yesterday was...

A good day for:

cartoonists, with the report from Brazzaville that the constitution of Congo has been produced in comic-strip form to make it accessible to a wider public. World Bank figures indicate a 43.4 per cent adult illiteracy rate.

A bad day for:

flying bakers, when a Swedish passenger jet was forced to make an emergency landing after a bread roll became stuck in a cooling fan of the on-board oven. There was a good deal of smoke, but no injuries. A doctor and crisis group accompanied passengers on the flight to London to soothe troubled nerves.