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The 2025 Yukon follows its Chevy three-row siblings with a new look up front and, presumably, a similarly spruced-up interior, which we'll see when it's revealed later this year. The 2025 GMC Yukon AT4 has shown its redesigned face for the first time. The full-size three-row SUV follows in the footsteps of its GM siblings, the 2025 Chevy Tahoe and Suburban, which debuted a new look late last year. According to GMC, the 2025 Yukon's full reveal will occur later this year. Full-size SUVs are the truck-based behemoths we use to haul vast numbers of people and acres of cargo when minivans just won't cut it. GMC is preparing to update its contribution to the three-row-SUV world, as we are now seeing the redesigned face of the 2025 Yukon AT4 for the first time ahead of its late-2024 debut. The full-size SUV follows in the footsteps of its GM siblings, the 2025 Chevrolet Tahoe and Suburban, which were redesigned earlier this year with fancier interiors and a more powerful diesel engine. GMC's teaser doesn't show the full front end of the new Yukon, but the central change appears to be the redesigned headlights. The Yukon's grille and the rest of the front fascia also feature new designs in conjunction with the new headlights. According to GMC, the 2025 Yukon will be revealed in full later this year. We think changes for the GMC will mirror those of the bowtie brand's SUVs. That means lightly refreshed exteriors and a larger focus on improving the cabin. 2025 CHEVROLET SUBURBAN. Those models feature a new column-mounted gear selector, a new standard 17.7-inch touchscreen infotainment system, and a standard 11.0-inch digital gauge cluster. Under the hood, the familiar 5.3- and 6.2-liter V-8s return, and the diesel inline-six is completely overhauled. The redesigned Duramax diesel 3.0-liter inline-six pairs with a 10-speed automatic gearbox and produces 305 horsepower and 495 pound-feet of torque, up from 277 ponies and 460 pound-feet in the older models. Chevy claims the suspension has been updated for a more refined ride in its pairing, while the steering calibration is also said to be revised. Those both sound good to us, especially considering we were already fans of the surprisingly controlled ride in the full-size SUV. Specifics such as returning trim levels and pricing will be revealed closer to the vehicle's launch. https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a60468290/2025-gmc-yukon-teaser-reveal/
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Red Roses have adapted under John Mitchell to provide platform for full-back but Bryan Easson’s side remain unfazed Ellie Kildunne is leading the charts for most points scored in this year’s Women’s Six Nations. Photograph: Alex Davidson/RFU/The RFU Collection/Getty Images Ellie Kildunne’s touch in this year’s Women’s Six Nations is turning things to gold. The England full-back is not only the tournament’s top try-scorer with four but she also tops the charts for most points scored and in metres carried and gained. The Harlequins player, who will look to add to her stats against Scotland on Saturday, is undoubtedly in great form but she also has England’s expansive attack to thank for giving her the platform. England’s attack has adapted under their new head coach, John Mitchell, and the attack coach, Lou Meadows. In previous tournaments fans have seen the Red Roses call upon their lethal driving maul often, with the backs not having as much time on the ball. However, England have now unleashed their back line as well as their forwards and maul, making their attack less predictable. The England and Bristol prop Sarah Bern, who is currently injured, says it is clear the Red Roses are trying to play a bit differently: “They are trying to play and find the space and get it there the best way possible, which makes it really hard for defences. They [the opposition] can’t just drop two in the back field because England will run it. They can’t put everyone in the front field as England would kick it. So it is more of an elusive way of playing.” Bern can also see how the attack is putting Kildunne on the front foot: “Our whole back three, even our outside centres, are getting on the ball a hell of a lot more. You’ll see more of them in more spaces because defences have to mark [the fly-half]Holly Aitchison, [the centre] Tatyana Heard. They have to mark the kicks from [the scrum-half] Natasha Hunt and Holly. The space is there, so if we get the ball to those people like Ellie who thrive in space … “She is going to have a hell of a tournament, she is so far. But I do think it is down to the way England want to play, the players in the middle that control that and the brilliance of the pack that gets them the ball.” Scotland’s Chloe Rollie is not scared about the threat her opposite number poses. Photograph: David Gibson/Fotosport/Shutterstock Kildunne’s opposite number is the Scotland full-back Chloe Rollie, who set out how her team plans to stop Kildunne. “I think we need to shut them down further in the line to stop her getting her hands on the ball,” Rollie says. “We [also] need to be smart about when and where we are going to kick it.” Bryan Easson’s side have put in impressive defensive shifts in their matches so far. Scotland players are top of the breakdown steals, cleanouts and lineout steals in the tournament. But if Kildunne is fed the ball, Rollie is not scared of the threat she poses. “She is just another player,” Rollie adds. “If she does get the ball you deal with her. Put her under pressure, put everyone under pressure. If we stick to the gameplan we want to play we have got nothing to worry about.” Scotland’s attempt to stage an upset will be played in front of a record crowd for a women’s rugby game in Scotland – a 7,774 sellout at the Hive Stadium in Edinburgh. England have not lost to Scotland since 1999 but Scotland’s performances and trophy win at the WXV2 last autumn has given them belief they can win. “We would be silly not to think that,” Rollie adds on the prospect of an upset. “Especially after the performances we have put in the last few weeks. England are top in the world just now but there’s no reason someone can’t disrupt them and put them under pressure. The form we are under is the perfect opportunity to go and do that. The belief and confidence we have behind us will play a massive role.” https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/apr/12/england-attack-has-unleashed-ellie-kildunne-but-scotland-sniff-an-upset
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‘I’d never felt fear like it’: Elsje Pretorius in Hamilton, New Zealand. Photograph: Jessie Casson/The Guardian In September 2014, I gave birth to my third daughter, Nadine, in Auckland, New Zealand. It had been a dramatic delivery. Three epidurals had left me with a stiff neck and an excruciating headache. So a few days after her birth, I was back for tests, bringing her along with me as she needed feeding. It was the last place I wanted to be. Despite the exhaustion, I didn’t want to let Nadine out of my arms. But I was desperate for a shower. The hospital had given me an en suite bedroom, but I still paused before I stepped into the bathroom, watching Nadine sleeping in her cot. Should I wheel her in with me? I decided not to. She was safe and settled, and I’d only be a few feet away. Afterwards, as I walked back into the bedroom, a nurse was standing there. We both looked into Nadine’s cot. It was empty. “Did you pick her up?” I asked. “No,” she replied. Instantly, I couldn’t breathe. It felt like ice-cold water had been poured over me. As the nurse called for security, I fell on my hands and knees, and frantically searched the floor, thinking maybe she had fallen out of her cot and rolled away. That’s when the awful realisation hit me: someone had taken my baby. I flew down the corridor screaming at everyone I saw: “Do you have my baby?” Everything became a blur as a nurse led me back to my bed. With her arm around my shoulder, I called my husband, Conrad. My voice cracked as I heard myself say, “Don’t tell the kids, but Nadine is gone. You need to get here now.” I replayed the second I’d walked away from Nadine’s cot over and over. Why hadn’t I taken her into the bathroom with me? I felt trapped in a waking nightmare. I’d never felt fear like it. But I didn’t cry until Conrad ran in 20 minutes later. Then I broke down. Why hadn’t I taken Nadine to the bathroom with me? The guilt was awful. When the police came and told us they would be checking CCTV, Conrad jumped up. “Take me with you,” he said. They had to calm him down, persuading him to stay with me and let them do their jobs. After 30 minutes, an officer returned. He showed us a grainy image of a woman in dark glasses with a baby in her arms. It had been taken outside the hospital. She was known to the staff – she lived locally and desperately wanted to have a child of her own. As the police left to investigate, we could only wait and pray. Every so often an officer would return to see us, but they didn’t have any more news. I replayed the second I’d walked away from Nadine’s cot over and over. Why hadn’t I taken her into the bathroom with me? I thought about Vanja and Isabella, who were being looked after by a relative. How could any of us live without their sister? At about 2am, a nurse gave me tablets to help me sleep. A phone ringing woke me with a start. I saw Conrad answer and my heart seemed to stop as I watched him listen, expressionless. Then his face broke out into a smile. Even before he said, “They’ve found her,” I knew. I leapt out of bed and into his arms. We were in floods of tears as we hugged and jumped around the room. Twenty minutes later, a police officer arrived, pushing Nadine in a cot. As I held her, Conrad put his arms around us. We cried. The world felt right again. The officer said Nadine had been found at the house of the woman who was in the CCTV image. They said the baby was unhurt and that they’d arrested the kidnapper and her partner. I still had to have a scan on my neck, but was discharged a few hours later. It should have been wonderful to be back home, but because our story had been on the news, it was crazy. The phone didn’t stop ringing and our house was filled with friends and family. The kidnapper was later tried in court and pleaded guilty. I never hated her; I pitied her. She’d wanted a baby, not my baby specifically. But I was glad that a line had been drawn. The trauma of that night faded, but didn’t disappear. I gave up my job in accounts to become a childminder so I didn’t have to leave Nadine. Even now, nine years later, I’ll panic if I haven’t seen her for more than 10 minutes. But Nadine is an absolute joy – talkative, bubbly, confident. She’s spoilt rotten by us all and rules the roost. Now I watch her sleeping, and am thankful every single day that she came back to me. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/apr/12/experience-my-newborn-baby-was-kidnapped-from-hospital
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Male-on-male aggression more frequent among bonobos than chimps, but aggression between males and females less common Bonobos at the Kokolopori Bonobo Reserve in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Photograph: Martin Surbeck/Kokolopori Bonobo Research Proje/AFP/Getty Images Bonobos are not quite the peace-loving primates they have long been considered, researchers say, after finding that males show more aggression towards each other than chimpanzees. Bonobos and chimpanzees are humans’ closing living relatives. While chimpanzees are known to show aggression against each other – sometimes to the point of death – bonobos have long been thought to live more harmoniously, with no known killings. The difference has led to the theory that natural selection works against aggression in male bonobos. Now research has turned the idea on its head, revealing that bonobos show higher rates of male-on-male aggression than chimpanzees – even when researchers looked specifically at cases where the males came to blows. “It’s a species with such complex behaviour that just limiting the species to being a hippy, for this study it’s not going to work. It’s just too simplistic,” said Dr Maud Mouginot of Boston University, who is first author of the research. “I think what we know now is that bonobos and chimpanzees use aggression and they use it in different ways. And they have different strategies around it,” she said, adding that an interesting area to explore now was why and when these different strategies evolved. Writing in the journal Current Biology, Mouginot and colleagues describe how they followed 12 male bonobos across three communities at the Kokolopori Bonobo Reserve in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and 14 male chimpanzees across two communities at Gombe national park in Tanzania. Each male was individually followed by the researchers during its waking hours, during which its interactions with other members of its species were recorded, including aggressive physical contact, and other aggressive actions such as charging and chasing. Overall, the team recorded 521 aggressive interactions involving tracked bonobos over 2,047 hours, and 654 aggressive interactions among the identified chimpanzees over 7,309 hours. The team say that despite previous studies finding chimpanzees show more severe aggression – such as killings, infanticide and sexual coercion – the results reveal aggressive acts between males were 2.8 times more frequent in bonobos than in chimpanzees, with acts involving physical contact specifically found to be 3.0 times more frequent. For both species, more aggressive males had greater success in mating with females. Yet, while not quite the model of gentlemanly chivalry, male bonobos treated females differently to chimpanzees: the team found male-on-female aggression was less common, and female-on-male aggression more common, in the former than the latter – something the team put down to female bonobos often outranking males in the social group. “We know from the literature that, for example, male and female [bonobos] form a close association … and we do not observe that in chimpanzees,” said Mouginot, noting that humans, too, form such associations. The researchers add that while only 1% of aggressive acts among male bonobos involved the primates teaming up, the figure was 13% in chimpanzees – a finding that may explain the lower frequency of aggression in chimpanzees. “It’s just more risky because of course if you have several individuals against you, you might be completely beat up,” Mouginot said. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/apr/12/bonobos-not-the-peace-loving-primates-once-thought-study-reveals
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Police halt Palestine Congress, saying one of the speakers was subject to a ban on political activity in Germany. Police officers stand guard in front of the entrance to the venue of the Palestine Congress in Berlin [John Macdougall/AFP] Police in Berlin interrupted and cancelled a pro-Palestine conference soon after it started, hours after one of the main speakers said authorities held him up at the airport and prevented him from entering Germany. Officers initially halted the Palestine Congress because another speaker was subject to a ban on political activity in Germany, police wrote on the social media platform X on Friday. Police did not give the name of the speaker, but participants in the congress wrote on X that it was Palestinian researcher Salman Abu Sitta. Police later wrote on X that they had banned the remainder of the conference, which was being attended by about 250 people and due to last until Sunday. They said there were risks that same speaker would be invited to talk again, accusing him of having made “anti-Semitic” statements in the past. On the Congress’s website, the organisers denounce Israel’s crimes in Gaza, saying: “Together, with the voices of the Palestinian movement and the international community, we will denounce Israeli apartheid and genocide. We accuse Germany of being complicit.” Berlin police said they had dispatched 930 officers, including reinforcements from other regions of Germany, to secure the event. ‘Silencing a witness’ One of the main speakers, Ghassan Abu Sittah, a British Palestinian doctor, had earlier been denied entry into Germany to attend the event, he said. “The German government has forcibly prevented me from entering the country,” Abu Sittah posted on X. The doctor, who volunteered in Gaza hospitals during the first weeks of Israel’s war, said he arrived at Berlin airport on Friday morning before being stopped at passport control, where he was held for several hours and then told he had to return to the UK. Airport police said he was refused entry due to “the safety of the people at the conference and public order,” Abu Sittah told The Associated Press. An event organiser, Nadija Samour, told Turkey’s state-run Anadolu Agency, “There is absolutely no legal basis for this, no justification at all. [Abu] Sittah is the dean of the University of Glasgow. I can’t imagine that he’s a dangerous person or a person who incites violence. Quite the opposite.” Abu Sittah added on X that barring him from the event was “silencing a witness to genocide before the ICJ adds to Germany’s complicity in the ongoing massacre.” n a case at the top UN court brought by Nicaragua, Germany is facing accusations of aiding genocide in Gaza by selling arms to Israel, whose war has killed more than 33,600 people since October 7. Germany is one of Israel’s biggest military suppliers, sending 326.5 million euros ($353.7m) in equipment and weapons in 2023, according to Economy Ministry data. ‘Government pressure’ There was “pressure from the federal government” to cancel the Palestine Congress, organiser Samour told Anadolu, adding that Germany was “actively and illicitly” trying to impede the event. She also accused Berlin of intentionally delaying the start of the congress, citing technical reasons as a pretext. “The congress could not be banned. Freedom of assembly protects the congress, which is precisely why the police came up with all sorts of harassment,” she said. Police intervene as people attend the Palestine Congress [Halil Sagirkaya/Anadolu] The crowd waiting to enter the hall on Friday chanted slogans including “Viva, Viva Palestine” and “Germany finances, Israel bombs”. Some waved Palestinian flags outside the building. Police in Berlin have taken a generally tough stance towards pro-Palestinian protests since the start of the war in Gaza. Authorities have put strict conditions on demonstrations or banned them outright. Protesters and critics have accused authorities of violating democratic freedoms of speech and assembly with the crackdowns. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/4/12/germany-cancels-pro-palestine-event-bars-entry-to-gaza-war-witness
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UN agencies say double-digit inflation and stagnating local production are major drivers of the hunger crisis. Maize is displayed by a trader at the market in Jibia, Nigeria [File: Kola Sulaimon/AFP] Nearly 55 million people will struggle to feed themselves in the coming months in West and Central Africa as soaring prices have fuelled a food crisis, United Nations agencies have warned. In a joint statement on Friday, the World Food Programme (WFP), the UN children’s agency UNICEF, and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said that the number facing hunger during the June-August lean season had quadrupled over the last five years. It said economic challenges such as double-digit inflation and stagnating local production had become major drivers of the crisis, beyond recurrent conflicts in the region. And it noted that Nigeria, Ghana, Sierra Leone, and Mali would be among the worst affected. The UN agencies said the prices of major staple grains had continued to rise across the region from 10 percent to more than 100 percent compared with the five-year average. The situation was particularly worrying in northern Mali, where some 2,600 people are likely to experience catastrophic hunger, it added. “The time to act is now. We need all partners to step up … to prevent the situation from getting out of control,” said Margot Vandervelden, WFP’s acting regional director for West Africa. “We need to invest more in resilience-building and longer-term solutions for the future of West Africa,” she added. Malnourished children Food shortages have also resulted in “alarmingly high” levels of malnutrition, with children badly affected. The agencies said eight out of 10 children aged between six and 23 months do not consume the minimum amount of food required for optimal growth and development. It also said some 16.7 million children under the age of five are acutely malnourished and more than two out of three households are unable to afford healthy diets. “For children in the region to reach their full potential, we need to ensure that each girl and boy receives good nutrition and care, lives in a healthy and safe environment, and is given the right learning opportunities,” said UNICEF Regional Director Gilles Fagninou. “To make a lasting difference in children’s lives, we need to consider the situation of the child as a whole and strengthen education, health, water and sanitation, food, and social protection systems,” he added. The region’s heavy dependence on food imports has tightened the squeeze, particularly for countries battling high inflation such as Ghana, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone. Policies should be introduced to boost and diversify local food production “to respond to the unprecedented food and nutrition insecurity”, said Robert Guei, the FAO’s Sub-regional Coordinator for West Africa. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/4/12/nearly-55-million-face-hunger-in-west-and-central-africa-un-warns