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Clare Spencer | 14:59 UK time, Monday, 20 December 2010

A look at the stories ranking highly on various news sites.
Snow chaos dominates news sites' most read lists. The Times concentrates on stranded travellers and the Telegraph looks at criticism of BAA's preparation.

Readers of the Independent are looking back at an article from March 2000 which wrongly predicts the end British snow. The article quotes Dr David Viner, a senior research scientist at the climatic research unit at the University of East Anglia, as saying that within a few years winter snowfall will become "a very rare and exciting event".

Proving popular with Guardian readers are Charlie Brooker's ideas on how to cut tuition fees. Among his suggestions include giving young people the skills he says society will be crying out for in the years to come such as water-cannon operator, wasteland scavenger, penguin coffin logger, Thunderdome umpire, dissident strangler, henchperson and pie ingredient.

Daily Mail readers are catching up with news that 12 men were arrested early this morning in what police are calling a major national counter-terrorism operation.
The men - five from Cardiff, four from Stoke-on-Trent and three from London - were detained on suspicion of the commission, preparation or instigation of an act of terrorism in the UK.

Sun readers prefer to read about Liz Hurley reportedly "begging" her husband Arun Nayer to take her back after her "disastrous" fling with cricketer Shane Warne. The paper says she dumped the "loverat" after finding he had sent a woman more than 100 flirty texts at the same time he was romancing her.

Los Angeles Times readers are finding out that for actors 2010 has been the year of suffering for your art. Natalie Portman spent a year studying ballet before her role in Black Swan and Mark Walberg built a boxing ring in his home four years before his role The Fighter.

Wall Street Journal readers are warned that their investigation shows iPhone and Android phone apps are passing on information without users' consent. In some cases this goes as far as revealing to advertising companies the phone user's location as well as age and gender.

Top of Time magazine's most read list is China's rise to the top of the international education league tables. The Programme for International Student Assessment found that paying teachers well is a more effective tool for improving school performance than small class sizes.

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