The Best News websites




General Breaking news

ABC News  - abcnews.go.com
Major breaking news, headlines, interviews and background analysis.
Associated Press Newswire  - wire.ap.org
Up to the minute news from the Associated Press
BBC News  - news.bbc.co.uk
International news from the British Broadcasting Corporation
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation News  - cbc.ca/news
From Canada's national public network. Focus on Canada but strong international coverage too.
CBS News  - www.cbsnews.com
News and features from CBS network.
CNN  - www.cnn.com
Cable News Network. Comprehensive news site.
Fox News Channel  - www.foxnews.com
Online site of Rupert Murdoch's cable news network.
Google - News  - news.google.com
Google News presents information culled from approximately 4,500 news sources worldwide and automatically arranged to present the most relevant news first. Topics are updated continuously throughout the day, so you will see new stories each time you check the page. Google News is highly unusual in that it offers a news service compiled solely by computer algorithms without human intervention.
International Herald Tribune  - www.iht.com/frontpage.html
News, commentary and analysis.
International News Digest  - www.pressdigest.org/english.html
Headlines of International news
MSNBC  - www.msnbc.com
Microsoft and NBC News provides up-to-date news and weather information from around the country.
New York Times Online  - www.nytimes.com
Online edition of Times. Free registration required.
News in Pictures  - www.newsinpictures.com
Dedicated to pictorial news stories.
NewspaperIndex.com  - www.newspaperindex.com
The best online newspapers in all countries.
OneWorld News Service  - www.oneworld.net/news
Daily news about human rights and environmental issues. OneWorld is an international network of co-operative centres, held together by OneWorld International.
Radio Netherlands  - www.rnw.nl/cgi-bin/home/enhome.pl
News, features and in-depth analysis of international events.
ReliefWeb  - www.reliefweb.int
ReliefWeb, a project of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UN-OCHA), is the world's premier electronic clearinghouse for those needing timely information on humanitarian emergencies and natural disasters - designed specifically to help the humanitarian community improve its response to emergencies.  Updated 24 hours a day from 3 international time zones. Including a database of over 150,000 UN documents, policy studies and analyses, more than 1600 maps, geographical and substantive links, ....
Reuters News Online  - www.reuters.com
Breaking news from around the globe.
Time Daily  - www.time.com/time/daily
Daily breaking news from Time Magazine.
USA Today  - www.usatoday.com
National daily newspaper.
Voice of America  - www.voanews.com
U.S. government's international news service.
World News  - www.worldnews.com
Searchable news service providing up to date information on current events, business, sports, health, fashion and travel news from around the world.
World Press Review  - www.worldpress.org
World Press Review is the journal of record for an influential global audience, providing an unprecedented platform for ideas and opinions on topics of significant international concern. World Press Review gives readers a first-hand look at the issues and debates that occupy the world's newspapers and magazines. World Press Review illuminates the issues that barely see the light of day in the mainstream U.S. press, translating, reprinting, analyzing, and contextualizing the best of the international press from more than 20 languages. World Press Review provides readers with a succinct view of the political and economic climate outside of the U.S., as well as how the rest of the world perceives the role the U.S. plays in the global community. World Press Review includes news articles, editorials, and cartoons from publications such as Moscow's Izvestia, the Beijing Review, the Daily Nation of Nairobi, and Die Zeit of Hamburg.
Yahoo! News  - dailynews.yahoo.com
Daily news and full coverage of current issues.

Business and Economy news

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News for Kids, Teens and Students

Timeforkids.com (TFK)  - www.timeforkids.com
Timeforkids.com, the online version of Time for Kids magazine, is the news, information and exploration destination for kids on the Internet. The site lets you create, learn, get involved, explore, play, guess right, guess wrong, exercise your clicking finger, and generally become a news know-it-all!
Online NewsHour Extra: News for Students  - www.reuters.com/news.jhtml?type=business
This site presents some of the issues and analysis that appear on PBS' NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. This site excels in explaining background on the issues. Kids can quickly grasp the different sides to a conflict. In addition to feature articles, the site offers "Forums" in which recognized experts debate issues. "The Buzz" section allows children to read opinions of other teens.

Sports News

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