Popular Elsewhere
15:45 UK time, Wednesday, 22 June 2011
A look at the stories ranking highly on various news sites.
The Daily Mail's most popular story reveals the . It says "In the letter, just unveiled in Wimbledon's museum, she writes quite instead of quiet and confuses 'till with 'til." The paper goes on to point out that Princess Catherine went to school at Marlborough College where it costs £29,000 a year to board. The handwritten letter was addressed to the All England Club thanking them for their hospitality during the Wimbledon tennis Championships 2008.
, according to a well hit Guardian story. It says Dr Oetker's thin crust pizzas are made in an industrial estate in Leyland which accounts for just over 20% of Italy's shop-bought pizza market and reflects a rising demand for convenience food. The paper reviews the pizzas as "inoffensive in the extreme" and needing olive oil and black pepper "to gain anything resembling a flavour". But it commends the low price and lack of topping slippage.
A popular Telegraph story warns of . It quotes Slovenian research which found fungi harmful to the lungs growing on the rubber band around the doors of dishwashers. The paper says the warm, moist environment along with alkaline water are a perfect environment for fungi to form.
in a popular Slate article. "Scan the world's hot spots and disaster areas, and you'll invariably find NGOs and advocacy groups living high off the hog from donor money and hyping their causes with artfully presented information designed to prompt people to reach for their checkbooks". The disdain is directed towards NGO workers who drive 4x4s paid for by their companies, their partying and their salaries. It says environmental organisations are often the best paying. They are also more prominent, it says, because government ministries dealing with environmental issues are typically underbudgeted meaning outside organisations take over the main services.
The is coming to an end reports al-Jazeera's most popular story. The article examines how the judgement will test the Dutch definition of hate speech and set new boundaries to freedom of expression. The article warns "Many people in the Netherlands already feel that there should be a limit to what one is allowed to say; however, when that limit is drawn, they would not want it applied to them."
