The head of Britain’s GCHQ intelligence agency says Russian President Vladimir Putin has massively misjudged the resistance of the Ukrainian people but overestimated his forces’ abilities.

China’s foreign ministry says a report on Chinese and Russian coordination ahead of Russia’s attack on Ukraine is “pure fake news.” China has repeatedly refused to call the Russian attack on Ukraine an invasion, while asking Western countries to respect Russia’s “legitimate security concerns.”

Scientists have hailed one of the greatest finds in British palaeontological history after the largest fossilized remains of a prehistoric sea dragon were discovered in the Midlands. Joe Davis from Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust found the fossilized remains of an ichthyosaur, a warm-blooded, air-breathing sea creature that probably looked like a giant dolphin.