Warsaw turns on the charm as Miss World hits town
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Warsaw, not always a top tourist  destination, is determined to show off its charms to a huge  television audience when it hosts the Miss World beauty contest  on Saturday.
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The worldwide shipping whiz FedEx has launched a major move on the Polish market as it increases operations across Central and Eastern Europe.
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[World News]: Sanya, Dec 4 : Miss Peru Maria Julia Mantilla-Garcia was Saturday crowned Miss World 2004 in this scenic Chinese beach city.
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London celebrated the opening weekend of  its fashion week with greater fanfare and more international  influence than ever filling its runways with spectacle and its  front rows with stars.
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LINZ, Austria : Recently deposed world number one Amelie Mauresmo shrugged off any doubts over her fitness by beating Poland&#39;s Marta Domachowska 6-4, 6-0 to reach the quarter-finals of the WTA tournament here.
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On a recent trip to the Wedel chocolate shop in Warsaw, I stood before a counter covered in crystal jars filled with foil-wrapped chocolates.
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Poland's capital is set to get its first woman mayor, liberal Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz, after voters in weekend municipal elections dealt a symbolic blow to the conservative government of identical twins Lech and Jaroslaw Kaczynski, final results showed.
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A beaming Riyo Mori, Japan's first Miss Universe in nearly 50 years, savored her hard-earned triumph Monday and said she was sure she would win.
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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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Sixty years ago this weekend, Warsaw's wartime agony ended. But for Janusz Zadarnowski of Creve Coeur, the adventure had a long way to run.
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SYDNEY, Australia - Miss Universe Jennifer Hawkins has inadvertently sparked a crime spree in her Australian hometown and civic leaders have had enough.
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Events marking the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Warsaw from the Nazi troops were held in the Polish capital on Monday.
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Contestants in this year's Miss America pageant made their debut in Atlantic City on Sunday, dressed in fashions from the 1950s.
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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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Lifestyle: 14 December 2004, Tuesday. A fresh acting star has swept the Missis Bulgaria World 2004 title in a ceremony that took place in Varna, the country's main coastal city.
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Miss World contestants united in defending the pageant's relevance and angrily denied it degraded women.
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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.