PHP and jQuery

Okay so currently I have this, I am stuck however, how can I get the data (that depending on the links id) to show fade into the news div? Where do I go from here? Thanks in advance

<div id="news_container">
   <div class="links">
   <h3>Latest News Updates</h3>
   
   <br />
   <br />
   <br />
   <?php
   $query = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM news ORDER BY id DESC LIMIT 5") or trigger_error('Error: ' . mysql_error());
		$numrows = mysql_num_rows($query);
		if ($numrows > 0){

			while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($query)){
				$title = $row['title'];
				$id = $row['id'];
				$content = nl2br($row['content']);
                    $date = $row['date'];
				$by = $row['by'];

				  echo"<a href=\"news.php?id=$id\" id=\"$id\">$title</a><br>"; 

			 }
		}
		?>

   </div>
   <div id="news">
   
    </div>
    </div>

You have absolutely no javascript code in there.  What did you try?  When would the news display?  When the person hovers over the link... clicks on it?