A 19-year-old Miss Ireland, Rosanna Davison, won the Miss World crown on Saturday in Communist China's first international beauty pageant, an event that would have once been branded a heretical display of western decadence.

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Runner-up was Miss Canada, followed by Miss China as second runner-up.
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