Newsy shows how news stories are reported in different places around the world.
Choose "Current Events" and then search by "Date" for the most recent articles.
If you want to find out more about something in the news and learn more sides to the issue, do a search in the Issues and Controversies database.
Create an account and read news stories that are leveled by Lexile.
TweenTribune offers news from around the world. You can change the reading level of articles, search by grade level or lexile.
Time for Kids updates weekly and includes news from around the world.
Time has produced a series of short videos that give the background to some current events topics.
Want to know what news is big news right now? Newsmap takes the results from Google News and makes a visual representation of the numbers of stories on a topic. The bigger the box, the more stories. Compare the results between countries. Click on the box to read some of the stories about the event.
