This weekend’s Miss World pageant in Mumbai, India will see 112 contestants from around the globe compete for the coveted title. Claude Mashego will represent South Africa at the pageant which ...

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 ...

Contributing fuel to the fire, comedian Bob Hope, who hosted the Miss World contest that year, made a joke in his standup routine that compared contestants with cows. "It's been quite a cattle ...