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the use of the Present tense form to denote an action which actually happened in the past.

the use of an infinitive form with ‘to’ to express a future action, e.g. ‘MP to Open Health Center’ – means that a member of Parliament is going to open a Health Center.

the use of the Past Simple for reports in some court cases.

Though the above-listed patterns are the most typical ones they do not cover all the variety in headline structure.
III. A FEATURE ARTICLE
General Notes
3.1. General peculiarities of a feature article. A feature article is another newspaper genre usually found on the inside pages of a newspaper. Feature articles (or features) are very diverse in their subject-matter and cover a wide range of topics. Sometimes they relate to events currently in the news, but most often they concentrate on some single topic which is of perennial interest to public at large; and sometimes it seems that journalists actually seek to create interest in the topics they have chosen by writing about them.
Feature articles usually carry a considerable amount of information, but the impression one gets is that the author’s main concern is to influence the reader by giving subjective interpretation and assessment of certain facts, commenting upon them and thus appealing not only to the reader’s mind, but to his / her feelings, as well. As one would expect, the balance between information and evaluation varies widely from newspaper to newspaper, and from article to article.
3.2. Linguostylistic peculiarities of a feature article
3.2.1. Generally speaking, the language found in a feature article has much in common with that used for news reporting and it is quite natural, since both genres belong to the newspaper style and are written by journalists. For example, although feature articles do not usually contain such a large amount of quoted material as is found in many news reports, the ways of introducing it are often very similar. Dashes, also, are rather freely used, and for similar purposes.