Nowadays fewer people read newspapers and watch TV news. They prefer to learn about the latest events in the Internet. Thus, the Internet now rivals television and newspapers as a main source of national and international news, especially for young people.
Nettop20.com has made a list of the most popular and highest-rating sites for international news on the Net today:

1. CNN.com

International news agency Cable News Network (CNN) provides 24-hours news coverage in six different languages: English, Arabic, Japan, Korean, Spanish, Turkish. The day’s feature stories are constantly refreshed and updated. The site also has searchable archives of news features and background information.

2. CBS News

CBS News provides extensive news coverage through its Web site with the help of theCBS Worldwide team of correspondents. The site works well to bring not only the latest headlines, but the detail as well from itsr large resource of online news information. CBS News also provides an email service so you can have the latest news delivered straight to your desktop.

3. ABC News

ABC News is a division of American television network ABC, owned by The Walt Disney Company. It provides the latest news headlines along with some audio and video coverage in a well thought out and highly usable format. It also provides news by email with its news alerts service.

4. Google News

Google News is an automated news aggregator provided by Google. The service covers news articles appearing within the past 30 days on various news websites. They are sorted by the date and time of publishing and have no political or ideological implication. That is why you get an opportunity to learn different points of view on the same event. The service is available for more than 40 regions in 19 languages: English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese (traditional and simplified characters), Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Arabic, Hebrew, Norwegian, Czech, Swedish, Greek, Russian, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Turkish, Polish and Malayalam.

5. Reuters

Reuters provides news from all over the world in 14 different languages including Russian. It has a team of 2500 journalists, news photographers and operators so today Reuters is one of the most influential news services. It focuses on providing the financial markets with information that includes market data, such as share prices and currency rates, researches and analytics. News is updated every minute.

6. Yahoo!News

Yahoo! News is an Internet-based news aggregator provided by Yahoo!. Articles that come from news services are sorted by computer.

7. BBC News Online

British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) provides UK national and international news in six different languages including Russian. It has its offices all over the world and works with such famous news agencies as Associated Press, Reuters and Agence France-Rress.

8. World News Network

World News Network is a one-stop news resource in the Net that consists of over 20,000 global thematic and regional news sites. It has around 400 media partners, from mainstream providers (BBC, CNN, Reuters, Washington Post and others) to more regional and localized sources (The Independent, The New York Times, Khaleej Times and others). Thus, World News Network delivers news from all over the world in 49 languages.

9. MSNBC

MSNBC provides 24-hour news coverage in English. It covers both US and Canadian national and international news. It works with The New York Times, Newsweek, The Washington Post.

10. FoxNews

The site is an outlet of the Fox News Channel (FNC), a major American cable news and satellite channel owned by the Fox Entertainment Group. The website provides latest news from all over the World in English.

Beyond the top 10

One of the largest international news agencies Associated Press ranks the 14th position in the list of the most popular news sites.

Another famous news site Agence France-Presse (AFP) that hasn`t found itself in top 10 should be mentioned separately. The site provides news from all over the world in six different languages. AFP covers events in different spheres of the social life such as politics, diplomatic relations, and economics. It focuses on covering sport, culture, science events, cinema and theatre news.