Brits flocking nudist camps for full-body tans

October 8th, 2009 LONDON - A new survey conducted has shown that millions of Brits are puzzled as to why Girls Aloud member Cheryl Cole has not dumped her love-rat husband Ashley. Their one question of how Cheryl can stand the Chelsea footballer after he cheated on her with a hairdresser, has put her in fourth place in a list of life's 50 most confusing things, compiled after a nationwide poll.

September 16th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Coldplay has reportedly reached a legal settlement with guitarist Joe Satriani over a plagiarism lawsuit. The band were served with a lawsuit by Satriani, who alleged the rockers lifted his 2004 instrumental, "I Just Wanna Fly," for the basic melody of "Viva La Vida".

September 4th, 2009 LONDON - A survey has revealed that chavs, who are typically portrayed as uncultured, anti-social, baseball cap wearing youths, have topped the list of the 100 most annoying things Brits find. The survey revealed that more than 60 percent people found chavs to be "very annoying".

August 3rd, 2009 LONDON - Madonna reportedly wants to take her kids on a "life changing" trip to Auschwitz, the largest of Nazi Germany's concentration camps and extermination camps, established in Nazi German occupied Poland. The Queen of Pop allegedly hopes to visit the camp with Lourdes, 12, Rocco, 8, David Banda, 3, and Mercy, 3, after her concert in Poland in August.

July 25th, 2009 LONDON - British tourists are flocking to Austria since the release of the controversial movie Bruno. Tourism chiefs say that hotel bookings in the capital Vienna are up 120 percent since the release of the film that stars comedian Sacha Baron Cohen as a gay Austrian fashionista, reported mirror.co.uk.

July 21st, 2009 LONDON - Sales of knives are increasingly plummeting in Britain, with more and more people using their hands to eat food like pizza. Department store giant Debenhams has revealed that people have forgotten to eat with a knife and fork.

July 20th, 2009 LONDON - A new study suggests that British people, on average, spend over two years of their lives bored to tears. Scott O'Donnell of www.triviala.com, which commissioned the survey, says that the typical adult wastes almost six hours a week feeling completely and utterly bored with life, which is the equivalent of 13 days a year, or 786.5 days over the average adult lifetime of 60.5 years.

July 4th, 2009 LONDON - A jumper from the days when late King of Pop Michael Jackson used to be a part of 'Jackson 5' has fetched a whopping 36,000 pounds on eBay. Fans have been flocking the online auction site to bid for exclusive Jacko memorabilia.

July 3rd, 2009 LONDON - Tourists have been flocking to an Australian town ever since Hollywood actress Nicole Kidman has revealed that she got pregnant after swimming in a nearby waterfall. The 42-year-old star, who gave birth to daughter Sunday Rose last July, said that it was down to "fertility waters" in Kununurra, Australia.

June 28th, 2009 LONDON - Pop legend Michael Jackson's body has been given to his family by the coroner in Los Angeles but no information about the singer's funeral has been made available yet. Jackson died Thursday after suffering cardiac arrest at his home in Los Angeles and his body has been handed over to his relatives Friday night, reports novinite.com.

June 15th, 2009 LONDON - Steven Spielberg may be roped in to direct a heart-rending love story of a British prisoner of war and his former secret girlfriend. Leading Hollywood names, including that of Spielberg and Da Vinci code director Ron Howard, are being touted to bring the real-life tale of Private Horace Greasley to the big screen.

June 10th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Supermodel Heidi Klum has likened her baby bump to a Buddha. The pregnant stunner, who raises daughter Leni, five, and sons Henry, three, and two-year-old Johan with husband Seal, loves the way her body has changed, reports Contactmusic.

June 8th, 2009 LONDON - The clothes shop scene from 'Pretty Woman' featuring Julia Roberts is 'Brits' Favourite Movie Moment'. In the scene, Roberts as hooker Vivian Ward takes revenge on staff at a posh store where they had earlier refused to serve her, reports the Daily Star.eg Ryan's fake orgasm in 'When Harry Met Sally' was second in a poll by the Turner Classic Movies channel.

June 7th, 2009 LONDON - Jemima Khan, the ex-wife of cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan, has described Pakistan society as an entity of endless contradictions, and is gravely concerned about current turbulent situation in that country. Khan, who is in Pakistan with her two sons and staying with Imran at his Islamabad residence, is of the view that Pakistani society is hostile and hospitable, euphemistic and unambiguous, spiritual and prescriptive, aggressor and victim.

May 24th, 2009 LONDON - Brits are increasingly taking to a new method of loosing weight-bet dieting. This is a trend wherein people join a website, and bet on their own successes in losing certain amounts of weight over definite periods of time.