This might get you started: 

#! /usr/bin/perl

use strict ;
use warnings ;
$|++ ;

my $data = qq{

  [...]
  <body>
  [...random stuff...]
  <li>headline one</li>
  <br>
  <p>the story</p>
  [...random stuff...]
  <li>headline two</li>
  <br>
  <p>the next story</p>
  [...random stuff...]
  <body>

} ;

while ( $data =~ s{<li>(.*?)</li>.*?<p>(.*?)</p>}{}s )
{
    print "Headline: $1\nStory: $2\n\n" ;
}

__END__

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That is, of course, assuming that the only use for <li> and <p> are only used for headlines and stories. IMO, the more restrictive you can make this regexp, the better.

Update: This is probably better done with a proper parser. I've never used it, but HTML::Parser might be a good option.


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