Surprisingly I have not been able to find a site which does this:has a craigslist minimalistic design with paragraph summaries of the most important 100 news events that has happened around the world in the last 24 hoursthe closest I have found is the two-page news summary in the print edition of the Economist in the front, I'm looking for something like thatnews.google.com is close to what I mean, but its purpose is more of a launch pad for you to go read headlines and then click to read the news stories in more depth, the site I'm looking for has a different purpose: for you to spend 5 minutes reading it (on screen or print) and you know pretty much everything important that happened in the last 24 hours, not in depth, just the bullet pointsjust like at news.google.com you can search and customize it, so if you want the top 100 news things that happened in Sri Lanka you can get it with a simple searchI just went to Google News and read through five articles in about 10 minutes. I summarized them here in the format that I am looking for, which takes about 10 seconds to read:Example:TECH: Bing has cornered 12.7% of the market in the 12 months since it launched. / The top five top search engines are still Google, Yahoo, Bing, Ask, AOL. / Apple acquired Canadian company Poly9 which creates browser-based 3D software, last year it also bought PlaceBase which produces maps that can be layered with private, public, or commercial data. POLITICS: U.S.-led United Nations Command met with North Korea about sinking of a South Korean warship, North Korea maintains innocence, the result of meeting will probably be just more talks. / Argentina granted full rights to gay citizens. /  Russia and Germany concluded talks: Medvedev welcomed German enterprises' participation in the hi-tech hub Skolkovo outside Moscow.If a site like this exists, it would probably be best created by crowd-sourcing: people reading the news and writing reviews such as the above. I know I would write for it since writing those reviews helps you pay attention to the news you read, remember facts etc. Would be cool if a site like this existed.
Where can I find a minimalistic news summary site?
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How about http://newsmap.jp? It primarily gets its data from Google news. But then it gets news pretty much in a minimal way.If you want to read the whole article, I'd recommend google Reader to subscribe to feeds and then use a minimalist extension on your browser over it.