If you are going to put it in an html page, then you may be stuck using javascript to do it. Here are a couple of threads using javascript to do it:
[HowTo] Display your latest threads on an external page using an RSS2 feed
[HowTo] Display your latest threads on an external page using an XML feed
[HowTo] Display your latest threads on an external page using an RSS feed
If you don't mind using php to do it, then there is an article about grabbing the latest threads on a non-vb page and there are also several mods with the queries in them to grab the lastest threads and you can use those queries in your page (that is, if you don't want to write the query yourself).