LAS VEGAS (AP) — The latest from the Miss Universe beauty pageant (all times local):
4:40 p.m.
The 2015 Miss Universe competition inside the Planet Hollywood hotel-casino on the Las Vegas Strip begins with an elaborate parade of costumes with each of the 80 contestants representing their home countries.
Among the costumes are an “Ugly Duckling”-inspired costume from Denmark, a Rubik’s Cube headdress and body suit for Hungary’s contestant and one designed to look like a tuk tuk from Thailand.
Flora Coquerel of France is wearing a redesigned costume featuring glittery peace signs. The 24-year-old will also be among the final 15 to compete for the crown. In a video interview for the telecast, she says she was inside the soccer stadium that was attacked by Islamic State terrorists on Nov. 13 describing it as “horrible, inhumane.”
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