At least 24 people have been killed and many others are missing, including more than 20 girls from a summer camp, after a storm caused severe flooding in Texas.

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.

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.