I am looking for newspapers that are the most respected and commonly
purchased for the selection below, with web links.

If possible 2 or 3 newspapers /links  for each country etc, and
preferable in english.

There may not be english versions for some countries, but i noticed
some nmajor newspapers have english versions.





1. USA
2. UK
3. European
4. Middle East - Muslim 
5. Jewish (anywhere)
6. Austalia
7. Canada
8. New Zealand
9. Hong Kong
10. Russian

Dear Bluekat, 

Here you go: 

United States
=============
New York Times
<http://www.nytimes.com/> 

Washington Post
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/> 

USA Today 
<http://www.usatoday.com/> - not at the same level (of respect), but very popular

Chicago Tribune
<http://www.chicagotribune.com/> 

Boston Globe
<http://www.boston.com/news/globe/> 

Los Angeles Times
<http://www.latimes.com/> 


United Kingdom
==============
The Guardian
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/> 

The Times
<http://www.timesonline.co.uk/global/> 

Financial Times
<http://www.ft.com/> 

Daily Telegraph
<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/> 


European (is the UK not in Europe? or Russia?)
========
Le Monde 
<http://www.lemonde.fr/> (no English edition; however, Le Monde
Diplomatique has an English edition: <http://mondediplo.com/>).

International Herald Tribune
<http://www.iht.com/> - attempts to be a global newspaper. 

El Pais
<http://www.elpais.es/> (no English)

La Repubblica
<http://www.repubblica.it/> 

Die Welt
<http://www.welt.de/> 

Der Spiegle
<http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/> 

Sueddeutsche Zeitung
<http://www.sueddeutsche.de/> 

Tagesspiegel
<http://www.tagesspiegel.de/> 

Irish Times
<http://www.ireland.com/> 

Le Figaro
<http://www.lefigaro.fr/english/> 

HELSINGIN SANOMAT
<http://www.hs.fi/english/>


Middle East (Arabic, that what you meant by "Muslim", right?)
===========

A-Sharq Al-Awsat
<http://www.asharqalawsat.com/english/> 

Al Ahram 
<http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/index.htm> (Egypt, state-controlled). 

El-Hayat
<http://english.daralhayat.com/> 


"Jewish" 
========
Haaretz (Israel)
<http://www.haaretzdaily.com/> 

Y-Net News
<http://www.ynetnews.com/home/0,7340,L-3083,00.html> - English version
of Israel's largest daily newspaper.

Forward
<http://www.forward.com/> 

Tikkun
<http://www.tikkun.org/> 


Australia
=========
Sydney Morning Herald
<http://www.smh.com.au/> 

The Age
<http://www.theage.com.au/> 


Canada
======

National Post
<http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/index.html> 

The Toronto Star
<http://www.thestar.com/> 


New Zealand
===========
New Zealand Herald
<http://www.nzherald.co.nz/> 

Wairarapa Times/Age
<http://www.times-age.co.nz/> 


Hong Kong
=========
South China Morning Post
<http://www.scmp.com/> 

Asia Times
<http://www.atimes.com/> 

The Standard
<http://www.thestandard.com.hk/> 


Russia
======

The St. Petersburg Times
<http://www.sptimesrussia.com/> - the leading English-language publication

Moskovsky Novosti
<http://www.mn.ru/> 

Izvestia
<http://www.izvestia.ru/> 

I hoep this answers your question. Please contact me if you need any
clarification on this answer before you rate it.

Thankyou very much for your work...

Regards

Poly-guru,
What do you have against the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung?  ;)

http://www.faz.net/s/homepage.html
http://www.ketupa.net/faz1.htm
         Note that an English F.A.Z. supplement appears weekly in the
International Herald tribune.

This site about cooperation between the Intl. Herald Tribune and a few
local papers mentioned may also be of interest:
http://www.iht.com/indexes/partners/index.php

Really, Myoarin

I thought everyone knew that the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung was
the paper used for wrapping hot dogs.

Bryan

Silly me! 

Would you believe me that I was thinking of FAZ as I was writing the answer?

Polly, I am relieved.  Maybe you supressed the FAZ to keep from posting the TAZ.

Bryan, that may have been the case before the FAZ was offset printed,
but the new ink ... barf!  But actually, from your duty in Germany,
you know that Germans even back then ate their Frankfurter, Wiener,
Bratwurst straight from the grill, holding it with a little tear-off
strip from the pasteboard dish, as I practiced  at many Schutzenfests
near Soest summer of 1961.

Is the Murdock "Times" really still a respected paper.  I learned
about the "agony column" from reading Sherlock Holmes, long before I
ever saw a copy of the paper.

Cheers, Myo

Hi Myo

I know Frankfurt very well but not from my duty in Germany but because
later my company had its German Office there.

The Times is still considered 'a respected paper' but I'm afraid that
all the UK papers are now rubbish. Not even good enough for wrapping
up Frankfurters of Hamburgers.

Bryo

Can't forgeth the Globe and Mail from Canada; 1 of only 2 national
newspapers (the other being the National Post)

http://www.theglobeandmail.com