French beauty queen keeps title

December 28, 2007

Beauty queen Valerie Begue was told she can keep her Miss France title Friday despite the publication of photographs judged indecent by the competition's veteran patron. The 22-year-old student from the Indian ocean island of Reunion risked losing her award after a magazine printed pictures showing her lasciviously licking yoghurt off a wall and lying in a bikini on a cross. Images of Begue's news conference and a soundbite.