Newspapers
Staff and students at The University of Manchester can access a wide range of online resources, including newspapers, via The University of Manchester Library databases page.
Newspapers contain a lot of interesting stories which can help to improve your language skills, particularly with reading. You do not need to understand every single word in a text as long as you can get the main idea, and reading newspapers is an ideal way of developing these skills.
Get started by exploring some of the newspaper websites below:
UK national newspapers
International newspapers
- Al Anwar - Lebanese
- Al Arabiya - Saudi Arabian
- Alayam - Bahraini
- Al-Ittíhad - Emirati
- Al Jazeera
- Al-Quds - Palestinian
- Al Rai - Kuwaiti
- Arabic Media - links to Arabic language newspapers from 26 different countries
- Bahrain News Agency
- BBC - Arabic News
- CNN - Arabic News
- OnlineNewspapers - Egypt - extensive list of Egyptian newspapers
- Raya - Qatari
- Bondia
- Diari de Girona
- El Periódico
- El Punt Avui
- Regió 7
- ThePaperboy - Catalonia - list of links to 15 newspapers from Catalonia
- VilaWeb
- China Youth Daily - official newspaper of the Communist Youth League of China
- The Economic Observer - independent weekly
- OnlineNewspapers.com - links to newspapers and magazines
- The People's Daily - official newspaper of the government of China
- W3Newspapers - links to Chinese (business, entertainment, sports, economy, etc)
Austria
Germany
- Berliner Zeitung
- BILD
- Frankenpost
- Kicker - sport
- Rhein Zeitung
- Rheinische Post
- Der Spiegel
- Stern
- Süddeutsche Zeitung
- Die Welt
- Die Zeit
Switzerland
- ABYZ News Links - list of links to Swiss news media
- Kathimerini
- Naftemporiki - financial
- Proto Thema
- Ta Nea
- To Vima
- Greek Newspapers Online - List of links
- Calcalist - business, economics, sports, technology, etc
- Haaretz - sister paper to New York Times. (English language edition also available)
- Iton Tel-Aviv - general news
- Maariv - second highest-selling newspaper in Israel
- Yedioth Ahronoth - largest-selling Israeli daily
Hindi
Urdu
- Il Corriere della Sera
- Il Corriere dello Sport
- La Gazzeta dello Sport
- IPSE.com - links to national and local Italian newspapers
- IPSE.com - Riviste - links to magazines and periodicals
- Il Messaggero
- La Repubblica
- Il Resto del Carlino
- Il Sole 24 ore - daily financial news
- La Stampa
- Cronaca di Roma
- Chosun Ilbo
- Dong-a Ilbo - highest-circulation daily
- Hankook Ilbo
- Kookmin Ilbo
- Munhwa Ilbo
- Seoul Shinmun
- W3newspapers - (South Korea) List of links to Korean language newspapers
- Hamshahri - mildly reformist daily
- IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency
- Kayhan News - extremely conservative daily
- OnlineNewspapers.com - list of links to Iranian publications
- Pars Times
- Fakt - Best-selling tabloid
- Gazeta Wyborcza - Poland's first post-communist independent daily
- Super Express - Tabloid
- Rzeczpospolita - Economic and legal daily
- Dziennik Gazeta Prawna - Legal and business daily
- Przeglad Sportowy - Sport
- Puls Biznesu - Business and economics
- Argumenty i Fakty - weekly
- Izvestia - high-circulation daily
- Kommersant - politics and business
- The Moscow Times (English)
- Pravda - official newspaper of the CPRF
- Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
- Sovetsky Sport
- W3Newspapers - list of links to Russian news sites
Spain
- ABCe
- Instituto Cervantes
- Marca - sport
- El Mundo
- Expansión - business/economics
- El Pais (Spain)
- La Vanguardia
Argentina
Bolivia
Chile
Columbia
Costa Rica
Cuba
- Granma - official paper of the Central Cttee of the Cuban Communist Party
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
El Salvador
Guatemala
Honduras
Mexico
Nicaragua
Panama
Paraguay
Peru
Puerto Rico
Uruguay
- El Pais (Uruguay)
Venezuela
- Today's Front Pages (Newseum) Read the news in different languages.
- Worldpress.org - World Newspapers and Magazines Useful portal site with links to online newspapers in many languages around the world.