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Man builds an 800-litre coffee pot

A BOSNIAN coppersmith has fashioned a giant coffee pot that can contain 800 litres of coffee and presented it to the people of Mostar as part of celebrations there.

The brass coffee pot, which weighs 40kg and stands 1.70m high, will be part of ongoing festivities organised for last week's opening of a replica of the city's magnificent 16th century bridge, destroyed in the country's 1992-95 war.

Nasir Jabucar took two months for to produce the giant copy of traditional Turkish-style coffee pot, widely used throughout the Balkans region, and he is hoping it will find a spot in the Guinness Book of Records.

The pot is to be filled on Saturday when organizers plan to serve some 8000 traditional cups of coffee to locals and tourists.

Naturally the pot will not be lifted in the traditional way...instead the coffee will flow through a small tap fitted conveniently into its side.

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A 31-year-old BASE jumper was badly injured over the weekend when a legal jump he made off a high-rise Oslo hotel went wrong. Here, he tries to mentally prepare himself before climbing out a 34th-floor window of Oslo's Radisson SAS Plaza Hotel on Saturday.

With pictures!

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A cattle farmer accused of dumping manure along the route of a gay pride parade in Conway says that he plans to plead innocent to a charge of misdemeanor harassment Monday.

35-year-old Wesley Bono of Greenbrier turned himself in when police issued a warrant for his arrest for the June incident.

He said that he plans to plead innocent because he was trying to make a point and express his right to protest. More than 6,000 pounds of manure was found the morning of the parade route. Bono said that the incident was not a hate crime or any
crime at all. If Bono is found guilty he faces community service or paying for clean up costs

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Cops swooped on a teenage drug peddler's home and found the dimwit wearing a T-shirt that read: "I am a dealer."

And when they searched his bedroom the officers found £18,000-worth of crack, cocaine and heroin hidden away.

Mohammed Rahman, 19, claimed he had stashed the drugs for safe keeping for other dealers.

But he has now started a 30-month jail sentence after admitting three charges of possessing class A drugs with intent to supply.

Detectives launched the raid on Rahman's family home in Keighley, West Yorks, after a tip-off.

A cop said: "The team that carried out the raid could not believe it when they saw what he was wearing. Talk about stupidity!

"He had thousands of pounds worth of drugs in his bedroom and was happily wearing a T-shirt telling the whole world he was a dealer.

"I suppose he thought it was a joke."

Jobless Rahman was jailed last week, after a trial at Bradford Crown Court.

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Drug sniffer dog dies of overdose

Todd, a 7-year-old Springer spaniel, had been looking for drugs in a field and car in Preston when his handler noticed he was looking unwell.

He was taken to a vet and then rushed to an animal intensive care unit at Liverpool University, displaying symptoms of ingesting amphetamines, a Lancashire police spokeswoman said.

He died shortly afterwards.

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Maryland "Mystery Animal" caught.

It's a red fox, with mange.

And pictures.

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A Japanese businessman's English lesson caused his flight to make an unscheduled stop in Chicago Sunday.

He scribbled the phrase "suicide bomb" on a piece of paper. Another passenger saw it and alerted a flight attendant.

The flight to Dayton, Ohio, returned to O'Hare Airport.

The man was briefly questioned and released without charge. He explained that he's reading newspapers to learn English, and writes down words that he doesn't understand to look them up later.

Police conducted a routine search of the plane and no bomb was found.

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How much gold is in Goldschalger?