The world, as it breaks.

Every free, official news livestream we could verify, on one TV — all 16 channels play right here in the set. Use the remote — or click a channel, tap it, or focus the remote and use the arrow keys (↑ ↓ change channel, ← previous channel). If a stream is off air or blocks embedding, the set tells you and offers the YouTube link. No paywalled channels, no unofficial re-streams.

Reports, explainers and interviews from the same outlets — on demand, not live. The player below runs each channel's uploads playlist, so YouTube serves that channel's newest clips first and nothing here goes stale the way a single live broadcast link does. Researched method (28 Oct 2026): YouTube VOD embeds are free and static-safe; clips don't expire like live IDs.

DW News — latest clips · Berlin · English

Player blank? A channel can switch playlist embedding off — browse DW News clips on YouTube instead. Full reports and documentaries live on each outlet's channel, linked in The channels directory in the Library below.

The news without a screen: native audio players fed straight from each show's public podcast RSS — no login, no platform lock-in, exactly the route the research recommends. The native player is the player — no account-gated embed stands in for it. Episodes pulled Thu, Oct 29, 2026; rebuild the page to refresh them.

Low-bandwidth alternative to the TV: audio keeps playing with the screen off and costs a fraction of the data of video. More shows from these newsrooms — BBC Global News Podcast, DW, France 24 and Al Jazeera podcasts — publish the same way, as open podcast RSS; they join this section the same way these two did, episode audio pulled from the feed at build time.

The newest stories from this snapshot, in the order they landed — the live-blog format, built from the same wire. Times are each story's real publication time.

The latest posts from newsrooms on Bluesky, pulled with this snapshot — plus where to follow the same outlets on X, Reddit, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, Threads and YouTube.

Latest posts · Bluesky

Follow the newsrooms

The live blog shows the day; these show the arc. Each timeline is built from this snapshot's own stories about one running story, oldest first, so you can watch the reporting develop — every entry is a real story from the wire above, with its outlet and publication time, and links to the original.

Timelines are drawn only from stories in this snapshot (pulled Wed, Oct 28, 2026) — a thread with no stories in the snapshot doesn't get a timeline, and nothing before the snapshot window is back-filled or invented.

Market tape by TradingView. Equities are delayed (exchanges charge for real-time); forex and crypto are real-time. Don't read the tape as live prices.

Weather at the bureaus

Current conditions from Open-Meteo, the free no-key weather API, fetched live in your browser.

We researched every format a news page can use — video, wires, social, alerts, data — and checked what each one really costs and needs. Here's the full map, including what this page deliberately doesn't do.

The wire up top only reaches back a few days — RSS can't go further. This section is the deep past, in honest layers: a timeline of major events you can browse by century, decade, year or topic; live lookups of two free, no-key archives; this site's own snapshots, kept from today onward; and two deeper layers that switch on when their free API keys arrive. Everything here is headlines, short summaries and links to the original reporting — never full copyrighted articles copied in. One honest limit: no archive on earth holds literally every article ever published; a lot of the past is paywalled, undigitised, or lost. This is everything we can actually reach.

Headlines of history — browse by era

Major world events, in our own words, oldest first. Filter by century or decade, jump to an exact year, or search a topic. Entries from before 1964 link to the actual newspapers published that year, at the Library of Congress.

Search the real archives — live, no key needed

This site's own archive — from today onward

RSS can't recover the past, but it doesn't have to lose the future: every time this page is rebuilt, its story snapshot is kept here as a permanent entry, so the site grows its own archive from today onward. Nothing is stored in your browser — the ledger below is baked into the page at build time.

Coming when the keys arrive — Guardian & NYT

Two deeper layers are built into this section's design and switch on the moment their free keys are provided. Until then they show no results at all — an honest empty state, not filler. Keys are used at build time only and are never pasted into this page, where anyone could read them.

Have the keys? Hand them over through the secure vault — never in a public message — and the next rebuild fills both panels with real results in this same section, no redesign needed.

Library — the channels

Every outlet on this page, where it broadcasts from, and where to watch it direct.