Adding links into homepageblock

I use an external phpbb forum for my latest newsarticles (not sitenews).

In D6.1.6 I could copy the textlink of the forumtopic and paste it into a homepageblock.

Clicking that link a member was directly redirected to the forumtopic.

When I copy/paste in D7-RC2 it only shows the text. Not the link.

Is there a solution for this?

I have several new newstopics a day.

Or can I do something with RSS maybe?

It's a HTML block and you need to use html code not a link

Wrong -> mysite.com

Correct -> <a href="http://www.mysite.com" target="_blank">Mysite</a>

or you can add more html code to the block, like this

<table width="100%" border="1" style="border-collapse: collapse" bordercolor="#D7D7D7" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="0">
<tr>
<td bgcolor="#F4F7FA" width="100%" align="center">
<div align="center">
<p align="left"> <font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">
Latest Newsarticles
</font></p><br>
<p align="left">
<font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>
<a href="http://www.mysite_1.com" target="_blank">Link 1</a><br>
<a href="http://www.mysite_2.com" target="_blank">Link 2</a><br>
<a href="http://www.mysite_3.com" target="_blank">Link 3</a><br>
<a href="http://www.mysite_4.com" target="_blank">Link 4</a>               
</b></font></p>
</div>
</td>
</tr>
</table>