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Ukraine has taken American Abrams M1A1 battle tanks off the frontline, partly because of Russian drone tactics, Pentagon officials have said. The US agreed to send 31 Abrams to Ukraine in January 2023. Five have been lost to Russian attacks. The proliferation of drones means “there isn’t open ground that you can just drive across without fear of detection”, a senior defence official said on Thursday. “Now, there is a way to do it,” he said. “We’ll work with our Ukrainian partners, and other partners on the ground, to help them think through how they might use that, in that…

Luke Littler silenced the booing boys as Liverpool secured a sweet Premier League win.The 17-year-old was jeered at the Martha’s Bank Arena but turned the jeers into cheers as he beat Rob Cross 6-2 in the final as a hostile crowd couldn’t stand it Live with admiration.The 17-year-old has been a fan favorite since bursting onto the scene at the World Championships over Christmas, but his antics on social media have not gone down well on Merseyside.Littler is an avid Manchester United fan and has enjoyed prodding rivals Liverpool in recent weeks as their hopes of a fourth-place finish have…

After several months of dating, my partner revealed he had another ex-wife and three teenage children. He’d only ever mentioned one ex-wife and two small children. He explained his rationale and I decided to continue with the relationship. I had been single for 15 years and I feel I’ve really connected with him.We have the best time together, and although he’s away a lot with work, he’s communicative, considerate and has given me the sort of relationship I never thought I’d find. I feel he genuinely loves me and wants the best for me. He’s always saying how much he…

key eventsShow only key eventsPlease enable JavaScript to use this featureAngela Davis sang “Lift Every Voice and Sing” before the first round of the NFL draft. Photo: Jeff Robertson/APThe grand occasion has come. We just enjoyed Angela Davis’s delightful Lift Every Voice and Sing. 9.5/10. There were tears, cheers and just a few people drinking beers (come on, Detroit). The plot is about to begin. Well, not exactly. The Bears will be on the field soon, with Caleb Williams headed to Chicago.shareA Minnesota Vikings fan is waiting to see what the team will do with their first-round pick. Photo: Rena…

Police have carried out multiple violent arrests at Emory University in Decatur, Georgia, in what appears to be the first campus crackdown in recent days to involve rubber bullets and teargas after students set up an encampment in solidarity with Palestine and against Cop City.On Thursday, Emory students set up multiple tents on the campus’s lawns in protest against the university’s ties to Israel, as well Atlanta’s Cop City, a police and fire department training center that is being constructed on a 171-acre plot in a forest south-east of Atlanta.In a statement released on Mondoweiss, student organizers wrote, “We are…

IWhen Brighton fans and renowned endurance enthusiast “The Hardest Old Man” paraded on the pitch before kick-off at the Amex Stadium, it was easy to wonder if some sort of elaborate prank was going on. What is that, Pep? Is your team a little tired? Why not tell this to the man who just became the first person in history to run across Africa? He must be dying to know about Bernardo Silva’s hamstring problem.No one is really buying it. The thing about Manchester City is that they are built to go further. Not only do they have the best…

A federal judge on Thursday upheld the verdict and award of more than $83m to the writer E Jean Carroll in a defamation case against Donald Trump after he called her a liar for accusing him of sexually assaulting her.Judge Lewis Kaplan, a senior district judge on the US district court for the southern district of New York, denied Trump’s motion for a new trial and affirmed that Carroll suffered harm caused by Trump’s 2019 public statements.“Mr Trump’s argument is entirely without merit both as a matter of law and as a matter of fact,” Kaplan wrote in his opinion…

A lightweight university study centre designed to be easily disassembled has won the prize for the best building in Europe. Longevity, permanence and a sense of immutability might be the ambition of most architects, but Gustav Düsing and Max Hacke would be delighted to see their building adapted and reconfigured, or ultimately dismantled and moved somewhere else altogether.“We imagined the project as a changeable system,” says Düsing, co-designer of the new study pavilion for the Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany, which has been named this year’s winner of the EU Mies award (formerly the Mies van der Rohe award), the…

Red Bull chief technical officer Adrian Newey is reportedly leaving the team. Newey is the most successful designer of the modern Formula 1 era and was instrumental in Red Bull’s success, but is said to have become dissatisfied with his role at the team since team principal Christian Horner was cleared following an investigation into the allegations. The status of a female employee was disturbed by inappropriate behavior.Newey, 65, has been with Red Bull since 2006, just one year after the team was founded. He has since designed cars that have won seven drivers’ titles and six constructors’ titles for…

Key eventsShow key events onlyPlease turn on JavaScript to use this feature28 min: The away fans giving it plenty of Blue Moon. Speaking of terrace favourites, here’s Peter Walker, retired chess correspondent to the Ilford Recorder group of newspapers: “You mention the ‘chess-heads’ in your recent paragraph. The real geeky chess buffs may have noted a chess-related link to today’s affairs: the song Sussex by the Sea, played by the band earlier, was written by one Mr. Ward-Higgs, who was himself a bit of a chess player and donated the Ward-Higgs trophy which is competed for annually by British counties’…