Current Events - Wikipedia
http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Current_events
News and current events.

Documents in the News
http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/docnews.html
Documents in the News identifies issues about government making news headlines and web sources with additional information.

Google Directory - Current Events
http://www.google.com/Top/News/Current_Events/
Directory of current events information by topic.