Miss Peru crowned Miss World 2004
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SANYA, CHINA -- Miss Peru, Maria Julia Mantilla Garcia, an aspiring high school teacher, was crowned Miss World 2004 last night in this southern Chinese beach resort.
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Austria's Marlies Schild claims the slalom World Cup title on Sunday after her sixth win of the season in Spain.
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Alejandro Toledo grew up shining shoes in a slum, earned a Stanford University graduate degree and a World Bank job, and five years ago became Peru's first democratically elected president of Indian descent. His presidency ends Friday with Peru's economy looking its best in decades.
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Peru&#39;s 20-year-old Maria Julia Mantilla Garcia began her reign as Miss World 2004 on Sunday after beating 106 other women to the title in China&#39;s second staging of the international beauty pageant.
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Lifestyle: 21 November 2004, Sunday. At a spectacular show-concert in Sofia Land entertainment site the xGround fashion agency presented its 2004 Super Model awards.
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Goalkeeper Oscar Ibanez made two saves and Cienciano of Peru converted four kicks to beat Argentina's Boca Juniors 4-2 on penalty kicks after a 1-1 tie and win the 2004 Recopa championship Tuesday night.
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Former Miss World Aishwarya Rai has been voted as the sexiest actress in India by the 2004 Durex Global Sex Survey.
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Sanya (Cina), 4 dicembre 2004 - Ã Miss PerÃ¹ la piÃ¹ bella del pianeta. Maria Julia Mantilla Garcia Ã¨ stata incoronata oggi Miss Mondo 2004 nel concorso che si Ã¨ tenuto a Sanya, in Cina. La Mantilla Garcia
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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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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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First lady Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner declared victory in Argentina's presidential vote on Sunday and was set to become the first woman elected to lead the country.
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It was a year in which Kenya claimed its rightful place on the world scene. The first woman ever to win a Nobel Peace Prize in Africa was a Kenyan and the country hosted a meeting of the UN Security Council.
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Indian photographer Arko Datta wins the World Press Photo award for 2004 with a tsunami picture.
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LIMA, Peru  - The top human rights court in Latin  America has upheld a 20-year sentence for Lori Berenson, an  American imprisoned in Peru on terrorism charges, President  Alejandro Toledo said on Thursday.
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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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Miss Peru, Maria Julia Mantilla Garcia, has been named as Miss World 2004, at the beauty pageant held in China. Miss Mantilla Garcia, 20, beat 14 other finalists which included 22-year-old Brisbane resident Sarah Davies.
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Russian top seed Elena Dementieva won her first title of 2004 on Sunday with a 0-6, 6-0, 6-4 victory against compatriot Elena Bovina in the final of the $170,000 tournament.