Интересный вариант оформления для плагина xnews на Bootstrap 4.1.1

<link href="//maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.1.1/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet" id="bootstrap-css">
<script src="//maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.1.1/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>
<script src="//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.2.1/jquery.min.js"></script>

<div class="container mt-5 mb-5">
	<div class="row">
		<div class="col-md-6 offset-md-3">
			<h4>Последние новости</h4>
			<ul class="timeline" style="height: 400px;overflow-y: scroll;">
{{ callPlugin('xnews.show', {'categories' : '164', 'order' : 'last', 'count' : '14', 'template' : 'xnews2', 'cacheAge' : '180'}) }}
</ul>
		</div>
	</div>
</div>

{% for entry in entries %}{{ entry }}{% endfor %}

		<li>
					<a target="_blank" href="{{ news.url.full }}" title="{{ news.title }}">{{ news.title }}</a>
					<a href="#" class="float-right">{{ news.date }}</a>
					<p>{{ news.short|truncateHTML(250,'...')|striptags }}</p>
				</li>

ul.timeline {
    list-style-type: none;
    position: relative;
}
ul.timeline:before {
    content: ' ';
    background: #d4d9df;
    display: inline-block;
    position: absolute;
    left: 29px;
    width: 2px;
    height: 100%;
    z-index: 400;
}
ul.timeline > li {
    margin: 20px 0;
    padding-left: 20px;
}
ul.timeline > li:before {
    content: ' ';
    background: white;
    display: inline-block;
    position: absolute;
    border-radius: 50%;
    border: 3px solid #22c0e8;
    left: 20px;
    width: 20px;
    height: 20px;
    z-index: 400;
}