STUNNER: Miss Universe Leila Lopes

Miss Angola Crowned Miss Universe

Miss Angola Leila Lopes, 25, a business student was crowned Miss Universe in September after dazzling a panel of judges with her beauty and impressing them with her brain at the pagenats' 60th annual event. Lopes told judges when asked what she might change about her physical characteristics if she could, that she was satisfied with who she was.

Top Nurse Honored

Zhang Liyan, Director of the Nursing Department of the General Hospital of the Chinese People's Armed Police Forces, is among the eight Chinese laureates of the 43rd Florence Nightingale Award given by the International Committee of the Red Cross to honor exceptional nurses and nursing aides. During her 34-year career, Zhang has organized a total of 12 nursing teams to provide medical services in Algeria, Indonesia, Haiti and Pakistan, and in China's Sichuan and Qinghai provinces, in disaster and conflict situations.