Science Student Named Miss World

Sky - An engineering student from Russia has been crowned the 58th Miss World after a two-hour spectacle in South Africa. Beaming after her victory, Kseniya Sukhinova said her immediate ambitions included meeting Russia's president. The 21-year-old added that she planned soon to return to her studies at the Tyumen Oil and Gas University in her home region of northwestern Siberia.

London Galleries - Gallery: The most beautiful woman in the world - Russian Kseniya Sukhinova is crowned Miss World 2008.