[juven14]

you can try opening the latest.tpl.php and replacing the foreach section (from {foreach} to {/foreach}) with:

 {section name=mysec loop=$topnews max=4}
      <tr>        
            <td class="{cycle values="row1,row2" advance=false}"><a href="modules.php?mod=maffo_news&nID={$smarty.section.mysec.newsID}&pg=LN" title="{$smarty.section.mysec.nNewsTitle}">{$smarty.section.mysec.nNewsTitle|truncate:35}</a></td>
          </tr>
          <tr>
              <td>written by {$smarty.section.mysec.author} on {$smarty.section.mysec.dateadded|date_format:"%d/%m/%y @%I:%M"}</td>
          </tr>
{/section}