Most viewed news this week

Americans seem to have an incredulous interest in aspects of our education system. Over on the main M.E.N website, thousands of online users viewed our story about schools dropping cash incentives for pupils this week.
The M.E.N revealed that children at Buile Hill secondary in Salford were promised cash in return for achieving marks of grade C and above.
But the scheme was quietly dropped after one year – although no parents or pupils and few staff were told.
Many of the people who read that story and shared it with their online networks, said they thought the whole idea of incentives for exam results was unfair.
The story was viewed more than 23,000 times on the day it was published alone with most users accessing it via the sharing site Fark where it has been clicked 23,068 times and attracted 86 comments already.