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…

WASHINGTON — Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, who has repeatedly brushed off speculation that he would retire, says he has a time frame in mind for the end of his long government career. But those who are eager for him to go may have to wait a while: His plan is to leave by January 2025, the end of President Biden’s current term.In recent months, the will-he-or-won’t-he-step-down conversation has dogged the 81-year-old Dr. Fauci — perhaps the best-known doctor in America. The issue comes and goes in direct proportion to how much Republicans are attacking the man who has been the…

The United Nations secretary general, António Guterres, issued a dire warning on Monday to representatives from 40 countries at the Petersberg Climate Dialogue, calling for more concrete action to tackle what he called a “climate emergency.”“We have a choice,” Mr. Guterres said in a video message. “Collective action or collective suicide. It is in our hands.”Mr. Guterres did not directly address the heat wave punishing much of Europe, but his comments came as swaths of the continent faced dangerously high temperatures on Monday, spurring wildfires in some areas.Wales reached its highest temperature on record on Monday, 37.1 degrees Celsius (98.8…

Ambulance crews in Oklahoma’s largest cities are grappling with a surge in heat-related health emergencies as daily highs continue to top 100 degrees across much of the state.In Tulsa, Emergency Medical Services Authority, the state’s largest ambulance provider, has responded to 84 heat-related illness calls and taken 55 patients to hospitals since July 1, when the third heat alert of the year was issued for the city. In Oklahoma City, since a heat alert on July 7, the agency has responded to 59 calls, with 42 patients taken to hospitals.Nearly all of the hospitalized patients in both cities were treated…