A Brazilian university student expelled for causing an uproar while wearing a pink miniskirt has sued her school.
Gift givers are getting ready to cut.
Brazilians will be seeing a whole lot more of the student whose short pink dress got her booted from college: She's agreed to march in the nation's famously flesh-baring Carnival parades.
Fresh from an appearance on one of Brazil's most popular TV shows, the young woman whose short, pink dress got her kicked out of college is enjoying her newfound fame, yet has her eye on getting back to class.
Brushing back freshly dyed blond hair as she posed for pictures, the Brazilian woman whose short pink dress got her kicked out of college said Tuesday she's enjoying her newfound fame, but wants go back to school — with a security guard.
Brazil's case of the pink mini-dress that went viral on the Internet has left many scratching their heads: How could it be that an outfit, no matter how short, would cause such an uproar in a tropical nation where skimpy clothing and tiny bikinis barely raise an eyebrow?
Baseball fans in Los Angeles and New York may be thrilled their teams swept into the league championship series — but for broadcaster TBS, the fun may be over all too soon.
Writer-producer Neal Baer is accustomed to 12 million or so Americans flipping on their TV sets for an episode of his drama "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit."
Jim Caldwell spent an entire offseason trying to fix the Colts' ground game.
From elevator shoes to step-up boxes behind podiums, and even his own tippy-toes, Nicolas Sarkozy and his handlers have tried to compensate for his height — or lack thereof.
Georgia Tech coach Paul Johnson was still moaning Sunday.
Nominees in major categories for the 61st annual Primetime Emmy Awards announced Thursday by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.
The last time he came up short at a major, Chad Campbell at least knew he'd been beaten by a great shot.
List of awards presented during Sunday's telecast of the 51st annual Grammys:
A Wal-Mart employee in Mississippi is accused of rolling back prices — way back — on about $550 worth of merchandise.
Old mosquitoes usually spread disease, so Australian researchers figured out a way to make the pests die younger — naturally, not poisoned.
Amaury Leveaux of France set a world record Thursday in the 50-meter freestyle at the European short-course championships, finishing the semifinal in 20.48 seconds.
Stock exchanges now are maintaining lists of companies that can't be shorted, and perhaps fittingly, the "no-short" lists keep getting longer and longer — and they are adding some unexpected names.
Katie Hoff is collecting Olympic medals — just not in the color she expects of herself. Brendan Hansen's only chance at an individual medal disappeared in the wake of his Japanese rival.
Nominees in major categories for the 60th annual Primetime Emmy Awards announced Thursday by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.
As Congress moves ahead with efforts to fix the mortgage mess — and head off another million or more foreclosures — a lot of readers are wondering: Why should homeowners who got in over their heads get help from the government?
The Village at Green River in Corona, Calif., began marketing 19 newly-built townhouses in July 2007, just as the national real estate market began flagging. The average price of the homes, which vary in size from 1,400 to 1,640 square feet, was $505,000 at the time. Three price drops later, the homes finally began selling in March — at an average price of $309,000, says listing agent Dominic Kurtyan.
List of awards presented during Sunday's telecast of the 50th annual Grammys:
Nominees announced Thursday in top categories for the 50th Annual Grammy Awards:
America used to be the tallest country in the world.