Popular Elsewhere
A look at the stories ranking highly on various news sites.
The Guardian reports that the US spied to gather dirt on nations opposed to its climate policy in order to get leverage in negotiations. The allegations come from the secret US diplomatic cables released by Wikileaks.
The Telegraph reports Radio 4 presenter James Naughtie’s on-air gaffe. On the Today programme Mr Naughtie mixed up the first letter of the Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt’s title with the first letter of his surname. The Independent adds that within hours Andrew Marr made the same mistake when talking about Freudian slips on Radio 4’s Start the Week.
The Sun complains of a voting scandal on the X Factor. After viewers had been promised that their votes alone would determine who would end up in the semi-final, the judges chose out of the final two, saving “brat” Cher Lloyd. The Mirror wearily asks “do we really have the energy for another X Factor voting scandal?”
After servers and domain name providers booted out Wikileaks, Kevin Poulsen in Wired what made Wikileaks vulnerable. Among them, Mr Poulsen says, is the avoidable threat from using a free domain name supplier rather than a secure paid-for service.
The Wall Street Journal charts the rise of China as an arms dealer. Having been the main buyer of Russian arms after its economy collapsed, China has now managed to clone their fighter jets and are undercutting Russia in the developing world.
Time Magazine reports that dogs are helping ex-soldiers not just with physical disabilities but now with post-traumatic stress disorder. Dogs are trained to lick their owner to wake them up when they are having a nightmare, look around the corner to see there’s nothing in the next shopping aisle and to reassure their owners that their blind spots are covered by watching their back.
