News and the media

Reuters UK - World News Agency
Digital Spy - Media and entertainment news site
C21 Media - World media industry news
Broadcast - UK media industry news
AFP Worldwide - International news site
Guardian Unlimited - UK and world news site

Non-English Language media

El País - Spanish news site
La Vanguardia - Spanish news site
consumer.es - Spanish lifestyle and environmental news site
Le Monde - French news site
TF1 - French news site from TV channel TF1

Blog/user-contribution sites

Digg - User contributed internet news site
SlashDot - User contributed technology news site
BoingBoing - Blog - combination of news and finds from all over the net
Wikipedia - User contributed online encyclopedia (though this one's become so big now I doubt you need a link)

Linux

Ubuntu - Linux distribution site (get free Ubuntu Linux CDs here)
GNU - GNU Project site
Linux Questions - Linux forum community
Google Linux - Linux based Google serach-engine