When it comes to international beauty queens, 23-year-old Canadian Jessica Trisko fits the crown, but she breaks the mould.
On Sunday night in the Philippines, Trisko beat several dozen women to capture the title of Miss Earth, a pageant that celebrates environmental causes and the preservation of the Earth.
Black Sea Storm Wrecks Five Ships, Three Sailors Die
Authorities are searching for five other sailors still missing, but the approach of another storm is undercutting hopes of finding them alive.
The storm ripped apart a Russian oil tanker anchored in the Kerch Strait, spilling 2,000 tons of fuel oil into that waterway between the Sea of Azov and Black Sea.