Striking brains prevail over Miss World jury

Cameras are flashing, beautiful women are posing, onlookers are craning for a look - Miss World Australia is in town.
"It's [about] using your beauty for good not evil," says Melbourne's Lisa Anne Hammer - one of 20 young women from around the country who were in Sydney last night for the finals of a competition that began in 1951.
And it seems little has changed over the past 58 years. They parade in bikinis, they get judged on etiquette, as well as their looks.

Best vacation deals of 2009

With "international economic downturn" seeming to have surpassed "I love you" as the three most commonly linked words in the English language, could there be a better time to travel? Not if you want some of the best travel deals anyone has seen since Moses offered a shortcut across the Red Sea.

What makes now an especially appealing time to take a trip is that while the monetary crisis seems to have bottomed out—and the swine flu scare has subsided enough, for now, that the U.S. has dropped its Mexico travel warning—many would-be travelers are still hesitating, which is forcing the travel industry to keep prices low.

For the intrepid sojourner, that means bargains are everywhere, crowds are nowhere, and even the once-haughtiest of waiters will now be your biggest fan. Here are 10 vacation destinations where your dollar will get you more than it has in years.

Rival of reality show sprint away

Yes we are talking about reality show named 'Is Jungle Se Muje Bachao'.
This show, is directed in the jungles of Malaysia .
It is being said that the participants of the show have to remain for the two months in the forest.
But out of ten participants eight participants run away by lefting show.
Escaped participants were Akashdeep saigal, Mini Mathur, Shweta Tiwari, Anada, Mark Rabinson, Ishq Bector, Aman Verma, Chetan Hansraj, Mona Vasua.
Only Palak and Fiza were staying.
In one heartbreaking episode of the show,the participants have to keep putting their face in a jar.
As the jar was fulled with a snake, worms and bugs.
One of the participant of Show, Akashdeep Saigal completed the task anyhow but there were many wounds on his face ,so then his face was become swollen .
Looking towards the situation of Akashdeep,all other participants decided to leave the show.

Stripped Cowboy hurls fedora in the circle

Stripped Cowboy hurls fedora in the circle
What else could the Naked Cowboy throw in the ring today as he made it official? He's running for mayor of New York. Robert John Burck, 38, who has been singing in his tighty-whities for years in Times Square, said at a press conference, "For me it's going to be more about being a businessman and looking at things from a fresh perspective. Not because someone else is telling me what to do, but because I'm going to make the right choice because I'm not associated with anybody except the city as a whole." Burck's campaign motto is "How to do more with less."

Hough is 'Footloose' and fancy-free with her film, explore, adore

The celebrity seems to be aligning for two-time Dancing with the Stars winner Julianne Hough.
The expanding country music actress, who received an Emmy proposal for choreography last week with brother Derek Hough, is set to act opposite Gossip Girl's Chace Crawford in the Footloose remake next year and has found love with fellow country singer Chuck Wicks. Oh, and she turned 21 on Monday.
But don't let her fool you into thinking she is a party animal. "We went wakeboarding and stuff and just kind of hung out," she says. "That's good enough for me. I don't need a big shindig."
Still, her life seems to be one big shindig at the moment. She's taking some time off from Dancing to focus on her music career but plans to return when she finishes filming Footloose.

Jenna Bush Hager's mission: To 'engage young people'

Seven months after her father left office, media-shy Jenna Bush Hager is re-emerging with her own agenda. The Baltimore middle-school teacher, who is married to energy company employee Henry Hager, launches a UNICEF initiative today to help needy children. USA TODAY talks to Hager about kids, drawls and frequent-flier miles.

Children's advocate: Hager is part of UNICEF's Next Generation committee, which aims to save and improve the lives of children around the world. Her twin sister, Barbara, is also part of it. "I wanted to work with an organization that defended the rights of children. One thing that's great about UNICEF is that they have things for the kids that I teach. They have things for sixth-graders. They have things for younger students, like my third-graders that I taught in D.C.," Hager says.