Offbeat

A student in France has been accused of calling in a hoax bomb threat on an easyJet flight to keep his parents from visiting him.

The two-and-a-half minute trailer of Luka Chuppi was filled with some meme-worthy moments, and Twitter wasted no time in getting down to business. Here are some of the best memes that the Luka Chuppi trailer gifted us.

Actors Soha Ali Khan and Neha Dhupia, both mothers to young daughters, are amongst the people who have taken to social media to praise an ad going viral. The ad encourages parents to treat sons and daughters equally, teaching them to share the load of household chores.

Fashion house Viktor & Rolf's Spring Couture 2019 collection, unveiled at the Paris Fashion Week on Wednesday, features some brilliant statement-making dresses (literally).

The Indian Air Force shared a video on social media this morning which features Flight Lieutenant Shrikant Sharma and Flying Officer Ragi Ramachandran as they talk about their experience of participating in the Republic Day 2019 parade.

Actor R Madhavan is all set to play the role of ISRO scientist Nambi Narayanan in his upcoming film Rocketry: The Nambi Effect. His transformation has now inspired a lot of jokes and memes.

A Los Angeles-based company is selling used tissues to customers in an effort to allow them to decide when they want to get sick.

In the race to find an Australian role model that has demonstrated hard work, grit and honesty in the last year, one Aussie paper has decided the only one in the running is a horse.

Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, sister of Congress president Rahul Gandhi, finally joined active politics today, just months ahead of the national elections. Through the day, the top trending hashtags on the micro-blogging website included #PriyankaGandhi, #PriyankaEntersPolitics, #PriyankaInPolitics and #PriyankaVadra.

A video going viral online shows a chimpanzee cleaning her enclosure with a broom - thanks to something she saw her breeders do.

A shocking photograph circulating online shows a poacher in Thailand sitting on top of a bloodied tiger, drawing his fist behind his head.

Jaya Bachchan gifted a copy of Ms Kondo's bestselling book, 'The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up', to her superstar husband Amitabh Bachchan.

Several female flight attendants were allegedly forced to undress a passenger and wipe his backside in a shocking incident during a long-haul EVA Air flight from Los Angeles to Taiwan.

A steel plant in the city of Nanchang, in China's Jiangxi province - is distributing year-end bonuses by creating a 'cash mountain'.

Amanda Merrell went through 14 rounds of chemotherapy and had her leg amputated by the age of three. Today, she is a bench player for Huntingtown, a public high school with an enrollment of about 1,400 in Calvert County, Maryland.