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Upper Level
This section includes LOTS of FREE international English-language newspapers and magazines.  Some only offer the main news items for free;  others will allow you to read the entire newspaper.  At the end of this list, there is also a link to a "Periodicals Finder," and "Faux" News.
DON'T FORGET:  There are news articles on the left, underneath the Intermediate Level reading material.  Most of the articles have printable versions (look for an icon somewhere on the page).  New articles are added frequently.  There are now INTERMEDIATE LEVEL News Articles on the left.


International Newspapers:
(All of these newspapers are in English)
The New York Daily News (NY)
New York Newsday (NY/Long Island) Has Commercials
The New York Times (Only Current Day's News is Free)
USA Today (National U.S.) Link to ALL Gannett Newspapers 
COMICS.com
-- Syndicated Newspaper Comics
Comics -- King Features Syndicate
The U.S. Environmental News Daily
(National U.S.)
The Journal-News
(NYS: Westchester/Rockland/Putnam)
The Star Ledger (NJ)
Christian Science Monitor (National U.S.)
Chicago
Sun Times (Chicago, IL)
Newspaper Network of Central Ohio (9 newspapers + AP)
Anchorage Daily News (Anchorage, Alaska) 
Anchorage Press (National U.S.)
The Washington Post (Washington, D.C.)
The Globe and Mail
(Toronto, Canada)
The Evening Standard (London, England)
The Daily Telegraph (London, England)
Western Daily Press  (England)
The Independent (England)
The Sydney Morning Herald (Sydney, Australia)
The Weekend Australian (Australia)
The Irish Examiner (Ireland)
The Irish Times (Ireland)
Glasgow Evening Times (Glasgow, Scotland) 
Scottish Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
News Wales (Wales) 
IC Wales (Wales)
AGI: Agenzia Giornalistica (Italy)
France Daily (France)
News.Nabou.com (France)
Belgium Post (Belgium)
Athens News (Greece)
El Universal/The Herald  (Mexico)
DR1 (Dominican Republic)
The Jamaica Observer (Jamaica)
The Jamaica Star
 (Jamaica)
The Virgin Islands Daily News (Virgin Islands)
The Trinidad Guardian (Trinidad/Tobago)
The Trinidad Express (Trinidad/Tobago)
The Royal Gazette (Bermuda)
El Universal (Venezuela)
Venezuelan Analysis (Venezuela)
Hindustan Times
(India)
WebIndia123.com  (India)

The Straits Times (Singapore)
New Straits Times (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)
The Star (Petaling Jaya, Malaysia)
The Bangkok Post (Bangkok, Thailand)
The Nation (Bangkok, Thailand)
Myanmar Times & Business (Myanmar/Burma)
New Light of Myanmar (Myanmar/Burma)
Vietnam News (Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam)
The Daily Tribune (Manila, Philippines)
The Manila Times (Philippines)
Today (Manila, Philippines)
The Jakarta Post (Indonesia)
Samoa News (Samoa)
Asahi Shimbun  (Tokyo, Japan)
Nihon Keizai Shimbun (Tokyo, Japan)

Yomiuri Shimbun (Tokyo, Japan)
Mainichi Daily News (Osaka, Japan)
The Japan Times (for English speakers in Tokyo, Japan)
The Korea Herald (Seoul, Korea)
The Korea Times (NY-based)
The Seoul Times (Seoul, Korea)
JoongAng Ilbo (Korea)
Taipei Times
(
Taiwan)
China Post (Taipei, Taiwan)
China Daily
(Mainland China)
People's Daily (Mainland China)
South China Morning Post (China)
China Radio International English (China)
Kuensel (Bhutan)
Africa Daily (Africa)
World News Africa (Africa)
Top News (Burkina Faso)
Irin News (Burkina Faso)
Somali Press Bi-lingual (Somali) 
Zambia Daily Mail (Zambia)
The Monitor  (Zambia)
The Times of Zambia  (Zambia)
The Arusha Times (Tanzania)
IPP Media Bi-lingual (Tanzania)
The Daily Observer (Gambia)
The Ghanaian Chronicle (Ghana)
Daily Graphic
(Ghana)
Sudan.Net
(Sudan)
Pravda (Russia)
Moscow News (Russia)
The Moscow Times (Russia)
The Warsaw Voice  (Poland)
Nettavisen (Norway)
The Budapest Sun (Hungary)
Albanian Daily News (Albania)
Albania News (Albania)
Pari (Bulgaria)
Novinite (Bulgaria)
Oman Daily Observer (Oman)
Times of Oman (Oman)
Turkish Daily News (Turkey)
Morocco & Africa Today Int'l. (Morocco)
Al Jarida Al Maghribia (Morocco)
Arab News Daily (Saudi Arabia)
Gulf News (United Arab Emirates)

Business Oriented Publications:

Wall Street Journal (NY-based)
Financial Times
(London-based for Int'l. business)
Crain’s New York Business (NY-based)
The Sunday Business Post (Dublin, Ireland)

News Services
:
EIN News Service (TRY THIS ONE FIRST -- A Comprehensive Domestic & International News Service)
FOX News
(Print + Video Clips)
The White House (Official U.S. Gov't. News)
News Minute
(Hundreds of News Links)
WorldNetDaily (U.S.)
MichNews.Com
(
U.S. News Svc.)
Italy-News.Net (Italy)
AllAfrica.com: 
Central Africa
Eastern AfricaNorthern Africa
Southern AfricaWestern Africa
Pan Africa
Donosy (Poland)
Central Europe/EIN News Service
Asia Times (for Hong Kong, Korea, Japan)
Korean Central News Agency (Korea/Tokyo)
Xinhuanet/China View (Mainland China)
Inside China Today/EIN News Svc.
Kol-Israel (Middle Eastern News Svc.)

Magazines:
Time / Newsweek / People
National Geographic / National Geographic Kids 
Reader's Digest
Cosmopolitan, Ladie's Home Journal
Smile & Act Nice, Pussycat Magazine
Tacky Living,  
 
E/The Environmental Magazine
Natural Home
Grist (Humorous Environmental News)
GeoTimes (Ecology/Earth Sciences News Magazine)
U.S. News & World Report / Money
Wired.com News
The New York Observer (NY weekly)
Let's Live Magazine (U.S.-based Health Monthly)
Billboard (Pop Music Charts & Business)
The Hollywood Reporter, Variety (Int'l. Film & TV Business)
Spin, Much MusicDJ Times (for international DJs)
NME MusicNews,
Beat Magazine
(Aussie-based Music Mag)
Dolce Vita (Italian Design, Fashion, Cuisine & Travel Magazine)
Zoomata.com (Close-up on Italian culture)
Far Eastern Economic Review (Hong Kong)
Japan Today
Japan Update (Okinawa, Japan)
Saigon Times Weekly (Vietnam)
AsianWeek
(California-based U.S. publication)
India Today (India)
Sunday Chronicle
(Guyana)
Ain-Al-Yaqeen Weekly (Saudi Arabia)

Periodicals Finder:
If you would like to search for a magazine or newspaper article on a particular topic, use the
iTools Search Engine
NOTE: It's the third one from the top.
World Newspapers.com
Or, if you're not quite sure what you want, go to:
The Executive Library
A comprehensive list of links to national and international news periodicals and news services.

Faux News:  (For entertainment purposes only)
The Weekly World News (Faux & Real News)
The Spoof  (Faux news)
The Onion 
(Faux news)
More Faux News: 
Satire News, BigFib.com, DailyHog, The Cock & Bull, Lost Brain, Ironic Times, SatireSearch  

REAL
 Unusual News Stories:
News of the Weird U.S. Map -- Just click on a state and get weird news from that area, The Bizarre Bazaar, Fortean Times Strange Phenomena , The Weird News Archive, The News Bizarre,
The Obscure Store Reading Room, Clumsy Crooks, Dumb Crooks, Dumb Criminals, Too Stupid to Live, Law & Disorder, Dumb Crimes, Behind the Badge, Bozo Criminal of the Day, Dumb Criminal Acts,
News of the Strange (WFTV/Florida)
Weird News Making Headlines
Reuters News Service's Oddly Enough
Associated Press Top Strange News
(AP @ South of Boston.com)
CNN Offbeat News
The Bizarre Bazaar (WPVI TV-6 Philadelphia)
Water Cooler Stories  (KYW-TV3 Philadelphia)
News-Leader Weird News (Springfield, Missouri)
The Sacramento Bee 24-hour Weird News 
The Other Side  (News.com.Australia)
IOL: A Step Beyond
(South Africa)
Canoe Weird News  (C-News Canada)
Ananova Quirkies  (UK)
SkyNews Offbeat  (UK)
Stuff: OddStuff  (New Zealand)
Russia Makes It Funny 
Juicee News Daily 
Other "trash" (gossip) can be found in:
The National Enquirer
The Sun/UK
For an unusual mix of stories, try:
FARK.com
Offbeat News Headlines
For Supernatural and Paranormal News:
The Anomalist: Unexplained Mysteries 
Paranormal News 
Fate Magazine: True Reports of the Strange & Unknown  
Mystery Mag -- Fully interactive paranormal magazine with downloadable video and audio.
Fortean Times: The World of Strange Phenomena 
Strange Magazine: Exploring Strange Phenomena 
Myth and Mystery -- Strange & Supernatural Articles 
The X 

For an archive of Halloween news and information:
Halloween News, The Halloween Directory, Halloween Online Magazine Halloween Online Info Resource, Halloween Days, Halloween Technology, Kraft Halloween Tricks & Treats (recipes, menus, party planning, pumpkin carving guide, etc.)



Lower-Intermediate Level


BBC News for ESL Students.  This is easier than the regular news services, but it's not baby stuff.  It also has a listening feature and a quizzes page.  On the left are "buttons" that will connect you to sections with video clips, business English, grammar and vocabulary.
NOTE:  The BBC is British and uses British English.

Quick & Easy Reading Comprehension. 
American Folklore: ESL Practice Reading 
Myths & Urban Legends, Ghosts & the Supernatural, State & Regional U.S. Folktales, Historical Folklore, (Main Page) 

Below are quick, humorous stories from The English Language Center of The University of Victoria, British Columbia.  The story is on the right; the questions on the left.  (If you get an  "X" after you answer a question, that means it is incorrect.)
The vocabulary should not be difficult, so try to do these as fast as possible to increase your reading speed -- "Nasraddin and the Pot" , "Nasreddin Goes Shopping", "Nasreddin and the Beggar", Nasredding and the Smell of Soup", "Nasreddin and the Ferry Man", "Nasreddin's Visitors", Additional exercises for the above stories.


Intermediate Students
should also try to read these magazines:
1. "
Weekly Reader" -- a magazine-style site for American students in grades 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10.  Most of the vocabulary should not be too difficult for you.  2. DIG  is a U.S. archaeology magazine for American grade school kids.  You might want to try this one, too.

News Articles for Intermediate Students
Hospital Sent Family Wrong Corpse (Japan Times)
Family Murder-for-insurance Plot (Japan Times)
Judge Finds Dead Mouse in Beer (Ananova/News-Leader, Missouri)
Fourteen days after the Chinese New Year, the PengHu islanders in Taiwan offer sacrificial images of sea turtles to their temple deities to ensure peace, prosperity, and good fortune.  For colorful pictures and a description, go to: 
Sea Turtle/Lantern Festival


Upper-Intermediate/Upper Level:
News Articles:
The stories below are from various national newspapers and international news services.  Some of them are "time sensitive" -- If a link does not bring you to the page, that means it is no longer available. Please E-mail me if a link stops working. Thanks.

Human & General Interest Articles
Family Photographs Ghost With a Cell Phone
Strange Ice Falls From Sky in Sweden

20% of Worker Ants are Lazy (Japan Times)
Naked Sushi in Seattle (CNN/AP)
Hey, It's Me! Send Money!  (Reuters News Service)
Shiatsu Soothes the Nervous Chihuahua?  (Japan Times)
Christian College Lifts 142-year Dance Ban  (CNN/AP)
Multi-"Tusking" with Talented Pachyderms (Japan Times)
Thailand's AIDS Success Story (Christian Science Monitor)
Why Learn How to Write Kanji? (Japan Times)

Environmental Articles
HAVE YOU EVER HEARD OF MOJAVE MAX??? -- Some places rely on a ground hog to tell them when springtime has arrived.  However, the people in Las Vegas trust a decades-old desert tortoise named Mojave Max.  Read about him here:
Las Vegas Desert Tortoise Indicates Spring (AP/Sil. Val.)
Mojave Max is so popular, he has his own website (his picture is toward the bottom of the page): 
MojaveMax.com
And, he has a portfolio of news articles that have been written about him:
Recent Mojave Max News Articles
Relocating Endangered Tortoises in Florida (Naples Daily News/FL)
Record High Sea Turtle Deaths (Herald Tribune/FL)
Rain Flushes Toilets in the Robert Redford Building...and that's not all!  (CNN/Reuters News Svc)
Still the Sundance Kid  (Grist Environmental News)
Pollution Encourages Lightning (Christian Science Monitor)
Hong Kong Struggling to Save Sea Turtles  (CNN/AP)
Happy (Bicycle) Trails  (Christian Science Monitor)
Celebration as Rare Bird Thrives (BBC News)
It's one thing to survive a few weeks on a television show, but it's quite another to live 180 years and never be voted off the island!  CAN YOU GUESS WHO THE SURVIVOR IS?...  Survivor (eNature.com)
Newborn Snapping Turtles Hatch at St. Mary's School (The Lansing State Journal, Michigan)

Auto Body Shop Mends Wounded Turtle
(Detroit Free Press, Michigan)

Environmental articles regarding the LFA Sonar controversy:  
Deadly Sonar Kills Ocean Mammals (Whaleman Foundation)   LFA Sonar: A Deadly Technology (Defenders of Wildlife)  
A Roaring Debate Over Ocean Noise 
(CDNN Scuba News)
Drought & Smog Imperil Big Bend National Park  (Christian Science Monitor)
Cleaning Up the World's Slums (Christian Science Monitor)
Planning Culverts Under the Highway (Lake County Leader, Montana)

The Campaign to Restore the Korean Wildlands (CNN)

South Koreans Demonstrate for Animal Protection (CNN World News)

 Webzines:
(Web + Magazine) Please E-mail me if a link stops working. Thanks.
The Smoking Gun -- (A division of Court TV)  brings you exclusive, authentic documents that can't be found elsewhere. Using material obtained from government and law enforcement sources, via Freedom of Information requests, and from court files nationwide.

Contact Music -- The latest music, movie and celebrity news (and an archive of previous issues); Free MP3 Downloads, On-line Games, & more.
SciFilm -- News and Reviews of sci-fi, fantasy, horror and special effects films.


 GHOST STORIES
The Moonlit Road -- Ghost Stories & Southern U.S. Folktales.
The Shadowlands Ghosts & Hauntings -- Affiliated with South Jersey Ghost Research.
West Virginia True Ghost Stories   
Linda Linn's Kentucky & Tennessee Ghost Stories  
Jayz True Ghost Stories from the Eastern U.S. 
Fort Rade (Texas) Paranormal Research 
Lone Star Spirits (Texas)   
Maryland Ghost & Spirit Association Public Scrapbook -- Allegedly-true ghost stories and pictures.
Missouri Ghost Hunters Society -- Allegedly-True Ghost Stories.
True Trailer Ghost Stories  -- Ghosts who haunt trailers.
Weird U.S. #1 
Weird U.S. Stories 
Weird New Jersey 
Weird Wisconsin -- True Ghost Stories
Under the Bridge: Stories of the Paranormal -- Stories about Ghosts, UFOs, Dreams, etc. (plus section with photos)
Archive X -- True Ghost Stories
Ghost Village (U.S.-based paranormal site. Choose "encounters" on the top, then choose a story from the left-hand column.)
GhostHound -- True Ghost Stories (click on "home" to see other sections)
About.com Paranormal Phenomena
Bedlam Library
-- Ghost Stories, Urban Legends, UFOs, etc.
Castle of Spirits The official website of  AGHS: The Australian Ghost Hunters Society.  Includes allegedly-true American Ghost Stories. 
All About Ghosts -- (Australia-based site with stories from all over the world.  Click on links to see other parts of the site.)
Ghosts.org True Ghost Stories  
True-Ghost-Stories.com  A family's personal diary of paranormal events of the past and present.  (This nice-looking website has many sections and sub-sections.)
True Ghost Stories  Compiled by The Ghost Stalkers of West Tennessee.
The Legend of the Bell Witch An allegedly-true Tennessee ghost story from the 1800s.
New Orleans Voodoo & Cemetery Pages (Louisiana)
Eeeek-Net!:
True Stories, Main Page  
Urban Legends.com -- A collection of urban legends.  For a definition of urban legends click here.
URBAN LEGENDS Video Series -- Ghosts, UFOs, Weird Things.  These videos require you to read the titles -- there is no narration. (The videos might take a while to load if your computer is slow. Here is a link for a FREE FLASH PLAYER DOWNLOAD in case you need it.)
 
The Death Clock  -- Allegedly determines your time of death.
New York Times Obituaries -- Stanford University selection of historical NYT obituaries.

International Ghost Hunters' Society Ghost Links
SFOGS: Singapore's First Online Ghost Stories -- This site has stories, photos and videos from Asia. (Use their Temporary Server when the main server is down.)
The Paranormal World Top 100 Links  
 

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