There are hundreds of ways of using newspapers in a language class.  Here are just a few ideas for teachers:

1. Jumble up the paragraphs from an article and ask your students to find the correct order.
2. Remove some key words from an article and ask your students to find the missing words.
3. Split your students into groups and give each member of the group a different paragraph from an article.  Then ask the students to piece together the information by asking questions from other members of the same group.  All the infomation sharing should be done orally.
4. Find some interesting advertisements, and ask students to give their opinion about the messages the ads are trying to convey. 
5. Take a provocative article from one of the tabloids and study the idioms and colloquialisms.
6. Give students the job of "reporting" an event in the news.  Compare the student writing to actual articles on the same event.
7. Ask a group of students to prepare a news "broadcast" from a newspaper and deliver it live to the rest of the class.
8. Try reading an article with different regional accents and ask your students what the characteristics of each accent are.

BBC News - world news updated every minute (UK version)

Euronews News on-line from ITN (available in 6 languages).

Financial Times

Guardian, The  National UK daily newspaper.  Centre-left orientation.

Jewish Chronicle   London-based paper with news and opinion pages reflecting Jewish religious, social and political thought.

Independent, The  National daily newspaper