• BBC Learning: Teachers [BBC, British Broadcasting Corporation]
With lesson plans grouped by topic and grade level, and a "Class Clips" section featuring "more than 3,000 clips" from BBC programs that can be viewed online.

• Learning Network [The New York Times]
Includes a "Student Connections" section with new summaries and daily quizzes and a "Teacher Connections" section with lesson plans and background readings and more.

• NPR >> News >> World [NPR, National Public Radio]
Although not specifically designed for educators, NPR.org is an excellent resource for world news.

• PBS Teachers [PBS, Public Broadcasting Service]
Featuring "classroom materials suitable for a wide range of subjects and grade levels," including "lesson plans, teaching activities, on-demand video assets, and interactive games and simulations. These resources are correlated to state and national educational standards and are tied to PBS' award-winning on-air and online programming like NOVA, Nature, Cyberchase, Between the Lions and more."

• Teachers' Domain [WGBH Educational Foundation]
"Teachers’ Domain is an online library of more than 1,000 free media resources from the best in public television. These classroom resources, featuring media from NOVA, Frontline, Design Squad, American Experience, and other public broadcasting and content partners are easy to use and correlate to state and national standards."

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• The Choices for the 21st Century Education Program >> Teaching with the News [Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University]
"The Choices Program's Teaching with the News initiative provides online curriculum materials and ideas to connect the content of the classroom to the headlines in the news. Topics cover a range of foreign policy and international issues." The Teaching Resources section of this website also features teaching tools, supplemental materials, and a Scholars Online resource featuring video interviews with university scholars. Choices also publishes excellent curriculum units for purchase.

• For Educators >> Academic Modules [Council on Foreign Relations]
"Academic Modules — featuring teaching notes by the authors of CFR publications — are designed to assist educators in creating or supplementing a course syllabus. The modules are customized packages built around a primary CFR text, such as a book or report, and include teaching notes; additional readings; video, audio, and transcripts of CFR meetings; Foreign Affairs articles; and other online resources." Also see the Publication section for "Daily Analysis," Interviews," "Online Debates," and "Backgrounder" articles on current world issues.

• Great Decisions: In the Classroom [Foreign Policy Association]
"Great Decisions, In the Classroom has been developed to engage and support educators and students who are committed to teaching and learning about international affairs." Includes lesson plans and links to related online resources. Also see the Resource Library section for links to a variety of resources, including articles, editorials, speeches, and maps; and Foreign Policy Blogs, "the largest network of global affairs blogs ... Staffed by professional contributors from the worlds of journalism, academia, business, non-profits and think tanks..."

• Education about Asia (EAA) [Association for Asian Studies]
This journal has excellent articles on contemporary topics written with the classroom in mind. A subscription is highly recommended.

• Global Issues and Current Events [Asian Educational Media Service, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign]
Featuring resource guides (with links to newspaper articles, editorials, video clips, and lesson plans) on selected current events topics.

• SPICE Digest [SPICE: Stanford Program on International and Cross-Cultural Education, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University]
"SPICE Digest was created to provide educators with background information on a wide variety of topics related to Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Europe, Latin America, the global environment, and international political economy." A selection of articles on China and Japan, some on topics of contemporary concern, are available online. The Digest is disseminated twice yearly via email subscription. SPICE also publishes excellent curriculum units for purchase.

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India

• Hindustan Times | "The Newspaper Inaugurated by Mahatma Gandhi"

• The Statesman | "One of India's Oldest English Newspapers"

• The Times of India | "World's Largest Broadsheet English Daily"

Pakistan

• Pakistan Times | "Pakistan's First Independent Complete Daily E-Newspaper"

• The Nation | "Internationally, the Most Quoted Pakistani Newspaper"

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