ABU DHABI (AFP) – More than 10,000 camels from across the Gulf will be competing for millions of dollars in prize money at a beauty pageant for the “ship of the desert” in Abu Dhabi next week.
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SAN CRISTOBAL DE LAS CASAS, Mexico – A prisoner is behind bars in southern Mexico for acting beastly.

Residents of a town in the southern state of Chiapas say the bull devoured their corn crops and destroyed two wooden shops. So they had it thrown in the slammer.
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A judge in Pennsylvania gave three Spanish-speaking men a choice: Learn English or go to jail.

The men faced prison terms for criminal conspiracy to commit robbery.
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SANTO, Texas (AP) – A rattlesnake rancher who calls himself Bayou Bob found a new way to make money: Stick a rattler inside a bottle of vodka and market the concoction as an “ancient Asian elixir.” But Bayou Bob Popplewell’s bright idea appears to have landed him on the wrong side of the law, because he has no liquor license.
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The art student thought she could pray for summery weather, but given yesterday’s sunny skies and shirt-sleeve temperatures, it looked like someone had beat her to it. The unemployed inventor might have prayed for a job, or at least money to continue his life’s work, but he doesn’t kneel very well since a skydiving accident.
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A US student pilot whose plane crashed into a snowy mountainside survived a freezing night by wrapping himself in a tarp, then hiked through waist-deep snow in shorts to meet rescuers.
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