More perspectives...

When something big happens here I like to read the international papers to see what other perspectives might be. They are indeed eye-opening and usually a lot less "sugar-coated" than the US media. Of course, don't take any media report as gospel, but it helps to have more than one source for perspective.

Australia: Economic ripple effect

Australia: America Fails It's Own

UK: Criticism of Bush mounts as more than 10,000 feared dead

A slide show from Germany

UK: Battle for Survival

and here, the Christian Science Monitor

UK: Need is vast, but so is outpouring