Popular Elsewhere
15:39 UK time, Wednesday, 1 June 2011
A look at the stories ranking highly on various news sites.
A popular Slate article brings together a spate of studies which show . The story explains that the presumption is each fake Prada or Chanel branded handbag sold will mean one less real one being sold. But various studies show that these knock-offs serve as a kind of free advertising "partly by signalling the brand's popularity". It goes on to say a study of the counterfeit "purse parties" of upper-middle-class US mothers found that customers formed attachments to their phony branded hand bags but when they found the stitches falling apart they wanted the real thing.
The has been pinpointed by a popular Daily Mail article. The paper calls Kensington Palace Gardens the boulevard of billionaires. Just around the corner from the Kensington Palace, houses are an average of £19.2m according to the paper. Residents include the ambassadors to Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Russia.
Hadley Freeman declares the in a well hit Guardian article. She explains that while the Hangover two has almost only men in it, Bridesmaids has almost only women. For her the two comedies bring up the argument again that women just aren't funny. This isn't something she is willing to accept - more accurate for her is that male audiences just don't want to watch funny women. "Despite excellent reviews for Bridesmaids and terrible ones for The Hangover Part II," she says "the former made less than a third of what the latter did in its opening weekend".
A popular Time article looks at the popularity of the . The article says China is unusual as the few countries who still execute prisoners tend only to do it for violent crimes. But it says "judging by the seemingly endless 'public demand' for this kind of punishment and the surging popular anger, it would seem that there is actually not enough of it."
In CNN's biggest hitter in 2003. In the interview Piers Morgan says the tape catapulted her into the celebrity stratosphere. She reveals that her brand now amasses her more than $10m a year.
