Popular Elsewhere
A look at the stories ranking highly on various news sites.
The Sun analyses the , which saw 27-year-old painter Matt Cardle win. The run of results over the course of the series showed that Matt won 11 out of the 12 public votes.
Mark Lawson says in the Guardian that the audience remained defiant against the Simon Cowell's hints to vote for boy band One Direction to win. He also predicts that this years' will be the after Simon Cowell toasted the public "for all their years of supporting the show" during the final on Sunday.
The Daily Mail says art detectives may have found the . Thanks to high-magnification techniques, hidden in the dark paint of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa's pupils are tiny letters and numbers have been revealed.
CNN reports that the . The 20 French children walked out of school unharmed and the perpetrator was arrested.
The New York Times reports on a in who meet up every third Wednesday of the month to oversee trading in derivatives. The paper says the details of their meetings, even their identities, have been strictly confidential but they are powerful, attempting to keep other banks out of their group.
In Slate Paige Ferrari describes her journey of becoming a waitress in . She says the American chain restaurant's model of "burgers, beer, and boobs" doesn't appear to translate to the land of covered shoulders and small portions. But a close equivalent already exists in Tokyo's comic district where young women stand on the street dressed as French maids, entreating customers into cafes.
