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Manure sculpture of official sold
NEW ZEALAND — A sculpture of a New Zealand government minister crafted from cow manure sold for 2,220 New Zealand dollars on an auction Web site. The bust of New Zealand Environment Minister Nick Smith, sculpted as a protest by artist Sam Mahon, attracted 112 bids. Mahon said he created the sculpture to protest what he considers Smith’s soft stance on pollution created by dairy farms. He said the bust did not smell. Mahon gathered cow dung from an organic dairy farm, ground it in a coffee grinder, mixed it with a polymer resin and pressed it into a mold. — The Associated Press Pirates held amid hostage threatSPAIN — Spain said Friday that it will not free two captured pirates as demanded by fellow brigands who are holding a Spanish trawler and 33 crew members off Somalia. Three crewmen who had been removed from the vessel and taken to the Somali mainland by hijackers to add pressure on Spain to repatriate the arrested pirates were returned to the ship late Friday, a government official said. The trawler’s captain said Thursday that the pirates onboard had threatened to start killing the hostages.— The Associated Press
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