Update: Brazil Senate votes to impeach President Dilma Rousseff

Will now face trial for hiding budget deficit

Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff has been suspended for at least six months after the country's Senate voted to impeach her and put her on trial.

Rousseff (pictured) is accused of using funding from state banks to hide the budget deficit ahead of her re-election in October 2014.  She has also been embroiled in scandals involving corruption at Brazilian oil giant Petrobras and is accused of having ruined the country's public finances.  Senators voted to suspend her by 55 votes to 22 following an all-night session, which lasted for more than 20 hours. Brazil: Basket case or buying opportunity? Vice President Michel Temer, currently leader of the centralist PMDB party, will now assume the presidency while Rousseff's trial ta...