Miss Angola crowned Miss Universe in Brazil

Miss Angola, Leila Lopes, a business student from the town of Benguela in her home country, was crowned Miss Universe on Monday after dazzling a panel of judges with her beauty and impressing them with her brains.

Lopes, 25, laughed and smiled as she hugged runner-up Miss Ukraine Olesia Stefanko, then had the crown placed carefully on her head at the pageant held in Sao Paulo, Brazil.Earlier in the contest, Lopes had been asked what she might change about her physical characteristics if she could, but Lopes said she was satisfied with who she was.

"I consider myself a woman endowed with inner beauty," she told the judges and the audience. "I have acquired many wonderful principles from my family, and I plan to follow those through the rest of my life." Lopes takes her place as the winner of the 60th annual Miss Universe pageant.

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