This week we celebrate inkl's 3rd birthday! To mark the occasion we’ve rounded up the most-read articles and topics from the last year. What follows is a stellar collection of must-read stories so if you haven’t already read these, you may want to now.
Looking at the top Lead Stories over the last year, several themes emerge. Readers the world over were most fascinated by the deaths of influential people (Avicii and Hawking), Trump, terrorism and destruction. Taking second place is the story of draconian laws in Dubai that saw a British tourist jailed. Business and technology rank high among our readers’ interests and Tesla, at the intersection of the two, claimed third place with the announcement of their greatest ever quarterly loss. While Russia has been in the news for all kinds of reasons this year, the most read Russia story by our readers concerned 400kg of cocaine found in its embassy in Argentina.
In Editor’s Picks you were most fascinated by extinct and near extinct animals, what people say on their deathbeds, science and evolution, UFO intelligence and biological warfare.
As a consequence of being serious news coverage, our highest-ranking stories are often times negative. But over in Good News, you were reading stories of revival for extinct and near-extinct animals, debunking ageing myths, improving the quality and longevity of life, technology and — more unpredictably — religious freedoms for a Thor-worshipping US soldier who wanted to keep his facial hair.
And over in My Topics, you followed coverage on technology, blockchains, climate change, Trump and Asia’s leading lights. If you haven’t already, you can follow a topic by tapping on any of the topics displayed at the end of an article, then tap '+ Follow' on the topic page which appears. You can follow as many topics as you like. It's a great way to get more out of inkl.
If we’ve learnt anything from the last year it’s that you really like hard news, the environment, technology and business. And animals! At inkl we hope to keep pushing you beyond your filter-bubble, and make sure you have the biggest stories from the world’s best publishers at hand.
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Adam & Holly.
Top 10 Lead Stories from the last year:
- Star DJ Avicii has died in Muscat, Oman, aged 28
- British tourist jailed in Dubai for drinking awaits second sentence for accidentally touching man’s hip in bar
- Elon Musk’s Tesla announces biggest quarterly loss ever
- Donald Trump cancels London visit amid protest fears
- Victory Day 2018: Russia to show off Uran-9 'robot tank' in Red Square parade
- Trump announces decision to overturn Obama’s decision to close Guantanamo Bay at State of the Union
- Physician Stephen Hawking has died aged 76
- Grief and horror as 68 die in Venezuelan police station riot and inferno
- 400 kilos of cocaine found in Russian embassy in Argentina
- Stormy Daniels: I was told to ‘leave Trump alone’ in parking lot threat
Top 10 Editor’s Picks from the last year:
- Elusive Amazonian monkey seen alive for first time in 80 Years
- India tried to stop cheating in school - so half a million students just skipped exams
- Even sex is in crisis in Venezuela, where contraceptives are getting scarce
- Humans ‘evolving gene’ that may stop us drinking alcohol
- This is what people say when they die, according to nurses who care for terminal patients
- Researchers expect London to be named as city where cocaine is delivered faster than pizza
- Russian scientists hope to ‘bring back’ 50,000-year-old cave lion in Jurassic Park-style experiment
- Officials see weapons threat as North Korea gains biotech expertise
- America’s forgotten towns: Can they be saved or should people just leave?
- Head of Pentagon’s secret ‘UFO’ office sought to make evidence public
Top 10 Good News Picks from the last year:
- A US soldier who worships the Norse thunder god Thor got permission to keep his beard
- Hundreds of flying reptile eggs discovered fossilised in China
- Genes controlling whether skin tans or burns discovered by scientists
- 10 apps and gadgets that make life better
- ‘Plogging’, Swedish fitness craze for people who want to save the planet, is making its way to the US
- 25 quotes that take you inside Albert Einstein’s revolutionary mind
- Forget Juicero, here are the tech gadgets we can actually get excited about in 2018
- The five habits that can add more than a decade to your life
- What happens when you age - a scientist debunks popular myths about sex and brain power
Top 10 most-followed topics:
- Artificial intelligence
- Donald Trump
- Cryptocurrency
- Bitcoin
- Australia
- Economy
- Android
- China
- Climate change
- North Korea
