for serious news: http://news.bbc.co.uk for other 'news': http://www.digg.com for science news: http://www.newscientist.com/ some of you guys in the us should definitely give the bbc a try for world news. in terms of journalistic standard and telling the news rather than intepreting the news, they're probably one of the, if not the, best.
we do! on npr (which is our national public radio) they play the bbc world news daily. it is a fantastic source, i must agree.
This example is notsarc.