Offbeat

Netizens in China have been charmed by an old dog who patiently waits for his owner to come back from work every day.

French President Emmanuel Macron is a world leader keenly aware of his international image - and so he may have been taken aback when one of Australia's leading newspaper depicted him as an amorous and narcissistic French skunk on its front page.

Honeybees escaped from a tractor-trailer in which they were being hauled after a crash involving several other vehicles along the Capital Beltway in Northern Virginia.

Corey Simmons got on the New York City subway, heading from Manhattan to Brooklyn to pick up his son from his grandmother about two weeks ago. He knew he needed to open the green folder on his lap, but he hesitated, because inside lay his son's math worksheets that father and son were supposed to complete together. Simmons, 40, was never great at math. His son, who is in third grade, had just failed a test on fractions. Simmons wasn't sure he remembered the difference between a numerator and a denominator.

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has joined an online campaign launched by Kiwis tired of finding their remote South Pacific homeland missing from global maps.

On Wednesday, a Hercules crashed onto a state highway in Georgia, killing all nine people on board and leaving witnesses on the ground hardly able to believe what they had seen.

Kensington Palace -- the official residence of Prince Harry -- told AFP Thursday that guests have been advised to bring their own picnics as only light refreshments and snacks will be served.

Police in China are hunting for an unidentified man who was filmed walking along a beach with a small dolphin slung over his shoulder. According to several media reports, the dolphin was stranded on a beach in southern China. The reports quote eyewitnesses as saying that the man simply picked up the dolphin and walked away with it. A short clip that captured the man walking with the mammal over his shoulder went viral on social networking sites in China and provoked outrage.

We are nearly halfway through 2018 and there are always new entries for the 'Most outlandish clothing item' recognition. This time, both the entries happen to be jeans, at least that's what they claim to be. Introducing the 'extreme cut out jeans', the wild cousin of the socially-acceptable slightly-distressed denims.

Lucknow's Milind Raj says he was out for his usual morning walk last month when he heard an animal whimper. The 27-year-old says he traced the source of the distressed cries to a puppy trapped inside a drain. According to him, the dog had been stranded there for two days.

The Leicester Police Department in Massachusetts, USA, managed to trace the suspect after he attempted to thwart anti-theft devices at a supermarket by covering them in clay. Unluckily for him, he left his fingerprint on the Play Doh clay he used.

A U.S. high school student accused of cultural appropriation for her Chinese-style prom dress is receiving support online from some of the very people her critics say she offended.

A Kerala woman is using Facebook to find herself a life partner. Jyothi KG, a resident of Kerala's Malappuram, posted a matrimonial ad for herself on her Facebook profile last week. Using the hashtag #FacebookMatrimony, the designer from Kerala urged her friends to help find her a prospective groom.

A janitor in South Korea is looking to inherit a fortune after finding seven gold bars in a dustbin.

It all started on May 1 when Rujuta Diwekar tweeted that the gentleman sitting next to her on the flight had ordered chai with milk and sugar. "Such a rare thing these days," she wrote.