Cause of deadly Miami runway crash under investigation An investigation is underway into what caused an Amazon cargo jet to go off the runway at the Miami International Airport and slam into two vehicles, killing five people and injuring five others, including the pilots. The five people killed when an Amazon cargo jet ran off a runway at Miami International Airport on Sunday were inside a van carrying seven people from a cleaning company and an SUV hit outside of airport property, the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board’s (NTSB) chairpersonRead more
Far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party co-leaders Tino Chrupalla, left, and Alice Weidel, right, and top candidate Ulrich Siegmund, centre, attend a news conference Monday, a day after the Saxony-Anhalt state elections in Berlin. (Liesa Johannssen/Reuters) Voters in the eastern German state of Saxony-Anhalt have overwhelmingly chosen the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) to run their government. It’s a historic victory for a once-fringe populist party that’s designated as right-wing extremist by local domestic intelligence agencies in numerous states, including in Saxony-Anhalt, and whose members have come under fire forRead more
Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, are shown after sailing on Sydney Harbour with veterans from the Invictus Australia community, in Sydney, Australia, on April 17. (Hollie Adams/Reuters) King Charles authorized a letter to senior British officials on Monday confirming that his youngest son, Prince Harry, and Harry’s wife, Meghan, remain non-working royals following their return to the U.K. The letter, which was shared with Harry’s team and sent as guidance to senior officials in the government and military, said that after Harry and Meghan steppedRead more
BBC The US and Canada appear no closer to resolving their ongoing trade dispute. Tensions have been simmering between the two neighbours since President Donald Trump returned to the White House just over 18 months ago, and unleashed a wide-ranging global programme of tariffs. Canada was one of the first countries the Trump administration hit with levies, and is one of two countries to respond with its own reciprocal measures. Currently, the US has hit Canada’s key sectors of steel, aluminium, lumber and automobiles with tariffs, and last week imposedRead more
Reuters Vessels in the Strait of Hormuz are visible near the beach of Bandar Abbas, close to Larak Island Iran and the US have traded strikes after American forces attacked two rocket launchers on Larak Island in the Strait of Hormuz. The first known US strikes on Iran since late July killed two people and injured two others, according to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), which vowed “response and punishment”. US Central Command (Centcom) said its had taken “limited, precise action” against “minelaying forces posing an imminent threat inRead more
Some Canadian websites, including for the federal government, displayed maps with Lake Ontario renamed as Lake America on Sunday, a day after Google Maps announced the change to align with an executive order by U.S. President Donald Trump. The search giant said in a Saturday post on its corporate website that it made the change because the U.S. government’s geographic names database has formally renamed the lake. Google said the change would only affect U.S. users, but a number of websites for Ontario and Canadian entities appeared to display LakeRead more
A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket lifts off carrying NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Sunday. (Joe Skipper/Reuters) NASA began a new mission to probe some of the biggest mysteries in astrophysics and cosmology with the launch on Sunday of the U.S. space agency’s new flagship astronomical observatory, a repurposed spy satellite that will capture panoramic views of the cosmos. The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, a roughly $4 billion US project, was carried aloft from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in CapeRead more
A view outside of the FIFA global headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland in July. (Getty ImagesRobert Hradil/Getty Images) FIFA confirmed on Monday that Chief Operating Officer Kevin Lamour has left the governing body, weeks after he publicly criticized President Gianni Infantino’s plan to sell a stake in its tournament business, including the World Cup. “FIFA can confirm that the working relationship between FIFA and Kevin Lamour as FIFA’s Chief Operating Officer has ended on 17 August 2026,” a FIFA spokesperson said. “FIFA thanks Kevin for his two years of service andRead more
U.S. President Donald Trump is seen in the Oval Office on Monday. (Kylie Cooper/Reuters) U.S. President Donald Trump has again threatened Oman as Iran says it is working with the Gulf Arab country on a plan to manage shipping through the Strait of Hormuz. Fully reopening the waterway has been a key U.S. demand. Meanwhile, the 60-day negotiating period to find a peace deal between the United States and Iran was expiring, with no word of an extension and both sides seemingly as far apart as they were at theRead more