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Saudi tribe holds camel beauty pageant (Reuters)

Sunday 29 April 2007 @ 8:04 am

A herd of camels stares after it is disturbed during its lunch of hay at the Riyadh camel market May 23. This week, the Qahtani tribe of western Saudi Arabia has been welcoming entrants to its Mazayen al-Ibl competition, a parade of the "most beautiful camels" in the desolate desert region of Guwei'iyya, 120 km (75 miles) west of Riyadh. REUTERS/Leonhard FoegerReuters - The legs are long, theeyes are big, the bodies curvaceous.


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"Billie" the turtle wins Costa Rica sea race (Reuters)

Sunday 29 April 2007 @ 8:04 am

Reuters - A leatherback turtlecalled Billie won the first Great Turtle Race from Costa Ricato the Galapagos Islands, swimming at a leisurely 3 or 4 mph(5-6 kph), organisers said on Friday.

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Ashes of Star Trek’s Scotty fly to space (AP)

Sunday 29 April 2007 @ 8:04 am

Actor James Doohan, who played 'Scotty'' in the 'Star Trek' television series, is shown at his press conference during the convention and tribute, 'Beam Me Up Scotty...One Last Time,' on Aug. 29, 2004, at the Renaissance Hotel in Los Angeles. If all goes as planned Saturday April 28, 2007, the cremated remains of the actor who portrayed 'Scotty' aboard Star Trek's starship Enterprise will sail into suborbital space aboard a rocket launched from the southern New Mexico desert. Doohan died in July 2005 at age 85. (AP Photo\Sue Schneider)AP - The cremated remains of actor James Doohan, who portrayed engineer “Scotty” on “Star Trek,” and of Mercury astronaut Gordon Cooper soared into suborbital space Saturday aboard a rocket.


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