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Rep: Macaulay Culkin is in good health
MANILA, Philippines, March 31 (UPI) -- Maria Venus Raj was disqualified as the Philippines' entry for this summer's Miss Universe beauty pageant after it was discovered she was born in Qatar.
Radio France Internationale said the 21-year-old aspiring journalist won the Miss Philippines-Universe contest and was due to compete in August's Miss Universe pageant, but she got the boot after local organizers realized she was born overseas to an Indian man and Filipina mother, who were not married.
Lilia Ambay of the Miss Philippines-Universe organization told RFI Raj was not disqualified because of questions regarding her citizenship, but rather because her birth certificate contained false information, such as she was born in the Philippines to married parents.
A runner-up from the Miss Philippines-Universe pageant is expected to take Raj's place in the Miss Universe contest, organizers said. The woman's name was not mentioned in the RFI report.
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NEW YORK, Feb. 9 (UPI) --
Macaulay Culkin is in "perfectly good health," his publicist said after the former child star was photographed looking gaunt and disheveled in New York.
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CAMBRIDGE, Ohio, Feb. 9 (UPI) --
An Ohio father was charged Thursday with felony domestic violence for allegedly putting his 3-year-old son in a clothes dryer and turning it on.
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ATHENS, Greece, Feb. 10 (UPI) --
Greece grappled with dire new demands after eurozone finance ministers rebuked its $4.4 billion in budget cuts as not enough to warrant a $173 billion bailout.
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