[Theme: Ari ] Latest Posts

I’m having real trouble building a Template to display latest posts within the Ari Theme, whenever I place a loop within the template it returns either an empty page or, if I use rewind_posts() the title of the page.

What am I missing?

I have copied the loops out of other themes that work fine and they all exhibit the same problem.

I can list my posts outside of the loop for instance with this;

<?php $myposts = get_posts('numberposts=10&offset=0');
foreach($myposts as $post) : ?>
<h3 class="page_item">
<a>"><?php the_title();?></a>
<p><?php the_content('Read more...'); ?></p>
</h3>
<?php endforeach; ?>

Which returns the correct titles but, of course, being outside the loop the_content() returns empty.

Any help gratefully received.