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Clare Spencer | 12:57 UK time, Thursday, 23 December 2010

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

Top of the Daily Mail's most read list is news of missing architect Jo Yeates. The article says her boyfriend Greg Reardon fought back tears yesterday as he said: "I desperately want her back - I thought we would be together for ever".

Proving popular on the Guardian website is an article claiming the CIA taskforce to assess the impact of 250,000 leaked US diplomatic cables has been given a naughty name. The WikiLeaks Task Force is WTF for short.

Telegraph readers like the digest of New Zealand's alien sightings. The New Zealand Defence Force has made public previously secret files documenting extraterrestrial sightings over the last 60 years. Among these is a giant alien with size 440 shoes.

Sun readers prefer to catch up on Happy Mondays star Bez's bare-knuckle brawl. The Paper reports that the dancer - real name Mark Berry - took part in the organised bout with his love rival, Space Monkeys bassist Dom Morrison and the fight was only stopped when a paid referee stepped in after 15 minutes.

At the top of Forbes magazine's most popular list is their ranking of the Hollywood actors whose films made the most money in 2010. Leonardo DiCaprio comes out on top with his films Shutter Island and Inception making $1.1 billion at the global box office.

Vanity Fair readers find out about Facebook's co-founder Sean Parker. The profile shows how his journey to billionaire all started with a visit from FBI agents toting papers and a desktop computer out of Sean's room in his teenage hacker days.

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