Popular Elsewhere
A look at the stories ranking highly on various news sites.
Proving popular in the Times is an article asking why women love to pose naked. Bridget Harrison, who has posed naked herself, says from a pregnant Demi Moore to the pensioners the Calendar Girls, the naked photo shoot has never been more popular. The minority captured "have something to sell", the rest do it because they want to be admired or want to be photographed when they're in a fleeting moment before their body changes.
Toby Harnden explains Piers Morgan's success in the US in the Telegraph's most read article. Described as brash, arrogant, overbearing and insufferably pleased with himself, the article suggests "whereas Brits view Morgan's approach to life as unspeakably vulgar and resent his success, the American response to such a character tends to be: 'Good on him!'
Wired's most read story says the British woman who won $10,000 from Apple hung up on the company's representative because she thought it was a prank call. Apple gave Gail Davis from Orpington the prize for downloading the 10 billionth app from the iTunes store.
New Scientists readers are catching up on the key to finding alien life. It's all about identifying those key chemicals that act as building blocks to form all complex life. The problem is that they may be so alien they won't be noticed.
One of the New York Times' most e-mailed articles documents the princess phenomenon. It says big companies like Disney are getting richer from marketing to four-year-old girls. Identifying a trend in homemade princess outfits and then providing their own version made Disney $4bn in 2009 alone.
