A private collector on Saturday announced that it has sold a bottle of "ultra-premium" Tequila for a whopping $225,000. The sale for the beverage bottled in a gold and platinum casing, has made it the most expensive for a drink in the world. Without disclosing the name of the buyer, Tequila Ley . 925 said the bottle had been sold to a U. S. -based wine collector.

Turkish Engineers discovered the ruins of an ancient Byzantine port as they drilled a huge underground rail tunnel. The ancient port, which is at least 1500 years old, harbored abandoned buildings, crumbling walls, trash and broken wine bottles. It is common for residents of most great historic cities to uncover important relics each time they dig deep into the earth. But there was more to the uncovering of the ancient port in the Yenikapi neighborhood.

A Canadian man trades a small role in a Hollywood movie for a house in Kipling, Saskatchewan. Kyle MacDonald, 26, has upped the ante on his trades since offering a red paper clip online for "bigger or better" things.

A New York City woman is organizing a 30th birthday party on July 7, 2006, at which she will take off a dress she has worn every day for the past year. Dancer, choreographer and party planner Alex Martin first put on a homemade brown dress on July 7, 2005. At the launch of her project, she wrote in her blog she would "through snowballs in it (wearing additional clothing layers in cold weather for health & safety), garden in it, rehearse in it, travel in it, dance in it, cook in it, prune my pear trees in it, drink wine in it, sing my baby to sleep in it. "

Monkeys and apes at Budapest Zoo are regular drinkers of red wine. Reuters reports the primates go through 55 liters of the alcohol every year.