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By Michelle Nichols, Reuters A school run by the UN Relief and Works Agency being used as a makeshift shelter for Palestinians displaced by conflict in the Jabalia camp. Photo: OMAR AL-QATTAA/AFP United Nations aid operations in Gaza ground to a halt after Israel issued new evacuation orders on Sunday for Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip where the UN operations centre was located, said a senior UN official. The evacuation order came as the UN prepares to begin on Saturday a campaign to vaccinate an estimated 640,000 children in Gaza, where the World Health Organization (WHO) said a 10-month-old baby had been paralysed by the type 2 poliovirus, the first such case in the territory in 25 years. "We're unable to deliver today with the conditions that we're in," said the senior UN...

By Pavel Polityuk, Tom Balmforth and Yuliia Dysa, Reuters A house where the owner was killed by a Russian missile attack in the Zaporizhzhia region, Ukraine, on 26 August. Photo: Dmytro Smolienko /NurPhoto via AFP Russia attacked Ukraine with more than 200 missiles and drones, killing seven people and striking energy facilities nationwide, Kyiv said, while neighbouring NATO member Poland reported a drone had probably entered its airspace. Power cuts and water supply outages were reported in many areas, including parts of Kyiv, as officials said the attack - 2.5 years into the war - targeted power or other critical infrastructure across the country. Russia stepped up its strikes on the Ukrainian power grid in March in what Kyiv has said looked like a concerted effort to degrade the sy...

Boats return to Porticello harbour near Palermo, Sicily, bringing bodies ashore on 21 August, 2024, two days after the British-flagged luxury yacht Bayesian sank. Photo: AFP Italian prosecutors will investigate the captain of the superyacht belonging to British tech magnate Mike Lynch that sank off Sicily last week during an intense storm, killing Lynch and six other people, Italian media reports said on Monday. Reuters was not able to independently verify the decision. Being placed under investigation in Italy does not imply guilt and does not mean formal charges will necessarily follow. James Cutfield, a 51-year old New Zealand national, is being investigated for manslaughter and shipwreck, the dailies La Repubblica and Corriere della Sera said. Magistrates spoke to Cutfield on Sunday...

By Matt Neal of the ABC Hanson was huge for a moment thanks to MMMBop. Photo: Wikipedia Hanson. Toni Basil. The Knack. Baha Men. Minnie Riperton. Chumbawumba. If you know these acts, reading their names has probably started a song playing in your head. For most people, it will be the same song. MMMBop. Mickey. My Sharona. Who Let The Dogs Out? Loving You. Tubthumping. This is the magic and the curse of the one-hit wonder - that your name is instantly recognisable and forever connected to a single piece of music, but that's as far as your career extends in the minds of the masses. But who is the ultimate one-hit wonder? And can we use maths, Spotify data and good old-fashioned common sense to answer that question? Defining a one-hit wonder No musician wants to be a one-hit wonder - t...