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14:42 UK time, Thursday, 6 October 2011
A look at the stories ranking highly on various news sites.
While the majority of the most read stories are tributes after the death of Steve Jobs we take a look the other stories are attracting readers.
Now Sarah Palin has announced she isn't running for US president, it seems Vladimir Putin may be stealing her position as politician who readers gravitate towards.
The Guardian's most read list is dominated by the news of co-founder of Apple, Steve Jobs the only exception is a story about, you guessed it, Mr Putin.
Lately the Russian prime minister's action poses have been getting a lot of attention. But the popular Guardian article says . So that means he didn't find two fragments of 6th Century BC amphorae in about two metres (six feet) of clear water.
Royal stories are often a winner with Telegraph readers. - one Princess Beatrice, the other Thai Princess Sirivannavari Nariratana - also has a clash. For, the paper says, when Princess Sirivannavari tried to approach Beatrice at Paris Fashion week she was told by Beatrice's guard that "She don't want to meet no princesses".
A is a big hit with Daily Mail readers. This is unusual, Inspector Jon Knight insures in the article. As well as the obligatory pictures of the two, and her reunited with the kittens is a new word for miaowing: Mewling.
The only thing after cats to consistently draw in the readers is stories of Hitler. This one from Slate isn't so much about him but about . Who, it asks, was used as shorthand for an evil ruler. It suggests people delved quite a far way back for a universal symbol for evil - the Egyptian Pharaoh of Exodus.
Finally, Huffington Post readers are finding out if they are clever enough to be allowed into Oxford University. That's because . See if you can get your heads around these brain teasers:
Why are both ladybirds and strawberries red?
If the punishment for parking on double yellow lines were death, and therefore nobody did it, would that be a just and effective law?
