Let's face it. Not many people are interested in news from Papua New Guinea.
If they were, news image agencies would stock at least a few photos of its capital, Port Moresby, for news websites (like this one) to use.
It's not unusual for countries where poverty and violent crime are rife to attract little love from news audiences - even if, as in PNG's case, they also boast the world's richest marine biodiversity, around 800 distinct languages and bats that look like Yoda (see below).
And even if those audiences are SBS ones, who are generally more interested in less-covered places.
But this week, our senior correspondent Brian Thomson cracked the disinterest of SBS and non-SBS viewers alike, with a scoop that married the bloody history of PNG province Bougainville to many hip pockets in more fortunate countries.
Thomson obtained an affidavit from 2001, in which PNG Prime Minister Michael Somare (then opposition leader) accused Aussie-British mining giant Rio Tinto of starting a vicious civil war in Bougainville order to keep its copper interests at the Pangua mine.
The Bougainville war claimed 15,000 lives.
And now for something completely different - UFOs. Now there's a news topic that never fails to excite.
These particular flitting objects were 'spotted' over London, resulting in several YouTube videos of the city's residents stopping and staring at the sky, Independence Day stylee.
And back to tragedy for third place...
A woman who was injected with antiseptic instead of an epidural and has been paralysed since her son was born spoke out on TV for the first time. If you missed Grace Wang's incredible story, watch it here.
There's been a lot more hacking in the news lately, with something of a cyber-war going on between groups like Anonymous and LulzSec and big corporations as well as government agencies.
This week it was Sony. Hackers said they targeted the PlayStation gaming hub because it was being careless with user data.
The next two spots went to Go Back To Where You Came From - a sort of asylum-seeker reality TV show that saw six ordinary Aussies sent on the same kind of journeys refugees make to reach the Lucky Country.
The show smashed ratings, trended number one worldwide on Twitter and got people talking across the nation. It may have even changed some viewers' minds about 'queue-jumpers' and the like. All seems worth the physical dangers the six stars and the production crew faced to make it happen.
And speaking of excellent reasons to flee gruesomely violent persecution, four Khmer Rouge leaders finally faced a UN-back war crimes tribunal, decades after helping to slaughter millions of Cambodians on what became known as the Killing Fields.
It's not unreasonable to assume that news audiences will be clicking on similar stories in a few decades' time as those responsible for horrors in DR Congo, Iraq, Sudan and other spots take the stand in trials like that.
It's rare that a morbid problem has a solution as lovely and bright as a sunflower, but Japan's does.
The quake-, tsunami- and nuclear-disaster-wracked nation has called for help planting fields of sunflowers to help soak up the radioactivity left in its soil.
Perhaps planting sunflowers would also stop the violence in Cairo's Tahrir Square, which only recently saw the - albeit bloody - blossoming of a revolutionary movement.
In final spot, a Your Say question that asked 'Are Chinese Australians owed an apology?' for the hardships they suffered under the White Australia policy.
But no matter what your answer to that, it is you, the reader, who is owed an apology for the dark nature of this week's top 10, though it's not clear who should proffer it.
In any case, seeing as you've made it this far, here is a charming National Geographic photo of a newly-discovered species of bat that looks so much like Yoda, it's been officially named the Yoda Bat.
Yoda Bat wears a contentedly sage smile, despite coming from war and poverty-ravaged Papua New Guinea. We hope he sends you off into your weekend wearing a similar expression.
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