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.

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

According to the Kremlin, the ceasefire will last from 6pm Moscow time on Saturday to midnight following Easter Sunday. Mr Putin offered no details on how the ceasefire would be m ...