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February 2014
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- February 28th
- Katy Perry's 'Dark Horse' video re-edited after accusations of blasphemy
- Union density across the world, in one eye-popping chart
- Garry Kasparov really wants Western countries to intervene in the Ukraine
- Even Ohio's biggest newspaper thinks the Cleveland Indians' logo is racist
- A smart Netflix employee invents wristband that pauses your shows when you fall asleep
- The big Clinton document dump is here
- The 'B Strong' logo is trademarked — and it might land the Red Sox in court
- This 'dead' guy woke up in a body bag
- Republican Medicaid hypocrisy, in one wheelchair-bound legislator
- World Bank suspends $90 million loan to Uganda due to anti-gay laws
- Flavor Flav has a dad-rock cover band
- GDP revised downward
- Wes Anderson looks as twee as ever on the cover of WSJ magazine
- GOP donors really, really like Jeb Bush
- Only in America: Throw a snowball, get arrested
- Dolphin at SeaWorld bites 9-year-old, prompts outcry from PETA
- The Idea Factory: The music-playing e-cigarette
- Mask-wearing LeBron James basically looks like a real-life superhero
- Are banks rigging the price of gold?
- Watch Obama and Biden jog around the West Wing to a disco beat
- Look how pretty the Northern Lights made the U.K's sky last night
- Mt. Gox files for bankruptcy protection, blames hackers for company's collapse
- Russian anti-Putin star Alexei Navalny arrested, silenced
- Watch The Daily Show shame states that rejected Medicaid expansion
- Boiler room gangs targeted in 'landmark' police crackdown
- Watch The Daily Show offer unhelpful advice to Bitcoin
- CLIC Sargent
- Arsenal lose Halilovic to Barca, will Spurs nab Diego Costa?
- Russian troops have reportedly seized two airports in Crimea, Ukraine
- Watch Seth Meyers and Lena Dunham discuss girls
- Watch Bill O'Reilly try to find the downside to a President Hillary Clinton
- Obama's budget deficit is almost back to Bush levels
- Meet the Rambo of Venezuela
- February 27th
- Clinton library to release thousands of documents
- Michelle Obama will visit Pawnee to guest on Parks and Recreation
- The bigger the housing bubble grew, the more the Fed laughed
- Calvin and Hobbes cartoonist reveals his first drawing after an 18-year hiatus
- This Triple-A club's Ghostbusters-themed uniforms have everything but the proton pack
- Finally, John Boehner calls himself 'Boner'
- Prosecutors in Oscar Pistorius' trial want Apple to unlock his phone
- Only in America: The medical consequences of selfies
- Chipotle adds tofu to its menus nationwide
- Clay Aiken officially enters N.C. congressional race, vows to fix Washington D.C.'s problems
- J.K. Rowling's crime novel is about to get some company
- Prevent climate change — with the fresh scent of pine?
- No one is banning your bottomless boozy brunches after all
- Alex Trebek defends controversial Jeopardy! champ Arthur Chu
- Google Street View presents: Polar bears in action
- Happy Birthday, Tea Party
- Warren Buffett is on track for record 2013 profits
- Yes, unsolicited touching is still illegal
- Boeing to sell hack-proof self-destructing smartphone
- The U.S. spends more on its military than the next 10 countries combined
- Guardian: Big Brother is watching you (via your webcam)
- Sorry, Imagine Dragons: The most-played song on Spotify is now Avicii's 'Wake Me Up'
- Brazil World Cup: hackers target official websites
- Watch a hot jazz cover of Wham's 'Careless Whisper'
- Nike and Adidas launch knitted football boots for World Cup
- Watch Josh Reddick do his best Spider-Man impression to rob Michael Morse of two home runs
- FDA plans huge changes to nutrition labels to better reflect our eating habits
- Boeing is trying to make a self-destucting Android spy phone
- Gunmen seize government buildings in Ukraine's Crimea, raise Russian flag
- The Chinese financial crisis of 2014?
- Nasa Kepler telescope discovers 715 new planets
- RBS pays £576m in bonuses despite suffering £8.2bn loss
- Watch The Daily Show mock Dick Cheney's gripes about U.S. military cuts
- Watch The Daily Show slam Arizona for its (already vetoed) anti-gay bill
- Arsenal and Spurs could fight it out for Balotelli and Lloris
- IPA fans, beware: Hops supply isn't meeting craft-brewer demand
- Watch Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer explain her 'religious freedom' bill veto
- February 26th
- Tesla's Gigafactory paves the road to the renewable energy future
- Watch David Byrne drop an amazing Biz Markie cover
- Sorry, Republicans: A majority of Americans don't want to repeal ObamaCare
- This is what the drought of the century looks like
- NBA fans can't stop buying the jersey of the league's first openly gay player
- Shirtless Justin Bieber graces the cover of Rolling Stone
- Judge strikes down Texas' gay-marriage ban
- Here's what Lil Jon thinks about the crisis in Ukraine
- Budding portrait artist George W. Bush gets his own exhibit
- Stifle your applause: Lady Gaga banned from playing on the Doritos Stage at SXSW
- Angels sign Mike Trout, world's best baseball player, for the price of 1/240th of a Robinson Cano
- No, the stock market is not at all-time highs
- Watch Beyonce's steamy, borderline NSFW 'Partition' video
- E.U. moves to strengthen its anti-smoking rules, adds graphic warnings on cartons
- New research shows elephants are even smarter than we thought
- John Boehner is still losing the D.C. popularity contest
- WiFi virus: airborne malware 'spreads like the common cold'
- Michael Sam's perfect response to the proposed anti-gay NFL ban
- ObamaCare enrollment surges to 4 million, and counting
- Ukraine's Yanukovych had planned to 'cleanse' Kiev of protesters
- Alec Baldwin is leaving the public eye by starring on Law and Order: SVU
- WSJ: 1 in 3 Americans don't save any money
- Apple, American Airlines slam Arizona's proposed anti-gay bill
- Democrats really want Hillary Clinton to run in 2016
- Beijing air pollution like a 'nuclear winter', scientists say
- Mystery of pre-historic whale graveyard solved by toxic algae
- Arsenal agree Morata deal, but Man U wreck Draxler move
- Maine loves R.E.M., Alabama loves The Civil Wars
- Watch Jimmy Fallon try to beat Paul Rudd at lip-syncing
- February 25th
- Tim Lincecum stole your uncle's awkward mustache
- America's preschoolers aren't as pudgy as they used to be
- Finally: Oral-B invents an internet-connected toothbrush to scold you
- Study: Playing Tetris could reduce your cravings
- Consumer Reports: You should buy a $70,000 Tesla
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- Bitcoin plummets as Mt Gox exchange suspends trading
- Time already running out for Ole Gunnar Solskjaer at Cardiff
- Six injured as wild leopard sparks panic in Indian city
- Female prisoners 'given vodka and fags for sex acts on guards'
- Prince Charles and Queen 'given £200,000 in benefits'
- Mesut Ozil quizzed by police after 'car hits photographer'
- Arsenal after the 'new Aguero' but could lose Podolski
- February 24th
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- February 21st
- February 20th
- Mugabe plans 90th birthday party as millions starve
- Egypt: journalists in court on 'absurd' terrorism charges
- Brits 2014: Bowie becomes oldest ever winner
- Pakistan urged to free British grandfather on death row
- Venezuela burns after arrest of opposition leader Lopez
- British Gas profits dip despite increased bills for customers
- Real Madrid plot £50m swoop for Arsenal and Man Utd target
- February 19th
- Only in America: Confusing cocaine and powdered lime
- Hacking trial: Kate Middleton's phone was 'hacked 155 times'
- Scotland can issue 'Braveheart bonds' but they will cost more
- Twitter 'lie-detector' will combat false internet rumours
- London Fashion Week 2014 - in pictures
- Egypt: Islamist terror group gives tourists two days to leave
- Arsenal face Man Utd Mangala fight, Liverpool go after Sagna
- February 18th
- UK inflation drops below Bank of England target
- Whole-life prison tariffs upheld for most brutal murderers
- 'Shot from the heavens' keeps GB curling medal hopes alive
- Alps murder: mountain man cleared of killing al-Hillis
- Nike to release Marty McFly self-lacing trainers this year
- Renzi set to be Italy's youngest ever PM
- Arsenal line up Loic Remy as Bayern Munich target Draxler
- February 17th
- February 16th
- February 15th
- February 14th
- The Idea Factory: A handheld muscle analyzer
- Best properties: houses off the beaten track
- Homosexuality is influenced by genes, new study shows
- How London banks find ways round Europe's bonus laws
- Lazio deny claims that teenage star Minala is actually 41
- Friends of the Children of Orissa
- Cliff Richard googled Morrissey after agreeing to be support act
- Arsenal reveal £120m 'transfer kitty', is Van Persie top target?
- Star Wars: Carrie Fisher claims she had affair with Harrison Ford
- February 13th
- February 12th
- Only in America: When explicit rap lyrics become middle school homework
- Second coming for Viagra? Pill for women 'a step closer'
- Liberty: Plebgate officer's libel suit sets 'dangerous precedent'
- Russian gay attacks 'no worse than UK abuse of gingers'
- Pietersen's IPL deal worth more than England contract
- Morrissey's debut novel List of the Lost: best of the worst reviews
- Syria: scramble to evacuate Homs as ceasefire is extended
- Infographic: how often has the Thames Barrier been used?
- Arsenal chase 'new Ozil' Arnold and Tenerife star Perez
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