Doctors at the Methodist Dallas Medical Centre performed a brain surgery on a 25-year-old woman while she was awake and it was livestreamed on Facebook. Jenna Schardt had to undergo a procedure to remove a mass of blood vessels that was impacting her ability to speak and caused seizures. Thousands watched the procedure that lasted for about 45-minutes. Schardt used an ipad throughout the procedure to map out the parts of her brain that control speech and motor functions. The entire procedure was narrated by Dr. Nimesh Patel, the chief of neurosurgery at the center and she even took viewers' questions to make the livestream educational and help raise awareness.

Cellphone-related head and neck injuries are happening much more than ever before, reveals a new study published in the journal JAMA Otolaryngology.&nbsp;Researchers analysed&nbsp;data from about 100 US hospitals over 20 years and found that many injuries ranging from face cuts to fractures were caused by being distracted by phones while texting and walking. The study also found that almost 40% of the injuries occurred&nbsp;to people between the age of 13 and 29. Even though the patients were not hospitalised, these injuries are a cause of concern, said the study.

Pete Frates, a former college baseball player and the inspiration behind the famous ALS Ice Bucket Challenge passed away at the age of 34. The challenge was inspired by his battle with Lou&nbsp;Gehrig's disease and helped raise over $200 million across the world. For the challenge, you had to dump a bucket of ice water over your head , post a video on social media and challenge others to do the same and make a donation to charity. ALS has no known cure and is a progressive neurodegenerative disease. Frates passed away peacefully, surrounded by his family.

Ford Mustang, ThunderBolt&nbsp;and&nbsp;Rolls Royce were just a few of the vintage cars displayed at a rally in Indore. Organised under the banner of 'Indore Tourism Promotion Council, the event displayed a number of exclusive models, believed to be the only ones available in India.&nbsp;A major highlight was a jeep used in the 2nd World War.

India climbed one spot to the 129th position among 189 countries in the 2019 human development index, according to a report released by the United Nations Development Programme on Monday. In 2018, India's human development index or HDI value of 0.647 had put it at the 130th rank. UNDP India resident representative Shoko Noda said, in India, 27.1 crore people were lifted out of poverty from 2005-06 to 2015-16, she credited development initiatives like the Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana and Ayushman Bharat for ensuring India's climb.

New details&nbsp;on a drug that may slow Alzheimer's disease were presented at an Alzheimer's conference in San Diego.&nbsp;Aducanumab aims to help the body clear harmful plaques, or protein clumps, from the brain. Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Biogen is developing it with a Japanese company, Eisai Co. Ltd. The makers said that the results overall were "consistent and positive" for benefit at a high dose. However, other&nbsp;scientists believe that more evidence is required as the true size of the risks and benefits is unclear.

In a landmark decision, Saudi Arabia will no longer require restaurants to have separate entrances segregated by sex, according to the government. Earlier, it was mandatory to have one entrance for families and women, and another for men who were on their own. Earlier this year, a royal decree allowed Saudi women to travel abroad without a male guardian's permission, and in 2018 the Gulf kingdom ended a decades-long ban on female drivers.

Internationally acclaimed explorers, Mike Horn and Borge Ousland&nbsp;embarked on a journey to cross the frozen&nbsp;Arctic&nbsp;Ocean on skis in August. Overcoming many obstacles on the way including almost running out of food and traversing through thin ice, the duo safely finished their journey. They finally made it to 'Lance', the&nbsp;Norwegian polar research ship which was to pick them up. The aim of the expedition was to collect data on the Arctic ice melt.

The oceans are losing oxygen at an unprecedented rate and this poses a major risk to tuna, sharks and other species. The findings were presented by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature at the&nbsp;UN climate conference in Madrid. They shared that "the delicate balance of marine life is thrown into disarray" as the ocean loses oxygen. While all fish need oxygen to survive, the bigger species are more vulnerable to these depleting levels as they need more oxygen to survive. They are thus moving towards the shallow areas of sea, where they are vulnerable to fishing. Global heating is a major source of this depleting oxygen levels.&nbsp;

Canada's oldest railway tunnel, the 525-meter Brockville&nbsp;Tunnel has now been transformed into a magnificent tourist attraction, with over 700 LED light and sound systems&nbsp;lighting it up. It is a visually stunning walkway for pedestrians 365 days a year. Unique wooden doors have been built at the end and beginning of the single track non-functional tunnel. These are opened every morning to let tourists in. The redone lighting now highlights the exquisite architecture of the tunnel including mineral deposits on the walls.&nbsp;

Malaysia has reported the first case of polio in 27 years, according to health authorities. A three-month-old child has been diagnosed with the illness, after being admitted in the hospital for fever and muscle weakness. Malaysia was tagged as 'polio-free' in 2000. In September, there was an outbreak of Polio in the Philippines and tests of the baby showed genetic links to the virus detected in the region.&nbsp; Immunisation will now be stepped up, say health authorities.&nbsp;

American television series Sesame Street's&nbsp;beloved puppeteer,&nbsp;Caroll Spinney passed away&nbsp;at the age of 85 at his home in the US state of Connecticut.&nbsp;Spinney famously&nbsp;gave Big Bird his warmth and Oscar the Grouch his growl for nearly 50 years on the show.&nbsp;The Sesame Workshop said in a statement that the legendary puppeteer was suffering from&nbsp;dystonia.&nbsp;Spinney voiced and operated the two major Muppets from their inception in 1969 when he was 36, and performed them almost exclusively into his 80s on the children's television show.
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A college drop-out, Irom Roshan from Imphal&nbsp;has built a humanoid robot for personal assistance called Important Voice Live Assistant. Roshan&nbsp;hails from a family of carpenters and had no formal training in the field of robotics. But, he was always fascinated by the inner workings of a robot and&nbsp; applied all his observational knowledge&nbsp;to create it.&nbsp;

People in Dresden&nbsp;in&nbsp;Germany witnessed an interesting spectacle as one of the world's biggest ever Stollen cakes was put on display. The cake was 13-feet-long and weighed almost 4000 kilos! The recipe used to bake it dates back to the year 1434.

Thousands of runners dressed as Santa Claus painted the streets of Glasgow red on Sunday. They participated in the Santa Dash, the annual charity run. Not only humans, even dogs participated in the race that was organised by the Glasgow City Council. The aim is to raise funds for various charities.

Honouring marine species that have lost their lives to plastic pollution, few environmental groups have come together to build the world's first marine cemetery. Located at the&nbsp;Beypore Beach in&nbsp;Kozhikode&nbsp;in&nbsp;Kerala, the cemetery has been made of over 2000 plastic bottles, featuring 9 tombs. 8 critically endangered marine species including seahorse, hammerhead shark, parrotfish&nbsp;and&nbsp;leatherback turtle have been honoured at the cemetery. The project was led by Jellyfish Watersports.

Beautiful flowers as far as the eyes can see! A two-day Chrysanthemum and Coleous&nbsp;flower show was held at the National Botanical Research Institute in Lucknow&nbsp;on the&nbsp;7th and 8th of December. The flower show has been&nbsp;held every year for the last five decades. Various competitions were also organised including the best flowers title.&nbsp;

An 80-square-metre gingerbread town has gone on display at the Polish city of Gliwice.&nbsp;The model biscuit town was built by more than 30 artists, led by renowned gingerbread artist Marcin Goetz.&nbsp;Two chocolate trains snake their way through 237 gingerbread houses, the town's church, a palace and a few hundred gingerbread people.&nbsp;A castle surrounded by a gingerbread moat was made using 3500 biscuit blocks, all moulded by hand.&nbsp;The city was built using more than a tonne of gingerbread dough, 105 kilograms of honey and 23 kilograms of chocolate among other ingredients!

You've probably heard of scented brooches and bracelets, but Italian luxury fashion house Fendi just took scented accessories a notch higher. They've launched the world's first fragranced handbags available in three sizes. The unique Baguettes are made of leather infused with a fragrance, created by perfumer Maison Francis Kurkdjian and its called FendiFrenesia. According to the label, the perfume can last up to four years. The limited edition line includes colour blocking by Swiss Photographer Christelle Boule.

The lights on the world's largest Christmas tree recognised by the Guinness Book of Records were turned on in Gubbio in Italy.&nbsp;Nearly 300 twinkling lights outline the shape of a Christmas tree and its comet on the slopes of the hill, which rises behind the medieval town in central Italy.&nbsp;The record-breaking tree is 750 metres high and 450 metres wide and it took almost 7.5 kilometres of cables to light up. The tradition of the giant tree in Gubbio goes back to 1981.&nbsp;

Miss South Africa has been crowned Miss Universe 2019 at the beauty pageant held in Atlanta. Zozibini Tunzi is the third South African to be crowned Miss Universe after Margaret Gardiner in 1978 and Demi-Leigh Nel-Peters in 2017. An advocate of natural beauty, 26-year-old Tunzi hails from Tsolo in South Africa. The runner-up was Miss Puerto Rico while Miss Mexico bagged the second runner-up spot.

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