Adding news area?

Hello,

I would like to add a news area to my startpage. It should show the 3 latest news. Each news should look something like: “2010-11-12 title content…”

I searched on the plugins page but didn’t really find what i was looking for. How should I solve this? Making a custom plugin? Making my own rss-feed with the news, and use a plugin that gets rss feeds?

Thanks!