Miss Peru takes Miss World crown
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Twenty-year-old Miss Peru has been crowned Miss World in a southern Chinese resort town, as China looks to become the regular host of an event that would have once been deemed heretical by its Communist leaders.
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Twenty-year-old Miss Peru was crowned Miss World on Saturday in a southern Chinese resort town, as China looks to become the regular host of an event that would have once been deemed heretical by its Communist leaders.
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LIMA, Peru  - Four Peruvian police died on Sunday  after security forces battled to retake parts of a southern  town seized by an armed group early on New Year's Day to demand  the resignation of President Alejandro Toledo.
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BUENOS AIRES, Oct. 28 -- The presidency of Argentina was handed from husband to wife Sunday, as first lady Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner crushed 13 opposition candidates on the promise of adhering to the political principles that made President NÃÂ¿stor Kirchner one of Latin America's most popular...
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Miss Peru, Maria Julia Mantilla Garcia, an aspiring high school teacher, was crowned Miss World 2004 on Saturday night in this southern Chinese beach resort.
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EL ALTO, Bolivia  - Damiana Katari, who knits clothes for a living and wears long black braids, a bowler hat and layers of colored skirts, proudly voted to elect fellow Aymara Indian Evo Morales to the presidency of Bolivia.
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Miss Czech Republic took the Miss World crown on Saturday in Poland's capital Warsaw, the first city in ex-communist East Europe to host the pageant.
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Welsh cyclist Nicole Cooke claims the World Cup title after a fourth place in the Lowland Rotterdam Tour.
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MUMBAI: Miss India United Kingdom, Amrita Hunjan, beat contestants from 14 other countries at a gala event held at a luxury hotel here to wrest the title of Miss India Worldwide 2005.
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Donald Trump allows Miss USA to keep her title despite a series of accusations about her private life.
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Miss Peru, Maria Julia Mantilla Garcia, was crowned Miss World 2004 at a glittering event held in China. Miss Dominican Republic Claudia Julissa Cruz Rodriguez was the first runner-up, and Miss USA Nancy Randall was third.
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A 22-year-old student who said she hopes to become a cosmetic surgeon was crowned the winner yesterday in China&#39;s first pageant for such &quot;manmade beauties.
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ANDAHUAYLAS, Peru -- A four-day occupation of a police station and part of a Peruvian town by an armed group of ex-military nationalists demanding the president's resignation ended yesterday when they surrendered and freed their hostages.
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Xie Xingfang defended her crown when she   beat world number two Zhang Ning to win an all-Chinese women's   singles final 21-16 21-14 at the world championships in Madrid   on Sunday.
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SANYA (China): The Miss World contest will be held on the tropical Chinese island of Hainan for a third consecutive year in 2005, organisers announced Friday.
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A textiles graduate from Edinburgh has missed out on glory after competing in the 54th Miss World contest. Lois Weatherup, 21, was Scotland&#39;s contender in the beauty pageant held on south China&#39;s Hainan Island.
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LIMA, Peru  - The sister of Peruvian President  Alejandro Toledo was placed under house arrest on Tuesday by a  judge investigating accusations she ran a "forgery factory"  falsifying thousands of signatures to get Toledo's party  registered for elections in 2000, her lawyer said.