I found this gem of a service, a free news server.
It's located here: http://news.cis.dfn.de/en/register.html
Has something to do with a German university...

Send them a polite mail and ask for a free signup!

If you like, you can of course use Google's free service. But then you'd have to use their web-client also. I like to use my own news client, and with the German service I can!

I haven't found many free news services, if you know of any, please share!