diff --git a/css/layout.css b/css/layout.css
index 94a4dbab..a84236ca 100644
--- a/css/layout.css
+++ b/css/layout.css
@@ -1178,6 +1178,69 @@ small {
 		line-height: 13px;
 		}
 
+/* BLOG WIDGET ----------*/
+
+div.blogRow, div.blogFirstRow {
+	height: 40px;
+	padding: 3px 10px;
+	margin: 0 0;
+}
+
+div.blogLastRow {
+	height: 20px;
+	text-align: center;
+	}
+
+div.blogFirstRow {
+	height: 22px;
+	background: url(../images/table-head.jpg) left top repeat-x #885ca4;
+	}
+	
+.blogRow:hover {
+	background: #f6ffd5;
+	}
+
+div.blogRow1, div.blogRow3 {
+	background: #eee8f1;
+}
+
+.blogFeed a {
+text-decoration: none;
+}
+
+.blogFeed p {
+margin: 0;
+font-size: 12px;
+}
+
+p.blogTitle {
+	font-weight: bold;
+	text-decoration: underline;
+	}
+
+p.blogAuthor {
+	color: #000000;
+	text-align: right;
+	margin-top: -20px;
+	}
+	
+p.blogAuthor em{
+	color: #4e6a20;
+	text-align: right;
+	margin-top: -20px;
+	}
+
+p.blogDate {
+	color: #000000;
+	}
+	
+.blogFeed h2 {
+	font-size: 1.467em;
+	margin: 0;
+	line-height: 23px;
+	color: #f6f6ed;
+	}
+
 /*
  Project page
 */
diff --git a/en/index.wml b/en/index.wml
index 9e8f2096..83d11fa6 100644
--- a/en/index.wml
+++ b/en/index.wml
@@ -153,35 +153,125 @@
       </div>
       <!-- END MAINCOL -->
       <div id="sidecol">
-        <div id="home-announcements" class="clearfix">
-       	<h2>Announcements</h2>
-          <table>
-            <tr>
-              <td>
-                <div class="calendar"><span class="month">Sep</span><br><span class="day">11</span></div>
-                <p>Tor 0.2.5.7-rc is <a href="https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-0257-rc-out">out</a></p>
-              </td>
-            </tr>
-            <tr>
-              <td>
-                <div class="calendar"><span class="month">Sep</span><br><span class="day">7</span></div>
-                <p><a href="https://blog.torproject.org/blog/ahmia-search-after-gsoc-development">Ahmia search</a> after GSoC development</p>
-              </td>
-            </tr>
-            <tr>
-              <td>
-                <div class="calendar"><span class="month">Sep</span><br><span class="day">3</span></div>
-                <p>Tor Browser 3.6.5 and 4.0-alpha-2 are <a href="https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-browser-365-and-40-alpha-2-are-released">released</a></p>
-              </td>
-            </tr>
-            <tr>
-              <td>
-                <div class="calendar"><span class="month">Sep</span><br><span class="day">2</span></div>
-                <p>Tails 1.1.1 is <a href="https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tails-111-out">out</a></p>
-              </td>
-            </tr>
-          </table>
-        </div>
+      <!-- BLOG WIDGET -->
+<:
+  use strict;
+  use warnings;
+  use open ':std', ':encoding(UTF-8)';
+  use LWP::Simple;
+
+  # RSS feed url
+  my $url = 'https://blog.torproject.org/blog/feed';
+  # Number of posts to show
+  my $showPosts = "5";
+  # Maximum characters in post title to allow before truncating
+  my $titleMaxLength = "35";
+  # Maximum characters in author name to allow before truncating
+  my $authorMaxLength = "15";
+  
+  # Retreive url
+  my $data = get( $url );
+  
+  if ($data) # Url returned data
+  {
+    my $check = $data;
+    $check =~ m{<rss(.*?)>}i;
+    my $checkVal = $1;
+
+    if ($checkVal) # Is an rss feed
+    {
+      my $titleStr = $data;
+      my $linkStr = $data;
+      my $dateStr = $data;
+      my $authorStr = $data;
+    
+      print "<div class='blogFeed'>
+             <div class='blogFirstRow'>
+             <h2>Recent Blog Posts</h2>
+             </div>";
+
+      # Generate posts
+      for my $i (0..$showPosts)
+      {  
+      	
+	# Parse title
+	$titleStr =~ m{<title>(.*?)</title>}g;
+	my $titleVal = $1;
+	my $titleLength = length($titleVal);
+	my $title = $titleVal;
+
+	# Check title length and trim if necessary
+      	my $titleTrim = $title;
+        if ($titleLength > $titleMaxLength)
+      	{
+    	    my $trimLength = $titleMaxLength - 3;
+    	    my $titleTxt = substr($title, 0, $trimLength);
+    	    $titleTrim = "$titleTxt...";
+      	}
+    
+	# Parse link
+	$linkStr =~ m{<link>(.*?)</link>}g;
+	my $link = $1;
+
+	if ($i != 0)
+        {
+	  # Parse date
+	  $dateStr =~ m{<pubDate>(.*?)</pubDate>}g;
+	  my $date = $1;
+
+	  # Trim date
+	  my $dateTrim = substr($date, 0, -15);
+
+	  # Parse author
+	  $authorStr =~ m{<dc:creator>(.*?)\s*</dc:creator>}g;
+	  my $author = $1;
+
+	  # Check author length and trim if necessary
+	  my $authorLength = length($author);
+	  my $authorTrim = $author;
+	  if ($authorLength > $authorMaxLength)
+	  {
+	      my $authorTrimLength = $authorMaxLength - 3;
+	      my $authorTxt = substr($author, 0, $authorTrimLength);
+	      $authorTrim = "$authorTxt...";
+	  }
+
+	  # Begin html output
+	  print "<a href=\'$link\' title=\'$title\'>";
+	  
+	  # Required for alternating row colors - switch blogRow# to change order
+	  if (0 == $i % 2) {
+	      print "<div class='blogRow blogRow1'>";
+	  } else {
+	      print "<div class='blogRow blogRow0'>";
+	  }
+	  
+	  print "<p class='blogTitle'>$titleTrim</p>
+		<p class='blogDate'>$dateTrim</p>
+		<p class='blogAuthor'>Posted by: <em>$authorTrim</em></p>
+		</div>
+		</a>";    
+	}
+      }
+      
+    } else {	# Not an rss feed
+      print "<div class='blogRow blogRow1'>";
+      print "<br /><p class='blogDate' style=\"text-align:center;color:\#999;line-height:16px;\"><em>Recent posts are temporarily unavailable</em></p></div>";    
+    }
+  
+  } else {	# Url did not return any data
+    print "<div class='blogRow blogRow1'>";
+    print "<br /><p class='blogDate' style=\"text-align:center;color:\#999;line-height:16px;\"><em>Recent posts are temporarily unavailable</em></p></div>";    
+  }
+  
+  print "<a href='https://blog.torproject.org' title='Tor Blog Home'>
+  <div class='blogRow blogLastRow'>
+	<p>View all blog posts &raquo;</p>
+	</div>
+	</a>
+	</div>";
+:>
+      <!-- END BLOG WIDGET -->
       	<div id="home-users">
           <h2>Who Uses Tor?</h2>
 	  <div class="fauxhead"></div>