Yesterday was a ...

Good Day for camels, as Australia's first camel race was held in the town of Boulia in Queensland. Organisers hope that the "Boulia Desert Sands 2000" will help identify racing stock for export. "In the 200,000 camels we have got, some of them are bound to be fast ones," said one of the judges."It is just a matter of finding them."

Bad Day for plumbers, as a Baptist minister in Hurricane, West Virginia, offered exotic dancers new jobs with medical insurance and child care on condition that they gave up stripping. "Can you imagine me as a plumber?" asked a dancer called Tiffany. "Where else am I going to make $280 a night and have so much fun?"