24-year-old American woman was attacked in Sao Paolo at the home of someone she had met during Friday's celebrations.
Police officials reportedly said that they could conclude that the girl was raped only after a post mortem.
The trial of the captain and crew of the South Korean ferry that sank almost two months ago began Tuesday.
Following an investigation into her background, the founder of the Somaly Mam Foundation resigned.
Divers recovered five more bodies from the wreck of the Sewol, but 23 people still remain missing.
Twitter users are mourning Megan and Colin Campbell after their father apparently shot them and their mother in a murder-suicide.
Apollo Nida has faced a wave of negative comments after the details of his plea deal in his federal fraud case were revealed.
The American man was detained after Pakistani authorities found he tried to board a plane with ammunition and unknown electronic devices.
The "insane" fifth season of "The Walking Dead" will air on AMC in October 2014.
The captain says he is "deeply ashamed," and a school official kills himself.
An inmate whose sentence was accidentally extended by three and a half years due to a typo had his sentence commuted by President Obama.
Dana McCallum's attorney says the case is solely about money.
Independent studies appear to support complaints of a heavy-handed approach to deporting undocumented immigrants.
The 6,300-page Senate report was based on accounts from CIA officials and detainees on whom the agency used its interrogation techniques.
Auto companies are subject to a specific law that makes it a crime for them to mislead regulators about safety defects.
Many of the people came from Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, and were between the ages of 5 to 47, officials said.
Australia reportedly sends asylum seekers arriving by boat for detention and processing in offshore camps.
U.S. military forces reportedly warned that the men were Taliban fighters who would likely return to “kill coalition and Afghan forces.”
Brian Hussey allegedly told a cop he can blow in his face because he "doesn't take orders from Asians."
Apollo Nida reportedly appeared before the US District Court on Thursday, Jan. 23.
The family of a recently executed Ohio man filed a lawsuit on Friday against the state for what they say was a “cruel and unusual punishment” that should not be allowed to continue.
The Great Meadow Correctional Facility in New York now has some new residents, cared for by inmates including "the cat whisperer."