Late last month, a female student at Bandeirante University in Brazil was expelled after wearing a dress to campus that nearly caused a riot. Geisy Arruda, 20, says that she “always dressed in a way that makes me feel good and that doesn’t. . . READ FULL STORY

Tim Coco, 48, married and bought a house with his lover, Brazilian Genesio "Junior" Oliveira, 30, back in 2005 in Massachusetts. But their honeymoon period was cut short when Oliveira was denied asylum and forced to return to Brazil. . . . READ FULL STORY

A recent gun fight between drug dealers in the slums of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil ended with the deaths of two police officers and the fiery crash of a law enforcement helicopter. The helicopter was forced to make an emergency landing in. . . READ FULL STORY

200 families are homeless after a massive fire ripped through one of São Paulo's largest favelas (shanty towns). Nearly the entire district of the Diogo Pires was engulfed by the flames as the fire raged on for more than three hours. The fire. . . READ FULL STORY

Investigators have been on the hunt for Brazilian TV host and former state legislator Wallace Souza, accused of ordering at least five murders to bolster his ratings and emphasize his point that violence was skyrocketing in the Amazon region of. . . READ FULL STORY