Barber finds Christ-like face on church wall

October 6th, 2009 LONDON - Italian scientists claim that the Shroud of Turin is a medieval fake after they reproduced the cloth that is believed to have covered Jesus' tomb. The 14 feet shroud bears the reversed image of a crucified man complete with blood seeping out of wounded writs and feet, which many believe to be Christ's image.

October 5th, 2009 LONDON - A metal detecting enthusiast has uncovered a brooch and skull in an Oxfordshire field in England, which may belong to a 6th century Saxon princess. According to a report in the Herald Series, the early sixth century skeleton was found in West Hanney, near Wantage, by Chris Bayston from Yorkshire, who picked up a signal at a weekend metal detecting rally at the farm, which is not being named to protect the site.

September 5th, 2009 LONDON - The Church of England is said to have dropped a legal action it filed against a photographer who used a sacred altar for an erotic photoshoot. The pictures of semi-naked models, which showed them cavorting around a graveyard and inside the church, had been taken at St Michael Penkivel Church in Cornwall by Andy Craddock, 43.

August 23rd, 2009 LONDON - A barber in London may make a bid for the best job in the world after allegedly getting paid a staggering 15,000 pounds for trimming the hair of the Sultan of Brunei. Ken Modestou, who owns a barber's shop at the Dorchester hotel in Mayfair, was purportedly flown by the royal on a Singapore Airlines flight and given a self-contained suite for the 7,000-mile trip to the sultanate.

August 12th, 2009 LONDON - Researchers at Imperial College London are trying to imitate the process of photosynthesis by making an 'artificial leaf' to produce clean power. Photosynthesis, the process where plants use sunlight to convert water and carbon dioxide into sugar, is the most effective solar energy conversion process on Earth.

July 23rd, 2009 Church of England offers combined wedding, baptismLONDON — The Church of England is offering couples a two-for-one service — marriage for them and baptisms for their children. The church is recognizing the changing reality of British families, it said Thursday.

July 18th, 2009 LONDON - A former MI5 agent has turned himself into a transvestite, and also proclaimed that he is Jesus Christ. David Shayler, 43, who a decade ago had been prosecuted under the Official Secrets Act for passing on classified documents, now calls himself Dolores Kane and lives in a squat on National Trust property.

July 1st, 2009 LONDON - A new documentary claims that the Turin Shroud, which is a linen bearing the image of a man, actually has the face of artist Leonardo Da Vinci etched on it and not the face of Jesus Christ. Da Vinci had long been suspected of faking the image of Christ on the fabric with pioneering photographic techniques.

June 28th, 2009 LONDON - A Church of England bishop has said that Britain is no longer a Christian nation. Right Reverend Paul Richardson warned that declining church attendance and the rise in multiculturalism meant that "Christian Britain is dead".

June 21st, 2009 LONDON - In an attempt to treat Fathers' Day in the same way as Mothering Sunday, bottles of beer will be given to fathers who attend a church in Britian. While backing the move, which is part of a Church of England initiative to put a Christian emphasis on the annual celebration of fatherhood, Rt Rev John Inge, the Bishop of Worcester, said that it's an attempt to attract more men, The Telegraph reports.

June 8th, 2009 LONDON - A new study has revealed that Jesus Christ is the dead person whom most Britons would love to meet, followed by Princess Diana. The poll of 3,000 people, conducted to launch Primeval series 3 on DVD, saw one in three persons picking the son of God.

May 29th, 2009 LONDON - A 36-year-old woman in South Wales was surprised when she saw an image resembling Jesus upon opening a jar of Marmite. Mum of three Claire Allen, of Ystrad, Rhondda, said that she was stunned to see Jesus staring back at her.

May 14th, 2009 LONDON - It's 21st century after all so why Jesus Christ should be left behind. A church in East Sussex has unveiled a new seven foot high statue of a modern day Jesus wearing jeans and a shirt.

March 12th, 2009 LONDON - Troubled singer Amy Winehouse, who has just returned from a Caribbean holiday, has revealed that she finds solace in poetry. "I like poetry.

February 2nd, 2009 LONDON - Students at a prestigious Oxford University college have rallied around a kabab seller after college authorities forced him to move, complaining of smell. Saeid Keshmiri, 62, had been supplying Christ Church students with kababs, chips and burgers from his 'Sid's Kitchen' van, strategically positioned at the college entrance, for the last 15 years.