There are a variety of News sites offering plethora of news on any subject under the sun. Among them Google and Yahoo are topmost.  These sites let you peruse headlines from hundreds of news organizations at once. Broadcasters like the BBC and CNN have also created Web sites, making text versions of their storiesalong with photos, audio, and videoavail-able online. 

Google News

Google News (http://news.google.com) is a computer-generated page of news headlines culled from over 4,500 English-language news sites. It tracks the latest developments in world and national affairs, business, sports, science and technology, entertainment, and health. The page automatically updates itself every 15 minutes, so you see new headlines every time you go back.

Unlike Google’s minimalist home page, Google News is positively bustling with headline links, story summaries, and pictures. The page is laid out on a two-column grid for easy reading, like a newspaper page. When you see a story you want to read in full, click the link to go to the full article.

You can take Google News with you in other ways, too. You can sign up for any of these services from links on the main Google News page:

• Google Mobile:- If you’ve got a data plan and a Web browser on your cellphone, you can cruise Google News on the go. Just tap out google.com on your phone’s browser and click the News button. You can see all the hot headlines and even search for news by topic.

• News Alerts:- On the left side of the Google News main page, click News Alerts to reveal a form that lets you specify topics you’re interested in (like raw-food diets or Manchester United, for example). Once you supply your email address, the site sends you regular messages with links to the latest stories on your chosen subjects.

• News feeds:- A news feed is a summary of updates collected in a special browser window or news-reader program. With a news feed, you don’t have to keep going back to the original Web site to check for new articles. When you subscribe to the feed of a Google News section (like Business or Sports), you can get notified every time a new story appears, with a link to go read the text in full.

Yahoo News

Yahoo News (http://news.yahoo.com) is like a coffee table full of newspapers from around the world that you can browse at your leisureand you don’t even have to recycle them when you’re finished.

Yahoo News is loaded with features that help you find your way around. For example, some stories contain highlighted words or names. Click once to open a floating window containing the top search results for the highlighted word.

You don’t even need to click the main page’s headlines to learn more about a story. In most browsers, you can simply point to the link without clicking to see background information in a floating box.

Like Google News, discussed earlier, if you sign up for a free account, Yahoo News lets you personalize the page and offers email alerts and news feeds. The site can even send the alerts to your cellphone or ping you with an instant message from Yahoo Messenger.

BBC News

The British Broadcasting Corporation has been in the news business since 1922, back when wireless meant the radio. Commonly known as the BBCor if you happen to be English, the Beebit has one of the Web’s best sites for pure, high-quality news. Check it out at http://news.bbc.co.uk.

Under the main section of breaking news, the site carves up its subsections not by topic like Business or Entertainment, but by geographic region like Americas, Asia-Pacific, and Europe. You can even choose to read the site in one of several different languages on the Languages page.

Clickable tabs at the top of the BBC News page take you to other sections of the BBC’s Web site, including its TV and radio programs in the UK. Its Sport section has thorough coverage of cricket, squash, rugby, and football (that’s the British translation of what Americans call soccer).

As with the other major news sites, you can sign up for email news alerts and BBC News on your cellphone or wireless handheld organizer if you just can’t bear to be away from this steady information pipeline pumping world events into your Web browser.

CNN.com

The companion Web site to the Cable News Network, CNN.com, keeps you in the loop when you can’t be glued to the TV set. At www.cnn.com, the latest headlines span the top of the page, along with links to free CNN video clips and streaming radio news.

For the CNN groupie, there are also links to of the channel’s current programming. The site encourages viewer feedback on CNN’s television shows with links to its message boards. The site isn’t a complete mirror of the TV version, though. There’s original content like technology columns and health news.

CNN is part of the Time Warner media conglomerate, so it links to stories on the company’s other sites (Sports Illustrated, Time, and Money). If you want a different perspective on the news, click the World link to see CNN.com’s International edition with its overview of the world at large.