I'll second news.yahoo.com. It's better than Google's layout, and you can dive right into subregions of the world to get more specific world news. Also, nba.ya

I'll second news.yahoo.com. It's better than Google's layout, and you can dive right into subregions of the world to get more specific world news. Also, nba.yahoo.com has a better layout than nba.com itself for following stats and even following the games live (a really well-done java applet). Finally, I've been playing around with switching search engines from Google to something else, and I found for most tech stuff, Yahoo! actually has more relevant search results than Bing or DDG.