Miss Universe is India's Harnaaz Sandhu

Miss Universe 2021 Harnaaz Sandhu from India. - AFP

EILAT, Israel (AP): Harnaaz Sandhu of India was crowned the 70th Miss Universe on Sunday, topping a field of some 80 contestants in a pageant that was touched by politics and the pandemic.

The previously reigning Miss Universe, Andrea Meza of Mexico, crowned her successor, a Bollywood actress, in the Israeli Red Sea resort town of Eilat.