Added a companion object to read from http://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/technology/rss.xml and run it.

Feed.scala

class Feed(val url: String) {
  def downloadItems(): List[Item] = {
    val root = XML.load(url)
    (root \\ "item").map(buildItem(_)).toList
  }
  def buildItem(node: Node): Item = {
    new Item(this,
      (node \\ "title").text,
      (node \\ "guid").text,
      (node \\ "pubDate").text)
  }
}

class Item(
        val parent: Feed,
        val title: String,
        val link: String,
        val pubDate: String) {

  override def toString(): String = {
		"Title : " + title + "	Link: " + link + "	Date: " + pubDate
	}

}

object Feed {
  
	def main(args: Array[String]) = {
		val feed = new Feed("http://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/technology/rss.xml")
		val feedList = feed.downloadItems
		feedList.foreach(println)
	}
  
}