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Today’s puzzle concerns a fish swimming in a tank that is two metres high, one metre across and one metre deep.The image below shows one path the fish swam.This path shown from the front, the right side and the top looks like:Today’s two puzzles present front and side views of fish paths. Can you draw the top view of the shortest path that produced these front and side views?1.2.I’ll be back at 5pm UK with the solutions.UPDATE: Read the solutions here.If you find visualising shapes in three-dimensions difficult, ask an architect for help. I have set similar puzzles twice before,…

Britain’s Arthur Fery said he now knows what he has to work on after his US Open debut was cut short on Tuesday.His hopes of making a splash in New York were ended in the first round after a straight-sets defeat by Lorenzo Musetti. The 24-year-old had been riding on the crest of a wave since his historic run to the Wimbledon semi-finals as a wildcard earlier this summer. Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player Fery hit this tweener in a superb rally against Musetti He reached his first ATP final at the Winston-Salem Open last…

“In all honesty, we thought we’ll give it to him. It’ll be nice for him to have it. Maybe he will wear it backstage or something”, said Jarrett.But to the club and its supporters’ surprise, Chatten not only wore the shirt but performed the bands headline set in it in front of tens of thousands at the festival and many more online and on television.”We were as surprised as anyone when we saw him walking out on stage with the shirt on,” Jarrett said.Jarrett said it had been “crazy” ever since, after festival-goers and viewers shared photos and videos of…

If I were asked, would I say it’s the same Dauda Lawal I knew five years ago? I would definitely answer with a capital letter NO. On his 55th birthday in 2020, I wrote a tribute titled ‘The Dauda Lawal I Know,’ describing him as a symbolic interactionist: a retired banker seeking a quiet, private life, as the Hausa people will always say, ‘ba hayaniya.’ As fate would have it, in 2021, despite all the character assassinations and many campaigns of calumny against Dauda, he responded to a very difficult distress plea from his people in Zamfara State: ‘Help us,…

•Posts N279 billion profit after tax Emmanuel Addeh in Abuja The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC) remitted a cumulative N7.913 trillion to the federation between January and July 2026, as the national oil company recorded revenue of N3.087 trillion in July, its latest monthly report released yesterday has shown. The NNPC’s Monthly Report Summary for July 2026 also indicated that the company posted a Profit After Tax (PAT) of N279 billion during the month, while its OB3 facility has reached  100 per cent completion. During the period, the report showed that crude oil and condensate production stood at 1.68…

• Says country well positioned to consolidate its standing among Africa’s largest economies  •Tinubu: We must translate macroeconomic stability into prosperity • Yuguda urges Nigerians to carefully evaluate Atiku’s promise to return fuel subsidy  •Ooni of Ife: Poverty will soon end in Nigeria, declares President’s economic policies yielding good results Ndubuisi Francis, Adedayo Akinwale in Abuja and Yinka Kolawole in Osogbo Inspired by the second quarter (Q2) real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth of 4.43 per cent, up from 3.89 per cent in the preceding quarter, the federal government has declared that Nigeria was well positioned to consolidate its standing…

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Anthropic says its newest AI models, Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1, address criticisms from customers about price, data retention, and overzealous safeguards. The company claims Claude Fable 5.1 offers stronger performance than Fable 5, but costs around 25 percent less typically and up to 45 percent less for complex agentic tasks, thanks to reduced pricing on cached data that was already processed and stored.Along with the announcement, a slew of early impressions popped up, including from Every CEO Dan Shipper, who claims, “It’s the strongest coding model we’ve used, but now it’s fast, token-efficient, and crucially actually speaks like a…

Long-term government borrowing costs have risen to a 28-year high, putting further pressure on Prime Minister Andy Burnham ahead of his first Budget next month.The yield on a 30-year gilt — a loan to the British government — rose to 5.89% on Tuesday, the highest since 1998.Borrowing costs in the US, Japan and Europe have hit similar highs in recent days, reflecting investors’ concerns about inflation, state borrowing levels and spending levels by large tech companies on AI.Burnham told the House of Commons his government’s “bedrock”, as it seeks to tackle the cost-of-living crisis, would be “fiscal responsibility”.All of those…

The federal government has upgraded the Riyom General Hospital in Plateau State to a National Trauma Centre and deployed 15 ambulances to the state to strengthen emergency medical services. The hospital will operate as an outpost of the Jos University Teaching Hospital (JUTH), the government announced on Monday during the launch of the National Emergency Medical Services and Ambulance System (NEMSAS) in Riyom. The intervention comprises five conventional emergency ambulance buses and 10 tricycle ambulances for rural and hard-to-reach communities. Governor Caleb Mutfwang, represented at the event by his deputy, Josephine Piyo, described the development as a major investment in…