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Tehran XXX

The hottest homemade sex video in the world right now comes from the unlikely source of Iran. Move over Paris Hilton, step forward Zahra Ebrahimi. Star of the Islamic Republic's biggest soap opera, Zahra always appeared a pious girl, never seen without a headscarf and full-length frock. So you can imagine what a surprise it was to see the 25-year-old whip off the burqa and get buckwild. Grainy footage allegedly featuring Ebrahimi going at it with her ex-fiance is selling out in Tehran's blackmarket bazaars and has been downloaded 1 million times in the past week. Iran's strict Mullah lawmakers don't dig amateur porn and are itching to stone someone, or at least lash some whip...

Smoking Ban

Good news people with lungs: Smoking will be banned in all pubs, clubs, and offices in England, it was announced yesterday. From July 1 2007, all enclosed public places and workplaces will be smoke-free. All cigarette puffing will have to be done outside. The result of this will be an estimated 600,000 people giving up, the government predicts. 

Despite all the campaigns over the years, people have continued to smoke. These commercials are shocking at the time but don't seem to make that big a difference. So why do people still continue to smoke? Because smoking is way cool, douchebags.

London - The Poverty Issue

One in seven Brits are scroungers who sit on the sofa in their underpants all day watching crap telly and eating Pot Noodles. New research has found that 15 per cent of the UK adult population live entirely on welfare. But it's not their fault, according to the report's authors. The myriad benefits currently on offer means that people can fiddle more dough on the dole than in full-time employment. So really, says the thinktank, it's the government's fault for giving them 'hand-outs' rather than 'hand-ups'. Um, okaaaay... Well anyways, check out The Poverty Issue for some tips and techniques for surviving in 3rd World Britain, including:

Feature: How to make it as a single mum of five

London – Babble capital

Gone are the days when boozed-up Britain piled out of the pub at last orders and started scrapping with each other. These days they're queuing outside loos, killing their beer buzz on bad blow, and earnestly jabbering bollocks until they collapse into a twitching puddle of self-loathing. It's been one year since 24-hour drinking was introduced to the UK and police are saying incidences of alcohol-fuelled violence have dropped. But new statistics show that cocaine consumption has exploded and London has become the coke capital of Europe...

Melbourne – G–20 Protests

A bunch of wealthy bankers and finance ministers from all around the world gathered in Melbs over the weekend to discuss issues like international economic developments, climate change, population and luxury goods shopping and it sparked some of the most ridiculously violent and hilarious (watch this video to the end – trust us)  protests we have seen in years. Before the weekend, the official anti-G-20 summit website shared their “Visions for Creative Dissent” and gave protesters tips on how to breathe properly and how to use peripheral vision during a protest. We’re guessing people either didn’t read it or just figured ‘fuck it’ as soon as the action started...

Netherlands - Burka Ban

The Dutch government have accepted a new law that forbids burkas. The main argument is that it's illegal to walk around in the Netherlands without showing your face - balaclavas are also forbidden. Anyway, hardline integration minister Rita Verdonk, the one who came up with the integration test, proposed the idea. She's been rather ticked off by Muslims since one of them refused to shake her hand and now she's on a crusade. Strangely enough, this news is bigger outside the Netherlands. Muslims around the world are pissed off...

London - Young, witless and white

Poor white boys have knocked poor black boys off the bottom of school performance tables and are now the dumbest kids in the country, according to a new government report. The intellectual deprivation of working class whites has previously been hidden because their results were boosted by the performance of more well-to-do whites. Only 17 per cent of white boys entitled to free school meals (the standard measure of poverty) managed to gain good GCSE grades. This contrasts with 19 per cent of black boys, 40 per cent of Indian boys, and 70 per cent of Chinese boys...

Gratuitous footage of police brutality

The recent YouTube footage of what appears to be "police brutality" committed by an officer of the Los Angeles Police Department is now being investigated by he F.B.I. They want to find out whether or not the officer in question was right to punch the detained suspect in the face while he was wheezing: "I caaan't breathe. I caan't breathe". We all know the L.A.P.D has a bit of a reputation for this kind of thing. But what about the rest of the world?

 

London - Shy Shitters

We're trying to get away from toilet humour but it keeps following us around like a bad smell. Hot on the heels of our investigation into parasomniac pissing, the plight of people suffering toilet phobia has us on the edge of our seats. At least four million Britons suffer from parcopresis, also known as bashful bowel syndrome, according to a new report by The National Phobics Society. It ranges from being a bit squeamish about public loos to being shit-your-pants scared (literally) of taking a dump outside your own bog, thus rendering them unable to ever leave home...

Che Lives!

He's a hippy pinko fag. He really is. And he's saying it loud and proud. With his black beret and bright red lipstick, Gay Che (real name Victor Hugo) is a militant gay rights activist/communist who has become a fixture at political demonstrations in Chile.

He spends a lot of time expressing his homosexual socialism through kooky dancing, cross-dressing, streaking and throwing water balloons. Even the Chilean gay community is embarrassed of him.

We asked Victor if he ever wanks about Che...