Whether it’s fair or not, Brazil is best known for beautiful women, skimpy bikinis, the wildness of Carnaval, and the Brazillian wax. But despite the sexy generalizations, the entire country has erupted in debate over a little red dress.

CNN reported Geisy Arruda, a 20-year-old student at the Bandeirante University (also known as Uniban), was escorted [...]

Supporters of ousted Honduran President Manuel Zelaya defied roadblocks and a city-wide closure to surround the Brazilian embassy in which Zelaya has taken refuge in Tegucigalpa, Al-Jazeera reports.

French authorities are urging searchers to show “extreme prudence” before identifying wreckage found in the Atlantic as being from Air France Flight 447, after Brazilian workers incorrectly publicized they had found debris from the missing plane Thursday.

The mystery surrounding Air France Flight 447 continued to grow Thursday as conflicting reports from Spanish pilots and Brazilian experts regarding the cause of the plane’s crash emerged, CNN reports.

A BBC corespondent and several experts are reporting that the plane would have had to have undergone several “traumas” to have fallen from the sky. The absence of a distress signal from the experienced pilot suggests that whatever happened to the plane happened very, very quickly.

An Air France plane carrying 228 people vanished over the Atlantic Ocean after reporting a short circuit caused by a possible lightning strike, the BBC reports.

Opener “Jager Yoga” includes delightfully nonsensical phrases like “Desperate Living, Hairspray / Baltimore with Tanqueray / Live your life John Waters’ way.” “Let’s Reggae All Night” makes it hard to resist the urge to do just that.