World news is the media jargon for international news – news that occurs outside of a country’s borders. It can be sent to newspapers and broadcasters by foreign correspondents, or, more commonly in this day and age, by news agencies.
Correspondents who are based abroad, covering an area, a country or a continent, regularly file stories that their editors at home base read and consider. Often their articles are based on events they witness or that they learn about through local officials, community members and other reporters in the field, as well as from information provided by foreign diplomats, military personnel, intelligence agents and the like.
The bulk of the major news agency services, from Reuters (France), AP (US) and others, contains foreign news. When reporters working abroad have no permanent labor contract with a newspaper or broadcaster, they are called stringers, and their work is sometimes sold to several different outlets at once.