What's going on in the world?

[Birdspa]

I could tell you everything that's going on in my own little universe but please - how and where can i best keep abreast of the news so that when adult conversations turn to politics or the economy i can confidentally join in and (god forbid) actually have an opinion. How do the rest of you keep up-to-date?

BBC website
Guardian website

The Week weekly magazine. Condenses week's news from a range of newspapers.

BBC news
Ch4 news

Ditto. BBC news and Guardian websites. Follow all the main news websites on Twitter. Buy the Guardian and Telegraph on Saturdays.

BBC News website. They have a "Most watched/read" thing if you scroll down - on the right hand side - that's useful. The website is better than the App, I think - more explanation, so at the end of a report there will be further links explaining key parts of the story - there's a sort of idiot's guide to the Syria crisis, for example. The BBC is very good at having the in-depth analysis as well as the "now here's an easy summary for people who live on a different planet" bits.

adult conversation turns to economy and politics? Not in my pub! Anyway I just keep checking through the day you know radio/tv/internet/newspaper snippets.

Ch4 news every night I love Jon Snow

And Radio 4.

On Freeview Russia Today, I think it's channel 84. It's English language and has loads of really interesting stories that you never hear about on the Beeb. They had a feature today on bounty hunters in the US.
On the Beeb, you can scroll down and click on world news, then scroll down again and click on an area of the world, then scroll down again and there's a section called country profiles. This gives you all the background on any country, including links to that country's media, so you can see what they're saying in other countries. . Really good for homework projects too.

watch the news and/or read a newspaper.

Radio 4 for me and then Five Live or BBC Radio Scotland when Radio 4 has something shit on like The Archers.

The Economist - yes they have a bias, but they do try not to. It's not just business stories and they come up with some interesting international events and quirky obituaries.
If you subscribe, there's extra content on-line and they also do an audio version for smartphones.

Thanks everyone. Not rocket science then - good to know your sources. Liking the BBC and their Q&A sections. Must dash, got an appt with the 10 o'clock news right now.

I used to enjoy the Times Web site, but it's now behind a fucking pay wall.

Oh yes, I like the Economist. Lots of European stories.