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Top 10: Carbon, asylum and cattle

This week's top ten showed that our audiences have been chewing through some heavy stuff, and are probably in need of some light reading. Like a top 10, perhaps?

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Are you ready for it? The top three clickers this week are a total surprise, where 'total surprise' means 'absolutely predictable'.

Taking out the top honour for the 43rd week in a row (OK, so that figure may be exaggerated) was our carbon taxes around the world factsheet.

Close on its heels was the perennially-popular explainer: Asylum seekers: Myths and facts, while Indonesian cattle torture 'not Halal' took out bronze in the clicking race.

Grotesque images out of Indonesian abattoirs made the government act fast, and the majority of respondents on our 'Do you support a ban on live cattle exports? message board answered a resounding 'Yes'.

The search for an Aussie who went missing after a jazz concert in New Orleans ended sadly, when his body was found in the Mississippi river. Alex Beddows was a 32-year-old DJ from Canberra.

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A solar flare so big it disrupted communications on Earth didn't seem to hinder the Web access of SBS audiences, who clicked it into the top ten.

Perhaps the person whose home-made rocket blasted off was hoping to put it out and make sure it didn't reach their satellite dish either.

But that was it for the light stuff. (Before you pick up the pen to write to the complaints department, SBS is aware that that pun was truly terrible.)

Texas police investigating a report of a mass grave from a psychic came next, and the International Criminal Court probing evidence that Libya's Muammar Gaddafi ordered his troops to carry out rapes was next.

In last spot, another big message board question, upon which 619 comments have been left at the time of writing.

We asked: Is it time to pull out of Afghanistan?

While the answer to that question is not easy to find, its presence on this list shows many minds are engaged in trying.

So it seems our readers have had a heavy week thinking about tough issues.

We hope you give yourselves a break and read stories involving kittens or cake or similar today.

You could start with the yarn about a moose who barged into a retirement home in Sweden through the window. It's worth it for the anthropomorphically titillating cheeky look on its face.

So from us to you, enjoy the moose, and enjoy your weekend. We look forward to your next week of clicking.


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