Offbeat

Cops in the UK have released surveillance footage of two ridiculously unfortunate thieves who managed to lose their loot in a matter of seconds.

With the onslaught of social media and e-communication services, pigeongram may have become a thing of the past across the globe, but the Odisha Police continues to keep alive this unique practice.

A groom in Pakistan came dressed in the most extravagant outfit for his reception - one made of gold, local reports said. And it cost him 25 lakh Pakistan rupees.

As devotees entered the Bala Vinaynagar Temple in Chennai's Arumbakkam to offer their prayers on Tamil New Year, they found the shrine decorated not with flowers or lights but money.

On Friday, CIA director John O. Brennan tweeted at President Donald Trump: "Your kakistocracy is collapsing after its lamentable journey." The tweet, specifically the word, proved quite popular with Trump's critics, even if not everyone totally understood it.

A faithful male flying thousands of miles each year to join his handicapped female who cannot fly -- the story of two storks in Croatia, Klepetan and Malena, is one of love and devotion beating the odds.

Richard Wahl bought only two Mega Millions lottery tickets in his 47 years, and one was a dud. The other won him $533 million.

Consider this a warning: this video is definitely not for the squeamish. Footage posted on Facebook by a snake catcher in Kerala shows a cobra regurgitating not one, not two but seven eggs. Like we said, it's the stuff of nightmares.

Heinz, the popular ketchup brand, took to Twitter Thursday with a poll about a potential product launch, a concept they billed as novel to American consumers: a pre-made combination of mayonnaise and ketchup. They called it "mayochup." What started with a Twitter poll about a condiment soon became an international dispute. Who really invented the mayo-ketchup sauce, and what do you even call it?

An Indonesian man wanted to be a cop so badly that he broke the law trying to get into the police academy, authorities say. Now, the 20-year-old has been arrested and faces the prospect of years in prison for putting fake grades on his entrance application, police said.

A judge in Australia has thrown out a case by a man who sued his former boss for $1.8 million in damages for constantly farting, which he claimed, equalled to workplace bullying. The man, in his lawsuit, claimed his supervisor regularly "lifted his bum and farted" on him, local media said.

Sick of hearing his colleagues moan and complain each time his weather segment (predicting, you guessed it, cold weather) ended a weatherman sort of lost it on air.The video makes for a hilarious viewing though, we promise.

The Cannabis Disposal Team of the West Midlands Police Department has issued a helpful bit of advice to all would-be-cannabis growers: "it doesn't flush so don't bother!!"

There are unconventional teaching methods and then there's this. A driving school in China has found an innovative way of making sure their students take their lessons very, very seriously. How? By putting their smartphones on the line. Literally.

A man in Qingdao, China, went into a shop on Friday evening and came out half-an-hour later to find his car missing.