These are the quizzes you took, the photos you clicked through and the stories that got you sharing this year.

Who’s to say what makes an online news story “take off”? Sometimes, as with the Karen Read trial, it’s just tremendous interest. Sometimes it’s an unusual topic — we’re looking at you, Diaper Spa — or the Google gods just smile down upon a particular story for reasons known only to them.

Matthew Perry's death. Tropical Storm Hilary. A mass shooting at a Lunar New Year festival: These were some of California's biggest news events. But there were bright spots too.

Intelligencer readers gravitated toward stories that helped unpack them. Our annual list of the most-read stories of the year, measured by total collective minutes of audience engagement, includes in-depth reporting on the conspiracy of silence that led to Joe Biden ’s late exit from the presidential race,

Here are the 10 most-read stories published on the CBC London website in 2024. These stories were read by hundreds of thousands of people. Feel free to explore them all.