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The International Space Station was a cramped, humid, puny three rooms when the first crew moved in. Twenty years and 241 visitors later, the complex has a lookout tower, three toilets, six sleeping compartments and 12 rooms, depending on how you count. from Top Buzz News- News18.com https://ift.tt/37X75Ml via

Around 1,500 people have applied since the scheme was launched on October 15, but the council wants to keep the numbers to around 10 people or five couples for the time being. from Top Buzz News- News18.com https://ift.tt/3mDjARf via

Social media posts included racist claims that she was ineligible to serve in the White House or that she was lying about her Black and Indian heritage. from Top Buzz News- News18.com https://ift.tt/3jMcNTs via

Officials with the Orange County Supervisor of Elections said the woman was already in labor when she arrived at the polling site with her husband Tuesday afternoon, news outlets reported. from Top Buzz News- News18.com https://ift.tt/2HRBwse via

The woman has been reported as Larinda Jolly, 56. While the discovery was made on October 21, she had been dead for years. from Top Buzz News- News18.com https://ift.tt/34Odt6V via

A 14-year-old Indian girl named Ojal Sunil Nalavadi bagged the Guinness World Record title for the fastest female skater to cover 400 meters in 51.25 seconds while being blindfolded from Top Buzz News- News18.com https://ift.tt/3oI4I67 via

A shop in Bhagal launched a 'Gold Ghari’ to its menu which costs Rs 9,000 per kg. from Top Buzz News- News18.com https://ift.tt/3oM1Uom via

Honest Crust Sourdough Pizza, a restaurant in the UK was left ‘hurt’ after a customer ate the entire pizza, leaving the cornicione untouched. from Top Buzz News- News18.com https://ift.tt/3kP4WGc via

The ratio of girls dropping out of school is twice more likely in countries affected by conflict as compared to those living in non-affected countries. from Top Buzz News- News18.com https://ift.tt/35ThXZ9 via

The whole incident was caught on camera thanks to the CCTV footage recovered from the platform. from Top Buzz News- News18.com https://ift.tt/3oMrwlo via

An earthquake of massive 7.0 magnitude hit parts of the country on Friday, October 30. from Top Buzz News- News18.com https://ift.tt/3kITL1G via

Interestingly, the stringent action came even as the BMC announced on Friday that in 212 days, it had collected a whopping Rs 3,49,34,800 since April, including Rs 18,21,400 only in October. from Top Buzz News- News18.com https://ift.tt/2JoutIw via

A young boy managed to save around 75 residents of a two-storey building in Dombivli in Maharashtra before it collapsed on Thursday morning. from Top Buzz News- News18.com https://ift.tt/3ebJkBn via

Spraying hand sanitiser while taking the person's temperature, the two-metre (around 6.6-foot) high device offers an all-in-one disinfection experience. from Top Buzz News- News18.com https://ift.tt/2TGXkcM via

The study shows that enjoyment was maximized at a 'sweet spot' where participants felt distinct physical reactions, notably heart rate fluctuations, as long as those reactions weren't too intense. from Top Buzz News- News18.com https://ift.tt/2THl9S0 via

Chef George Calombaris, who is best known as the witty and fun judge from popular cooking show Masterchef Australia, shared a throwback photo with Bollywood actor Hrithik Roshan. from Top Buzz News- News18.com https://ift.tt/3eaJ5X6 via

Two out of three respondents said they used online channels to communicate more often than before the pandemic, and 49% claimed they had given up light topics to focus on deeper conversations. from Top Buzz News- News18.com https://ift.tt/2TEInIj via

NASA decided to expedite sample stowage, originally scheduled for November 2, after the OSIRIS-REx mission team received images on October 22 that showed the spacecraft's collector head overflowing with material collected from Bennu's surface. from Top Buzz News- News18.com https://ift.tt/3mvUvYC via

A Mumbai based woman started a petition urging lingerie brands to hire older models for their advertising campaigns. from Top Buzz News- News18.com https://ift.tt/3e6v5Og via

The State Food Safety Department has recently issued a fine of Rs 5 lakh and even six months jail time for unregistered home kitchens selling home-cooked meals without a licence. from Top Buzz News- News18.com https://ift.tt/31TJMzc via

Pilot was in Madhya Pradesh and addressed rallies in regions which have strong influence of his friend and former party colleague Jyotiraditya Scindia, who joined the BJP earlier this year after leaving the Congress. from Top Buzz News- News18.com https://ift.tt/35NuCMZ via

Analysing the genetic factors that make some individuals at higher risk for severe Covid-19, the team focused on two genes: ACE2 and TPMPRSS2, known to be critical for the virus to enter into human cells. from Top Buzz News- News18.com https://ift.tt/35LfmQR via

The move was slammed by conservation groups, which said that while wolf numbers have partly recovered since grey wolf was first listed in 1974, they remain 'functionally extinct' in the vast majority of their former range. from Top Buzz News- News18.com https://ift.tt/34GkIO7 via

Assam has reportedly become the first state in India to include the 'transgender' option in the gender category in the form for civil service examinations. from Top Buzz News- News18.com https://ift.tt/3oE48q3 via

The driver was under the influence of alcohol. Police are investigating the matter. from Top Buzz News- News18.com https://ift.tt/2TCQUvy via

The paper, published in Science, showed how our canine companions spread across the world with their masters, but also found intriguing periods when our shared history was decoupled. from Top Buzz News- News18.com https://ift.tt/3kKoziO via

Doorkins Magnificat -- or Doorkins for short -- made Southwark Cathedral her home in 2008 after visiting between Christmas and New Year in search of food. from Top Buzz News- News18.com https://ift.tt/35Fvsva via

Known as a beacon of liberalism in the region, Taiwan legalised same-sex marriage last year - a first in Asia - despite stiff opposition from some Christian and conservative groups. from Top Buzz News- News18.com https://ift.tt/31TayHS via

It was a delicate two-day procedure, requiring the team at each step to assess images and data from the previous step. from Top Buzz News- News18.com https://ift.tt/3kN9q0c via

The duo was arrested recently and ornaments worth Rs 28.08 lakh and a car worth Rs 11.50 lakh were seized from their possession. from Top Buzz News- News18.com https://ift.tt/2HNaQcp via

The show displays work featuring Colbert's cartoon lobster, the central character in his paintings and sculptures. Telepresence robots - remote-controlled robots on wheels with cameras and a tablet screen are on offer for those who don't attend in person. from Top Buzz News- News18.com https://ift.tt/3oI3xDB via

The 2018 game which is a sequel of 'Red Dead Redemption' is one of the bestselling games of all time and takes between roughly 50 and 80 hours to complete in the story mode. from Top Buzz News- News18.com https://ift.tt/3jIHTLT via

In a bizarre incident reported from Noida, a man allegedly stole his own car after selling it on an ecommerce site. from Top Buzz News- News18.com https://ift.tt/37SLtkd via

The festive tradition typically draws thousands of people to burial grounds and public plazas across Mexico, many dressed as skeletons, to picnic at gravesides and decorate altars with sugar skulls and photos of dead friends and relatives. from Top Buzz News- News18.com https://ift.tt/3jEECx5 via

The government said the truck in the now-viral photo wasn't linked to the controversial development, which has been put on ice until mid-2021 because of the coronavirus pandemic. from Top Buzz News- News18.com https://ift.tt/3mE3PK7 via

The hologram also praises Kardashian for her hard work and the businesses she's built, and also applauds her for her dedication to become a lawyer and follow in his footsteps. from Top Buzz News- News18.com https://ift.tt/3mA4cFj via

KKR co-owner Juhi Chawla was spotted at the Dubai stadium praying for her team in the last over of CSK's thrilling run-chase. from Top Buzz News- News18.com https://ift.tt/3jHNEcP via

Needing 10 off the last over, Ravindra Jadeja of Chennai Super Kings finished the business by smacking two sixes on the final two deliveries bowled by Kolkata Knight Riders' Kamlesh Nagarkoti. from Top Buzz News- News18.com https://ift.tt/3edrMVp via

The assessment also suggested better regulation of international wildlife trade and empowering indigenous communities to better preserve wild habitats. from Top Buzz News- News18.com https://ift.tt/37Q4kwt via

PUBG Mobile and PUBG Mobile Lite will no longer work for gamers in India starting October 30 (Friday), the company announced in a Facebook post. from Top Buzz News- News18.com https://ift.tt/3myXNtX via

Biden too, used the rain to his advantage, posting a photo on Twitter, captioning it: 'This storm will pass, and a new day will come.' from Top Buzz News- News18.com https://ift.tt/34DROxR via

The old man added that he had been selling plants for the last three years and he did not want to take loan from anyone. Now, people are also coming to buy saplings from him. from Top Buzz News- News18.com https://ift.tt/37RtYRi via

The photos of the yellow turtle have generated quite a buzz on the microblogging site and since then have been widely shared on Twitter. from Top Buzz News- News18.com https://ift.tt/34AK6oe via

The picture prompted netizens to speculate that it was not the real Melania Trump but rather her body double since the features of the lady in the picture did not match with the real one. from Top Buzz News- News18.com https://ift.tt/35NtN6U via

Kanittha, 32, saw her audience numbers surge after she started appearing in scary make-up, taking up to three hours to complete her zombie look before each late-night session, during which she tells buyers exactly how the owners of each item died. from Top Buzz News- News18.com https://ift.tt/34CrSTg via

The expansion of the company's McCafé lineup adds three new sweets to menus as it finds itself in a competitive battle with rivals over the first meal of the day. from Top Buzz News- News18.com https://ift.tt/37NcGF7 via

The unexpected development, as the scientists called the discovery, is a first of its kind. No such compound has ever been discovered in either the Earth’s or any other planet’s atmosphere. from Top Buzz News- News18.com https://ift.tt/3kCO8lC via

The corals were discovered on deep seamounts and ridges in the mineral-rich Prime Crust Zone, which stretches from the Mariana Trench to the Hawaiian islands, according to a paper published in scientific journal Zootaxa on Thursday. from Top Buzz News- News18.com https://ift.tt/34DjKlK via

In his election campaign, Biden has focused heavily on the LGBTQIA community as well as women to make it more gender-inclusive in terms of representation. from Top Buzz News- News18.com https://ift.tt/31RQjKF via

Zuckenberg is easy to pronounce, but not Pichai? from Top Buzz News- News18.com https://ift.tt/3oC6Tbh via