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Weird news in pictures and a digest of the best weird news stories in the week leading up to 6 April 2012. Some greate strange stories from a bio-luminscent beech which glows in the dark because of a strange but beautiful natural phenomena to case of the curious dolphins

Lifestyle »

A new webite launched this week which aims to take on YouTube for funny video sharing. The new site, called You Joker TV, has many of the features of big video sharing sites such as YouTube, from making friends to rating and commenting on videos, but features only funny videos and has a big emphasis on stand up comedy.

Visitors to You Joker TV can watch stand up sets and full shows from famous

USA »

Read a transcript of President Obama's full 'State Of The Union' address by following the link to world news dot com where it is reproduced in full.

UK »

What question will be on the referendum about Scottish Indepence which Alex Salmond and his SNP / Scottish National Party have promised to the people of Scotland?

This is an important question because the presice wording of such things can influence the end result, and it is something people have been speculating about and eagerly anticipating an answer to for some time now. And in a Speech t

Business »

Google have a new privacy policy - and it has led many analysts, technology writers and bloggers to say that google are going back on their much lauded mission statement 'don't be evil' and taking us all that little bit closer to an Orwellian 'big brother'. If you go to their homepage today you will see a little note and a link telling people about this change.

Basically what is happening is t

UK »

This is very much a story of two halfs, and I think to be unbiased you have to take both into account. One one side there is the fact that UK government borrowing is falling, and falling more than expected with a £2.2 billion drop in December compared to a year earlier. The other side of the same story, however, is that total debt is still rising and has now gone over a massive $1 trillion, whic

USA »

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Obama's first campaign ad for the 2012 presidential election in the US is packed full of misleading claims. Don't let the politicians pull the wool over your eyes, take a look at this article on fact check - an unbiased website which analyses the claims made by politicians of every flavour to uncover the lies, half-truths and misleading statements.

Middle East »

If there is going to be an upturn in violence from the large numbers of people who are still very disatisfied with the military government it is likely to happen when the country celebrates the anniversary of the protests which toppled Mubarak. The generals seem to have realized this and tried to appease people with gestures such as this.