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A Sao Paulo center holds a beauty pageant for the "most beautiful elderly lady" in honour of Mother's Day and to boost self-esteem and promote social interactions in senior citizens.
Inmates strutted down the runway at El Buen Pastor Prison's annual beauty pageant on Friday. Every year inmates swap their uniforms for glitzy costumes, to compete in several rounds. All nine cells, housing up to 250 women, nominate a representative to compete for the title. Inmates have a range of convictions from lesser criminal acts to drug dealing and murder.
Despite the conflict in eastern Ukraine, a beauty pageant takes place in Donetsk to mark International Women's Day on Sunday with participants wearing army fatigues instead of dresses. Duration: 00:51
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Demonstrations against Russian aggression in Ukraine continued for the third day in Tallinn on Wednesday.
U.S.-led air strikes hit 10 units of Islamic State fighters in Syria in recent days as well as militants with the al Qaeda-linked Khorasan Group. Jillian Kitchener reports.