Offbeat

A British ex-soldier suspected of around 40 burglaries in central France spent five months on the run in the woods before being caught this week, police said Wednesday.

Three neurosurgeons from the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research in Chandigarh (PGI Chandigarh) have unlocked the mystery behind Michael Jackson's iconic "gravity-defying" dance move made famous by his 1988 music video "Smooth Criminal".

In a Facebook post, Hema Gopinath Sah, a Mumbai-based blogger and the author of the poem Kali, talks about her own experience of growing up as a dark-skinned girl in a society obsessed with fairness.

A man in China risked his life and threw himself in front of an oncoming electric rickshaw to save a toddler. The dramatic and swift rescue was caught on surveillance camera.

Dramatic surveillance footage captures the moment a number of bystanders came together to rescue a boy plummeting from the sixth floor of a building in east China. They pulled a large bedsheet that was hanging to dry and used it to try and break the child's fall. Their quick decision-making helped save the boy's life.

If you're not having a particularly happy day, here's the perfect story to uplift your mood. A tweet posted over the weekend details a kind-hearted stranger's random act of kindness for a distressed two-year-old on a flight. His selfless action has brought joy to many and has made the tweet go insanely viral.

A desperate couple's unsuccessful attempts to get their 30-year-old son to move out of their home resulted in the parents taking some extreme steps - they sued him.

A Chinese vase discovered in a battered shoebox stuffed in an attic in France is set to be the star of a Sotheby's auction next month. Experts have identified the find as an exquisite porcelain vessel made for the 18th century Qing dynasty Emperor Qianlong and the guide price for its auction on June 12 starts at a modest 500,000 euros ($590,000).

Unless you have been living under a rock or taken a social media hiatus, you've seen a few of those hilarious Race 3 memes. Among the memes that top the list is actor Daisy Shah's "Our business is our business... none of your business" dialogue from the Race 3 trailer. And joining the scores of tweeple posting the meme is none other than Mumbai Police.

The resident dog of Mountfitchet Castle in Essex, UK, has become a single dad after adopting nine orphaned ducklings.

The meme itself is easy to do: Swap out "have twice your salary saved" with something else unrealistic, too real or just plain absurd. It's blown up, particularly on Twitter, over the past several days, as older millennials pile up joke after dark joke about their realities.

A woman who stepped into her bathroom for a shower was shocked to see a creepy black snake popping its head out of the toilet. A video posted on Facebook by Shanghaiist shows the snake crawling out of an Asian-style toilet and eventually being taken out of the bathroom.

A video going viral captures the moment a man from Madhya Pradesh's Indore got down on one knee and proposed to his girlfriend on board an IndiGo flight to Goa. He even got a little help from IndiGo's ground staff who held up signs which read, "Will You Marry Me?" Fortunately for him, it looks like she said "Yes" to his romantic proposal.

The riveting moment a massive sinkhole opened up on a road in China and swallowed three vehicles has been caught on camera.

Fancy getting your hands on one of the goody bags given to public guests at Saturday's wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle? Well you made need to break the piggy bank.