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14:23 UK time, Tuesday, 18 October 2011

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

Sometimes the simplest sounding questions seem to get you unstuck. That seems to be driving readers to al-Jazeera's story But, it reassures, actually, there is nothing complicated about money - banks create money by lending it. "Banks create money out of thin air and lend it to make profit from interest," Dan Hind says. Despite the simplicity Hind says protesters still fail to understand.

The phenomenal popularity of Hitler stories doesn't wane with Daily Mail readers. Even a Hitler story that is dismissed in the second sentence of the article has appeared on their most read list. It reports on a . Instead, the book claims, they escaped to fascist Argentina where they lived in a wooden chalet in a remote village and survived on the money from looted gold and jewellery. Other historians are laughing off the claims.

A story of attacks that New York Times readers are sharing replaces guns and knifes for scissors and battery-operated clippers as weapons. That's because a spate . The article explains a beard is a symbol of masculine Amish identity, while women view their long hair, kept in a bun, as their "glory".

An elaborate honeytrap involving a private eye, former showgirls and corrupt police makes for a popular story on the Independent. According to the story a former US police officer turned private detective is suspected of conducting stings . It starts with an online encounter with a woman who, when she meets him, gets the man drunk and then persuades him to drive to her house before he is arrested. The motivation is that a drink-drive arrest does not bode well when negotiating a child custody settlement.

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