If you’re an idiot, and I am one, so be careful how you talk about idiots..anyway, if you are an idiot like me, you may occasionally drain a battery or lose a computer for a day and be without the internet. When you do this thing, and you are 100% committed to the power of the web and control of your own media, you might not be able to bear the absolutely terrible local paper

…ad so you might be behind on the news - news sites are good at telling you the current news cycle but  they are bad at informing you about recent days news. You have to do far too much reading the news backwards, especially on blogs and most news archives are kind of a mess, becaus the archives don’t get the advantage of selection, i.e editorial discretion about what is emphasized through placement and featuring.

Then I found Wikipedia/Portal:Current Events it presents the current important events from the last few days up front. Then it gives you a thorough survery of top world headlines for the previous 7 days events.

Excellent presentation and the wiki philosophy naturally lends itself to a diverse set of opinions.