http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/on_this_day/front_page/rss.xml
Your XML is there, just use SimpleXML to get your data. Very simple.
Something where you started:
$a = curl_init("http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/on_this_day/front_page/rss.xml");
curl_setopt($a, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,1);
$b = curl_exec($a);
$xml = simplexml_load_string($b);
var_dump($xml);
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