International Newsstand gives you the chance to get a fresh perspective on what’s happening around the world. Access International Newsstand from Your Library and if you ‘View the Title List’ you’ll see the full list of over 280 of the world’s top newspapers as well as detail of how far back coverage goes for each title.

Use International Newsstand to compare and contrast how different newspapers in different countries view and report the same news stories.  Edinburgh Zoo’s pandas have made headlines around the world. Canada’s Montreal Gazette labelled the news a ‘Giant fuss’ whilst Delhi’s Press Trust of India report focused on the fanfare and crowd of 600 animal lovers that welcomed the animals to Edinburgh. Back in August, Glasgow’s Evening Times announced the arrival with the attention grabbing headline ‘Pandas get bullet-proof glass in zoo with a view’. While the pandas continue to make news in Edinburgh’s own Evening News with a recent article reporting on an advertising watchdog enquiry to decide when is a panda gift not a panda gift.

International Newsstand is a great tool for helping to learn languages. You’ll find dozens of regional papers as well as the well-known national papers from across the globe (and right up to the current edition). If you’re reading a foreign language news article and want to check your linguistical skills you can simply click ‘translate’ to see a translated copy of the text. Although, as with most non-human translations, some things can end up getting lost. Or indeed added to, as in this rather poetic weather report from Berlin’s Die Tageszeitung: