A 62-year-old retired accountant from Nevada gulped down 247 hot peppers in eight minutes to win the $2000 prize money at the Jalapeno Eating World Championship at the State Fair of Texas. The contest, which took place on Sunday, was sponsored by the International Federation of Competitive Eating. Richard LeFevre, the proud winner of the contest said that his passion for eating and competing led his way to the victory.

Happy cows give more milk. This was the belief of five Romanian farmers who are now subject of police investigation after they were found to have been feeding cannabis to their cows.

The world's oldest woman, Maria Esther de Capovilla, succumbs to pneumonia on Sunday. She was 116. Relatives say she died in Ecuador's coastal city of Guayaquil. Her funeral was scheduled for Monday.

Hundreds of thousands of devotees flocked to temples in Northern India to see the Hindu deities drinking milk. The drinking god craze comes just two days after thousands of Muslims piled up at a bay in Bombay to drink the sea water that had turned sweet. "It is a miracle," Sudhir Mishra, a priest at a Shiva temple in Lucknow told the AP. He said that at least 10 liters of milk had been offered at his temple on Monday.

A 14-year-old student stopped a school bus after it crashed into a milk truck leaving the bus driver unconscious. The bus was traveling to school south of Tampa on US 41.