[Logician]

Highlander :Unfortunately your wishes are not achievable with this script. Script can not support different categories like English or German. However if you want, you can install it to 2 different directories and use one for English News and the other for German news. This is possible.

As for old news support, it's not possible. This is not designed to be a stand-alone news script but a vb-integration so it just drags vb news tagged messages to your main page and if a message is tagged as news but not dragged to the main page, script automatically removes the news tags from it (configurable in options part). This is intentional to decrease SQL load in your server and incease script running time and because of this behavior, it's not possible to save/archive/access old news.

Again you cannot create different columns for news, script is not designed to do that either. In my site's main page only the middle column is generated by this script, the other columns are not. So if you are referring the right column in that page, it's not this script doing it, I writed an individual PHP code to handle it.