I recently came across this great site that explores the words and pictures that are most important at a particular point in time. The excerpt below from the developers' website explains how it works. This is a great way to see what's happening in the world!
http://www.tenbyten.org/10x10.html
10x10™ ('ten by ten') is an interactive exploration of the words and pictures that define the time.
The result is an often moving, sometimes shocking, occasionally frivolous, but always fitting snapshot of our world. Every hour, 10x10 collects the 100 words and pictures that matter most on a global scale, and presents them as a single image, taken to encapsulate that moment in time. Over the course of days, months, and years, 10x10 leaves a trail of these hourly statements which, stitched together side by side, form a continuous patchwork tapestry of human life.