#With BeautifulSoup
items = [(x[0].text, x[0].get('href')) for x in
        filter(None, [
          x.findChildren() for x in
            soup.findAll('td', {'class':'title'})
        ])]

      for item in items:
        print item
        news_item = NewsItem()
        news_item['title']  = item[0]
        news_item['url']    = item[1]

# Without using BeautifulSoup.
for item in hxs.select('//td[@class="title"]/a'):
    news_item = NewsItem()
    news_item['title'] = item.select('text()').extract()[0]
    news_item['url'] = item.select('@href').extract()[0]