Jia you! Phrase 'add oil!' added to Oxford English Dictionary

It is a phrase that may be heard in Singapore exam halls as students give one another messages of encouragement.
18 October 2018, 05:25 AM

Dog lover gives up city life to care for stray animals

Anna Veselovskaya gives up her city life to house and look after dozens of stray cats and dogs at Crimea’s biggest private animal shelter. Watch the video to know more.
12 October 2018, 04:48 AM

High flying: Canada to let airline passengers pack cannabis

On October 17 Canada will become the first Group of Seven (G7) member and second country in the world after Uruguay to allow the recreational consumption of cannabis.
5 October 2018, 07:59 AM

Aerobatics amid fireworks wow audience in north China

Aerobatic teams from countries including China, Britain, the United States and Italy present an amazing maneuver amid fireworks at sunset in Alxa League, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.
5 October 2018, 07:55 AM

UN debut for NZ's 'First Baby'

With a mock security pass that lists her as the "First Baby" of New Zealand, 3-month-old Neve Te Aroha made her United Nations debut on Monday when her mother - Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern - spoke at a peace summit in the General Assembly.
25 September 2018, 18:00 PM

Flight attendant fired after boyfriend proposed to her mid-flight

Wedding proposals, for the most part, are romantic in nature -- until it causes one to lose his or her job.
20 September 2018, 04:42 AM

Florence: Reporter struggles to stand as people walk by calmly

A video which has gone viral on Twitter with over 10 million views shows a weatherman struggling to stand in the face of strong winds during Hurricane Florence while two men walk calmly behind him apparently unaffected, reports NDTV.
16 September 2018, 05:30 AM

Kuwait store shut down after sticking googly eyes on fish to make them look fresh

One seafood shop in Kuwait, tries to trick buyers who apply the check-eyes-first technique, passing off the fish they sell as fresh by sticking googly eyes on them.
6 September 2018, 06:09 AM

Twitter becomes a Freeway of Love for singer Aretha Franklin

Tributes pour in for legendary singer Aretha Franklin in social media following her demise.
17 August 2018, 06:32 AM

Grieving orca finally lets go of dead calf after carrying it for weeks

Researchers say an endangered killer whale that drew international attention as she carried her dead calf on her head for more than two weeks is finally back to feeding and frolicking with her pod.
13 August 2018, 05:29 AM

Vietnam's Golden Bridge goes viral

In the mountains of central Vietnam, a colossal pair of hands lifts a golden thread of walkway high above the clifftops, as if the mountain itself has sprouted limbs.
1 August 2018, 18:00 PM

Twitterati on Rahul Gandhi wink: Priya Varrier finally got a competition

Congress president Rahul Gandhi takes the lower house of Parliament by surprise as he decides to hug Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the end of his fiery speech during the debate on the no-confidence motion.
21 July 2018, 06:12 AM

Messages, sketches and hashtags: Thai cave rescue dominates social media

Audiences around the world cheer the rescue of 12 boys and their soccer coach from a cave in Thailand with messages of support as the saga generated suggestions of help, prayers and -- finally -- expressions of relief.
10 July 2018, 15:43 PM

A woman climbed the base of the Statue of Liberty on the Fourth of July to protest migrant family separations

A woman who climbed up to the robes of the Statue of Liberty to protest the separation of migrant families is taken into custody after a standoff with police on the Fourth of July.
5 July 2018, 07:18 AM

Crayfish becomes online hero by detaching claw to escape boiling soup

Seemingly inspired by the survival movie 127 Hours, a tenacious crayfish desperate to live decides to amputate its own arm to escape a boiling hotpot in China.
4 June 2018, 04:42 AM

Real-life Spider-Man scrambles up four storeys to save boy dangling from Paris balcony

Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo praises the heroism of a Malian immigrant who scaled the facade of a four-storey building in the north of capital to save a child hanging from a ledge, saying the city will support his effort to settle in France.
28 May 2018, 04:47 AM

6 million tweets for Meghan and Harry

Almost six million people tweeted their thoughts on Prince Harry's marriage to Meghan Markle, French social media monitoring firm Visibrain says.
21 May 2018, 05:28 AM

China family finds lost daughter after 24-year search

After searching 24 years for a daughter they lost while tending their street stall, a couple in China are finally reunited with their child.
4 April 2018, 09:54 AM

Smoking elephant puzzles experts

Scientists are puzzled by a video showing an elephant apparently smoking.
27 March 2018, 13:24 PM

Musk deletes Facebook pages of Tesla, SpaceX after challenged on Twitter

Verified Facebook pages of Elon Musk's rocket company SpaceX and electric carmaker Tesla Inc disappear minutes after the Silicon Valley billionaire promises on Twitter to take down the pages when challenged by users.
24 March 2018, 12:34 PM