Bandeirante, Brazil News

In this photo taken on Saturday, Nov. 7, 2009, student Geisy Arruda poses at her home in Sao Paulo wearing the same dress that she was expelled for wearing on campus at Bandeirante University in Sao Bernardo do Campo, Brazil.

The Brazilian edition of Playboy has set its sights on Geisy Arruda - the 20-year-old SA o Paulo university student who caused a bit of a rumpus by turning up for lectures in a miniskirt, provoking a near riot, and getting herself expelled from the seat of learning.

According to Reuters, Al-Shabaab, a militant group that controls parts of Mogadishu, Somalia, has banned musical ring tones from phones.

In this photo taken on Saturday, Nov. 7, 2009, student Geisy Arruda poses at her home in Sao Paulo wearing the same dress that she was expelled for wearing on campus at Bandeirante University in Sao Bernardo do Campo, Brazil.

A private university in Brazil said Tuesday that because of negative public reaction, it reversed a decision to expel a student who wore a short dress to class, but the school's assistant rector defended the original decision.

Mike Osegueda covers the music beat. He came to the The Bee in 2002 after graduating from San Jose State University earlier in the year.

A Brazilian university has expelled a woman who was heckled by hundreds of fellow students for wearing a short, pink dress to class -- publicly accusing her Sunday of immorality.

At least nine of the 11 occupants of the Brazilian air force plane that disappeared over the Amazon survived an emergency landing, the military said Friday.