Google News Map

Pin live Google News headlines on a world map. Locations are extracted from each headline with a small NER model and resolved against the GeoNames gazetteer. Based on the original from 2004

Live headlines from Google News, pinned at the place each story is about. Click a marker to read the article.

Showing 79 geolocated headlines from the last 24 hours. Feed last refreshed 9 min ago.

This is the 2026 rewrite. The 2004 original was a Tkinter desktop program: it scraped Google News HTML directly and pinned headlines on a static worldmap.gif using a hand-compiled keywords.txt of country coordinates. The full original is available as a downloadable Python file above.

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original_newsmap.py
Original 2004 Tkinter desktop version — scraped Google News HTML and pinned headlines on a worldmap.gif using a hand-compiled keywords.txt of country coordinates.

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