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Joe Biden has made a surprise visit to Ukraine ahead of the anniversary of Russia’s invasion on Friday. In a meeting with Volodymyr Zelensky, the US President reaffirmed America’s “unflagging commitment” to Kyiv and pledged an additional $500m of military assistance. A body has been found in the River Wyre less than a mile from where dog walker Nicola Bulley disappeared three weeks ago. The 45-year-old’s partner, Paul Ansell, told Sky News he has “no words right now, just agony”. Researchers say a 2,000-year-old artefact initially catalogued as a darning tool is in fact a Roman dildo. Boffins reckon the six-and-a-half-inch wooden relic, smoothed at both ends, was either a sex toy or a pestle. “I have to confess,” says Newcastle lecturer Rob Collins, “part of me thinks it’s kind of self-evident that it is a penis.”