A judge on Monday ruled that the businessman who admired Margaret Thatcher so much leaving his millions to her Conservative Party was not of sound mind when he made the bequest. According to High Court judge Launcelot Henderson Branislav Kostic was mentally ill when he left the party more than USD16. 3 million, considered as one of the largest individual political donations in British history.

According to the Beer Institute the state of Colorado officially became the largest beer producing state in the country. The Colorado brewing industry produced over 23. 3 million barrels or 724. 5 million gallons of beer. This makes the state tops in production, edging out second place California and other large states such as Texas and New York. A recent study commissioned by the Beer Institute and the National Beer Wholesalers Association (NBWA) also found that the beer industry, made up of brewers, beer importers, beer distributors, brewer suppliers, and retailers, directly and indirectly contributes $12. 4 billion annually to Colorado's economy. The industry's economic impact includes 67,918 jobs - paying $3 billion in wages - as well as $1. 6 billion in federal, state, and local taxes.

What can about $30 million buy you these days? How about your very own copy of the basis for Western civil rights - the Magna Carta. Auction house, Sotheby's, will put a genuine copy of one of the earliest versions of the Magna Carta up for bidding in December, after the historical document leaves the National Archives in Washington.

Christmas won't be the same for one Concord, New Hampshire family that has been ordered to bury the mummified baby the family has passed down to relatives for 90 years. Relatives have kept the dead baby on top of a bureau and honored Baby John at holidays with cards and gifts. One year the stillborn infant was given, appropriately enough, a dried pet fish, relatives say.

The former Attorney General and Democratic nominee to be the Governor of Florida, Janet Reno, has released a music CD, titled 'Song of America. ' The 50-song collection compiles tunes from 1492 to 9/11, and spans three discs.