olice had an easy time arresting a bank robber in Englewood, Colorado after he used his own account check as a note to demand money from a teller. A man walked into the Bank of the West on September 5 and gave the teller a note written on a bank check that said, "Give me all the money in your drawer Now!"

The Congolese Observatory for Human Rights is protesting Congolese officials who lodged a group of Pygmy musicians performing at the Festival of Pan-American Music in a zoo. Other artists performing at the festival received hotel accommodations. "We vigorously protest the discrimination, exploitation and bad treatment of these 20 indigenous people," the rights group said. "Since their arrival in Brazzaville on July 4, these people have been sleeping exposed to mosquitoes and the cold . . . whereas the other delegations have been housed in hotels. "

Estonia has won both gold and silver at the 12th annual world wife-carrying championships in Finland. Participants braved rain, hurdles and exhaustion to stumble along a 250-metre path with women clinging upside-down to their backs. There were 44 couples from 12 countries competing in the annual event in Sonkajarvi, reports Sky News. The idea for the race came from a Finnish legend, Rosvo-Ronkainen, who made people run through a forest carrying heavy sacks on their backs.

Starting Wednesday, visitors at the Paris Zoo in Paris, France will have a new attraction named Aldo who looks, eats and behaves like a hippopotamus but is only about as long as a human baby. This three-week old pygmy hippo, which is just 21 inches long, was bred and born June 5 at the Paris Zoo in a special program to boost the rare species. Since the start of the breeding project in the early 1990s, 47 males have been born and 66 females. Aldo's older siblings reside in Spain and Britain.

Forest rangers in the northern Italian Alps have for the first time taken pictures of an albino mountain goat at about 10,000 feet above the Les Laures valley in the northwestern Val d'Aosta region. Named "Snowflake", the albino capra ibex was seen climbing with its mother Sunday, reports Christian Chioso a regional wildlife official. The occurrence of Albinism is rare in any species and has not been previously documented among this type of goat. AP quotes Chioso as saying, "This is the only one ever documented, the only one ever seen. " Capra ibex is a type of wild mountain goat with large curved horns that lives in mountainous areas.