Looks like the news links on my sidebar might soon be obsoleted. Google's new News interface provides an automatic collation and categorisation of news stories from 4000 sources, and is updated regularly, so you can see at a glance the stories making news around the globe. It's not yet perfect, and I'd like to see a UK-biased version, but it is still a beta service and I'm sure further improvements will be made to it in the future.