The reigning Miss World and Miss Universe, Yukta Mookhey and Lara Dutta, are both Indians.
Then he was off, dabbling in businesses ranging from the Miss World competition to double-glazing.
Miss England, Daniella Luan, clearly felt she was entering Mastermind, not Miss World.
So I'm not really sure that the Miss World competition - for all its slightly old-fashioned tackiness - is where we should be protesting.
It was, however, his engagement and marriage this year to top actress and former Miss World Aishwarya Rai that sent the world's press into overdrive.
Prof Beard claims that the Miss World contest should no longer be a priority for feminists, but merely refers to her own comfort with her ageing body, and new-found personal tolerance of what she sees as the "bodily choices" of others.
Increasingly intrusive and risky procedures have become far more common since the original Miss World protest in 1970 - from facelifts and silicone breast implants to "nasal tip enhancement", the "internal bra" (a "revolutionary surgical breast support"), labiaplasties and "breast boosters".
As one of the organisers of the protest outside the Miss World contest, I was disappointed that Mary Beard did not take the trouble to inform herself of the nature of the protest before giving her opinions on its supposed redundancy.
She will live on forever, I will miss her and the world will miss her.
If Sheahan's suspension from all rugby is confirmed, he will miss the World Cup in Australia.
At his peak Younis was unplayable but his ferocious action has led to back problems which caused him to miss the 1992 World Cup and almost all the 1995 season.
That caused him to miss the Sydney World Cup and his senior debut at the World Championships in Los Angeles - the scene of his World Junior track triumph last year.
As well as ruling him out of action for Spurs, the injury also saw Modric miss four key World Cup qualifying matches for Croatia, including the 5-1 defeat to England at Wembley, as they failed to qualify for the 2010 finals in South Africa.
Reaching South Africa had been a long-held mission for Egypt, who last qualified for the 1990 World Cup, yet a lacklustre display means they miss the continent's first World Cup.
This is one transition where I expect much of the business world to miss the move.
One South African man said he travelled to Manchester because he "couldn't miss this for the world".
They will miss discovering that the world on a map is nothing if not an invitation to dream.
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Kempson said he was "gutted" to miss out of the World Cup for the second time in his career.
BBC: Kempson is missing out on the World Cup for a second time
He will miss England's World Cup qualifier with Croatia on 9 September.
The rest of the world may miss Bill Clinton, but do Americans?
The U.S. men's national soccer team is going to stub all 10 of its toes in qualifying and miss out on a World Cup.
The Fulham midfielder has suffered ill-affects of a previous stress fracture and is set to miss Wales' 2010 World Cup qualifier in Azerbaijan on 6 June.
On current trends the world will miss the target of keeping the rise in temperatures below 2C, which experts say increases the risk of drought and rising sea levels.
World Peace could miss at least six playoff games as a result of the suspension, the NBA said.
CNN: World Peace given 7-game suspension for elbow to the head
But Toshack hoped that Davies would have continued at international level until long-term injury absentees Aaron Ramsey and Jack Collison, the Premier League stars who will miss Wales' first three World Cup qualifiers, return to full fitness in the new year.
Jilted by the man she loved at the altar, Miss Havisham retreats from the world, exiling herself to her old, decaying mansion, never taking off her disintegrating, yellowing bridal gown and plotting her revenge on the male sex by molding her adopted daughter into a cruel man-eater.
"The Miss Universe competition is designed to find the one person in the world whose human qualities make them worthy of the Miss Universe crown and title, " Allred said.
Montgomery, who could have been a shock inclusion in the South Africa side for the World Cup, will miss the competition, which starts in Australia in October.
Japan's secret service, perhaps influenced by stories of Mata Hari, a dancer who became a spy in the first world war, asked Miss Nakamura to spy on a foreign client.
ECONOMIST: Kiharu Nakamura, a geisha, died on January 5th, aged 90
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