Here is a simple Python code snippet to retrieve news titles from various news feeds. This example retrieves Technology news headlines from Reuters. All you need is urllib and cookielib installed. Please be careful only to scrap permissible sites and rss feeds.

scrapNewsTitles.py

import urllib2
import re
import cookielib
from cookielib import CookieJar

# If the web site expects cookies
cookie = CookieJar()
opener = urllib2.build_opener(urllib2.HTTPCookieProcessor(cookie))

# Get Scrapper pose as Browser
opener.addHeaders = [('User-agent', 'Mozilla/5.0')]
page = 'http://feeds.reuters.com/reuters/technologyNews'

def main():
    try:
        # Open the page and retrieve contents
        pageData = opener.open(page).read()

        #Filter for news headlines
        titles = re.findall(r'<title>(.*?)</title>', pageData)
        
        for title in titles:
            print title
    
    except Exception, e:
            print str(e)

main()