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A look at the stories ranking highly on various news sites.

Now here's a headline that has earned its way into Discover magazine's most read spot: "". It says the US army is spending $6.3m (£3.9m) to build a thought helmet. "As improbable as it sounds" the article ploughs on, no doubt aware of the understatement, "the goal is to build a helmet embedded with brain-scanning technologies that can target specific brain waves, translate them into words, and transmit those words wirelessly to a radio speaker or an earpiece worn by other soldiers." The research is at the early stages however - as if your thoughts wander for just an instant, the computer is completely lost.

If you want to get into the minds of those working in glossy magazines, the Daily Beast's most popular article may be able to help you and it won't take a thought helmet. It - @CondeElevator. The stereotype of a worker at Vogue magazine is portrayed as calorie obsessed - summed up by this tweet:

Their minds haven't been read, their comments overheard, these celebrities have publicly pronounced the next comments. The Independent most read article is spurred to ask, after Kanye West compared himself to Hitler, for the of yesteryear. Among them are David Beckham's 2002 comment "I definitely want Brooklyn to be christened, but I don't know into what religion yet." Added to this is Christina Aguilera question "So, where's the Cannes Film Festival being held this year?"

And finally, a popular Guardian article tries to get . Roger Ailes, is the boss of the Murdoch empire's most profitable arm, Fox News. The paper accuses the news channel of selling fear, and it says to understand Fox news, you have to understand Ailes. This is how the Guardian understands him "The 71-year-old Ailes presents the classic figure of a cinematic villain: bald and obese, with dainty hands, Hitchcockian jowls and a lumbering gait."

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