[NTLDR]

For the page navagation you can use the getpagenav() (Pretty sure thats what its called in vB2) function which generates the page navagtion links (Page 1, 2, 3 Last >>).

Also it will require and edit to the news query and a few extra variables. Alot of the vB files have this (memberlist.php, showthread.php, forumdisplay.php for example). I don't think it would be too hard to do and may include this as standard for v3.0.0.

For grouping by date, you would need to store the last date (without the time) and compare it the next time round the loop, if its different then update the last date and add the header to the template.

Here is an example of what I mean:

PHP Code:

$lastdate = 0;
while($news = $DB_site->fetch_array($newsposts)) {
    $date = vbdate($dateformat, $news['dateline']);

    if ($lastdate != $date) {
        $lastdate = vbdate($dateformat, $news['dateline'];
        $newsbits .= 'header code/template call here';
    }
    // rest of script