Girls

Top stories in Brazil include safety alerts for travel to the country issued by Canada, the UK and New Zealand, the death of singer Rick with his widow's public reflection, a 10-year-old girl missing on her way to school in Nova Iguaçu, journalists hit by a car during a live broadcast, and US death penalty cases making headlines, including an inmate who survived her execution and another freed after decades on death row.

A girl declared dead in Guatemala woke up inside her coffin during her wake, according to reports circulating in Brazilian media, including VEJA. The case, captured on video, has drawn wide attention and comparisons to a similar incident in Bahia, Brazil, where a newborn girl woke during her wake at a hospital in Salvador, prompting outrage over medical care.

Seventeen-year-old Alice has died after her car plunged down an embankment at dawn near Pinerolo, in the Italian province of Turin. Italian public broadcaster RaiNews reported the fatal accident, describing a young life cut short. The news is prompting condolences and shock locally as details of the crash emerge.

Police forces across Germany are handling a series of urgent cases drawing wide public attention. In Berlin, officers are searching with a photo for a woman missing since Sunday, while a 13-year-old girl has vanished without a trace in Nordhausen, Thuringia. Two 11-year-old girls were reported safely found. Separately, fatal car accidents claimed lives in Wenden and elsewhere, including a 19-year-old who crashed into trees and died.

In Cologne, Germany, a robot reportedly groped a 16-year-old girl, and two teenagers have been arrested in connection with the incident. Belgian broadcaster VRT reported the story, which is drawing attention because it involves a machine being used in an assault against a minor. Further details about the robot, its owner and the circumstances have not yet been made public.

A widely shared report claims a young girl was praying inside a temple in India when a construction worker entered and attempted to rape her. The incident prompted an outpouring of anger online, with many questioning whether women and girls in India have any safe public spaces. Details of the case, including the location and whether an arrest has been made, remain unconfirmed.

Dunkerque is drawing attention following two separate incidents. A young man died after being hit while cycling in the city. Separately, a 14-year-old girl has filed a complaint after being struck by a police car on Monday during student mobilisations. The incidents have fuelled local and national coverage, with the police car collision adding tension around the ongoing lycée protests.

A 13-year-old girl reportedly threw herself from a height at her school in the Treviso area, and investigators are looking into bullying as a possible factor behind the desperate act. Local media are covering the incident, renewing debate in Italy over school bullying, prevention measures and how schools protect vulnerable students.

Austrian cyclist Valentina Cavallar of SD Worx-ProTime says she was required to undergo a doping control in the room next to her deceased mother, calling it deeply disrespectful. The story is drawing widespread criticism of anti-doping procedures. Other trending stories involving mothers include a pregnant daughter of John van 't Schip speaking about grief, an American mother who left four children behind for a cruise to the Bahamas, and a 17-year-old arrested in Belgium after his mother and a girl were found dead.

An Indian Instagram influencer is at the centre of online discussion, with claims she has earned millions of dollars by posting revealing content and now wants her younger sister to follow the same career path. Critics are condemning the earnings as exploitative, blaming followers who financially support such content, while others debate the attention economy that rewards it.

Recollections are circulating of the June 8, 2023 knife attack at the Pâquier park in Annecy, France, in which Abdalmasih Hanoun, a Syrian migrant in his thirties, stabbed four toddlers and two adults on a playground. Among the children was three-year-old British girl Ettie Turner, attacked in her stroller. The victims survived, and the case remains a flashpoint in French debates over migration and public safety.

An Australian professional surfer has been suspended following allegations of the sexual assault of a teenage girl from Sydney. The suspension was reported by The Australian, and the story is drawing attention as details of the allegations and the sport's response emerge. No further details about the surfer's identity or the competition involved have been confirmed in the available reports.

Several incidents are making news in the Vendée region of western France. A 51-year-old man was found dead in the street, and a woman has been charged with vehicular homicide and jailed. Separately, a 31-year-old woman was seriously injured and had to be cut free from her car after a road accident at Landes-Genusson. Gendarmes have also issued a witness appeal after an attempted abduction of a teenage girl near the Deux-Sèvres border, while 39 firefighters were mobilised for an industrial fire that forced the evacuation of a house.

Multiple fatal rollover accidents are being reported in Brazil. In Santa Rosa, Rio Grande do Sul, a man died after his pickup truck overturned on the RS-307 highway. In Tocantins, a 12-year-old girl was thrown from a car during a rollover and died. In São Carlos, a person involved in a rollover left the scene before firefighters arrived.

Spain's National Day celebrations in Madrid turned confrontational as flag-waving demonstrators clashed with housing protesters camped at Puerta del Sol. The encampment is demonstrating against soaring housing costs and evictions. Footage shows teenage girls taunting the campers with shower gel, underscoring the rising friction between nationalist marchers and housing activists on a day meant for national unity.