1) Dogs, dogs, dogs…
Italian police are hunting a pack of stray dogs which killed a boy aged 10 and mauled a 24-year-old woman in the Ragusa area of southern Sicily.
They caught about 30 strays after the boy was dragged off his bicycle and killed on Sunday but about 20 dogs are believed still to be running wild.
The priest at the boy’s funeral accused society of turning animals into icons.
It is an offence to kill a dog in Italy and the country lacks properly funded pounds in which to collect strays.
Reports suggest the dogs had been neglected and starved by a man entrusted with caring for them. A suspect has been arrested.
Animal rights groups estimate there are up to half a million stray dogs, mainly in the south of the country, many of them abandoned by their owners and left to run wild.
2) Vampires, vampires, vampires…
An archaeological dig near Venice has unearthed the 16th-century remains of a woman with a brick stuck between her jaws – evidence, experts say, that she was believed to be a vampire.
The unusual burial is thought to be the result of an ancient vampire-slaying ritual. It suggests the legend of the mythical bloodsucking creatures was tied to medieval ignorance of how diseases spread and what happens to bodies after death, experts said.
How about that? Queen Bee is one busy Bee this month! Not only she’s the first black girl to have graced a Vogue black cover consequently (following The First Lady, Michelle Obama), but she’s also featured in the Italian Vogue.
Last year, the cover of Italy’s Vogue had a black woman with more beauty and sophistication than Queen Bee could ever imagine or possess. 
Naomi’s lips…
Credit for the vampire story must go to Will in Scary Tyler Moore Seattle.
They have pit bulls in Italy?
@1 There are some decent red italian wines on sale at the QFC. $8.99 a bottle. Or you could just take it without paying.
Sounds like the endpoint of PETA’s policy recommendations.
I wish a vampire would suck @2 dry.
Considering such whiners are usually filled with barely human blood, it would result in both dying.
muh dik!
Naomi’s lips…are injected with collagen.
ok, free association here, Muhdik-style:
wild disgusting dogs…murder child…vampires!….and….yeah WOMEN.
nice to know what category we lie in.
And here I thought this was going to be an Amanda Knox post.
consequently? Is it supposed to be consecutively?
Is Beyonce called Queen B? I thought that was Little Kim. Who looks good, in an entirely manufactured way, just like all the rest.
They clearly just need to let the dogs into bars, so they stop roaming the streets.
dumyion.
Wait, what did Beyonce Knowles do to deserve that sort of comment? I mean, quite frankly I thought her comments about the Jacksons were ugly and mean-spirited.
And I don’t see how your comment about her, Charles, is any less ugly or mean-spirited.
Seriously, show that you understand what “class” means before you evaluate the degree to which others possess it.
50 stray dogs roaming free? wow Italy seriously needs some dog pounds!