LIWA, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Deep in the desert of the United Arab Emirates, the moment that camel breeders had been waiting for arrived. Families hauled their camels through wind-carved sands.

Judges at Saudi Arabia’s annual camel beauty pageant this month are looking for long, wide necks, broad cheeks, a shapely hump and drooping lips, and they were set to hand out millions of dollars in ...

A camel beauty contest in Saudi Arabia has become mired in controversy over the use of Botox. With millions of dollars in prize money at stake, the King Abdulaziz Camel Festival, a yearly carnival in ...