diff --git a/content/static/style/default.css b/content/static/style/default.css
index e5ce110a5..ae017fd44 100644
--- a/content/static/style/default.css
+++ b/content/static/style/default.css
@@ -458,11 +458,11 @@ abbr.dtstart, abbr.dtend {
   position: absolute;
   left: 0;
   right: 0;
-  height: 1.3em;
+  height: 1.2em;
   margin: 0;
   padding: 0;
   font-size: medium;
-  line-height: 1.3em;
+  line-height: 1.2em;
   overflow: hidden;
   text-overflow: ellipsis;
   font-weight: 100;
@@ -503,6 +503,9 @@ abbr.dtstart, abbr.dtend {
   color: #333;
   text-shadow: -1px 0 1.5px white, 0 1px 1.5px white, 1px 0 1.5px white, 0 -1px 1.5px white;
 }
+#portal a:hover h4 {
+  color: black;
+}
 
 /* -- Calendar -- */
 table.calendar {
diff --git a/xsl/portal2items.xsl b/xsl/portal2items.xsl
index d73256957..f7448f8e0 100644
--- a/xsl/portal2items.xsl
+++ b/xsl/portal2items.xsl
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
     <xsl:for-each select="document('../news.xml')//newsfile">
       <xsl:apply-templates select="document(concat('../', .))/item" mode="news">
 	<xsl:with-param name="link"
-			select="concat(substring-before(., '.xml'), '.html')"/>
+			select="concat(substring-before(substring-after(., 'content/'), '.xml'), '.html')"/>
       </xsl:apply-templates>
     </xsl:for-each>
   </portal>
@@ -58,17 +58,24 @@
     <header>News</header>
     <footer>by <xsl:value-of select="@author"/></footer>
     <content-text><xsl:value-of select="@title"/></content-text>
-    <xsl:apply-templates select="image[1]" mode="news"/>
+    <xsl:apply-templates select=".//image[1]" mode="news"/>
     <link><xsl:value-of select="$link"/></link>
   </item>
 </xsl:template>
 
+<xsl:template match="image[contains(., '//')]" mode="news">
+  <content-image>
+    <xsl:value-of select="."/>
+  </content-image>
+</xsl:template>
+<xsl:template match="item/image[1]" mode="news">
+  <content-image>
+    <xsl:text>images/news/</xsl:text>
+    <xsl:value-of select="."/>
+  </content-image>
+</xsl:template>
 <xsl:template match="image" mode="news">
   <content-image>
-    <xsl:choose>
-      <xsl:when test="contains(., '//')"></xsl:when>
-      <xsl:otherwise>images/news/</xsl:otherwise>
-    </xsl:choose>
     <xsl:value-of select="."/>
   </content-image>
 </xsl:template>
diff --git a/xsl/xhtml5.xsl b/xsl/xhtml5.xsl
index 1edeb99f4..8a79391db 100644
--- a/xsl/xhtml5.xsl
+++ b/xsl/xhtml5.xsl
@@ -325,6 +325,7 @@
 	<xsl:if test="content-image">
 	  <xsl:attribute name="style">
 	    background: url('<xsl:value-of select="content-image"/>') 50% 50% no-repeat;
+            background-size: cover;
 	  </xsl:attribute>
 	</xsl:if>