Four people were killed on Sunday when two small airplanes collided in the air over North Las Vegas airport in Nevada, the authorities said.The planes, a single-engine Piper PA-46, and a single-engine Cessna 172, were preparing to land when the crash took place, according to the Federal Aviation Administration and a fire official.The impact sent the planes off in different directions: The Piper crashed into a field off the runway and the Cessna fell into a water retention pond, the F.A.A. said, adding in a statement that two people were on each aircraft.The F.A.A. said that the Cessna, which is…

U.S. Air Force veteran Suedi Murekezi has been captured by pro-Russia separatists in Ukraine, according to his brother, making him at least the third American to be detained.Sele Murekezi told the Washington Post that on July 7 he received a call from an unknown caller who gave the phone to Suedi. Suedi Murekezi then told his brother that while living in the city of Kherson he had been wrongfully accused of being part of a pro-Ukraine protest and taken captive, Sele said.Sele said his brother told him he is being detained in the Donetsk People’s Republic with two other recently-captured…

LONDON — Temperatures topping 100 degrees are difficult to endure anywhere, but it’s particularly dangerous in Britain, where few homes are equipped with air conditioning.There is little data on how many homes in England have air conditioning units installed, but the best estimates place it at under 5 percent of homes, according to a 2021 report from Britain’s Department for Business Energy and Industrial Strategy. Most of the air conditioning in use comes from portable units, with central air rarely found outside of some high-end apartments in London.While a handful of days each summer are typically unpleasant, many Britons will…

Brazilian Foreign Minister Carlos Franca described his country’s pragmatic policies with the rest of the world noting that Brazil does what is best for its own national interests, and that means having a close relationship with the U.S., Russia and China. Franca sat down with Fox News Digital in an exclusive and wide-ranging interview during a visit to New York last week. Brazil is this month’s rotating president of the United Nations Security Council. He noted that the focus of the presidency was on the consequences of the war in Ukraine, and that would likely include a closed meeting on the…

You can find Sam Fuentes these days quietly working in the New York City diamond district, hoping no one recognizes her as a Parkland massacre survivor while she sells precious metals.Ms. Fuentes, who was injured in the shooting, was one of the high school students who became breakout activists by founding March for Our Lives, a gun control advocacy organization with 26 employees and a nearly $4 million budget. The students have now lived four years in the spotlight, juggling activism, college and growing into adulthood under the media’s glare. They are trying to be normal 21- and 22-year-olds while…

A newborn baby boy died tragically on Friday, when a pack of monkeys stole him from his parents and threw him off a roof.According to multiple reports, Nirdesh Upadhyay of Bareilly, India, was standing on his third-floor roof terrace with his wife and the child when the animals landed and surrounded them. Nirdesh reportedly tried to run away from them with the 4-month-old, when the baby fell out of his hands to the ground and one of the monkeys grabbed him before he could pick him back up and threw him over the side.The child died immediately.VILLAGERS IN INDIA DRESS UP…

Major Chinese cities, including Shanghai, have instituted mass testing sites and are extending lockdown mandates amid a rise in COVID-19 cases.The Chinese government reported approximately 390 daily infections over the span of 7 days ending on Sunday, according to Reuters calculations using official data on Monday. These new numbers showed a jump in the number of infections, from the 340 cases from the previous 7-day period. Shanghai reported more than a dozen new cases Monday, none of which were found to have originated outside a quarantined area. Shanghai is still recovering from its nearly two-month lockdown in the spring following a spike…

WASHINGTON — In June, months after reluctantly signing on to a global tax agreement brokered by the United States, Ireland’s finance minister met privately with Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen, seeking reassurances that the Biden administration would hold up its end of the deal.Ms. Yellen assured the minister, Paschal Donohoe, that the administration would be able to secure enough votes in Congress to ensure that the United States was in compliance with the pact, which was aimed at cracking down on companies evading taxes by shifting jobs and profits around the world.It turns out that Ms. Yellen was overly optimistic.…

The U.S. Navy announced punishments on Friday to more than 20 sailors for their connection to the fire aboard the U.S.S. Bonhomme Richard that destroyed the warship, injured more than 60 military and civilian firefighters, and took four days to extinguish at a San Diego naval base in July 2020.The punishments against the sailors are separate from criminal proceedings against Navy Seaman Apprentice Ryan Sawyer Mays, who was charged with arson in the disaster. He faces a hearing on Aug. 17, with his trial expected to run Sept. 19 through Sept. 30.Although Seaman Mays was accused of deliberately starting the…

The all-time high temperature recorded in Britain, set on July 25, 2019, in Cambridge, is 38.7 degrees Celsius, or about 102 degrees Fahrenheit.Several forecasters said that record could fall on Tuesday.Paul Davies, the chief meteorologist at the Met Office, Britain’s national weather service, told Sky News on Monday that “there’s a good chance now of hitting 40 or 41 degrees Celsius” on Tuesday.Jonathan Porter, the chief meteorologist at AccuWeather, said that with a forecast high of 39 degrees Celsius, “there will be numerous records broken across the area.”And the chief executive of Britain’s Royal Meteorological Society, Professor Liz Bentley, said…