A Brazilian Playboy model is auctioning off her virginity for a second time, because the first time didn’t go so well.

Last October, Catarina Migliorini sold her virginity to a Japanese businessman for $780,000. This transaction was apparently part of a documentary called Virgins Wanted, by Australian filmmaker Justin Sisely, which was supposed to document the lives of Migliorini and a man named Alex Stephanov, who was also auctioning off his virginity. But when she arrived in Sydney, Australia to meet the businessman, he didn’t quite fit the description she’d been given, and Migliorini cried fraud.

Seems strange that an online auction of one’s “virginity” would possibly contain some fraudulent elements, but that’s not stopping Migliorini from attempting to auction it off again. She’s now distanced herself from Sisely, who at one point was being accused of sex trafficking for his role in the “film,” and is now selling her dignity on a site called VirginsWanted2.com. The bidding ends Dec. 12, and the minimum bid is $100,000. Her real goal, however, is $1.5 million.

Migliorini, who’s currently a college student, told the Huffington Post that she has a completely logical reason for trying this a second time:

“Well, after being featured by so many media outlets in so many countries, I decided to actually auction off my virginity.”

She claimed last year that 90 percent of the money she raised from the auction would go to help build modern homes in her Brazilian neighborhood, but that money never materialized. In the past year, she also made a video for Playboy in which she posed naked with a teddy bear, adding a disturbing fetishistic element to her virginity bid.

She’s currently writing a book about her famous virginity, though if she lands a bidder, being able to capitalize on her celebrity V-card goes with it. Which means this stunt could go on forever, like the Waiting for Godot of virginity auctions.

When in Rome, carry an umbrella, say locals. The city is currently at war with an annual migration of starlings that shower the streets with feces — and the humans are losing.

In a recent report by Italian newspaper La Stampa, Lipu, the Bird Protection League, stated that the city council funds that are traditionally designated for discouraging the birds were delayed this year. As a result, fewer resources have been available to combat the starlings, and areas such as Campo and along the River Tiber have suffered from the deluge.

“The sidewalks are a torture, some impassable except by fisherman boots,” wrote Mattia Felts in La Stampa.

Approximately 5 million birds travel to Rome during the annual migration, which takes place from October through January. The starlings dine on olive groves surrounding the city, then leave their mess covering cars, sidewalks and more. In the past, the city has hired workers who walk around with loudspeakers that screech warnings of a nearby falcon to dissuade the birds. Those efforts typically begin in October but have been pushed back by the delayed funding.

So, many residents are staying indoors or taking cover.

At nine o’clock in the morning in a garden shed behind a house in Amsterdam, a handful of alcoholics are getting ready to clean the surrounding streets, beer and cigarette in hand.

For a day’s work, the men receive 10 euros (around $13), a half-packet of rolling tobacco and, most importantly, five cans of beer: two to start the day, two at lunch and one for after work.

“This group of chronic alcoholics was causing a nuisance in Amsterdam’s Oosterpark: fights, noise, disagreeable comments to women,” said Gerrie Holterman, who heads the Rainbow Foundation project, financed by the Dutch state and donations.

“The aim is to keep them occupied, to get them doing something so they no longer cause trouble at the park,” she told AFP.

The alcoholics are split into two groups of around 10 people, with each group working three days a week.

The imaginative approach to the problem of anti-social behaviour demonstrates typical Dutch pragmatism which could be found shocking in other countries, but not here.

The day begins at around 9:00 am, with the workers drinking two beers and some coffee, if desired, before going to clean the streets.

Sat at a large table, Gerrie carefully notes each person’s beer consumption, but there is an atmosphere of trust: if she gets called away, the alcoholics themselves record how much they have drunk.

“I think I can speak for the group and say that if they didn’t give us beers then we wouldn’t come,” said Frank, wearing a fluorescent street cleaner’s bib and carrying a bin bag and litter-grabber.

“We need alcohol to function, that’s the disadvantage of chronic alcoholism,” said the 45-year-old, somewhat fatalistically.

Frank says he has been jailed for violence, has never worked for anyone and has no fixed abode.

Travellers have been told to look out for thieves hiding in luggage while on holiday.

Spanish police are warning tourists of contortionists that tuck themselves inside suitcases to carry out the ‘Trojan Horse’ robberies.

Officers say crooks, often acting with an accomplice, board buses in the luggage hold then creep out with a torch during the journey to rifle through people’s bags.

Officers are telling people travelling to the country to look out for this type of sneak thief as well as pickpockets that distract victims by telling them they have bird droppings on their clothes, the Times reports.

In 2011, Spanish police arrested a flexible thief who had hidden inside a suitcase to steal valuables.

The 5ft 9in (1.78m) contortionist pinched valuables including laptop computers from the baggage compartment during an hour-long journey.

Spanish prosecutors want to send a young pianist to jail for over seven years after a neighbor accused him of causing psychological damage and noise pollution.

The plaintiff — identified only as Sonia B — claims she suffered from noise contamination between 2003 and 2007 owing to the five-days-a-week, eight-hour practice sessions by Laia Martin, who lived below her in the northeastern town of Puigcerda.

Martin, 27, now a professional concert pianist, denies she played at home that often as she took regular classes in other towns.

El Pais newspaper said Sonia B. told the court Monday she now hated pianos and eventually moved house.

A Catalonia Justice Tribunal spokeswoman said the trial continued Tuesday and ends Nov. 15. She spoke on condition of anonymity because of tribunal regulations.

A church is using Sheep to graze in its GRAVEYARD as a cheap way to keep the grass cut.

The move has sparked fury among families who have relatives buried there with the animals being allowed to roam over graves and destroy mementoes which are left.

They say the graveyard looks like it has been “vandalised” but leaders at Holy Trinity Church in Grazeley say there is no money to pay for gardeners and grazing sheep is a traditional and cheap way of keeping the grass short.

Nicola Millard, 39, from Woodley, discovered the sheep when she went to visit the graves of her grandparents.

She said: “The area they have put the sheep is where people still tend the graves.

“There is a little turnstile I go in rather than the main gates and I arrived to see four of them stood on my nan’s grave. I was so heartbroken.”

The Holy Father hugged the unnamed man, who is thought to suffer from neurofibromatosis, and held a silent prayer, having earlier asked those assembled in St Peter’s Square to pray for a sick little girl.

The pictures have been compared to Jesus healing the leper, as well as the work of St Francis of Assisi, after whom the current Pope took his name.

Neurofibromatosis is a painful hereditary condition that can involve distinctive facial tumours.

Treatment is complicated and sufferers, who can be in constant pain, face discrimination because of their appearance.

A girl of four has died after being savaged by her ‘enormous’ pet dog.

Lexi Hudson was playing with the family’s bulldog when it turned on her.

Neighbours said she was ‘shaken like a rag doll’ in the attack outside her home this afternoon.

Her mother, Jodi Hudson, 30, stabbed the dog to death as she desperately tried to wrestle her daughter out of its jaws.

Emergency crews took Lexi to the Queen’s Medical Centre in Nottingham but she died of her injuries.

The dog, a rescue animal, had been living with the family for only a few weeks in their flat in the Leicestershire village of Mountsorrel.

Police removed the animal’s body after the attack. It is not a prohibited breed under the Dangerous Dogs Act. Neighbour Glenn Shepphard, 36, said he saw Ms Hudson with blood and mud on her arms and legs. ‘She had obviously tried to wrestle with the dog. It was very big – a type I have never seen before.’

Arthur Nash, a 67-year-old retired driver, said: ‘I saw Jodi after it happened. She was covered in blood.’

Ms Hudson had picked the dog up from a pound, according to family friend Paul Ryan. He said: ‘Lexi was always playing with it and wouldn’t have stood a chance if it went for her.

‘Jodi used to try and walk the dog, but it would struggle and pulled her over a few times. She would never have dreamt in a million years that something like this could have happened.

Lily Parks, 87, who lives near the family, said: ‘It was an enormous dog, but the little girl was very fond of it.’

Lexi had only started school in September, according to neighbours.

Leicestershire police said its investigation was in the ‘very early stages’.

When police heard shrieking from within James Cocksedge’s home following a silent 999 call, they feared the worst.

Breaking down the door, officers were surprised to find nobody inside the London flat – but soon worked out who was behind the call and the noise.

Police found Bruce, a Singapura kitten, hiding inside a wardrobe “looking naughty” – and quite right too, he’d accidentally made the emergency call by walking over the phone.

But the screaming sound heard by police was a domestic incident…of sorts. Bruce was having a scrap with Audrey – Cocksedge’s other cat.

The first Bruce’s owner, a 33-year-old sound engineer, knew about the call was when he came home to find his front door off its hinges.

By all accounts, Bruce has something of a fascination with phones.

“Since we had the landline installed Bruce always rushes to answer the phone when it rings” said James.

“He’s also fascinated by the buttons, which he loves to press.”

The feisty feline’s prank call left his owner red faced – and lumbered with a bill for several hundred pounds for a new door.

Toxic nuclear and industrial waste, dumped illegally by the Neapolitan mafia, is responsible for a surge in cancers in southern Italy, it is feared.

The Italian Senate is investigating a link between buried pollutants and a rise of almost 50 per cent in tumours found in the inhabitants of several towns around Naples.

In classified documents from 1997, only now released to the public, a mafia kingpin warned authorities that the poison in the ground would kill everyone ‘within two decades’.

Doctors first noticed that cancers in towns around Naples were on the rise in the 1990s. But since that time they have increased by 40 per cent in women and 47 per cent in men.

Camorra chief Francesco Schiavone, once the world’s number one mafia fugitive, said: ‘The inhabitants are all at risk of dying from cancer within twenty years.
Francesco Schiavone was arrested and eventually given a life sentence for a string of murders.

In secret out-of-court testimony he told lawyers how the Casalesi clan ran ‘a military style operation’ dumping millions of tonnes of waste on farmland, in caves, in quarries and even on the edge of towns.

The cost of a clean up would run into billions, he said, describing several sites in the suburbs of Naples.

‘To clean it up it would cost the entire Italian budget for a year I think.’

The lower house in the Italian Parliament had elected to make the documents public in the interests of transparency.