Popular Elsewhere
16:39 UK time, Monday, 23 May 2011
A look at the stories ranking highly on various news sites.
The debate about has reached Australia according to Brisbane Times' most popular story.
Queensland Anti-Discrimination Commissioner has raised concern that the ban could be discriminatory. The article explains Sikhs believe the kirpan is a religious symbol of the struggle of good and evil.
This comes after a judge in Britain called for Sikhs to be allowed to wear the ceremonial daggers to school. In New South Wales last year, the education department defended its decision to ban butter knifes and small fruit knives while allowing Sikhs to carry kirpans. Meanwhile, in 2008, an exclusive private school on Brisbane's bayside was forced to apologise to a Sikh student it refused to enrol because of its strict uniform rules.
A popular Daily Mail article says a mother claimed her four children and husband were severely disabled in a £112,000 . The article says Jayne McKnight claimed all of her children had epilepsy and spent the cash on concert tickets and backstage passes posing with stars including Susan Boyle, Ronan Keating and the late Stephen Gately from Boyzone. It goes on to say she posted the photos on her social networking pages, describing them as "my famous mates".
The is reaching epic proportions in the US according to a popular New York Times article. The article says absent-mindedness used to be seen as a normal part of life but now people are so scared they might be getting Alzheimer's that simply forgetting where they left the keys can put some people into a panic. The article argues that increasing public awareness of Alzheimer's, instead of helping people understand the condition, has spread fear that it could be contagious and prompted people to plan their own suicides.
ABC News's most viewed story has an interview with Robert Fitzpatrick who, it reports, on 21 May at 6pm. He says he will keep up the posters he paid for on the New York subway as for him they are still valid because "judgement day is still coming".
The most popular comment piece in the Guardian comes from Charlie Brooker. He argues that Hollywood has given up on making films for an intelligent adult audience. His description of a multiplex cinema includes "Screen one: a 3D CGI cartoon about a wisecracking badger with attitude you'd quite happily reverse a six-tonne tractor over. Screen two: a 3D superhero theme park ride that thinks it's King Lear". He thinks an unlikely industry has come to fill the void - gaming. For him computer games are pushing into the mainstream consciousness and starting to make Hollywood look embarrassing.
