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A rare face-to-face meeting between Russian and US military officials last week led to an "outburst" of emotion from a normally stoic Russian general, a "revealing moment" that the Americans present believe hinted at larger morale problems in Russia's military, according to a closely held US military readout of what transpired.

The readout, which was reviewed by CNN, describes the perspective of the two defence attachés who attended and their own impressions of what they saw and heard. 

It does not offer a definitive explanation of the Russian general's behaviour. 

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Readouts of sensitive meetings are never made public by the military or intelligence community because they are scrutinised for clues about an adversary's thinking and intentions.

The meeting, held at the Russian ministry of defence in Moscow, is a rare instance of Russian and American defence officials sitting down in person since Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24. 

The readout describes the meeting as tense, with visible signs of stress on the Russian side.

It makes particular note of the behaviour of Russian Major General Yevgeny Ilyin, deputy chief of the main directorate of international cooperation who has a long track record of dealing with American officials. 

In a break from typical practice, Major General Ilyin spoke with no notes or set talking points, according to the readout.

As the meeting was breaking up, one US defence attaché "casually inquired" about Major General Ilyin's family roots in Ukraine, and the Russian general's "stoic demeanour suddenly became flushed and agitated," according to the readout. 

The Americans reported Major General Ilyin responded "yes," and said that he was born in Dnipropetrovsk before moving with his family to Donetsk, where he went to school.

But the US officials reported Major General Ilyin then added that the current situation in Ukraine is "tragic and I am very depressed over it" – and then he walked out without shaking hands, according to the readout.

It's unclear why the meeting was held or the circumstances behind it. 

CNN does not know if there's additional documentation describing the meeting. 

The readout does not include the names of the American attachés in the meeting, and CNN has been unable to learn their identities. 

The Pentagon and State Department declined to comment. 

CNN has reached out to the Russian Ministry of Defence for comment.

The US team had the sense, according to the readout, that Major General Ilyin stopped just short of accusing US and Ukraine of atrocities against his family. 

It's not clear what specifically caused them to reach that conclusion, but one of the attachés said, "The fire in his eyes and flustered demeanour left a chill down the spine."

The readout said one of the attaché's jaw dropped, and both Americans reported they had never "witnessed such an outburst by Russian counterparts at an official meeting".

US meetings with Russian officials are typically scripted affairs. 

While it's not clear from the summary what precisely led to Major General Ilyin's reaction, the two US defence attachés who attended the meeting assessed the general's reaction as a possible sign of morale problems.

"At the very least, it is clear that morale problems among Russian forces are not limited to front-line troops," the readout concludes.

A glimpse into US-Russia military relations

The readout provides a peek behind the scenes of a Russian military that has failed in its apparent goal of quickly taking Kyiv after launching the invasion last month. 

Senior US military officials have said publicly and privately that the morale of Russian military forces is suffering as they enter the fourth week of their invasion of Ukraine – an invasion that US officials think Russian President Vladimir Putin believed would go much more quickly and smoothly than it has.

In an interview on Tuesday with CNN's Christiane Amanpour, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov disputed US assessments that Russian troops had morale problems. 

"You would probably have to doubt this information," Mr Peskov said. 

"You have to doubt it, and you have to think twice whether it is true or not."

The Kremlin has continued since well before the invasion to refuse direct high-level contact between senior US generals and Russian counterparts making this meeting one of increased interest. 

The US has a deconfliction phone line of communication with the Russian military that has been tested daily but has not been used.

The US believes that the refusal for high-level meetings is due to Kremlin worries that the encounters would show them to be vulnerable if they allowed such meetings, because it risks a tacit admission that an abnormal situation exists, according to the readout.

Even before the remarkable end to the meeting, the US officials reported that Ilyin's stoicism began to wilt in the meeting when the Americans called the Ukraine situation a crisis, and the Russian general quickly "corrected and countermanded" them.

The Russian general did not deviate in the discussions from the win-at-all-costs Russian strategy of the invasion of Ukraine, according to the readout. 

In this instance, the two Americans believe they witnessed a Russian general who was "clearly in distress over the situation but who had nowhere to project his anger except in line with Kremlin's state-sponsored narrative," according to the readout.

The readout notes the Americans are not discounting the encounter may have underscored the hardening of the Russian position on the war and the Russian military officials' need to fulfil their orders because they have no other choice.

A senior defence official said last week that the US has "picked up anecdotal indications that morale is not high" in some of the Russian forces' military units.

"We certainly have indications that morale is a growing problem inside the Russian forces that are fighting in Ukraine," Pentagon press secretary John Kirby told reporters on Tuesday. 

"As time goes on, and they continue to fail to achieve the progress on the ground that they want to achieve, we've seen increasing indications that morale and unit cohesion is a problem."

Stan, the world's most complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton, sold for $42.9 million (US$31.8 million) in 2020 – the highest price ever paid at auction for a fossil.

The sale was controversial and the buyer never disclosed.

Palaeontologists feared the 67 million-year-old fossil was lost to science.

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Earlier this year, some thought Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson was its new owner when a T-rex skull appeared behind him during the broadcast of the final ManningCast show of this year's NFL season.

It turned out to be a replica and now, the mystery has finally been laid to rest.

The 11.7-metre-long T-rex will be a star attraction at a new museum of natural history expected to open in 2025 in Abu Dhabi.

The Natural History Museum Abu Dhabi, currently under construction, will be located in the emirate's Saadiyat Cultural District, which will also be home to the Louvre Abu Dhabi and the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi.

"Now that 'Stan' has a new home at the Natural History Museum Abu Dhabi, this 67 million-year-old dinosaur will be in the care of expert scientists, and will continue to contribute to education and research and inspire future explorers," the Abu Dhabi Department of Culture and Tourism said in a news release.

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The Murchison meteorite specimen will also be part of the new museum's collection.

It crash-landed in Australia more than 40 years ago and contained the oldest material discovered on Earth.

Steve Brusatte, professor and Personal Chair of Palaeontology and Evolution at the University of Edinburgh's School of Geosciences, said it was "wonderful" that Stan will be put on display in a museum.

"This is a new museum, so it doesn't yet have a legacy of research and conservation, and I hope that Stan will be a permanent part of its collection and available to researchers to study and the public to view, in perpetuity," he told CNN via email.

"There are not many natural history museums in the Middle East, so Stan has the chance to be an ambassador: for dinosaurs, palaeontology, and science. This is welcome news and it alleviates my biggest fear, that Stan would just disappear into the private collection of an oligarch or another obscenely wealthy person, never to see the light of science or the eyes of the public again."

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Standing four metres high, Stan is made up of 188 bones, making it one of the largest and most complete T-rex skeletons in the world.

The first of its bones was found in the Hell Creek Formation that spans parts of Montana, North and South Dakota, and Wyoming in 1987 by Stan Sacrison, an amateur palaeontologist for whom it is named.

Initially misidentified as Triceratops bones, they lay undisturbed until 1992, when visiting palaeontologists realised their true origin.

It then took more than 30,000 hours of manual labour to excavate and restore the skeleton.

Researchers have since found that Stan survived a broken neck during his lifetime, after which two of his vertebrae fused together.

There are also signs of puncture wounds in his skull and one rib that may have been caused by another T-rex.

Stan would have weighed seven to eight tons – about twice as much as today's African elephant – and his longest teeth measure more than 28 centimetres, with serrated edges.

Police are continuing the search for a four-year-old girl missing in rural Tasmania.

Shayla Phillips was last seen in her backyard around 2.30pm yesterday in the Stormlea area in the island's south-east.

Police don't suspect her disappearance is suspicious, but have not ruled it out, officers said today.

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She went missing while playing with two dogs belonging to a neighbour.

One of the dogs returned home soon after and the other was later found "some distance away".

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Inspector Gavin Hallett from Tasmania Police said Shayla's mother went to check on her daughter after leaving her for about 30 minutes, and found she and the dogs were not there.

"That's not an uncommon thing, Shayla knows the dogs very well and is very fond of them," Insp Gavin Hallett said.

The mother looked in the house and around neighbouring properties but couldn't find Shayla.

Police launched a search, with thermal drones, the SES and Westpac Rescue Helicopter also helping.

"We've got an idea as to the distance a four-year-old girl could travel and we're using that as the perimeters of the search area," he said.

"An indicator for us was that the dog was found in an area quite some distance away.

"Her mother is very stoic, very strong and positive, and is hopeful that we will find Shayla today."

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She was wearing pink leggings, a light yellow top and gumboots.

She has long, brown, curly hair.

Officers said they are concerned about Shayla's welfare, with temperatures dropping to 11C last night, though woodland could have kept her warmer if she was in there.

Police have said they don't want anybody else to try and help with the search.

More than 50 years after Natalie Scheublin was murdered in her Massachusetts home, a suspect has been arrested.

Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan announced that 76-year-old Arthur Massei has been charged with first degree murder connected to the 1971 death of Ms Scheublin.

Ms Scheublin, a 54-year-old Bedford wife and mother of two, was found dead in the basement of her home on June 10, 1971.

Prosecutors said Ms Scheublin had been tied up, stabbed multiple times, and struck in the head with an unknown object.

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"This is a very bittersweet day," Ms Ryan said, noting it has been a "horribly long" wait for the Scheublin family.

"Today we were able to call her son and daughter and tell them that we were taking the first step in holding to account the alleged perpetrator."

Ms Scheublin's husband, who was the president of Lexington Trust Bank at the time of her murder, came home and discovered his wife's body. It appears Ms Scheublin had not been killed long before her husband returned home.

Nothing of value was taken from inside the home. Ms Scheublin's car was stolen after her murder.

The 1969 Chevy Impala was found less than a mile away at the VA Hospital.

The vehicle appeared to have been intentionally wiped down, but investigators were able to locate several partial fingerprints. In 1999, investigators used new technology to identify Massei as a candidate for review in a national FBI database.

Years later, further investigation allegedly confirmed the prints belonged to Massei, who denied being in the home and killing Ms Scheublin.

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Massei allegedly later told investigators that he had been solicited by an organised crime associate to kill the wife of the banker and make it look like a break-in, but that he had turned down the job.

Ms Ryan said that there has been no evidence showing that Ms Scheublin's husband had anything to do with a plot to kill his wife.

Ms Ryan said Massei had no known connections to the home or to Ms Scheublin.

After Ms Ryan's office created a new cold case unit in 2019, the case was given a more in-depth look. During that time, detectives identified a woman who they said admitted she had been involved with Massei in schemes to defraud banks in the 1990s.

She said Massei "habitually" carried a knife, and bragged that he had killed someone with a knife.

A grand jury indicted Massei on Tuesday, and he was arrested without incident later in the day.

Massei is expected to be arraigned Wednesday in Woburn Superior Court.

Alison Young now lives in the home where Ms Scheublin was killed more than 50 years ago. She said her family only knew some basic details about what happened to Ms Scheublin decades earlier when the house was under different ownership.

"It was crazy to find out when I was younger too to find out that kind of thing happened in our house. It's good to know the person is behind bars now," she said.

"Definitely a little weird just to know everything that happened in those walls."

Hundreds of stolen bikes have been discovered in a UK backyard, with the pile was so big it was visible via Google Earth satellites.

The stash was discovered by Thames Valley Police in Littlemore, south-west of Oxford last week.

In a statement, police confirmed a man had been arrested following the discovery of the allegedly stolen horde.

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"A 54-year-old man from Oxford has been arrested on suspicion of handling stolen goods and possession of criminal property following the execution of a warrant in Littlemore," police wrote.

Officers said they are currently attempting to identify the owners of the bicycles.

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