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A look at the stories ranking highly on various news sites.
It was the two chicken fried steaks smothered in gravy with sliced onions, a triple-meat bacon cheeseburger, a cheese omelette with other ingredients, large bowl of fried okra with ketchup, three fajitas, pint of ice cream, with a half-loaf of white bread, slab of peanut butter fudge with crushed peanuts, a pizza and three root beers that did it. That was what Lawrence Russell Brewer ordered for his last meal - but didn't eat - before being executed. As a popular CNN article reports, this was too much for a Texas .
It's some boast to claim you are the . But that is exactly what Fox News anchor Bill O'Reilly claims in the most read Daily Beast article. He justifies his claim by saying he can get things changed quickly. "I don't have to go through the legislative process; I don't have to do any of that. I can just bring it to the people, and say, look, this has gotta be dealt with," he says.
A popular Telegraph article shows what appears to be three years after he had said she was killed. The paper says Gaddafi had claimed said she had been killed in an American bombing raid in 1986. "For years Col Gaddafi used the killing of Hana as a tool to breed anti-western sentiment among the Libyan people" it says. The Telegraph adds that regime officials said that the family had adopted a second girl also named Hana. But the Telegraph says their video of a camping holiday around three years later shows Hana alive and well.
Wired's audience a clicking on the story of the . The characters in programmes like The Big Bang Theory are funny because of their obsession with the finer details of particle physics and suchlike. But this means they have to have specialists on the team, to make sure they don't get the facts wrong. That's where TV fact checker David Saltzberg comes in. The only thing he doesn't do is jokes. Well, not anymore at least. "I quickly understood that I was just not qualified and they were very patient with me, and very kind," he says. "But I eventually realised I was that guy at a cocktail party who was trying to tell me his new theory of gravity."
14:28 UK time, Friday, 23 September 2011
