【News】 , 【tidings】 ,  【intelligence】 ,  【advice】  are comparable when they designate a report or the reports of occurrences and conditions not previously known.

【News】 stresses novelty and freshness of information. Since  【news】 is specifically applied to the information disseminated through public media (as radio and journals) shortly after the incidents have occurred, it also often implies distribution, even in its general sense.

【Tidings】 , which may be singular in construction, is somewhat bookish; it is often appropriate when it refers to 【news】 orally communicated or disseminated (as by a herald or messenger).

【Intelligence】 stresses the desirability or the practical value of the information rather than its freshness. In specific military use  【intelligence】 suggests clandestine methods of gathering information (as by secret agents). It is therefore applied not only to the information gathered but to the branch of the service commissioned to gather it.

In comparison with  【intelligence】 , which often suggests the gathering of important information,  【advice】 stresses the transmission of information and implies the immediacy of its value.

It, or its plural advices, is often applied to the means (as letters, telegrams, or messengers) by which this information is communicated.