Popular Elsewhere
A look at the stories ranking highly on various news sites.
Times readers are reliving the events of Thursday's %3Ca%20href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/sport/football/international/article2828454.ece">announcement of the World Cup hosts on a live text page. The team signed off promising to be "[d]rowning our sorrows, you might say, after what's been a typical day of English football: pessimism, slowly giving way to a glimmer of optimism, then to outright enthusiasm, followed by self-congratulatory, narcissistic, premature celebration. Followed by crushing anticlimax." The Sun reports that %3Ca%20href="<a href=">the Russian team knew it had won the bid a day before the announcement.
Time magazine says that %3Ca%20href="https://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2034759,00.html">England has an "overblown sense of ownership" of football but that the recession favoured emerging economies. The Independent is more positive, focusing on %3Ca%20href="https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/news-and-comment/qatars-incredible-stadium-plans-for-2022-world-cup-2149447.html">artists' impressions of the "incredible stadiums" planned in Qatar when World Cup is hosted there in 2022.
The Channel 4 News website puts out an appeal for people to identify %3Ca%20href="https://www.channel4.com/news/sri-lanka-war-crimes-video-who-are-these-men">men on camera apparently taking part in an execution. The video appears to show government troops executing civilians in the last few weeks of the 26-year Sri Lanka war.
People are visiting the Huffington Post's site to read about %3Ca%20href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/02/nasa-new-life-arsenic-bacteria_n_791094.html">a life form "alien to what we know". The story explains that research funded by Nasa has found a microbe that lives on arsenic. While its not extra terrestrial, it is unlike any other life form.
Mirror readers are more interested in %3Ca%20href="https://www.3am.co.uk/x-factors-cher-lloyd-might-want-to-stop-talking/25227/">X Factor contestant Cher who the paper describes as ungrateful in a scathing review of her behaviour, including an attack on the way she moves her eyebrows.
%3Ca%20href="https://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/rizkhan/2010/11/201011111191189923.html">Are we living in the end times? is a question proving popular on the Al Jazeera website. It's being asked by philosopher Slavoj Zizek who argues the capitalist system is pushing us all towards an apocalyptic doomsday. Al Jazeera bills him as the most dangerous philosopher in the West.
