The Miss World contest is in turmoil today after a boycott by nine finalists, the Evening Standard can reveal. Contestants are protesting over host country Nigeria's threat to stone a woman to death.

Relieved Miss World contestants arrived in Britain today after escaping the bloodshed of rioting in Nigeria. Miss England, Daniella Luan, was among the beauty queens ushered through the arrivals ...

pageant organizers and viewers at home were forced to reconcile the real Miss World contestants with the girl-next-door image the competition had tried so hard to package. The women's movement of ...