QUIRKY WORLD ... Coffee company finds 33kg of cocaine in consignment
Police in the German capital said employees at the coffee-roasting business found the bag full of the drug the previous day when they opened a newly-arrived container of coffee. They contacted authorities.
The delivery was shipped from Brazil to the German North Sea port of Bremerhaven on its way to Berlin. Police said in a statement they are investigating who was responsible and how the drugs ended up at the coffee business.
A generous donor has dropped a gold tooth into a Christmas collection bucket in Kansas City, the Salvation Army announced.
Spokesman Rick Carroll said he has found diamond rings, silver bars and four-leaf clovers but has never heard of a tooth donation. He said the item could be worth $100 (€82), depending on the amount of gold it contains.
Kansas City’s Red Kettle Campaign began on November 7 and is running about $50,000 (€26,000) behind where it was a year ago.
Mr Carroll said he at first considered the donation to be “gross”, but now thinks it was a nice gesture. He said he was worried that the donation might have been unintentional, adding he is temporarily hanging on to the tooth in case someone claims it.
Scientists have discovered the world’s deepest fish during research in the depths of the Pacific.
They captured video footage of a type of snailfish at depths of 8,145m (26,700ft) – the greatest depth a fish has ever been observed.
They also discovered several new species on the trip to the Mariana Trench in the Pacific, as well as the first footage of the mysterious “supergiant” amphipod filmed alive.
Three health quangos expect to spend more than €9,450 of taxpayers’ cash on Christmas parties, official figures show.
Labour MP Steve Rotheram challenged Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt to reveal planned spending on Christmas cards, postage, parties, decorations and trees in 2014 by his department and its agencies and non-departmental public bodies.
The owner of a Maine Christmas tree farm says that customers are taking advantage of his business’s honour system by stealing trees and wreaths.
Todd Murphy, of Trees to Please in Norridgewock, Maine, says about $2,000 (€1,635) worth of merchandise has been stolen this season, including about a dozen trees worth $400 (€327) last weekend.
Mr Murphy told the Kennebec Journal that hundreds of people visit the farm each weekend in the weeks leading up to Christmas, and sometimes they don’t pay.
If people continue to steal, he said he will have no option but to raise prices. He has notified police about the latest theft.
Fire officials say a fuel delivery worker in New Hampshire sank in soggy ground up to his waist and it took nearly 90 minutes to pull him back out.
Greenland Deputy Fire Chief Myrick Bunker tells the Portsmouth Herald that John Hanscom was filling a propane tank on Wednesday when he dropped into the heavily saturated ground. He was able to call his boss who got rescuers to the scene.
Up to 10 firemen, using shovels and perched on plywood slabs, worked for nearly 90 minutes trying to free Hanscom from the muck that was 3ft deep. Bunker says every time a shovel load came out, another one slithered back in.
Eventually an excavator helped speed the rescue.
Hanscom was not injured.
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