"I am inundated with messages from India, all wishing me luck. I told them I am not Indian but they are still sending me good wishes," said the 22-year-old beauty queen in an interview in Tokyo.
Suffering and want know no national boundaries. And neither do compassion and charity as the international brigade of Mother Teresa's sisters bear witness here.
A 47-year-old Norwegian hairdresser who threw a hijab-clad woman out of her salon saying, she did not want "evil" in her establishment could be sentenced to six months in jail after refusing to pay a fine of 800 pounds.
court in the French Mediterranean island of Corsica has upheld a burkini ban issued by a local mayor despite a higher court ruling saying such bans on the Muslim full-body swimwear may violate basic freedoms.