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A student in Brazil had been sent back home after she appeared in class dressed in mini skirts – off with the mini skirt was the cry. The University authorities did not want any disturbing influence around in the campus...

The new species were found on a recent expedition led by herpetologists from Conservation International and ornithologists from the Ecotrópico Foundation in Colombia's mountainous Tacarcuna area of the Darien, near the border with Panama.

Police in Peru have uncovered a rather bizarre and sinister scheme that involved murdering people to extract their fat! Evidently the fat is drained off the dead and sold into the "black market" cosmetics industry. 3 men were arrested with...

Update your status at your own peril in Venezuela: A pair of university students burglarized their Facebook friends' homes after collecting info on what they owned and when they wouldn't be home. Theft and other crime facilitated by social networking...

Spiders are creepy insects and little Miss Muffet was terribly frightened by one as she sat on a tuffet eating her curds and whey. Now, a Briton has been caught trying to smuggle out live spiders – of all things!...

As uncommon as it is to watch your own funeral, it happened on Monday in Rio de Janeiro. Ademir Jorge Gocalves, 59, shocked his morning family by showing up very much alive at his funeral. Brazilian custom is to bury...