The 82nd Airborne arrived in the Belgian village of Verbamont , and immediately General Gavin sent his regiments E to determine the enemy's positions and strength.

It was here between the 18th and 21st of December 1944 that engineers and paratroopers of the US Army would help to blunt the German offensive.

A direct hit on the 57 millimeter anti tank gun killed the crew and with the gun being knocked out, the remaining men retreated back through the viaduct heading north towards Coup , then crossing back over the Amblev , then doubling back to Tuapom .

The men of the 51st Engineer Combat Battalion could hear more German vehicles moving towards Laglaise .

Schnellgruber Knittle arrived back at Tuapon in the direction towards Stavlo .

E Company had a perfect field of fire overlooking an open area to their front in the direction that the Germans would be coming from.

They had 80 mines across the road and site 6 bazooka teams on the left hand side of the wood ready to put in an ambush if any German armour did roll forward.

Despite the hard close in fighting, the men of the five O fifth were able to hold their ground.

E Company never once fell back from their positions despite the weight of German fire.

Crowds of joyous Palestinians stream into northern Gaza though uncertainty awaits them.

Many of their homes were destroyed as more than 15 months of Israeli bombardment and ground offensive against Hamas have leveled large parts of Gaza City and the surrounding north.

The mood was celebratory — a sharp contrast to the fear and shock expressed by Palestinians over the past year .

Chinese Canadians recall how early precautions were met with ridicule, ridicule and hostility.

Many Chinese restaurants in Metro Vancouver reported a sharp slide in business as Chinese community members hunkered down in January 2020 around Lunar New Year when eateries are traditionally filled to capacity.

Some new year festivities in B.C. were cancelled in 2020 , while others were downsized or sparsely attended.

Richmond 's COVID-19 cases in Chinese community were the lowest since we paid so much attention to the pandemic, Zhang says.

Health officials in Canada initially recommended against mask use by healthy, asymptomatic individuals.

That ran counter to what health officials were saying in China and Hong Kong .

Five decades of war among leftist guerrillas, right-wing paramilitaries, drug lords and government forces left more than 450,000 people killed and more than 124,000 disappeared.

Dozens of former rebels, officials, forensic anthropologists and religious leaders now work side-by-side in finding their country's disappeared.

The 2016 peace pact earned then-President Juan Manuel Santos a Nobel Peace Prize , but neither he nor his successors have fully addressed endemic violence, displacement and inequality.

FARC members were responsible for 24% of disappearances during the conflict.

Victims have blamed rebels for causing widespread pain through attacks and kidnappings that financed their operations.

Some have disavowed the search of ex-FARC members who have been searching for loved ones for decades .

Teams travel up to 8 hours by mule through rambling roads to reach spots of interest.

UK biotech sector raised 3.5bn in 2024 , marking a 94% increase from the previous year .

Venture capital ( VC ) funding accounted for 2.06bn of the total, a 64.8% increase year-on-year .

North American investors contributed 26% of VC funding, the largest share in three years , while European investors made up 15% .

Mother Mangala Pradhan lost her one-year-old son Ajit in the Sundarbans , West Bengal state, 16 years ago .

She is one of 16 mothers in the area who walk or cycle to two makeshift creches set up by a non-profit.

The need for such care is urgent: countless children continue to drown in this riverine region.

Drowning is the leading cause of death for children aged one-four in Bangladesh .

Water-rich Vietnam focused on children aged six-10, using decades of mortality data to develop policies and teach survival skills.

In 2021 , an estimated 300,000 people drowned - over 30 lives lost every hour .

16,000 sixth -form or college students in Wales receive the Education Maintenance Allowance ( EMA ) The EMA 's household income threshold, which has been frozen since 2010 , will go up from September .

Head of Coleg y Cymoedd said economic disadvantage had a "huge" impact on education and the uplift was "a step in the right direction".

The solar system's planets and moons absorb energy from the sun, but they also emit energy back into space.

The difference between these two is called the radiative energy budget, or REB .

Earth 's annual REB is largely balanced, with the amount of solar energy absorbed roughly balancing the heat radiated over a year .

In contrast, researchers know little about Mars ' REB , especially if it's balanced.

Ph.D. student Bowen Tang evaluates the effects of various drugs on aging and onset of Alzheimer's Disease (AD) Tang 's thesis aims to provide insights into drug candidates with repurposing potential as anti-aging agents or AD-modifying treatments.

Tang 's studies suggest some common drugs may provide protective effects against aging and AD/dementia.

Defense start-up Anduril Industries has deep ties to President Trump ’s tech funders and advisers.

It is the most prominent among a raft of defense upstarts aiming to challenge established defense contractors by recasting U.S. military technology around nimble drones and software.

It imagines fleets of deadly aerial and undersea drones that can tirelessly patrol the world.

Anduril was selected last year as one of two companies that will build autonomous jet fighters for an Air Force program developing robotic wingmen to support human pilots.

The start-up announced it will spend $1 billion on a new factory in Columbus to build drones and missiles from 2026 .

Several of the start-ups' co-founders are veterans of Palantir , which sells data analysis software to government.

Anduril and other start-ups envision the U.S. fielding thousands of small airborne and oceangoing drones that constantly crisscross the Pacific Ocean .

They could provide superior surveillance and attack capabilities to conventional ships and aircraft at much lower cost.

The strategy might also help with recruiting enough soldiers and sailors to fill its ranks.