■ UNITED STATES
Haute chocolate up for sale
This is one rich cup of haute chocolate: A New York eatery is offering a US$25,000 dessert bulging with top-grade cocoa, edible gold and shavings of a luxury truffle. The Frrrozen Haute Chocolate was declared the most expensive dessert in the world on Wednesday by the Guinness World Records. The dessert is a frozen, slushy mix of cocoas from 14 countries, milk and 5 grams of 24-carat gold topped with whipped cream and shavings from a La Madeline au Truffle. It is served in a goblet with a band of gold decorated with 1 carat of diamonds and served with a golden spoon diners can take home.
■ UNITED STATES
Reagan items missing
The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library has been asked to carry out a full inventory and improve security after an audit found tens of thousands of mementos unaccounted for. National Archives Inspector General Paul Brachfeld said on Thursday that the Reagan Library complex, outside Los Angeles, could account for only 20,000 of an estimated 100,000 items in its collection. "This does not automatically mean the approximately 80,000 remaining items are missing. ... Some of these items may be missing or stolen, or none of these items may be missing or stolen," Brachfeld said. The library commemorates Reagan's life through exhibits of papers, political gifts, letters and other items.
■ CANADA
Girl convicted of murder
The youngest Canadian ever convicted of multiple murder, who killed her parents and brother when she was only 12, was sentenced on Thursday to the maximum punishment of 10 years in prison. The girl, now 14 and not identified because she is a minor, will serve four years in a psychiatric institution and then be freed on conditional, supervised release. The girl was convicted in a jury trial in July for the stabbing and slashing to death of her parents and eight year old brother in Medicine Hat, Alberta in April last year after they opposed her having a relationship with a boy ten years older. The boy, Jeremy Steinke, now 24, will be tried next year for premeditated murder.
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