Miss Peru Takes Miss World Crown in China Pageant
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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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STUTTGART, Germany  - A mixture of daring and dynamism sent the United States above holders China to the top of the women's team standings in qualification at the world gymnastics championships on Sunday.
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MISS World, complete with her sparkling crown, bouquet of flowers and elegantly cut ball gown, is like a Barbie doll fitted with Duracell batteries.
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Text of report in English by official Chinese news agency Xinhua (New China News Agency)  ["Zhong Wen Elected Chairman of CPPCC's Hainan Provincial Committee" - Xinhua headline]  Haikou, Feb.
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November 19, 2004 was a big day for Aishwarya Rai.ItÂs exactly ten years since she was crowned Miss World.
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The names may change. Not the results. China still rules the Olympic diving pool. The Chinese earned another gold medal - their fifth of the Athens Games - when Guo Jingjing
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BEIJING -- More than a year after becoming China's president, Hu Jintao was handed the full reins of power yesterday when his predecessor, Jiang Zemin, gave up the nation's most powerful military post.
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Miss Czech Republic, an 18-year-old high school student, took the Miss World crown on Saturday in Poland's capital Warsaw.
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MIAMI, June 13 -- More than 400 pre-Columbian artifacts believed to have been taken from ancient graves in Peru were given back to that country here today in what was described by officials as the largest such recovery since the 1970s, when Peru and the United States agreed to import restrictions...
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Xing Huina of China celebrates with a national flag after winning the women&#39;s 10,000m race in 30 minutes 24.37 seconds at the Athens 2004 Olympic Games August 27, 2004.
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Women from 86 countries prepared to sashay in bikinis and evening gowns Sunday &#151; and perhaps talk a little about world peace &#151; for the final competition in the Miss Universe pageant, held in the United States for the first time in five years.
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A 20-year-old dancer from Japan was crowned Miss Universe 2007 on Monday night, marking only the second time her country has won the world beauty title.
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All eyes are on Hu as he takes control of the worldâs most populous state. here was reason to breathe a sigh of relief Sunday as Chinaâs former President Jiang Zemin ceded control over the military to his successor, Hu Jintao.
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NEW DELHI (CP) - Kenya&#39;s Paul Kirui capped an impressive year by winning the men&#39;s world half-marathon title Sunday, while China&#39;s Sun Ying Jie claimed the women&#39;s race.
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Text of report by Papua New Guinea newspaper The National website on 6 June  [by Zachery Per]  Young men and women from the Eastern Highlands Province will be able to work in China and learn the Chinese language.
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A 22-year-old student who has had cosmetic surgery on her eyelids and cheeks was crowned the winner Saturday of China's first pageant for such "manmade beauties."
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LIMA, Peru - After 34 years of patient tinkering, researchers at Peru's most prestigious agrarian university have bred a new culinary export they hope will scamper onto dinner plates throughout America and the world: the super guinea pig.    The animal is a cuddly companion for millions of children in the United States...