diff --git a/lib/ajax.php b/lib/ajax.php
index 150a5c31..a42b2f66 100644
--- a/lib/ajax.php
+++ b/lib/ajax.php
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ if ($action == "newsfeed") {
 			curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
 			$output = curl_exec($ch);
 			curl_close($ch);
-			$news = simplexml_load_file(trim($output));
+			$news = simplexml_load_string(trim($output));
 		} else {
 			$news = false;
 		}
@@ -62,4 +62,4 @@ if ($action == "newsfeed") {
 	}
 } else {
 	echo "No action set.";
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}