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

Readers are flocking to an , pushing it to the top of their most read list. Months after accusations about accusations he had plagiarised and used a pseudonym to alter various journalists' Wikipedia pages, he came clean.

"I've written so many articles over the years laying bare and polemicising against the errors and idiocies of other people" he starts. Before declaring "this time, I am writing an article laying bare and polemicising against the errors and idiocies of myself."

in a new book by her neighbour Joe McGinniss are cropping up in many most read lists. In among them is the Daily Beast's run down of the six "juiciest leaks". Amid allegations of drug taking and a brief relationship with a basketball star, is this not so juicy claim about her parenting:

"Palin Served Willow and Bristol Burnt Macaroni and Cheese"

Meanwhile a well hit Washington Post article by by the sources of the claims. "If the rest of McGinniss's book consists of what the Doonesbury [cartoon] preview has so far consisted of, namely, unattributed slurs from 'People Who Know Palin Well,' what was the point of moving next door to her for a year?" she says. This may seem like a daft question: . But, as Brian Palmer explains in a popular Slate article, those living below the US poverty line are materially much better off than 52 years ago, when records began. "The typical [US] household at the poverty line includes air conditioning, two color televisions with a cable or satellite feed, a DVD player, and a microwave. Poor children usually have a video game system. More than 38 percent of poor people have a personal computer" it says. Finally, New York Times readers are a normally discerning bunch. And the articles they click reflect this - normally lengthy op-ed articles opining about US politics. Today, though it seems they can't resist but catch up on the news of a cat named Willow. For 1,800 miles away in Manhattan. A microchip her owners had implanted in her as a kitten identified her but how she got there is still a mystery.

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