Sip this drink slowly. Very slowly!

This year’s Kentucky Derby will feature a mint julep made from one of the state’s finest bourbons, mint from Morocco, ice from the Arctic Circle and sugar from the South Pacific – and it’ll be served in a gold-plated cup with a silver straw.

The cost of the drink: $1,000. Spending a grand on a cocktail at the Derby: priceless.

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Italian porn star Cicciolina has offered herself to Osama bin Laden, saying, “He can have me in exchange for an end to his tyranny.

“My breasts have only ever helped people, while bin Laden has killed thousands of innocent victims.”

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Oops!

Three Russian anglers, using dynamite on a lake in a bid to catch thousands of fish, ended up blowing up a passenger train instead. The blast stunned riders on the Vladivostok-to-Ussurisk route, but nobody was hurt.

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A group of ultra-Orthodox Jewish hackers is waging a war against porn Web sites – replacing their X-rated content with a single photo of the late, white-bearded Lubavitch leader, Rabbi Menachem Schneerson.

They blast the sites as “a violation which has caused many people’s death, troubles and calamities. What is this violation? It is a man who has spilt his sperm for nothing!”

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An Australian woman came close to an unwanted taste of French cuisine when she opened a bag of pre-mixed salad from the supermarket and found a dead, 2-inch-long frog inside.

“I’ll make my own salads from now on,” said Julie Lumber of Brisbane.

“I love French dressing. I always put it on my salads – just not that type.”

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Surf’s up – got some time on your hands?

Railroad engineer Steve King did – and now he holds the new record for the longest continuous surf ride: 7.6 miles.

The 41-year-old veteran surfer, who took 76 minutes to ride the tide up the Severn estuary in Britain, said, “I didn’t think that the conditions were that good. But I had been going for a distance, hadn’t fallen off and the wave still hadn’t broken, and I thought, ‘Hang on.’ “