A teenage Muslim girl was stoned to death under Sharia law after taking part in a beauty contest in Ukraine

Katya Koren, 19, was found dead in a village in the Crimea region near her home. Friends said that she liked wearing fashionable clothes and had come seventh in a beauty contest. Her battered body was buried in a forest and was found a week after she disappeared. Police have opened a murder investigation and are looking into claims that three Muslim youths killed her, claiming that her death was justified under Islam. One of the three - named as 16-year-old Bihal Gaziev - is under arrest and told police that Katya had violated the laws of Sharia. Gaziev has said that he has no regrets about her death.