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Miss World beauty queens in China desert city
Aug 18th, 2012
Global beauty queens, soaking up nomadic culture, on Saturday readied to compete for the Miss World title in the unlikely setting of a Chinese mining city on the edge of the Gobi desert. (Source: AFP) -
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