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Maria Sharapova back in action 

Former world number one Maria Sharapova will return to tournament action at the Brisbane International next month. She has been awarded a wildcard to play in the Australian Open warm-up. The five-time Grand Slam champion, who last played a competitive match in the first round of the U.S. Open in August, has dropped to 133rd […]
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US city legalises snowball fight. Why was it even banned! 

What is the first thing that comes to mind when you think of snow? Snowfights right? But can you imagine a place where there’s a lot of snow but you are not allowed to have snowball fights… that too by the state’s order! Wausau was such a state in the US where snowball fights were […]
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Ronaldo is the best player 

The debate about who’s better between Christiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi can never come to a conclusion. But it’s the fans who always win in such situations where the players give their best on and off the field. Cristiano Ronaldo rounded off 2019 by winning the prize for best men’s player at the Dubai Globe […]
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NASA looking for another Earth 

The US space agency NASA has proposed a mission to directly image planetary systems around Sun-like stars to search for Earth-like exoplanets. The Habitable Exoplanet Imaging Mission or HabEx is one of the four mission concepts currently being studied by the space agency in preparation for the 2020 Astrophysics Decadal Survey. NASA website describes the […]
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New Year traditions around the world 

No matter where you live, January 1 is the day to celebrate. It is the start of a new year, a year full of hope and good luck. And no one wants to start it on a negative note. That’s why cultures and communities around the world celebrate this day differently. And though most of […]
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Australia fire: More than 4,000 people trapped 

It’s not a very pleasant start to a new year for some holidaymakers in Australia. More than 4,000 tourists and locals are trapped near a seaside in the town Mallacoota, Victoria, where the fire has encircled the whole area except the beach.  Many people left their houses and hotels to take refuge near the seaside […]
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World’s oldest fossil forest uncovered in US 

Trees are the future and they are also our past. Scientists have discovered remnants of the world’s oldest fossil forest — an extensive network of trees around 386 million years old — in a sandstone quarry in the US. The fossil forest in Cairo would have spread from New York all the way into Pennsylvania […]
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Give trash and ride on metro in this city 

Don’t have enough cash to pay for metro ride? No problem. Just collect few plastic bottles and Rome metro would let you travel without money. Actually, these plastic trash bottles are the money here.  A standard ticket — valid for one metro ride or 100 minutes on all buses allowing transfers — costs 1.50 euros […]
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Coolest Lego help in quantum physics! 

How we love our Legos. Those tiny pieces of puzzles and blocks which can create supersize buildings and models. And as if they weren’t cool enough, scientists are making them coolest to get some answers for science.  They wanted to see how these beloved children’s toy would react when cooled to the lowest temperature humanly […]
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Tiniest treat: World’s smallest gingerbread house 

Christmas inspires creativity among bakers and artists but have you heard about the smallest gingerbread house? Yes, a ginger house smaller than the thickness of human hair!  Travis Casagrande, an Electron Microscopy researcher in Ontario, carved the elaborately detailed decoration. Using an electron microscope, the expert carved the world’s smallest ‘gingerbread’ house, replete with a […]