The&nbsp;Japanese billionaire who was searching for a 'life partner' to accompany him to the Moon has called off the contest.&nbsp;Yusaku Maezawa&nbsp;had&nbsp;earlier&nbsp;announced that he would fly himself, his girlfriend&nbsp;and some&nbsp;artists on SpaceX's&nbsp;maiden tourist flight around the Moon to shoot a&nbsp;matchmaking documentary. He shared in a series of tweets that due to personal reasons he will not be participating in the show anymore.&nbsp;Almost 28,000 women had applied, but he shared that he was experiencing "mixed feelings" about the show.&nbsp;Maezawa&nbsp;still plans to make the trip to space in 2023 - without a partner.
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The Japanese billionaire who was searching for a 'life partner' to accompany him to the Moon has called off the contest. Yusaku Maezawa had earlier announced that he would fly himself, his girlfriend and some artists on SpaceX's maiden tourist flight around the Moon to shoot a matchmaking documentary. He shared in a series of tweets that due to personal reasons he will not be participating in the show anymore. Almost 28,000 women had applied, but he shared that he was experiencing "mixed feelings" about the show. Maezawa still plans to make the trip to space in 2023 - without a partner.

Italian fashion brand, Off-White's&nbsp;presentation at Paris Fashion Week was aptly titled &ldquo;Slightly Off!&rdquo; Hybridization was the name of the game as the collection featured a couture dress teamed with camouflage-printed combat pants,&nbsp;graffiti-inspired graphics and an array of cow patterns. Model Gigi&nbsp;Hadid&nbsp;stunned everyone in a grand white tulle bridal gown that had a turquoise hooded jacket attached to on&nbsp;one shoulder. Apart from sister's Gigi&nbsp;and Bella, their mother Yolanda Hadid&nbsp;also walked for the show. The runway too looked slightly off as it featured cars sliced upside down!

Did you know that there are actually two&nbsp;distinct species of the red panda?&nbsp;A study&nbsp;by researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing and Kunming&nbsp;says the pandas can be divided into the Chinese red panda and the Himalayan red panda.&nbsp; The study, published in the journal&nbsp;Science Advances, analysed&nbsp;65 wild red pandas from across Asia and found that&nbsp;Chinese red pandas have redder faces and more distinct white and dark red tail rings compared to the Himalayan pandas.&nbsp;

In a bid to prevent accidents and to deal with the rising numbers of vehicles in the city, the Mumbai traffic police have revised speed limits for vehicles on 11 major flyovers, bridges and roads. While the speed limit on the&nbsp;Bandra-Worli Sea Link continues to be 80 km/h&nbsp;but drivers will have to reduce speeds to 35 and 40 km/h&nbsp;on the bends. The speed limits on&nbsp;the Western&nbsp;Express Higway&nbsp;and the Eastern Express Highway have been reduced to 70 km/h from the current 80 km/h, while it has been increased from 60 to 65 km/h on the Marine Drive&nbsp;

An artist from Germany, Gabriele Oelschlager, is a frequent&nbsp;visitor to the coastal town of&nbsp;Kovalam&nbsp;in Kerala since the last 25 years. While taking a casual stroll alongside the&nbsp;Hawa beach, Oelschlager makes it a point to collect waste items that have washed ashore. She then transforms them into works of art. She transforms everything from plastic bottles to fishing boats and containers into decorative&nbsp;pieces. To end garbage woes at the beach, she aims to set up a comprehensive waste treatment plan. She hopes this would make Kovalam&nbsp;a model beach both in India and across the globe.

A primary school in Wayadapur village in Vadodara has a unique way of ensuring that all its students attend school on a regular basis. The school has achieved 100 percent attendance of its pupils and it's the mid-day meal that motivates and brings these kids to school every day.&nbsp;Narendra Chauhan, the school principal has been growing all varieties&nbsp;of vegetables within the school premises for the last 17 years. The mid-day meal that students eat includes fresh, organic and nutritious food. Methi theplas, rice and vegetables like spinach, cabbage and brinjal are offered in the meal. Students make it a point to attend school to try out a new dish everyday.&nbsp;
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E-commerce giant Amazon has entered the food-delivery segment and has begun piloting food delivery in select locations across Bengaluru. As of now, the service is only open to its employees through its&nbsp;Prime Now app but the food delivery service is expected to launch sometime in March, according to a report in the Economic Times. Amazon plans to launch&nbsp;exclusive brands partnering with restaurants offering special cuisines like Japanese and Korean.&nbsp;
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Saint Laurent's show at Paris Fashion Week took a twisted approach to feminist glamour. The Fall 2020 collection was inspired by&nbsp;&ldquo;bourgeois elegance&rdquo; from the '90s. Double-breasted blazers, exquisite jackets and tartan-style prints dominated the runway. Teal, forest green and red were some of the colours that frequently made an appearance throughout the collection. Designer Anthony Vaccarello went all out on Latex for the show showing everything from latex pants and skirts to bustiers and midi skirts.&nbsp;

The Coimbatore&nbsp;Medical College Hospital has given a 'happy' makeover to its&nbsp;pediatric medicine ward to help brighten the spirits of children undergoing treatment. The walls of the ward have been painted based on different themes that children can resonate with. Students from Krishna Adithya College of Arts and Science made these different illustrations and hope these drawings will keep pediatric patients happy and positive.&nbsp;
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The Indian Railways has opened an all new 'restaurant on wheels' in&nbsp;Asansol in West Bengal.&nbsp;&nbsp;Eastern Railway&rsquo;s Asansol Division converted two old train coaches into a swanky restaurant called 'Wow Bhojan' and a tea boutique called&nbsp;&lsquo;Chai-Chun&rsquo;. The restaurants were inaugurated at the&nbsp;Asansol Railway station on the 26th of February.&nbsp;

The&nbsp;Director-General of the World Health Organisation recently warned in a conference in Geneva that no country should assume that it is safe from the deadly coronavirus&nbsp;outbreak. On a more positive note, he shared that some countries have not reported a new case in about 2 weeks. However, the virus has reached all continents except for Antarctica.&nbsp;

The Underwater Photographer of the Year has been awarded to Greg Lecoeur from France. His surreal image, titled 'Frozen mobile home' shows seals surrounding an iceberg in Antarctica. The competition, across 13 different categories, saw over 5500 entries from 70 countries. Anita Kainrath from Austria was awarded the&nbsp;'Up &amp; Coming Underwater Photographer of the Year' for her photo called 'Shark Nursery'. Zena Holloway's stunning image of a free-diver and conservationist in the Yucantan Peninsula in Mexico was a stand out in the Black and White category.

The Tibetan New Year or Losar Festival was celebrated with great fervour in Dharamshala. Devotees thronged the main Buddhist temple and offered their prayers. This year, the festival was celebrated for three days, from the 24th to the 26th of February.

The iconic music studio in Ireland where legends like&nbsp;Lady Gaga and The Rolling Stones have recorded their albums, is now open to the public, offering guided tours. The Windmill Lane Recording Studios in Dublin takes visitors back to&nbsp;40 years of music history. Tourists also get to see how a recording session works, meet a virtual band and explore the studio.&nbsp;

With an aim to stop the poaching of migratory birds, the&nbsp;Jammu and Kashmir authorities have launched an 'anti-poaching' boat in Srinagar's&nbsp;famous&nbsp;Dal&nbsp;Lake. Migratory birds camp in the region during the winter months. The motorboat is a first of its kind initiative launched to protect these birds.&nbsp;

To celebrate the rich culture and essence of India, a cultural extravaganza called 'India by the Nile' is being held in Egypt from&nbsp;March 2 to 10. The festival will showcase the&nbsp;best of Indian art, food, dance, music and fashion among other things. 'India by the Nile', a&nbsp;collaboration between the Indian Embassy in Egypt and Teamwork Arts, will be held in&nbsp;Cairo, Alexandria, Port Said and&nbsp;Fayoum.&nbsp;

In a first, researchers at the&nbsp;Tel Aviv University have discovered an animal that does not require oxygen to survive. The parasite lives in salmon tissue and is believed to be a relative of the jellyfish. As the animal evolved, it gave up breathing and consuming oxygen to produce energy.&nbsp;The&nbsp;H. salminicola&nbsp;"steals ready-made nutrients" from salmon, inside which it lives. A study related to the discovery was published in the journal&nbsp;PNAS&nbsp;and expands the definition of what an animal could be.&nbsp;

Honking can be quite an annoyance, but this truck driver's horn in Bhopal has an innovative twist! The video, which has now gone viral, shows a group of people standing in front of a truck and asking the driver to honk once more. Unlike the usual blaring sound, it belts out a tune of the famous song 'Main Jat Yamla Pagla Deewana' from 1975 film Pratigya! The amusing video has left many in splits.

Rishikesh&nbsp;is gearing up for its annual International Yoga Festival from the 1st to the 7th of March, 2020.&nbsp;Spiritual leaders, master yoga teachers and wellness experts from across the globe will take part in the 7-day festival. Held at Rishikesh's&nbsp;largest ashram, the&nbsp;Parmarth Niketan Ashram, the festival also showcases traditional songs,&nbsp;dances, and&nbsp;kirtans.&nbsp;

The annual New York Toy Fair was bigger and better this year! The event showcased the hottest and trendiest toys, various youth entertainment products and games ahead of their arrival in stores. The most popular toy at this year's fair was the Baby Yoda, a fictional character from Star Wars Disney+&nbsp; original television series The Mandalorian. According to reports, the toy industry's focus is on sustainable products this year.
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If you don't have any weekend plans, here's something you might like! The Jaipur Jazz and Blues Festival is coming to the pink city from the 28th of February till the 1st of March. The 3-day event, free of cost, will host artists from different countries like the United States, Germany and India with some inspiring musical performances across a host of genres. The event has been organised by Seher India in collaboration with Rajasthan Tourism and UNESCO&nbsp;will be held at the iconic Central Park in Jaipur.

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