Links - News & information

The website of the first German television's news magazine.
http://www.tagesschau.de/

Another news website with focus on North America.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/

The website of the German IT magazine c't. Contains many interesting articles about IT, computers and computer science.
http://www.heise.de/

The German magazine "Der Spiegel" does also have a website.
http://www.spiegel.de/

The same holds for the German news magazine "Der Stern".
http://www.stern.de/

LEO, Link Everything Online, a huge collection of links about many topics. Aside from other things this website also contains dictionaries for translations between German and English and between German and French.
http://www.leo.org/

Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia; forget Microsoft Encarta, this encyclopedia will give you ample information.
http://de.wikipedia.org/

The German telephone register. In case one needs a certain telephone number and the corresponding phone book cannot be found.
http://www.teleauskunft.de/