But the US edition headline:

Commission hearing Rice testimony

And:

It's very rare that the top headline of one doesn't make it into the other's top headline or "other news". In fact, there's almost no overlap right now between the two editions. I usually see the differences as being "what americans want to hear" vs "what the world wants to hear".

I think that the dog-kicking thing and the sex study are the "soft news" items. Maybe Europeans would rather hear about sex than cruelty to animals. Both Americans and Europeans apparently want to hear about Americans getting killed by sharks. Europeans want to hear about how badly the war is going, and Americans want to hear about the Rice testimony that had just started.