[Resolvido] Limitar quantidades de notícias na pagina inicial

Estou montando um jornal online, mas estou com um pequeno probleminha... na minha pagina inicial tenho as últimas notícias, mas não é limitado o número da minhas notícias. Como faço para limita-las? Alguém poderia me dar uma ajudinha? Segue o código abaixa... é só me dizer onde tenho que alterar, que eu altero. desde já muitissimo obrigado!!!

<?php
 $query4 = "select linkemp,imgbanner
 from banners
 where ativo ='1'
 and controle ='1'
 order by rand() limit 4";
 $res4 = mysql_query($query4,$conec) or die(mysql_error());
 while ($row4 = mysql_fetch_array($res4))
 {
 {
 echo "<tr align = \"center\" bgcolor =\"#ffffff\"><td>";
 echo "<a href = \"".$row4[0]. "\"><img src =\"./admin/".$row4[1]."\">";
 echo "</td></tr>";
 } //include("menu.php");
 }

 // include("banner.php");?>
 </table></td>
 </tr>
 </table>
 <br> <br></td>
 <td width="421" align="center" valign="top">
 <table>
 <?php
 $query5 = "select idedicao from edicao
 where ativada ='1'
 and controle ='1'";
 $res5 = mysql_query($query5, $conec) or die(mysql_error());
 $idedicao = mysql_result($res5,0);

 $query6 = "select idnoticia, notcat,notitulo, notlead, notimg
 from noticias
 where notedi = '$idedicao'
 and destaque ='1'
 and ativa ='1'
 and controle ='1'
 order by rand() limit 1";
 $res6 = mysql_query($query6,$conec) or die(mysql_error());
 while ($row6 = mysql_fetch_array($res6))
 {
 if (!empty($row6[4]))
 {
 $aux = $row6[0];
 echo "<tr align = \"center\"><td><b>";
 echo strtoupper($row6[2]) ."</b></td></tr>";
 echo "<tr align = \"center\" ><td>";
 echo "<img src =\"./admin/".$row6[4] ."\" width=\"409\" height=\"300\" </td></tr>";
 echo "<tr align = \"center\" ><td>" . $row6[3] . "</td></tr>";
 echo "<tr align = \"left\"><td> </td></tr>";
 echo "<tr align =\"right\"><td>";
 echo "<a href=\"index2.php?page=".$row6[1]. "&nt=". $row6[0]. "\"><font color=#0099dd>Leia mais</font></a></td></tr>";

 }
 else
 {
 $aux = $row6[0];
 echo "<tr align = \"center\"><td><b>";
 echo strtoupper($row6[2]) ."</b></td></tr>";
 echo "<tr align = \"center\" ><td>";
 //echo "<div class=\"feature\"><img src =\"./admin/".$row6[4] ."\" width=\"300\" height=\"220\">";
 echo "<p align=\"left\">" . $row6[3] ."</p></div></td></tr>";
 echo "<tr align = \"left\"><td> </td></tr>";
 echo "<tr align =\"right\"><td>";
 echo "<a href=\"index2.php?page=".$row6[1]. "&nt=". $row6[0]. "\"><font color=#CC6699>Leia mais</font>";
 echo "</a></td></tr>";
 }
 } ?>
 </table>
 <hr color=#CC6699> <center>
 <table width="100%">
 <?php
 //include("func.inc");
 $query55 = "select idedicao from edicao
 where ativada ='1'
 and controle ='1'";
 $res55 = mysql_query($query55, $conec) or die(mysql_error());
 $idedicao = mysql_result($res55,0);

 $query7 = "select idnoticia, notdata, notitulo, notcat
 from noticias
 where notedi = '$idedicao'
 and destaque ='2'
 and ativa ='1'
 and idnoticia <> '$aux'
 and controle ='1'
 order by notdata desc";
 $res7 = mysql_query($query7,$conec) or die(mysql_error());
 while ($row7 = mysql_fetch_array($res7))
 {
 {	$data = $row7[1];
 echo "<tr valign =\"top\" align = \"left\" ><td><b>";
 echo iconvdat($data);
 echo "</b></td><td><div align=\"left\">";
 echo "<a href=\"index2.php?page=".$row7[3]. "&nt=". $row7[0]. "\">" . $row7[2];
 echo "</a></div></td></tr>";
 echo "<tr><td colspan=2><hr color=#CC6699 /></td></tr>";
 } //include("menu.php");
 }
 ?>