All news on the topic: Beauty contests

Natasha Beresford, 26, won the world's first beauty competition which stipulated that contestants must not wear make-up, in September last year, and was crowned Miss London

US Air Force pilot Madison Marsh, 22, has been named Miss America at a pageant in Florida at the weekend, becoming the first active officer to take the crown when she beat dozens of others

Madeleine’s father is Palestinian, and aside from helping her local community in Manchester and doing charity work the beauty queen will soon travel to a Palestinian refugee camp

Up until now, most of the country's propaganda has been directed at boys, but the focus is now shifting as schoolgirls aged 15 and 16 in Russia's Primorsky region are being introduced to "military-patriotic education"

Glamorous Ariana Viera was due to represent Venezuela at the Miss Latin America of the World 2023 competition in the Dominican Republic and had been preparing for a beauty contest in New York City when she was killed in a horror smash in Orlando, Florida

Franceska Murati fled Kosovo with her family and settled in London, where she has overcome years of bullying at school and found the confidence to become a beauty queen

Corel-Jo Antwhistle, 22, enjoyed an evening out at a bar in Newcastle with a friend and then went to McDonald's for food - where a hooded thug came up and kicked her from behind

Vladimir Putin plans to give state backing to Miss Universe contestant Anna Linnikova, 22, a model representing Russia at this month's pageant being held in New Orleans in the US