I struggled looking for answers to this for ages but managed to find the "syndicate" hack on this site which gave me what I needed ie last 10 (and also last 50) headlines that is on a non-vb page - and on a different server.
If I remember rightly the syndicate hack returned HTML but I wanted it to write a .JS file so easy to include on another page - in fact easy to include on anyones site like moreover.
I run the php to generate my news.js every 15 minutes by CRON - or let my news gatherers run it direct from their browser after posting a news story.
Please see
http://www.southport.gb.com - main home page with last 10 news stories (single selected forumid for news only). Also option to display last 50 on its own page.
Apologies if this duplicates other posts but I found it hard to get exactly what I wanted. If anyone wants a full copy of my implementation I will post here.
Credits to all whose bits I took!