Popular Elsewhere
16:12 UK time, Thursday, 2 June 2011
A look at the stories ranking highly on various news sites.
"" says Julie Burchill in a popular Independent article. Burchill explains that Allen had called her an "ignorant and bitter old troll" after Burchill compared Allen unfavourably to Cheryl Cole. Allen goes on to call Burchill self loathing, which Burchill says is an achievement "akin to being called fat by Dawn French (which I have been)". Burchill goes on to repeat her distaste at Lily Allen criticising people who went to state school while dressing "street" but then reiterates that Allen shouldn't listen to her.
to boost his sex drive according to a popular Telegraph article. The article quotes an interview in Esquire magazine where Williams revealed he injects himself twice a week after a doctor told him he had the "testosterone of a 100-year-old". The article warns that men who have the injections "could notice breast growth and experience mood changes".
A popular Slate article says "". It is reporting a study which compares two towns close to each other. The black death was blamed on Jews poisoning wells but while in Wurzburg this led to a massacre in nearby Aachen it didn't. "Fast forward 600 years" the article continues and in the election in 1928 "the Nazi Party, running on an emphatically anti-Semitic platform, received 6.3% of the vote in Würzburg, close to double the Nazi vote share in the rest of the district. In Aachen, about 1% of the vote went to the Nazis". The article says this could go some way to prove that hatred can pass through generations.
A popular Radio Netherlands article reports a Dutch evangelist . "The boat is 130 metres long, 30 metres wide and 23 metres high. The same as the measurements given in the Old Testament" it reports. It reassures readers that the creator Johan Huibers is not expecting a flood but instead wants to bring bible stories alive. He has also replaced real animals with life-size models. Mr Huibers plans to sail across the North Sea to London "in time for the Olympic Games".
Al-Jazeera's most popular story follows . The filmmakers found that people who donated their hair felt that "whatever may happen to it afterwards is none of their concern". However, it is turned into a precious economic resource as Indian villagers' hair is deemed the best in the world for its length and quality thanks to the lack of chemical treatments on it.
