Protesters blow horns during a protest in Bucharest, Romania. Photo / AP
A monk in Burma is being held for hiding more than 4 million methamphetamine pills in his monastery, police said. AFP reports that the Buddhist monk, named Arsara, was taken into custody after police said they found 400,000 pills in his car. Police found another 4.2 million pills at
his monastery.
A 90-year-old Australian lungfish acquired by a Chicago aquarium in 1933 has been euthanised after becoming the longest-living fish in a zoological setting. The fish, known as Granddad, was euthanised because of failing health, officials from the Shedd Aquarium announced. Granddad came to Shedd from Australia and was seen by more than 104 million people.
Joseph Schreiber, an ex-convict who posted anti-Islamic rants online, pleaded no contest and was sentenced to 30 years in prison to setting fire to a mosque - the Islamic Centre of Fort Pierce - that the Orlando nightclub shooter attended occasionally.
Romania's Prime Minister said he may fire the Justice Minister for mishandling a contentious decree that has sparked the country's largest anti-government protests since communism ended. PM Sorin Grindeanu said the emergency decree to decriminalise some official misconduct approved by his Cabinet last week had "led to division" among Romanians. Grindeanu suggested Justice Minister Florin Iordache may lose his job over the move within days. Although the government repealed the measure yesterday, the unrest its move sparked continued.
Scientists have detected a black hole that's taken a record-breaking decade to devour a star - and it's still chewing away. The food fest is happening in a small galaxy 1.8 billion light-years from Earth. University of New Hampshire research scientist Dacheng Lin said that black hole feeding frenzies have been observed since the 1990s, but they've lasted just a year. At 11 years and counting, this is the longest known one yet.
