Popular Elsewhere
A look at the stories ranking highly on various news sites.
if they depended solely on their salaries, according to one of the Telegraph's most popular stories. The article quotes banking group Santander as saying Prince William's RAF salary of £37,170 means the couple could only obtain a mortgage of £142,000. It found a selection of properties valued at this amount across the country, many of which it described as 'less than regal'. Properties valued at this amount include a two-bedroom bungalow in Windsor which is a rebuilt mobile home, measuring just 50sq ft (4.6sq m).
Time magazine's most popular article is about a . In the video National Public Radio's (NPR) Ron Schiller and a colleague met with two members of a fictional Muslim group dangling a $5m (£3.1m) donation.
"Prodded by the 'donors,' Schiller said liberals 'might be more educated' than conservatives, described Republicans as "anti-intellectual" and said the GOP [Grand Old Party] had been 'hijacked' by the 'racist'.
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"Or did he? After the tape became national news, and after NPR hastily sacrificed its CEO to appease critics, a video editor at the Blaze - a website founded by Fox News host Glenn Beck - compared the edited sting video and the two-hour original, also posted online.
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"Schiller did say some bad things, the Blaze found. But the short video took them out of context, like a bad reality show, and made them sound worse. It transposed remarks from a different part of the meeting to make it seem as if Schiller were amused by the group's 'goal' of spreading Shari'a law. It left examples of his complimenting Republicans on the cutting-room floor."
Proving popular with readers of the Voice of America website is the surprise expressed by their correspondent Steve Herman at . As well as the lack of open anger, Mr Herman notes the missed opportunity to increase prices.
He adds that merchants may have traditionally ranked near the bottom of Japan's social hierarchy but in most of the country trying to make a little extra money in times of adversity is "just considered, well, unseemly and un-Japanese".
, according to Slate's most read article.
New research published in the journal Cognition say that while learning from a teacher may help children get to a specific answer more quickly, it also makes them less likely to discover new information about a problem and to create a new and unexpected solution.
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