Popular Elsewhere
15:06 UK time, Tuesday, 8 November 2011
A look at the stories ranking highly on various news sites.
Here's a classic Daily Mail elf 'n' safety story with a twist. The popular article explains a video posted on YouTube showed a Gateshead worker's demonstration of how to use ladder safely. Only he fell off the ladder. As Paul Cavanagh demonstrates how a harness can hold you, he loses his footing and the ladder falls sidewards. An onlooker shouts "You should have put the side tethers on" a bit too late.
The statistics in Independent's popular look at the experiences of Muslim converts in the UK may surprise some. Three-quarters of Britons who become Muslims are female and the average age of conversion is 27. A study in Leicester also showed that "despite Western portraits of Islam casting it as oppressive to women", a quarter of female converts were attracted to the religion because of the status it affords them.
In many most read lists reviews of the computer game Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 are popping up. The Times, giving the game five stars, calls it the "media launch of the year". That's ahead of any film or book. The Guardian also gives it five stars but predicts an "inevitable tabloid storm" over a terrorist attack scene set in London. USA today suggests there may have been conflict not just in the game but between the makers of it, but says that doesn't affect the product. And at the top of the Telegraph's most read list is their review which says calls the killing game slick and awards it five stars.
