The 72nd Miss World beauty pageant was held this weekend in India and Opal Suchata Chuangsri of Thailand was crowned Miss World. Chuangsri topped a field of 108 contestants in the contest held in ...

Human rights activist and Canada’s Miss World contestant, Anastasia Lin, has been refused permission to enter China to compete in the beauty pageant, apparently in retaliation for her comments on the ...

Chile’s Miss World contestant Ignacia Fernández went viral for performing a death metal song at the Miss World Chile talent competition last weekend. The 27-year-old lead singer of Chile’s progressive ...

LONDON -- With a gleaming smile and a graceful bow, Miss Turkey won the Miss World contest Saturday, bringing to a close an international pageant that incited deadly rioting in Nigeria. Azra Akin ...

Violence has darkened this year's Miss World Contest, turning it into a deadly affair. When a Lagos-based newspaper suggested that the Prophet Muhammad would have approved of the contest, riots began ...

Krystyna Pyszkova of Czech Republic, left, crowns her successor Opal Suchata of Thailand after she who won the 72nd Miss World pageant in Hyderabad, India, Saturday, May 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Mahesh ...

What Does First-Ever Win Mean for Women in China? BEIJING, Dec. 4, 2007 — -- For 54 years, the Chinese Communist Party has banned beauty pageants as decadent and demeaning to women. Several years ...

The Philippines asserted its dominance in international beauty pageants this year with all of the country’s bets from major ...

Miss World Africa 2018 Quiin Abenakyo has ditched her weave after persuasion from Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni. Praising the beauty, President Museveni wrote that he was happy that Abenakyo had ...

Celebrate Women’s History Month by learning about second-wave pageant protests Bonnie J. Morris “Why Miss World?” fliers were produced for the protest against the Miss World contest in London, ...