Waves of drones and missiles targeted Kyiv overnight in the largest aerial assault since Russia&s invasion of Ukraine began more than three years ago, officials said yesterday, amid a renewed Russian push to capture more of its neighbour&s land.

Power has been restored to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine, the plant&s Russia-installed management said.

The federal government is going to take millions of sterile flies and dump them on Texas in the hopes that they&ll kill off a species of insect known for laying its flesh-eating larvae in the wounds of warm-blooded animals.

A senior Indian minister has said that only the Dalai Lama and the organisation he has set up have the authority to identify his successor as the spiritual head of Tibetan Buddhism, in a rare comment contradicting rival China&s long-held position.