Romania's police chief has been fired over his handling of the murder of a 15-year-old girl, after it was revealed she made three emergency calls to report her own kidnapping. 

The girl was abducted on Wednesday while hitchhiking home in southern Romania, with police executing a search warrant 19 hours after the girl’s last emergency call.

A 65-year-old suspect has been taken into custody, and police believe another teenager who went missing three months ago may have been murdered by the same killer.

At least 36 people are now known to have died in a landslide which struck a village in southern China on Tuesday due to heavy rains.

State-run local media report 15 people have been missing since a wave of mud buried more than 20 houses in the province of Guizhou with another 40 people rescued from the landslide in Shuicheng county.

 A local school has also been commandeered as an emergency medical and rescue centre for victims and the government has reportedly set aside $4.4 million for rescue efforts and the relocation of victims.

The major Brisbane inner-north road Kingsford Smith Drive was closed over the weekend for construction and is expected to re-open today. 

A Brisbane City Council spokesperson said the upgrade widened the road from four to six lanes and added dedicated bicycle lanes to improve safety. 

The upgrade will reduce traffic congestion along Kingsford Smith Drive which links the CBD to the airport, Port of Brisbane, Northshore and Hamiltion.

An Australian gold mining company will donate $300,000 towards the development of a rapid cancer test at The University of Queensland.

The funding from Evolution Mining will help researchers optimise a new gold nanoparticle blood test which could give oncologists an early and more accurate diagnosis.

Professor of Nanoscience Matt Trau who leads the project said it is visionary for a mining company to support cutting-edge medical research.

The Morrison government may force Netflix and other streaming giants to produce more Australian content in a range of sweeping reforms to the digital services sector.

Communications Minister Paul Fletcher says streaming services are not obligated to produce local content, which can direct audiences away from the Australian entertainment industry.

The Australian Government has said they would introduce digital reforms without waiting for other countries to get on board, but have since said they are wary of going about it alone.

Queensland swimmer Shayna Jack has tested positive for the banned drug Ligandrol at the FINA World Championships, days after Australian swimmers accuse China’s Sun Yang of doping.

Shayna Jack said she was shocked by the test and would never knowingly take a banned drug, which can be accidentally consumed if supplements are contaminated.  

Jack’s coach Dean Boxall said he supports official protocol surrounding Jack’s doping suspension, but he says he believes her claim that the incident was accidental.

There might be a rise of the cost of smartphones, computers and other electronics if the tensions between Japan and South Korea continues. 

Earlier this month Japan put export constraints on three essential chemicals for manufacturing to the South Korean tech industry as South Korea ordered Japan to compensate Korean forced labour victims from the past. 

South Korean president Moon Jae-In has described the situation as an emergency, but Japan’s ambasador Junichi Ihara says the export restriction are due to national security concerns.

The heatwave that hit Europe last week is set to move towards Greenland and contribute to the melting of the world’s second largest ice sheet. 

According to the Denmark’s Polar Portal, Greenland has lost 160 billion tonnes of ice last month which is the equivalent of an Olympic-sized swimming pool. 

The Greenland ice sheet which covers 80% of the island consists of thousands of years of snowfall compressed into ice.