Popular Elsewhere
A look at the stories ranking highly on various news sites.
The Times' readers are interested in the claim by the mother of a student demonstrator that her son deserved to be punished. Tania Garwood said her son, sixth former Edward Woollard, did a terrible thing when he threw a fire extinguisher off the roof of the Conservative Party headquarters.
Most read on the Daily Mail's website is news of baby Oliver Denning dying in a bath after being left for a few minutes. An inquest was told his mother returned from cleaning a changing mat to discover her 11-month-old son submerged in eight inches of water.
The Telegraph's Ambrose Evans-Pritchard warns that self-congratulation by the US authorities that they have this time avoided a repeat of the 1930s recession is premature. He takes his hint from large growth in US high-end stores compared to discount stores.
Proving popular on the New Statesman's website is Paul Mason's imagined interview with Karl Marx about the credit crunch. The story goes, if Marx was alive today, he would say the cause of the crisis was that the Chinese save too much and spend too little so the solution would be Chinese revolution.
The New Scientist reports on the new weapon to deter pirates such as those off the coast of Somalia. A laser will let people know they have been spotted. The magazine says it won't necessarily stop them from stopping.
CNN Readers are interested in Douglas Rushkoff's prediction that it is the beginning of the end for Facebook. His theory is that Facebook has gone as far as it is possible to go in creating an illusion that it is too big to fail.
