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IRON MAN, the Hulk and all other Marvel comic characters ever have been outed as gay by rival publisher DC. Comics giant DC teased fans earlier this week with the revelation that a popular character or characters would be revealed as homosexual.

However fans had assumed the publisher would out some of its own characters, rather than those of its highly profitable competitor.

A DC spokesman said: "I can exclusively reveal that pretty much all the characters in the Marvel universe are gay. It is, in fact, a gay universe."

On Sunday, Northern Italy was rocked by a magnitude-6.0 earthquake. In the process, many cheese factories in the region suffered damage-and it is estimated that over 300,000 wheels of cheese, thought to be worth at least £202 million, have been destroyed.

The region, just north of the city of Bologna, is most famous for its Parmesan and Grana Padano. As the earthquake struck, wheels of the cheeses-which can weigh up to 90 pounds-came toppling from their storage shelves.

There's no word on what will happen to the cheese, but you can bet some of the factory's employees are rolling them home as we speak. There will be some pretty stinky pasta doing the rounds this week, that's for sure.