These have made the rounds before, but they are worth a second (and third, and… well for me it’s an everyday thing) look:

newsmap builds a graphical representation of the top stories at Google News that makes it easy to discern what the most popular ones of the day are.

10×10 does something similar, culling stories from various news sources and presenting them in a photographic gallery, literally laid out in ten rows and ten columns.

Neither description I’m giving does them justice. If you haven’t tried these yet, give them a shot.