In 2019, a Sudanese team of jiu-jitsu athletes set out on an extraordinary quest: to travel by land from Sudan to Kenya, despite having no funding and limited resources, to compete in the LionHeart Nairobi Open.
Together members of the Muqatel Training Center for martial arts travelled across three countries, carrying not just their hopes and dreams, but the spirit of a revolution that reshaped Sudan.
Journey to Kenya is a documentary short about resilience, unity and determination — a powerful reminder that dreams can transcend borders.
A film by Ibrahim “Snoopy” Ahmed, produced by In Deep Visions.
Watch: Filipino families assess damage after Typhoon Kalmaegi
At least 85people have been killed while hundreds of thousands fled their homes as one of strongest typhoons this year ripped through the central Philippines, authorities say.
Typhoon Kalmaegi has flooded entire towns on the most populated central island of Cebu, where at least 49 of the fatalities were located. There are 75 others missing and 17 injured, officials said on Wednesday.
Videos show people sheltering on rooftops, while cars and shipping containers have been swept through the streets.
The official death toll, which is likely to rise, includessix crew members of a military helicopter that crashed on Mindanao island, south of Cebu, after it wasdeployed to assist in relief efforts.
The aircraft went down on Tuesday near Agusan del Sur and was one of four sent to help.
“Communication with the helicopter was lost, which immediately prompted the launch of a search and rescue operation,” the Philippine Air Force said. Later, a spokeswoman said six bodies had been recovered, believed to be of the pilot and crew.
The typhoon, locally named Tino, has weakened since making landfall early on Tuesday, but has continued to bring winds of more than 80mph (130km/h).
It is forecast to move across the Visayas islands region and out over the South China Sea by Wednesday.
But residents across Cebu province are still reeling from the deadly floods. More than 400,000 people have been displaced by the disaster, according to a report on Wednesday by the national disaster agency.
Jel-an Moira Servas, a business owner who lives in Mandaue city, told the BBC that she found herself waist-deep in water within minutes when her house became flooded. She quickly evacuated with her family, bringing only light items like food and electronics.
“Right now, the rain has completely stopped and the sun is out, but our houses are still filled with mud, and everything inside is in shambles,” she said. “We don’t even know where to start cleaning. I can’t even look at it without crying.”
Jel-an Moira Servas
Jel-an Moira Servas’s home in Mandaue city was damaged by heavy flooding during the typhoon
Rafaelito Alejandro, the deputy administrator at the Office of Civil Defence told local radio station DZMM that the current challenge for rescuers was clearing “debris and cars on the road”.
Carlos Jose Lañas, a volunteer rescuer, told the BBC that despite preparing for the worst case, they were caught off-guard by the extent of the flooding.
“This is the worst flood I’ve ever experienced,” the 19-year-old said. “Almost all the rivers here in Cebu overflowed. Even emergency responders did not expect this kind of scenario.”
“The rescue operation was too overwhelming for the emergency responders around Cebu, because there were a lot of people asking for help.”
In a Facebook post, Cebu governor Pamela Baricuatro described the disaster as “unprecedented”.
“We were expecting the winds to be the dangerous part, but… the water is what’s truly putting our people at risk,” she said. “The floodwaters are just devastating.”
Baricuatro declared a state of calamity in Cebu on Tuesday evening to facilitate disaster relief efforts.
Most of the deaths were due to drowning, reports said. The storm has been sending torrents of muddy water down hillsides and into towns and cities.
Damage to residential areas on Cebu was extensive, with many small buildings swept away and a thick carpet of mud left by the retreating floodwaters. Rescue teams took to boats to free people who were trapped inside their houses.
Don del Rosario, 28, was among those in Cebu City who sought refuge on an upper floor as the storm raged.
“I’ve been here for 28 years, and this is by far the worst we’ve experienced,” he told the AFP news agency.
Moment Philippines floods move shipping containers
The Philippines is hit by an average of 20 storms and typhoons each year.
The latest comes barely a month after back-to-back typhoons killed over a dozen people and wrought damage to infrastructure and crops.
Super Typhoon Ragasa, known locally as Nando, struck in late September, followed swiftly by Typhoon Bualoi, known locally as Opong.
In the months before, an extraordinarily wet monsoon season caused widespread flooding, sparking anger and protests over unfinished and sub-standard flood control systems that have been blamed on corruption.
On 30 September, dozens were killed and injured after a powerful 6.9 magnitude earthquake struck the central Philippines, with Cebu bearing the brunt of the damage.
Typhoon Kalmaegi is forecast to move on to Vietnam, which is already seeing record-breaking rainfall.
With additional reporting by Jonathan Head, South East Asia correspondent
Former FBI special agent Tom Simon, who spent 26 years investigating financial crimes and national-security matters across the U.S., says he has a straightforward philosophy when it comes to business travel: the people who deserve recognition the least often get it the most, while those who deserve it most are routinely overlooked. And so, through much practice, Simon says he’s developed a trick to getting some of the best rooms in any hotel, which he calls a “gift” for frequent travelers.
His method for securing premium hotel accommodations, which he shared in a TikTok on October 27, revolves around just a few things: genuine appreciation, recognition of the hospitality industry’s most glaring inequity, and a $20 bill, which, he says, “will pay for itself.”
Simon says if you walk into any hotel—reservation or no reservation, booked online or over the phone, it really doesn’t matter—go straight up to the front desk and chat up the staff there.
“You got your suitcase, and you go, ‘I am checking in, but before I do, I just want you to know I travel on business all the time. I’m always on the road. And it’s never ever made sense to me that everyone in the entire hospitality industry is being taken care of except for you people at the front desk,” Simon said.
“You look at the valet parking guys, these guys are morons. They can’t even fold their wallets at the end of a shift, they’re getting tips so much. Meanwhile, you probably have a degree in hospitality, right? Yet no one ever takes care of you. You’re on your feet for eight hours a day. You’re the front door to this organization. You’re running this hotel as far as I’m concerned.”
He then says to place a $20 bill on their keyboard. “I just want to let you know how much I appreciate everything you do,” he said. “My name is Tom Simon. I’m checking in. If you could get me a decent room, I’d appreciate it.”
Simon claims he has been using this technique for 20 years with consistent results. During his time as an FBI agent in Honolulu, where he investigated major financial crimes including Ponzi schemes and embezzlement cases, he traveled frequently to Maui and Kauai. “I would get these amazing suites overlooking the ocean,” he recalled.
Most recently, at a casino hotel, Simon said the approach yielded “the biggest hotel room I’ve ever stayed in my life”: a suite with a large living room, stocked bar, expansive bedroom, and bathroom “bigger than my first apartment.” He said the front-desk staff also provided complimentary parking and free breakfast coupons.
The strategy acknowledges a reality of hotel operations: Front-desk staff wield considerable discretionary power over room assignments. They determine proximity to noise sources like ice machines or late-night gatherings, and they often have latitude to upgrade guests when premium rooms remain available. Simon suggests framing requests in personal terms: “Put me in the room you would put your mother in if you wanted to show her a really, really special time here at the hotel.”
Tipping front-desk staff for upgrades is not a universally accepted practice, and policies vary by property. Some hotels explicitly prohibit such gratuities, with employees risking termination if caught accepting them. The practice appears most common in Las Vegas, where discretionary tipping can influence room assignments at Strip properties. In other markets, simply asking politely—without monetary incentive—often yields similar results when occupancy allows.
Simon’s technique differs from standard upgrade strategies recommended by hospitality experts, which typically emphasize loyalty program membership, elite status, booking directly with hotels, and traveling during off-peak periods. His approach introduces a transactional element that exists in a gray area between genuine appreciation and expectation of preferential treatment.
The broader context involves ongoing debates about tipping culture and worker compensation. Wait staff and bartenders derive more than half of their earnings from tips, but front-desk workers typically make their money through more conventional recognition programs in the hospitality industry.
Simon, now a licensed private investigator in Florida operating Simon Worldwide Investigations, continues to share investigative techniques and industry insights through social media. His hotel-room strategy reflects his investigative background: identify leverage points, understand human motivation, and recognize where power actually resides in organizational structures.
“The front-desk people have so much control over the quality of your stay,” Simon said in the video. “They know where the frat party is. They can put you next door to that, or they can put you not next door to that.”
You can watch Simon’s TikTok on the aforementioned hotel-room strategy below:
‘Cycle of terror’ spikes as Higher Planning Council set to advance plans to build 1,985 new settlement units in occupied West Bank.
Israeli forces and settlers have carried out 2,350 attacks across the occupied West Bank last month in an “ongoing cycle of terror”, according to the Palestinian Authority’s Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission (CRRC).
CRRC head Mu’ayyad Sha’ban said on Wednesday that Israeli forces carried out 1,584 attacks – including direct physical attacks, the demolition of homes and the uprooting of olive trees – with most of the violence focused on the governorates of Ramallah (542), Nablus (412) and Hebron (401).
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The research, compiled in a CRRC monthly report titled Occupation Violations and Colonial Expansion Measures, also noted 766 attacks by settlers. The commission said they are expanding settlements, which are illegal under international law, as part of what it called an “organised strategy that aims to displace the land’s indigenous people and enforce a fully racist colonial regime”.
The report said settler attacks reached a new peak with most targeting the Ramallah governorate (195), Nablus (179) and Hebron (126). Olive pickers received the brunt of attacks, according to the report, which said they were the victims of “state terror” that had been “orchestrated in the dark backrooms of the occupation government”.
It described instances of Israeli “vandalism and theft” carried out in cahoots with Israeli soldiers that have seen the “uprooting, destruction and poisoning” of 1,200 olive trees in Hebron, Ramallah, Tubas, Qalqilya, Nablus and Bethlehem. During the violence, settlers have tried to establish seven new outposts on Palestinian land since October in the governorates of Hebron and Nablus.
For decades, the Israeli military has uprooted olive trees, an important Palestinian cultural symbol, across the West Bank as part of efforts by successive Israeli governments to seize Palestinian land and forcibly displace residents.
The spike in Israeli violence comes amid expectations that Israel’s Higher Planning Council (HPC), part of the Israeli army’s Civil Administration overseeing the occupied West Bank, will meet to discuss the construction of 1,985 new settlement units in the West Bank on Wednesday.
The left-wing Israeli movement Peace Now said 1,288 of the units would be rolled out in two isolated settlements in the northern West Bank, namely Avnei Hefetz and Einav Plan.
It said the HPC had been holding weekly meetings since November last year to advance housing projects in the settlements, thus normalising and accelerating construction on land taken from Palestinians.
Since the beginning of 2025, the HPC has pushed forward a record 28,195 housing units, Peace Now said.
In August, far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich drew international condemnation after saying plans to build thousands of homes as part of the proposed E1 settlement scheme in the West Bank “buries the idea of a Palestinian state”.
The E1 project, shelved for years amid opposition from the United States and European allies, would connect occupied East Jerusalem with the existing illegal Israeli settlement of Maale Adumim.
The Israeli far right’s push to annex the West Bank would essentially end the possibility of implementing a two-state solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict as outlined in numerous United Nations resolutions.
United States President Donald Trump’s administration has been adamant that it won’t allow Israel to annex the occupied territory. US Vice President JD Vance, while visiting Israel recently, said Trump would oppose Israeli annexation of the West Bank and it would not happen. Vance said as he left Israel, “If it was a political stunt, it is a very stupid one, and I personally take some insult to it.”
But the US has done nothing to rein in Israel’s assaults and crackdowns on Palestinians in the West Bank as it trumpets its Gaza ceasefire efforts.
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Spotify saw its global Premium Subscriber base grow to 281 million paying users in Q3. The company also achieved strong operating profitability in the three months to end of September.
That’s according to the company’s latest financial results (for Q3 2025), filed this morning (November 4).
Spotify’s Premium Subscriber base at the close of Q3 was up by +5 million net subs on the 276 million that the firm counted at the end of the prior quarter (Q2 2025).
This +5 million growth was in line with the company’s guidance.
“The business is healthy. We’re shipping faster than ever. And we have the tools we need – pricing, product innovation, operational leverage, and eventually the ads turnaround – to deliver both revenue growth and profit expansion,” said Daniel Ek, Spotify Founder & CEO (who will be moving into an Executive Chairman role in Q1 2026).
Credit: Spotify
“We’re building Spotify for the long-term.”
Daniel Ek
Added Ek: “It all comes back to user fundamentals and that’s where we are: 700 million users who keep coming back, engagement at all-time highs. We’re building Spotify for the long-term.”
Spotify reported that this Premium Subscriber performance was fuelled by “Y/Y and Q/Q growth across all regions, with outperformance led by Latin America and North America” as well as “Strong global promotional campaign intake”.
Spotify breaks down its Premium Subscriber base by region within its investor presentation, reporting that Europe accounted for 37% of its total premium subscriber base as of the end of Q3 (see below).
North America accounted for 25% of SPOT’s total subscriber base in Q3, while Latin America accounted for 23%.
Monthly Active Users:
Spotify’s total Monthly Active Users, which combine paying users and ad-supported users, grew 11% year over year to 713 million.
That was up +17 million MAUs from the 696 million reported for the prior quarter (Q2 2025), and above guidance by 3 million (Spotify forecast that it would reach 710 million MAUs in Q3).
Spotify said MAU performance in Q3 reflected: “Y/Y and Q/Q growth across all regions, with outperformance led by Rest of World, Europe and North America, ” plus the “Global launch of mobile free tier enhancements” and “successful marketing campaigns in select developing markets”.
REVENUE
Spotify generated EUR €4.272 billion (USD $4.99bn) in total quarterly revenue in Q3 (including Premium and ad-supported), up 12% YoY at constant currency.
Spotify’s Premium/subscriber revenues grew 13% YoY at constant currency to €3.826 billion ($4.469bn), driven by subscriber growth.
The firm’s Premium monthly ARPU stood at €4.53 ($5.29) — flat YoY at constant currency.
Spotify noted in its investor presentation that “excluding the impact of FX, ARPU performance was driven by price increase benefits, offset by product/market mix”.
Spotify’s Ad-Supported Revenue in Q3 2025 was €446 million ($520.97m), flaton a constant currency basis.
PROFITABILITY
In terms of profitability, Spotify posted a quarterly operating income of €582 million ($679.83m) for Q3.
That was up 33% YoY at constant currency – and above guidance – due to “lower Social Charges, favorability in marketing and personnel related costs and Gross Margin strength”.
SPOT reported that its operating income was negatively impacted by €16 million ($18.68m) in ‘Social Charges,’ which were €41 million ($47.89m) below forecast “due to share price movement during the quarter”.
Spotify explained to investors: “As a reminder, Social Charges are payroll taxes associated with employee salaries and benefits in select countries where we operate. Since a portion of these taxes is tied to the intrinsic value of share-based compensation awards, movements in our stock price can lead to fluctuations in the taxes we accrue.”
Spotify reported a net income of €899 million ($1.05bn) for the quarter, compared to a net loss of €86 million ($97.5m) in Q2 2025 and €300 million in Q3 2024.
The company’s Gross Margin finished at 31.6% in Q3 2025, up from 31.1% in Q3 2024.
GUIDANCE FOR Q4
In terms of guidance for Q4, Spotify forecasts reaching 745 million MAUs at the close of December, an addition of around 32 million net new MAUs in the quarter.
The company projects its total Premium Subscriber base to hit 289 million by the end of Q4, an addition of approximately 8 million net new subscribers.
Spotify also forecasts an operating income of €620 million for Q4 – alongside total quarterly revenue of €4.5 billion.
“Overall, we are very pleased with our performance heading into year-end and view the business as well positioned to deliver growth and improving margins in 2025 as we reinvest to support our long-term potential,” said Spotify in its investor presentation on Tuesday (November 4).
All EUR-USD conversions in this report made at the average quarterly rate for Q3 2025 of 1.1681, according to the European Central Bank.
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Israel has confirmed the latest body of a hostage returned by Hamas via the Red Cross is that of Israeli-American soldier Itay Chen.
The 19-year-old’s remains were handed over on Tuesday as part of a Gaza ceasefire deal brokered by US President Donald Trump last month.
“Following the completion of the identification process… [Israel Defense Forces] representatives informed the family of the fallen hostage, Staff Sergeant Itay Chen, that their loved one has been returned to Israel and positively identified,” the Israeli prime minister’s office said.
Earlier, Hamas’s military wing said it had recovered the body of an Israeli soldier in the eastern Shejaiya neighbourhood of Gaza City.
Israel had allowed members of the Palestinian armed group and Red Cross staff to search for the remains in the area, which is inside territory still controlled by Israeli forces.
Staff Sgt Chen was serving as a soldier in the IDF’s 7th Brigade when Hamas-led gunmen attacked southern Israel on 7 October 2023.
The IDF said he was killed inside a tank during a battle in Kibbutz Nir Oz and that his body was taken to Gaza as a hostage by Hamas.
“The remains of Itay Chen, a young American taken hostage by Hamas at just 19 years old, have finally returned home. We honour his life, mourn his loss, and stand with his family,” US Secretary of State Marco Rubio wrote on X.
The Hostages and Missing Families Forum in Israel welcomed his returned but also stressed that there were seven deceased hostages still in Gaza.
“Please don’t stop until they are all back home. Until the last hostage,” it said.
The Israeli government has accused Hamas of deliberately delaying the recovery of the dead hostages since the ceasefire deal took effect on 10 October.
Hamas has insisted it is difficult to locate the bodies under rubble.
The slow progress has meant there has been no advance on the second phase of President Trump’s Gaza peace plan, including plans for the governance of Gaza, the withdrawal of Israeli troops, the disarmament of Hamas, and reconstruction.
The US has now reportedly drafted a UN Security Council resolution that would give a two-year mandate for a transitional governance body in Gaza, known as the Board of Peace, and an International Stabilisation Force (ISF).
The text says the ISF would be tasked with working with Israel and Egypt to secure border areas, “ensuring the process of demilitarising the Gaza Strip”, protecting civilians, and training a new Palestinian police force.
It also says the ISF would be authorised to “use all necessary measures to carry out its mandate”.
It is understood the draft has not yet been formally sent to other Security Council members for negotiations.
Under the ceasefire deal, Hamas agreed to return the 20 living and 28 dead hostages it was still holding within 72 hours.
All the living Israeli hostages were released on 13 October in exchange for 250 Palestinian prisoners and 1,718 detainees from Gaza.
Israel has handed over the bodies of 270 Palestinians in exchange for the bodies of the 18 Israeli hostages returned by Hamas before Tuesday, along with those of two foreign hostages – one of them Thai and the other Nepalese. The bodies of another 15 Palestinians are expected to be returned to Gaza in exchange for Sgt Chen.
Five of the seven dead hostages still in Gaza are Israelis, one is Tanzanian, and one is Thai.
All but one of the dead hostages still in Gaza were among the 251 people abducted during the Hamas-led attack on southern Israel on 7 October 2023, during which about 1,200 other people were killed.
Israel responded by launching a military campaign in Gaza, during which more than 68,800 people have been killed, according to the territory’s Hamas-run health ministry.
On Tuesday, a hospital official in Gaza City said a man was killed by Israeli fire in the Jabalia area of northern Gaza.
The Israeli military said its troops killed a “terrorist” who had crossed the “Yellow Line”, which demarcates Israeli-controlled territory, and posed a threat to them.
Cus D’Amato is famous for letting Mike Tyson loose on the path to stardom, but decades prior he said that another of his heavyweight charges changed the sport with sheer skill.
Born in 1908 and naturally drawn to boxing as a way of defending himself in the Bronx, D’Amato – who died on this day in 1985 – had a brief stint as a fighter before injury forced him to turn his hand to training.
His famously obsessive study of fighters and psychology saw him build young men into champions, most notably Floyd Patterson, José Torres and Mike Tyson.
While D’Amato’s name is synonymous with that of Tyson’s, his first success story was Patterson. Together, the pair achieved Olympic Gold in 1952 and then, in ’56 when Patterson was just 21 years old, the heavyweight championship of the world.
“When Floyd came back from the Olympics. I told him that before he was through he would be chosen ‘rookie of the year,’ ‘fighter of the year,’ would become the youngest heavyweight champion of all time and would be the greatest fighter of all time. Now only one of these remains to be realised.”
Patterson – born in 1935 in North Carolina – had trained with D’Amato since he was a teenager. He made four successful defences of his titles before being dethroned by Sweden’s Ingemar Johansson, only to win them straight back in the rematch one year later, making him the first man in history to regain the heavyweight championship.
Against the fearsome Sonny Liston, he was not so lucky. The technically masterful champion was blitzed by Liston’s aggression on two occasions back-to-back. He would build up some impressive wins before losing to Muhammad Ali in 1965, later also falling short in their 1972 rematch.
Though not as discussed as some of the more commanding presences the heavyweight division has hosted in the times before and after, gentleman Patterson is an all-time great. In fact, his blend of speed, defence and ring savvy all delivered within D’Amato’s peek-a-boo style led the trainer to brand him boxing’s answer to revolutionary physicist Albert Einstein.
“You know why Patterson is a great fighter? It’s because he has taken the leap. All great men take a big leap forward. I sometimes compare Floyd to Einstein because they have done the same thing.
“Before Einstein came along we lived in one kind of world. We had only a little knowledge of what the world was like and we thought that was everything. But Einstein didn’t let that stop him. He leaped and he carried the whole world along with him. That is what Floyd has done in boxing. Some day they will know how great he is.”
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First Japan wants to make space sake and now China has been roasting New Orleans-style chicken wings and black pepper steaks in a specially made hot-air oven aboard its Tiangong space station, according to China’s Global Times state news service.
Food is vital for maintaining good health and morale – especially under high-stress, isolated conditions. It’s one of the reasons why military services spend millions of dollars developing tasty field rations for troops and why submarines pride themselves on their excellent menus. It’s also the reason why the old transatlantic liners kept their passengers happy on their journey from Southampton to New York by gorging them like battery geese.
Meanwhile, food aboard the International Space Station and the Tiangong leaves much to be desired, with the menus reading like something more suited to iron rations for a Round Britain yacht race than a decent meal. While they are nutritious, dining on tinned fish, pre-prepared thermostabilized meat, reconstituted scrambled eggs, dehydrated borscht, and vacuum-sealed prawns leaves much to be desired.
Space Chicken
With the expansion of commercial spaceflight and planned deep space missions that could last for years, space engineers and culinary experts are working on ways to make meals that are more like those back home as well as developing equipment that will save weight by allowing food to be sent as bulk ingredients instead of precooked dishes with all their packaging.
One example of this is the new oven that has been installed aboard the Tiangong. In a report by the Global Times, the Astronaut Center of China (ACC) says that the appliance was delivered to the space lab aboard the Shenzhou-21 crewed spacecraft on October 31.
To an Earthling, an oven may be just a hot box, but it’s actually a very sophisticated piece of equipment that becomes excruciatingly so in space. The major problem is zero gravity. Without gravity, there’s no convection, so hot air doesn’t rise because there’s no “up.” Burn a candle, for example, and the flame will quickly smother itself as smoke crowds around the wick with no oxygen to feed it.
Space pepper steak hot from the oven
ACC
A similar thing happens when trying to bake or roast food. The hot air just hangs about, causing the dish to cook unevenly with some spots nearly raw and others burnt. To prevent this, the Chinese space oven is more like an air fryer with fans to circulate the hot air.
Another problem is that of using an oven in a confined space. I can speak from experience, having worked in a tiny, poorly ventilated ship’s galley below deck where everything reeked of cooking smells and chip pan oil settled on every conceivable surface, including my eyeglasses. The Tiangong has this even worse with nowhere for fumes to go, so the oven is equipped with a multi-layer filtration system to capture smoke, grease, and other particulates before they could contaminate the station’s atmosphere.
In addition to these, the new oven boasts precise temperature control and high-temperature catalysis. Temperatures in the oven are reported to reach 190 °C (374 °F) which is considerably higher than the 100 °C (212 °F) found in other space food heating systems. It also has pre-programmed settings for various dishes and is rated for 500 cycles and the higher temperature means that food can be caramelized, resulting in a crispy texture.
Putting the chicken in the oven
ACC
One other thing that cooking on a space station has to deal with that Earthbound chefs don’t is that food floats about, which can be aggravating – not to mention alarming when you open the door only to have sizzling-hot steaks jumping out at you. To keep food where it’s supposed to be, the oven comes with a cooking rack not dissimilar to the ones campers use to cook fish. This is an open grid to hold the food that folds shut to form a basket.
The inaugural barbecue builds on the work done aboard the ISS, which in 2020 experimented with baking cookies in a special oven. This took up to two hours per batch while the Chinese wings and steaks took only 28 minutes.
The new oven is not only expected to boost morale, but will improve the quality of the astronauts’ diets by expanding the 10-day menu to 190 items. However, the oven will likely also pose new challenges. Now that the astronauts have wings, no doubt there will now be a program to supply them with hot sauce, ranch dressing, and celery.
