diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-01-2016-03.xml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-01-2016-03.xml
index f3c052b27f..996c14ee47 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-01-2016-03.xml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/news/status/report-2016-01-2016-03.xml
@@ -208,7 +208,6 @@
       </person>
     </contact>
 
-    <links></links>
 
     <body>
       <p>A new <tt>-manage-gids</tt> option was added to the <tt>nfsuserd</tt>
@@ -310,7 +309,7 @@
 	We also updated libclc to 0.2.0.20151006, a library used by
 	Mesa to provide OpenCL support.</p>
 
-      <p>We attended FOSDEM 2016 in Brussels.  Jean-S??bastien P??dron
+      <p>We attended FOSDEM 2016 in Brussels.  Jean-Sébastien Pédron
 	gave a talk to explain the work of the graphics team and show
 	how people can contribute. It was well received and the
 	presentation was followed by interesting discussions.  FOSDEM
@@ -493,7 +492,6 @@
       </person>
     </contact>
 
-    <links></links>
 
     <body>
       <p>Since the last report &os; support for ThunderX has been
@@ -602,7 +600,7 @@
       </task>
 
       <task>
-	<p>Add support for <tt>$_siginfo</tt>.</p>
+	<p>Add support for <tt>&dollar;_siginfo</tt>.</p>
       </task>
 
       <task>
@@ -843,7 +841,6 @@
       </person>
     </contact>
 
-    <links></links>
 
     <body>
       <p>
@@ -874,7 +871,6 @@
 	    peter)</li>
 	</ul></p>
     </body>
-    <help></help>
   </project>
 
   <project cat='ports'>
@@ -890,7 +886,6 @@
       </person>
     </contact>
 
-    <links></links>
 
     <body>
       <p>Ruby on Rails is the base for most of the rubygems in the
@@ -907,7 +902,6 @@
       <p>If you want to help porting or testing, feel free to contact
 	me or the mailinglist <tt>ruby@FreeBSD.org</tt>.</p>
     </body>
-    <help></help>
   </project>
 
   <project cat='ports'>
@@ -923,7 +917,6 @@
       </person>
     </contact>
 
-    <links></links>
 
     <body>
       <p>After nearly a year of work on this project, GitLab 8.5.5 was
@@ -932,7 +925,6 @@
 	project, there is also ongoing work to stay in sync with
 	upstream. Have fun!</p>
     </body>
-    <help></help>
   </project>
 
   <project cat='misc'>
@@ -948,7 +940,6 @@
       </person>
     </contact>
 
-    <links></links>
 
     <body>
       <p>Build improvements for buildworld on <em>head</em> continue.
@@ -1018,7 +1009,6 @@
       </person>
     </contact>
 
-    <links></links>
 
     <body>
       <p>Filemon is a kernel module for tracing which files a command
@@ -1329,7 +1319,6 @@
       Mellanox Technologies
     </sponsor>
 
-    <help></help>
   </project>
 
   <project cat='kern'>
@@ -1496,7 +1485,6 @@
       Microsoft
     </sponsor>
 
-    <help></help>
   </project>
 
   <project cat='ports'>
@@ -1549,7 +1537,7 @@
 
       <p>On the QA side, 39 exp-runs were performed to validate sensitive
 	updates or cleanups.  The most noticeable change might be the
-	removal of the now unneeded <tt>${PORTSDIR}</tt> when
+	removal of the now unneeded <tt>&dollar;{PORTSDIR}</tt> when
 	specifying dependencies in Makefiles (see the
 	<tt>/usr/ports/CHANGES</tt> entry dated 20160402).  Amongst
 	other noticeable changes are the update to ruby 2.3, ruby-gems
@@ -1699,7 +1687,6 @@
       </person>
     </contact>
 
-    <links></links>
 
     <body>
       <p>An important missing piece of the RCTL resource limits
@@ -1817,7 +1804,6 @@
 	the <tt>/boot/dtb/</tt> directory and do the overlaying.</p>
     </body>
 
-    <help></help>
   </project>
 
   <project cat='kern'>
