SAO PAULO - A WOMAN expelled for wearing a mini-dress that caused a near riot at a Brazilian college and made her an Internet sensation said all she wants is to go back to school. Well, she got her way.

Geisy Arruda, a 20-year-old tourism student, can return to the classroom after Bandeirante University reversed its decision to expel her following a flood of negative reaction in a nation known for tiny bikinis, beaches and Carnival.

ROME - LAWMAKERS allied with Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi will introduce a bill within days that could cut short his pending trials on tax fraud and corruption charges, one of the premier's most powerful backers in parliament said Tuesday.

BERLIN - AN ULTRACONSERVATIVE British bishop who was fined 12,000 euro (S$23,358) in Germany for denying the Holocaust has appealed the fine, his lawyer said Tuesday.

Matthias Lossmann said that the bishop, Richard Williamson, 'objected to the fine, which means there will be a trial.' A spokesman for the Regensburg court that issued the fine, Thomas Koch, said the court is currently examining the appeal, a routine procedure.