A Vandal Has Been Trimming Dick Sculptures Out of Bushes
A vandal has been invading the Windsor Sculpture Park in Ontario, Canada, creating dicks out of bushes. Since October, there have been three incidents of bushes being transformed into leafy penises –...
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Failed Deportations THE UK GOVERNMENT DIDN'T MANAGE TO DEPORT ISA MUAZA The plane transporting the hunger-striking asylum seeker was turned away by Nigeria Isa Muaza (via) A government-chartered jet...
View ArticleCome to Our Screening of 'Dirty Wars'
Dirty Wars, a new film from director Rick Rowley and investigative reporter Jeremy Scahill, is going to make your jaw drop. The documentary begins in Afghanistan with Scahill speaking to a man who...
View ArticleVolunteer-Run Morgues Are a Terrible Idea
Illustration by Rubber House Australia’s Northern Territory is huge, sparsely populated, poor and crawling with deadly animals. It’s not surprising, then, that it doesn’t attract many professional...
View ArticleThailand's Anti-Government Protests Turned Deadly This Weekend
After months of relatively peaceful demonstrations and a week of massive anti-government rallies, protests in Bangkok have turned violent. Though nobody in Thailand seems particularly surprised, it’s...
View ArticleJared Leto Made a Film About His Crappy Band
Our friends at Grolsch Film Works have a website where you can find out what they’ve been up to and read/watch interesting stuff about films. Every week we'll be plucking the highlights. This is that....
View ArticleBenzo Fury and NBOMe Are Going to the Legal High Graveyard
Ministers announced last week that two more legal highs are to be banned, joining mephedrone and Ivory Wave in the graveyard of illegalised internet drugs. After being subject to a temporary ban since...
View ArticleDo Normal People Give a Shit About the BBC Sound Poll?
Do Normal People Give a Shit About the BBC Sound Poll?
View ArticleCorsicans Are Using Bombs to Protect Their Island Paradise
The Corsican coastline If you've never been to Corsica, you really should. The island, which lies just off the Italian coast, is one of the most beautiful places in the world; it's covered in snowy...
View ArticleHundreds of Thousands of Protesters Are Taking Over Kiev
This weekend, the street protests that have been taking place in Kiev for weeks arrived at a dramatic crux, as peaceful public dissent escalated into full-on violence. The Ukrainian capital has played...
View ArticleThe Next Glassholes: Seven Future-People Who'll Piss Us Off
The Next Glassholes: Seven Future-People Who'll Piss Us Off
View ArticleBad Cop Blotter: America's Homeland Security Is Afraid of Mentally Ill...
(Photo via) On Thursday, the Toronto Star reported that a 50-year-old paraplegic woman may have been barred from visiting the United States due to her history of mental health issues. Apparently, last...
View ArticleThe VICE Podcast - The $500 Billion Scrap Industry
This week on the VICE Podcast, Wilbert L Cooper sits down with Adam Minter, an expert in the global economy of scrap and author of Junkyard Planet. Adam's unique perspective as an American who was...
View ArticleSyrian Refugees Are Turning to Europe – and Human Smugglers
Port of Izmir, Turkey (Photo via) "I’m not a smuggler," a man who called himself Abu Khaled said through a crackly speakerphone, "but I can take you to Europe, for a price." I sat silently next to...
View ArticleCanada’s New Medical Weed Programme Puts the Poorest Patients Last
Some tasty lemon kush (Photo via) At the moment, 40,000 Canadians are currently authorised to possess medical marijuana. Until April of 2014, these patients can purchase their supply from a licensed...
View ArticleFresh Off the Boat: Moscow - Part 2
In Fresh Off the Boat - Moscow part two, Eddie further immerses himself in Russian culture. He learns what it was like to live under Soviet rule, shares tea with Kyrgyz immigrants and begins to...
View ArticleThink Your Job Sucks? Try Working in an Amazon Warehouse
An Amazon warehouse (photo via) In November 2012, journalist Jean-Baptiste Malet got a temp job in an Amazon warehouse near the French town of Montélimar. As far as his bosses knew, Malet was there to...
View ArticleAustralian Bikers Protested Tough New Anti-Association Laws
(Photos by Ramona Telecican and Andrew Kavanagh) On Sunday morning, bikers from all around Australia descended on their respective houses of parliament to express outrage at Queensland’s...
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