Yea the tutorial is very basic and doesn't go into details of using binary variables or parsing text.
Now you need to learn the page structure and see where you start pulling the headlines, and where you finish and close the connection. When you view the page in your browser, select "View source" to see the HTML stuff.
Assuming you want only the "Top Stories" section I created a small script that retrieves them, get it
here (yeah, I know I suck at commenting...
). Feel free to ask any question about it...
Btw I changed HTTP/1.1 to 1.0. It's like asking the server to be more friendly and not to send back encoded data or other things we can't handle.