Do not always let search engines decide which specific stories are relevant and hence worth the top slot. If you can spare the time, visit the actual news sources and find reports suiting your particular interests.

• ICRC News. Section, primarily intended for the media, containing all International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) news releases and operational bulletins from the field. (multilingual site)

http://www.icrc.org/web/eng/siteeng0.nsf/iwpList2/News?OpenDocument

• Information Telegraph Agency of Russia ( (ITAR-TASS). In existence since 1904, The Information Telegraph Agency of Russia is one of the world's largest international information agencies. The successor to the Soviet TASS news agency, it has retained its status of being the state central information agency.

http://www.itar-tass.com/ English: http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/

• Intelligence News. An archive maintained by the Federation of American Scientists (FAS).

http://www.fas.org/irp/news/

• Integrated Regional Information Networks. IRIN is part of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). IRIN, which was born out of the 1994 crisis in the Great Lakes region of central Africa, pioneered the use of e-mail and web technology to deliver and receive information to and from some of the most remote and underdeveloped places in Africa, cheaply and efficiently.

http://www.irinnews.org/

• Kyodo News. Kyodo's English-language news service reaches news agencies, newspapers, radio-TV broadcasters and financial information distributors in various parts of the world as well as international organizations, including the WTO, IMF and IOC.

http://home.kyodo.co.jp/

• Lloyd's List International. The flagship publication of Informa's Maritime and Transport division, Lloyds List is the authoritative voice of the maritime industry, drawing on the skills of a global network of correspondents and a team of experienced journalists in London.

http://www.lloydslist.com/

• Military.com - News: http://www.military.com/News/

• Multinational Monitor. The Multinational Monitor tracks corporate activity, especially in the Third World, focusing on the export of hazardous substances, worker health and safety, labor union issues and the environment.

http://www.essential.org/monitor/

• ReliefWeb. The global hub for time-critical humanitarian information on Complex Emergencies and Natural Disasters.

http://www.reliefweb.int/

• Reporters sans frontières (Reporters without borders, Reporteros sin fronteras). More than a third of the world's people live in countries where there is no press freedom. Reporters Without Borders works constantly to restore their right to be informed. (French, English, Español)

http://www.rsf.org/

• Reuters:http://www.reuters.com/

• Security Park (SecurityPark.Net). News portal for security professionals: http://www.securitypark.co.uk/

• Southeast Europe Online. SEE Online is designed as a Balkan portal site focusing on creating a virtual network of NGOs in Southeast Europe. The project covers seven countries: Albania, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, FR Yugoslavia, Macedonia and Romania. The project suggests a pooling together of the information resources of NGOs in SEE into a single Internet platform. The Internet allows NGOs to access a wealth of information and increase the visibility and recognition of their contributions to a world wide audience. http://www.southeasteurope.org/

• Spotlight on Military News. A daily compendium of top news from around the globe prepared by the Canadian Forces College.

http://www.cfc.forces.gc.ca/spotnews_e.html

• Stars and Stripes. Stars and Stripes got its start as a newspaper for Union troops during the Civil War. It resumed publication during World War I and World War II, and has been published continuously since 1942 in Europe and 1945 in the Pacific.

http://www.estripes.com/

• Third World Traveler. It publishes magazine articles and book excerpts that offer an alternative view to the mainstream media about the impact of the policies of transnational corporations, international financial and trade institutions, the corporate press, and the United States government and its national security establishment on democracy, human rights, social and economic justice and the environment, in the Third World.

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/

• United Nations News Centre: http://www.un.org/News/

• United Press International. UPI pioneered many areas of worldwide news coverage and distribution, striving since 1907 to provide news coverage that is fast, accurate, fair and balanced.

http://about.upi.com/

• Sierra Leone Web. News, information, links on Sierra Leone.    http://www.sierra-leone.org/

• World Socialist Website. Published by the International Committe of the Fourth International (ICFI). The WSW provides analysis of major world events, comments on political, cultural, historical and philosophical issues.

http://www.wsws.org/

• The World Today. The World Today is a comprehensive current affairs program which backgrounds, analyses, interprets and encourages debate on events and issues of interest and importance to all Australians.

http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/

• WPS Russian Media Monitoring Agency. The WPS (What the Papers Say) Agency is Russia's premier independent media monitoring company and has been in operation since 1988.

http://www.wps.ru/