Popular Elsewhere
14:36 UK time, Thursday, 20 October 2011
A look at the stories ranking highly on various news sites.
While lots of news site readers are clicking on stories on the escape and shooting of lions, tiger and other exotic animals in Ohio, others are reflecting on the Occupy Wall Street protests.
New York Magazine readers are finding out . The magazine went out to the protesters to quiz them about the economy, then compiled the same quiz for readers. They found the results on the street for questions like whether we are experiencing inflation or deflation at the moment were mixed.
While New York magazine makes a little fun out of protesters, the most read New Scientist article reports on new evidence to support the Occupy protests. While the protestors suspect that a small number of companies own a lot of the world's wealth, a study by complex systems theorists at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology confirms this. They compiled a database listing 37 million companies and investors worldwide. . The next question is whether, with a number that large, the group can exert concerted political power.
Time readers want to know . After all, the country has both the motive, massive inequality, and means, a strong history of protest. The theories swilling around include one which points out the majority of the population are not working in the formal economy so don't feel so affected by the financial markets.
And for something completely different, Telegraph readers are finding out an important point. A decimal point. That point was not found by the Chinese manufacturers of Tom Boddingham's slipper - he asked for size 14.5 but got size 1,450. All is not lost though - he can now sit in the shoe that got delivered, which he does do, rather satisfyingly, in the picture on the article. Right before he puts it up for sale on eBay. The story shortly disappeared from the site and reappeared in the pictures of the day with the message "".
