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Here's What Happened Today: Monday

All of today’s top stories – including the Irish hockey team’s homecoming, and an explosion in Bologna.

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INTERNATIONAL

Italy Highway Explosion In this frame grab taken from a video released by the Italian police, the moment a truck that was transporting flammable substances explodes after colliding with another truck on a highway in the outskirts of Bologna. AP / PA Images AP / PA Images / PA Images

#ITALY One person died and over 60 were injured after a tanker truck exploded near Bologna.

#INDONESIA At least 98 people were killed by the earthquake on Lombok.

#CHICAGO It was a violent weekend in Chicago, with 44 shot and five killed across one night of gun violence.

#NEW MEXICO 11 starving children were found by police at a compound in the New Mexico desert.

#UK A man appeared in court charged with the murder of a midwife who went missing.

PARTING SHOT

The magazine Smash Hits was a fun and irreverent pop magazine that fans adored. Here’s a really interesting look behind the scenes of how it got made, via The Guardian.

Comments are off as a story above involves a case that’s before the courts