The 14 Most-Read of 2014

Flappy Bird and the Ice Bucket Challenge were among the world’s most Googled terms in 2014, proving that clicks are as specious an arbiter of quality as ever. But our 14 most-read stories of 2014 include some of our most-loved reporting: jihadi shopping in Istanbul, a citadel of steak in Lima, post-apocalyptic trespassing in Chernobyl.