Offbeat

Turns out, the former US President Barack Obama was once kicked out of Disneyland for smoking while aboard an amusement ride.

Remember the fisherman who helped women climb onto a rescue boat in nearly waist-deep water by letting them step on his back in flood-hit Kerala? Jaisal KP was hailed as a hero after a video showing his selfless act went viral. Appreciating his heroic efforts, a Mahindra vehicles' dealer in Kozhikode gifted Jaisal KP a brand new car.

Instagram has now added personalized emoji shortcuts to its app, placing your most used emoji above your keyboard. The new feature for Android and iOS has been in public testing since May.

A mother and her child who fell onto the track on the London Underground narrowly avoided being hit by a train by hiding in a pit beneath the rails, police said Saturday. The child's father also took shelter as the train passed overhead, after jumping down to help them on Friday evening at Baker Street Tube station.

A child trapped on the fourth floor window of a building in China was heroically rescued by two men - they scaled the building through its windows to save her. A video of the incident proves that not all superheroes wear capes.

In a match between a bear and a car, it was the former that won the bout - and a post shared on Facebook shows the shocking outcome of this contest. Pictures posted by the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency show the sorry state of a car after a bear entered it and got trapped inside it. The agency is now warning people to make sure they keep their cars locked.

Tennis star Sania Mirza seems to be enjoying every moment of her pregnancy. Her latest posts from her "#NotABabyShower" show the mom-to-be enjoying a pyjama party with friends and family. And it looks like a fun time was had by all.

A man in China was so enraged while waiting at a red light, he walked up to the signal and smashed it to the ground. A video circulating online shows the exact moment he attacked the traffic light and it makes for quite a bizarre clip.

Serena Williams, 23-time Grand Slam champion, is all set to try and win her seventh US Open title when she takes on Japan's Naomi Osaka in the final on September 9. To celebrate the tennis star's return to the US Open final, a year after giving birth to daughter, Olympia, Serena's husband, Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian has shared a heartwarming video that's left many moved.

For most of his life Yen Wei-shun was on the wrong side of the law, but the former Taiwan gangster says he is making up for lost time by churning out noodles for the needy. Yen, 40, is working alongside his mother to make free bowls of noodles for customers who cannot afford a meal.

"I am so Gay Today (literally and figuratively) as I am no longer a criminal," wrote Arnab Nandy in a viral Facebook post, celebrating the Supreme Court verdict decriminalising homosexuality.

Domino's Pizza in Russia seems to have severely underestimated the lengths to which people will go to for free pizza. On Tuesday, the pizza chain was forced to end a promotional offer in Russia which promised customers free pizza for life if they got the brand's logo tattooed "in a prominent place" on their body.

The beautiful video, titled 'Pyar Kiya Toh Darna Kya', urges viewers to rejoice in love in all its forms, unshackled by age, gender, religion, geography and other separators.

A Florida man's attempt to escape the police by swimming away proved to be unsuccessful, thanks to algae in the water.

Nathan Boos, a truck driver in Wisconsin, recently discovered that his work buddy Robert Degaro is actually his biological father.