English News

• New York Times
• Washington Post
• Bloomberg Business news
• USA today Weather for all US and major world cities
• The Weather Channel for all US and major world cities
• BBC

"Independent" News

• Disinformation
• urbanlegends.com
• Urban Legends
• http://www.cato.org/
• Slashdot Technews
• Wired NewsTechnews
• freshmeat Technews
• The Center For Responsive Politics
• The Atlantic
• evote.com
• http://Polunity.com/

German News

• Die Zeit
• Rheinische Post
• Sportal
• Spiegel

Libraries

• Library of Congress
• WWW Virtual Library

Encyclopedia

• Encyclopedia Britannica
• Encarta Online
• Encyclopedia.com
• The Probert HTML Encyclopaedia
• Infoplease.com Dictionary, Almanac, Encyclopedia

Dictionaries

• Merriam-Webster dictionary and theasaurus
• YourDictionary.com very slow
• Guide to Grammar and Writing
• Acronym Finder large database, no explanations
• Acronyms small database, long explanations
• Zhongwen.com Chinese characters
• Bartleby References for the English language
• Common Errors in English

Country Info

• Library of Congress Country Handbook
Very detailed and complete
• CIA World Factbook
• Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library
  

Statistics

• U.S. Census Bureau
• Global Statistics

History

• Hyperhistory Cool overview of history, events, people
• History Channel Includes a dictionary
• The History Place American Civil War and since
• The Holocaust History Project Homepage
• Mathematics
• Virtual Library: History: German History
• Greek Mythology

Conflicts

• Institute for Global Communications
• Recent Conflicts
• Tibetan Studies Virtual Library
  Lots of resources about the Sino-Tibeto conflict
• Tibetan Government in Exile