Beauty contest News

A 22-year-old human resources graduate from Venezuela was crowned Miss World in a glittering ceremony in London, Sunday. Ivian Sarcos, Miss Venezuela, bested more than one hundred contestants from around the world to bag the coveted crown.

Leila Lopes, the 25-year-old Miss Angola, who also won Miss Angola UK in 2010, is now the new Miss Universe in the hotly contested pageant held in Sao Paulo, Brazil Monday night

A young and beautiful Filipino-Canadian who recently won the Miss Canada-World contest will be representing Canada in the upcoming Miss World beauty contest in London late this year.

An Italian priest wants to change the stereotype that nuns are all old and gloomy. He is organizing an online beauty contest for nuns worldwide to highlight their image and work.

Next week, the United Arab Emirates capitol of Abu Dhabi, will host an annual Bedouin heritage festival that will feature a beauty contest for the animal known as "the ship of the desert".

I wouldn’t normally do an article like this. But the sheer pathos of the performance deserves some sort of acknowledgement. This is one of those unbelievable moments in media which does so little to reinforce people’s faith in society.