Rio De Janeiro - Just 50 days before Brazil hosts the World Cup, authorities beefed up security in Rio de Janeiro after a violent clash between residents and police in a slum near the tourist haven of Copacabana beach.

A trailer has been streamed by Namco Bandai for its upcoming new free-to-play multiplayer fighting game called "Rise of Incarnate."

Real Madrid’s Copa del Rey victory was arguably their biggest victory of the season, in which they combined defensive organization and swift counter-attacks to defeat Barcelona without Cristiano Ronaldo.

Sufe Bradshaw is a talented actress who loves what she does and enjoys the diversity of the craft. As the ‘curt and acerbic’ Sue Wilson, on HBO’s VEEP, Bradshaw is able to display her dramatic as well as her comedic skills.

The electric car could be considered to be the next great frontier in the evolution of the automobile, and there are several different contenders for this title.

A smartphone company started only last year has its eyes set on the Nexus 5. OnePlus, a China based company, will be announcing its first Android smartphone, the OnePlus One.

Tony Dovolani is a professional ballroom dancer who appears on the hit ABC reality dancing competition "Dancing with the Stars."

Perth - The Australian Transport Safety Bureau ruled out Thursday any link between material found on a beach in southwestern Australia and the missing Malaysia Airlines jet.

Three bantam hockey players from the Lake Manitoba First Nation Eagles have been suspended but it's not sitting well with some referees. They wanted longer suspensions and many won't work that team's games again until they're lengthened.

Dhaka - Western fashion brands faced pressure Thursday to honour promises to care for Bangladesh's victims of the world's worst garment factory accident, ahead of protests on the one-year anniversary of the disaster that cost 1,138 lives.

On April 22, country group Rascal Flatts announced that Citi will present their album release party in celebration of their ninth studio album "Rewind," which will be out on May 13.

Washington - Approval of a new pipeline to bring controversial fracked crude oil from Canada to Texas for refining has been delayed for at least a year, U.S. officials announced last week.

The U.S. FDA is warning that injection of corticosteroids into the epidural space of the spine may result in rare but serious adverse events, including loss of vision, stroke, paralysis, and death.

Tripwire Interactive has announced that 'Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad' will be available for free on April 23 for only 24 hours as part of a special Steam promotion.

‘Just Eat It: A Food Waste Story’ chronicles one couple’s vow to quit grocery shopping and survive only on discarded food – a pledge that leads to jaw-dropping findings.

Qatar has claimed that the dispute it and three of its fellow Gulf Cooperation Council member states were locked in is now over.

Donetsk - A local politician whose mutilated body was found near a rebel-held town in east Ukraine suffered many knife wounds, his anguished widow said Wednesday after identifying his body.

Belgrade - Forensic experts began exhumation work Wednesday on a suspected mass grave in Serbia believed to contain remains of ethnic Albanians killed during the 1998-1999 Kosovo war, officials said.

Louisville - A mailman in Louisville, Kentucky, was sentenced to six months in prison for failing to deliver 44,900 pieces of mail. He was also ordered to pay $14,808 in restitution to the companies and people who were affected by his actions.

Slavyansk - Vyacheslav Ponomaryov says he was running a soap factory when pro-Moscow separatists tapped him to lead them in the east Ukrainian town of Slavyansk.