Beauty pageant News

Washington - Up to eight different models or prototypes of President Trump's border wall will be built at the southwest border in San Diego by the end of September so that Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials can select the winning design.

Pia Wurtzbach, a Filipino-German contestant in the Miss Universe Beauty Pageant won the the Miss Universe 2015 title Sunday night at the Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.

A transgender entrant in the Miss World Spain contest is hoping to change beauty pageant history should she take home the top prize on Sunday.

Filipino boxing star Manny Pacquiao is set to travel to the US in the next few days to confer with his promoter Bob Arum on his next fight as well as a possible judging stint at the Miss Universe beauty pageant in Florida on January 25.

Rust - The representative of Colombia was selected as Miss World Cup Brazil 2014. The competition took place in Germany with participants representing the 32 countries playing in the group stage of the international soccer tournament in Brazil.

Brandi Burkhardt is a former pageant queen who made the leap from competing in beauty competitions to singing in musicals and acting on television. Through the years, she has followed her artistic vision and has done very well for herself.

Panama City - America has seen enough reality TV to have a pretty close idea of what goes on behind the scenes of a beauty pageant; crazy moms, backstabbing contestants sabotaging each other, and shallow brain-dead girls hoping for their fifteen minutes of fame.

Miss Philippines Megan Young was crowned Miss World on Saturday night in a glittering ceremony that took place in the resort island of Bali, Indonesia, amid strict security measures in the pageant venue following protests by a group religious activists.

Human error lead to numbers being added wrong and a runner-up being named the winner of the Miss Universe Canada pageant on Saturday. The goof-up was discovered 24 hours later and the winner was told that she'd lost.

Haifa - Fourteen women, aged 74 to 97, have competed in a beauty pageant for Holocaust survivors. The pageant is stirring controversy, with organizers calling it "a celebration of life".

Toronto - A respite from the humdrum of long hours of work, that's what it is. Fourteen caregivers competed among their peers for honors and titles during Saturday night's beauty contest at Toronto International Celebration Church.

Miss Philippines (Bb. Pilipinas) International Melody Gersbach was killed Saturday along with her driver and couturier when the car they were riding collide with a passenger bus on their way to Naga City in southern Luzon, Philippines

Landmines are a world wide problem. Between 2003 and 2005 there wee almost 7,000 landmine deaths worldwide. Now someone wants to do something about it. How? By holding a beauty pageant.

If beauty truly is in the eyes of the beholder, then the organizers of a new beauty pageant want to re-shape people's vision of what beauty is.