In one small step for robot-kind – thousands of them, really – humanoid robots ran alongside actual humans in a half-marathon in the Chinese capital Beijing on Saturday.

Gigg Lane was bouncing before kick off, and even more so after a thumping 4-0 win following a Tyler James hat-trick after defender Aiden Walker opened the scoring. There were jubilant scenes at the ...

The two sides exchanged hundreds of prisoners as the Russian president revealed a temporary cessation of fighting.