in the 50-yard dash.

The elite are manipulating petrol prices

AFTER the inquiry into the crud oil prices is announced we’ve got the AA leaping in and insisting that there’s another group conspiring and manipulating to make the petrol made from crude more expensive.

Few of the traders’ names – including Glencore, Cargill, Gunvor and Trafigura – are known to consumers outside the oil industry, but their effect on Britain’s 33million motorists and the wider economy is profound.

They buy huge quantities of petroleum on the open market and store it until the price goes high enough to make them a handsome profit, at which point they sell.

The best reactions to Arsenal’s traditional final day triumph over Spurs

FOOTBALL fans can be witty. Reactions to Arsenal’s traditional final day of the Premier League season’s undoing of Tottenham Hotspur have been swift. Spurs boss AVB’s “negative spiral” has been trending on twitter. Other images are proving to be popular:

So Close

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