New data released by comScore shows that, of the 379.4 million people in Europe that went online during November, 2011, almost half visited online newspapers. Many newspapers visits were prededed by visits to Facebook.

comScore's data reveals Internet users in the UK spend the most time online out of all their European counterparts and have the highest levels of engagement, too.

It comes as no surprise, therefore, to learn that the two most-visited newspapers online in Europe were U.K.-based. Britain's oldest tabloid newspaper, The Daily Mail, attracted the largest online audience in Europe with 20.1 million unique visitors, followed by The Guardian at 15.7 million unique visitors.

The two British newspapers were followed by Turkish newspapers Hürriyet and Milliyet and German newspaper Bild, each attracting around 10 million unique visitors.

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