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.
Best had spent time playing the casino tables at a hotel where he was staying along with a former 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.
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Upon entering the room the waiter, a soccer fan, was met with the scene of thousands of pounds strewn across a bed that also framed the half naked former Miss World.
The "freedom bin", into which we threw lads mags and scalpels, symbolised new forms of sexism that have become normalised in the intervening years between this and the original 1970 Miss World protest.
That's the second double victory in six years Aishwarya Rai and Sushmita Sen wore the corresponding tiaras in 1994. (Hyderabad native Diana Hayden was Miss World in 1997.) These are no accidental beauty queens either.
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.
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He will miss England's World Cup qualifier with Croatia on 9 September.
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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.
What they miss is that the world is going through a period of sever stagnation, Europe is in turmoil, The American economy is teetering, and even the Chinese central bank cut interest rates.
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