This'll mostly be of interest to German readers; Germany's biggest online news site (I suppose it is), http://Spiegel.de , appears in a fresh layout today. They got rid of the left-hand navigation and made the whole page appear more fresh and clean.

do they see a competition in austrias new "newssite"?
(www.oe24.at [Bug-Warning])

The Sun online (UK tabloid) had ben sighly redesigned sunday too.
And by the way... http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2006410486,00.html