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A look at the stories ranking highly on various news sites.
The Times mulls over Radio 4 presenter James Naughtie’s on air slip on air. He mixed up the first letter of Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt’s surname with the first letter of his job title. The Times reports Mr Naughtie just wants to forget his claims.
The Daily Mail says that the euro is at risk of collapse. The news comes from Britain’s independent Treasury watchdog the Office for Budget Responsibility which announced that the consensus is that the single currency will eventually fail.
CNN reports the latest in the legal battle over same-sex marriage which is being considered by a panel of California federal appeals court judges. Proposal 8 which says marriage is a union between a man and a woman was passed by Californian voters and is now being appealed as against the equal protection clause of the US constitution.
The Economist questions whether America and China are condemned to be rivals. It says that unlike previous threats to America China doesn’t want to export its ideology or amass new colonies. On top of that, both China and the US want to export, so want a stable world.
In the New Statesman Mehdi Hasan says he’s fed up with the negative reaction to Fifa's decision to award the 2022 World Cup to Qatar. He asks people to calm down about the location being too hot and lacking a football legacy as the same was true in the US.
The San Fransico Chronicle reports on a joke gone wrong. John Toomey, known for 20 years as the Santa in department store Macy's has been fired for saying a naughty joke.
Mr Toomey explained his repertoire to the paper: "When I ask the older people who sit on my lap if they've been good and they say, 'Yes,' I say, 'Gee, that's too bad,' " Toomey said.
"Then, if they ask why Santa is so jolly, I joke that it's because I know where all the naughty boys and girls live."
The Irish Independent’s most read story is about a Japanese discount store which has pulled its Hitler costumes from the shelves. Aico, the Japanese costume makers, has been making the items for seven years but the store Don Quijote has now withdrawn the item after complaints from a Jewish rights organisation.
