False plaits cost Bolivian beauty queen her title
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The winner of a Bolivian beauty contest for indigenous women was stripped of her title moments after her coronation when judges noticed she was wearing false plaits, organizers said on Saturday.
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Argentina said on Thursday the U.S. government pulled a "dirty trick" by accusing Venezuela of trying to smuggle $800,000 into Argentina to fund the former first lady's successful campaign for president.
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CLEVELAND -- Ever since she claimed to lose a winning lottery ticket, Elecia Battle's reputation has been on the ropes.
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Mandelson claims detectives created 'false impression' of PM.
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Two women were convicted of running a religion-laced scam that duped more than 1,000 investors out of nearly &#36;2 million by promising a cut of the late Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos' fortune.
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A Dutch reality television show in which a supposedly dying woman had to pick one of three contestants to whom she would donate a kidney was revealed as an elaborate hoax on Friday.
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Contributors to the popular collaborative encyclopedia turned against one of their own who was found to have created an elaborate false identity.
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HUANUNI, Bolivia  - A deadly dynamite battle between rival groups of Bolivian miners ended in a truce on Friday evening and President Evo Morales fired his mining minister, who was criticized for not anticipating the violence.
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An Iraqi woman who was granted refugee status in the United States after saying that she had been imprisoned, tortured and sexually assaulted in Iraq during the 1990s appears to have made false claims.
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Sharon Stone Attends the 2004 Princess Grace Awards Gala, October 27, 2004 in a New Yorkfile photo. Stone claims a Beverly Hills doctor slandered and libeled her by allegedly telling magazines that he performed cosmetic surgery on her famous face.
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Miss France 2008 will keep her crown, despite racy photos that appeared recently in a gossip magazine, but will not compete in the Miss World or Miss Universe pageants.
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By Phil Villarreal, The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson  Feb. 16--The factory that made her also spit her out.
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LOS ANGELES  Â Teri Hatcher has won a ruling in a feud between rival lip plumpers worthy of Wisteria Lane.
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Belgium's political tensions entered the glamour stakes after it was revealed that the new Miss Belgium does not speak Dutch.
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"In the wings, I told myself it was lost for me because of that but everyone encouraged me and told me it was not important."  Belgium's newly crowned beauty queen has been drawn into the bitter political feud that has left Brussels without a government for six months after it emerged that she cannot speak the language used by half of ... via Telegraph.co.uk
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After a flurry of accusations and skepticism, an exhaustive investigation has determined that someone did try to sabotage a beauty contestant's bid for the Miss Puerto Rico Universe by dousing her garments with pepper spray, police said Wednesday.
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A council pays Â£2,000 to a woman it gave an Anti Social Behaviour Order that was based on false allegations.