Weird news stories in 2017 included Donald Trump tweeting "covfefe," Theresa May's conference disaster, the bizarre statue of Cristiano Ronaldo and a black bear playing piano.
Animal welfare authorities have launched investigations into the incident that took place in Singapore.
Motorsports Youtuber Chris RS was filming a festive ride through the French capital dressed as St Nick when a pedestrian was flattened by a car that does not stop at a red light.
Madison and boyfriend Chris uploaded an innocent video of her parents surprising him with a car. The result was an unexpected onslaught of vicious racist abuse.
A mother who found her seven-year-old son with a makeshift noose around his neck says he got the idea from a popular YouTube video.
The 50-year-old man has been arrested after the video was shared online by an unidentified witness who secretly recorded the incident.
Theresa May's ethics committee will urge MPs that web companies that fail to remove abusive content should face prosecution.
YouTube has released its annual rewind video that highlights the biggest trends of the previous year.
With the help of a Google Home speaker, a speech-impaired boy has been able to say his first word. Unfortunately it's "Google".
Feud between internet giants leads to YouTube being pulled from all Amazon home devices including Fire TV and Echo Show from 1 January.
Essex Police said that online videos of the man "demonstrated he was in a fact a high-ranking member of the gang", despite his denials.
Google-owned video platform YouTube is investigating after its autocomplete function was hijacked to show "profoundly disturbing" results including "how to have s*x with your kids."
Big-name brands including Mars and Lidl have pulled advertising from video giant YouTube after they were attached to videos of children attracting lurid comments from paedophiles.
Video hosting giant YouTube says it will take action against a swathe of predatory content uploaded to its platform showing children in a variety of distressing situations.
The exact cause of this condition is not known and in most cases, it is believed to occur sporadically, according to the National Organisation for Rare Disorders (NORD).
Al-Awlaki was cited as an influence in numerous terrorist attacks over the years, including the ones at Fort hood, the Boston Marathon and San Bernardino among others.
A new artificial intelligence-powered chatbot has been created to fight back against pesky email scammers who fill up your inbox with dodgy links and the promise of riches.
A Sudanese man accused of planning a terror attack on British soil thought it was okay to download bomb-making instructions because they had not been deleted by Facebook.
"The president will tweet whatever he wants," a White House official has said when asked about a possible Twitter blackout.
A three-year-old boy who was watching the YouTube Kids app on an iPad was found screaming by his mother after a cartoon-style suicide video leaked through the filters.
YouTube accused of "glamorising drug-taking" by screening Drugslab which shows Dutch presenters Nellie Benner, Bastiaan Rosman, and Rens Polman taking cocaine, MDMA and LSD.
Lane Davis, 33, from Washington State, was a prolific pro-Donald Trump YouTuber and a former intern for Milo Yiannopolous, before being charged with murder.