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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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+ original television series The Mandalorian. According to reports, the toy industry's focus is on sustainable products this year.

Many&nbsp;animals build structures to aid their survival but very few build it from scratch.&nbsp;Scientists from the&nbsp;Monterrey Bay Aquarium Research Institute in the United States have decoded mucoid structures that animals build in the deep ocean for survival. The 'houses' built by these&nbsp;&nbsp;larvaceans&nbsp;could easily be called marvels of nature. The ocean's tadpole-looking master builders construct the equivalent of a complex five-story house that protects them from predators, and filters food for them, all from the snot coming out of their heads! When these homes get clogged, they build a new one, mostly every day. According to the study, they also filter and bind micro-plastics, taking it out of the water column and dumping it on the sea floor.&nbsp;

To uplift spirits, residents at the Juafar Quarantine Centre in Siwan&nbsp;in&nbsp;Bihar&nbsp;took to dancing. The trending clip shows people dancing to the famous song 'Sandese Aatey&nbsp;Hai' from the 1997 Bollywood movie Border. The clip was shared by a cop, calling the performance&nbsp;'covidance'. Residents were seen standing in rows while maintaining social distance, and following one of the members on stage.

Art experts have found two paintings by&nbsp;Renaissance ney&nbsp;master Raphael in a room inside Vatican's Hall of Constantine.&nbsp;Two female figures, each with one breast bared and serving as allegorical representations of justice and friendship were discovered during a five-year restoration of the Hall of Constantine. Researchers believe that they represent the work of Raphael shortly before his death in 1520.&nbsp;The museum had planned to unveil the "re-discovery" of Raphael's work at an international convention of art experts in April but the Covid-19 pandemic forced authorities to cancel the event.&nbsp;The paintings are now on public display.&nbsp;
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To help disembark stranded crew members on-board cruise ships amid the&nbsp;Covid-19 pandemic, the US&nbsp;Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has launched a new colour-coded system. Based on how long the ship has been isolated for and on the number&nbsp;of Covid-19 cases, a green, yellow, or red status will be assigned to ships. A green status implies&nbsp;no confirmed cases of Covid-19&nbsp;or similar illness for 28 days and the crew can go home via commercial transportation. A yellow status means ships have one or more cases of Covid-19-like illness pending a test and a red status implies one or more confirmed cases of Covid-19 in the last 28 days. Almost 62,000 crew members are waiting to go home as lockdown rules in several parts of the world begin to ease.&nbsp;

Amsterdam's famous Rijksmuseum&nbsp;just received a 16-century painting as a tribute to Covid-19 victims.&nbsp;Bartholomeus Spranger's "Body of Christ Supported by Angels", completed back in 1587, was donated by Dutch dealer Bob Haboldt. The general director of the museum described the gift as a 'moment of light'. He shared that the dealer had plans to sell the painting but decided to dedicate it the victims of Covid-19.&nbsp;He wanted it to&nbsp;serve as an inspiration for others to support art during these challenging times. As restrictions began to ease, the museum was reopened to visitors recently.&nbsp;

The world-famous&nbsp;Uffizi Gallery in Florence opened its doors to visitors,&nbsp;after being locked down for 85 days amid the Covid-19 pandemic. Hundreds of people wearing masks queued up on the first day. The gallery is famous for iconic&nbsp;works by Italian Renaissance masters including&nbsp;Botticelli, Raphael and Leonardo Da Vinci.&nbsp;The museum director shared that during the lockdown, the gallery lost almost one million visitors and 12 million euros in revenue. Stringent measures including thermal&nbsp;scanners, distribution&nbsp;of antibacterial gel, and markings for social distancing have been enforced to contain the spread of&nbsp;&nbsp;Covid-19. Only&nbsp;450 people will be allowed inside&nbsp;the museum during one session.&nbsp;

The tragic death of a pregnant elephant, who passed away while standing in a river after locals fed her a pineapple stuffed with firecrackers in Kerala, has sparked outrage on social media. Angry and devastated netizens took to art to express their emotions, sharing how humanity had failed them. Social media was abuzz with sketches and illustrations of the pregnant elephant as a way to apologise for the inhumane act and spread awareness against animal cruelty.&nbsp;

A healthcare worker in the UK reunited with her daughters after nine weeks and the heartwarming&nbsp;moment&nbsp;was captured on video. Suzie Vaughan, working at the forefront of the Covid-19 battle, was isolating from her family to avoid the risk of&nbsp;transmission of the infection.&nbsp;Vaughan works at a Covid-19 ward at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Kings Lynn. She decided to surprise her daughters who were staying with her sister Charlotte. In the video, shared by Charlotte, Suzie is seen sneaking in to meet her daughters, who are caught absolutely unaware. The reunion has left netizens&nbsp;teary-eyed.

Wildlife poaching has doubled in India, and increased by almost 151%&nbsp;amid the Covid-19 lockdown, analysis by global wildlife trade monitoring network TRAFFIC has found. As funding dries up and fewer people are on ground, rescue efforts have been minimal during this period. The new report compares the period of six weeks before the&nbsp;lockdown&nbsp;with six weeks in lockdown. Cases of poaching went up from 35 to 88, not restricted to any one particular geographical area. The report found that endangered animals under&nbsp;Schedule I of the Wildlife Protection Act, were targeted the most. The report shares that most of the wildlife poaching has been done for local trade and meat consumption.&nbsp;
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China is planning to begin its hunt for extra-terrestrial life this year, reports Chinese state media outlet&nbsp;Science and Technology Daily. A massive five-hundred aperture telescope (FAST) that was unveiled earlier this year will kick start its official search for aliens from&nbsp;September. Dubbed to be the world largest telescope, China&nbsp;will be able to use FAST&nbsp;to scan twice the sky area covered by the&nbsp;previous record holder for the largest single-aperture radio telescope in the world. Apart from alien life, the telescope will also help scientists study distant galaxies, phenomenon like the black hole, pulsars and more.&nbsp;

The ayurvedic department in Rajasthan has undertaken a unique initiative to boost immunity to fight the&nbsp;Covid-19 crisis. The programme called 'Har Ghar Giloy', promoted in&nbsp;Jodhpur,&nbsp;suggests that any household interested in planting giloy, an ayurvedic herb known for its immunity-boosting properties, can contact the authorities and the municipal corporation will provide them with the plant. District Collector Prakash Purohit&nbsp;stated that the aim is to make the medicinal properties of giloy&nbsp;universally available.

A 'Parenting Matters: Examining Parenting Approaches and Practices' study by the UNICEF&nbsp;has found that Indian parents&nbsp;use at least 30 different forms of physical, verbal and emotional abuse and violence to discipline children.&nbsp;The study was conducted in the states of Madhya&nbsp;Pradesh, Rajasthan, Odisha, Maharashtra&nbsp;and Chhattishgarh.&nbsp;From&nbsp;pinching, slapping or burning and verbal abuse like criticism and shouting to emotional violence like denying food or instilling fear -- children are exposed to a variety of punishments in Indian households. The analysis also revealed that girls were burdened with more restrictions and expected to do more household chores from a young age as compared to boys.&nbsp;

Air pollution levels had reduced significantly above China as cities went under lockdown to control the epidemic but as the country returns to normal, so does the polluted skies.&nbsp;Data from the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air shows that PM 2.5 and nitrogen dioxide in China have returned to the same level as one year ago. A Guardian report suggests that the same suit will follow in Europe and other countries as well.&nbsp;Crea&rsquo;s lead analyst told Guardian, 'highly polluting industries have been faster to recover from the crisis. It is essential for policymakers to prioritise clean energy.'&nbsp;

A top destination for Indian travellers, the island nation of&nbsp;Maldives&nbsp;may reopen to visitors as early as July 1. While the final rules have not been finalised yet, the report says that visitors may need to present a confirmed booking at a tourist facility that possesses a safety license. An earlier report said that guests may be charged an additional fee but the ministry has clarified to CNN that there will be no such fee. A Telegraph report states that visitors may have to&nbsp;submit either a negative antigen test or a positive antibody test a week before their arrival but it is not clear if this mandate will make it to the final rules.&nbsp;

A 9-year-old boy from Kenya,&nbsp;who made a&nbsp;wooden hand-washing machine to help fight Covid-19, was awarded the Presidential award for his invention.&nbsp;Stephen Wamukota&nbsp;made two machines and aims to make more for his area. The machines use a foot pedal to draw water from a bucket to avoid touching the tap. Stephen lives in the&nbsp;Mukwa village in Bungoma country, which has not reported any&nbsp;Covid-19 case yet. Stephen was among 68 Kenyans given the Presidential Order of Service,&nbsp;Uzalendo (Patriotic) Award.&nbsp;

Get ready to witness the Strawberry Moon Eclipse, also known as the penumbral lunar eclipse, on the 5th of June. A penumbral lunar eclipse occurs when the Sun, moon and the Earth are not perfectly aligned. During this phenomenon, almost 57% of the moon is likely to pass into the penumbra of the Earth or the outer part of its shadow. This Full Moon has been named after the strawberries that begin to ripen during this season. The eclipse will last for about 3 hours and 18 minutes and will be seen in India from 11:15 pm on the 5th of June to 2:34 am on the 6th of June.

Bhubaneswar-based sand artist Subal Moharana has made the smallest chariot of Lord Jagannath, ahead of the famous chariot festival in Puri. Speaking to news agency ANI, he said that its only 2.3 millimetre&nbsp;tall&nbsp;and 1.9 millimetre&nbsp;wide.&nbsp;He used wood and fabric to make it.&nbsp;He has also created a chariot of Lord Balabhadra&nbsp;and Goddess Subhadra . All three pieces took over 15 hours to make. Moharana has applied for a Guinness World Record title, claiming these are the smallest pieces ever to be created. The Puri Rath Yatra is scheduled to take place on the 23rd of June, but in the absence of devotees to contain the spread of&nbsp;Covid-19.

A new expressway connecting Delhi and Amritsar&nbsp;will begin construction soon as Centre has approved a&nbsp;proposal to convert the Punjab stretch of Delhi-Amritsar-Katra expressway to a&nbsp;greenfield project.&nbsp;Union Highways Minister&nbsp;Nitin Gadkari&nbsp;has cleared a sum of Rs. 25,000 crores for the ambitious project that will travel time between Delhi and Amritsar&nbsp;to just four hours from nearly eight hours at present.&nbsp;

If you have some leftover pizza from the night before and want to turn it into a new dish, here's a hack for you from the experts of all things pizza! Domino's Australia is sharing fun ways to reheat pizza on their Instagram page. The latest hack makes use of a Jaffle&nbsp;Iron or sandwich maker where you simply fold your pizza, heat it up to make delicious pizza pockets. Take a look!&nbsp;

As many as 84 per cent of coronavirus&nbsp;samples have low infectiousness, that is they will transmit to only 0.8 persons on average,&nbsp;suggest findings by ICMR&rsquo;s National Institute of Occupational Health (NIOH), Ahmedabad. The team, which studied 1000 samples,&nbsp;recommends&nbsp;that Covid-19 tests should also check for viral load, which refers to the quantity of a virus in an organism, as cases bearing a 'high viral load' can infect almost eight times more persons than ones classified with 'low viral load.'
Scientists believe that isolating and treating high to medium viral load cases or 'super spreaders' as they are more colloquially called could reduce&nbsp;the infection rate.&nbsp;

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