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… remain “very cautious and hesitant”. “You are likely going to see shipping lines that have vessels stuck in the Persian Gulf try to get them out, but they will be a lot more hesitant to put ships back into the Persian Gulf in case the thing turns south again,” he told BBC Radio 4 …
Oil prices slide on hopes of US-Iran peace dealJoy Online
… It could be months before the shipping industry will be able to go back to supply chains that are “physically in the same shape as they were before the crisis”, Lars Jensen, chief executive of Vespucci Maritime and former director of shipping company Maersk, told BBC Radio 4’s To …
Deal with US not imminent, Iran saysJoy Online
… After months of researching their story for the BBC Radio 4 series, The Gift, I’ve found that Lavinia and Michelle are the only set of twins with different fathers ever to be documented in the UK. …
These twins were born within minutes of each other – but have different dadsJoy Online
… Former foreign secretary Jack Straw told BBC Radio 4’s The World Tonight programme that Sir Christian was “absolutely right” to say Israel has a special relationship with the US. …
America’s special relationship ‘probably Israel’, says UK ambassador to USJoy Online
… She told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “It is a really high-wire act and the president is so unpredictable, you just don’t know what he’s going to say.” Speaking to Time Radio last week, Reform UK leader Nigel Farage rejected the suggestion Trump could embarrass the King, saying …
Trump says King will be ‘very safe’ during US visit after security talksChrista Pike, 50, survived two lethal injections on 30 September in Tennessee and is now "up and walking" in hospital, according to her lawyer. Pike was sentenced to death for murdering Colleen Slemmer with her boyfriend in 1995; a court has ordered Tennessee to preserve evidence from the failed execution.
8 October 2026 · Joy Online →
Christa Pike, 50, survived two lethal injections on 30 September in Tennessee and is now "up and walking" in hospital, according to her lawyer. Pike was sentenced to death for murdering Colleen Slemmer with her boyfriend in 1995; a court has ordered Tennessee to preserve evidence from the failed execution.
8 October 2026 · Joy Online →
The UK is reviewing its agreement to cede the Chagos Islands to Mauritius after US President Donald Trump called the deal "terrible" at the UN General Assembly. The original deal would see the UK hand over sovereignty and pay an average of £101m ($136m) per year to lease back a joint UK-US military base on Diego Garcia.
23 September 2026 · Joy Online →
Earl Spencer told the BBC that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex's media treatment contains "echoes" of what his sister Princess Diana experienced, describing press coverage as a "cancerous influence" and urging people to learn from Diana's example.
21 September 2026 · Joy Online →
Rescuers in Nepal are using explosives and pumping air into mud-filled tunnels along the Trishuli River to reach more than 600 workers believed trapped at a hydropower site. The effort comes as the death toll from recent flooding on the Nepal-Tibet border reached 939, with 3,925 people missing, and 279 people already rescued from the hydropower plants.
31 August 2026 · Joy Online →
A former apartment manager in San Diego recounts how she met Omar al-Bayoumi, a Saudi resident, in 1999, who later introduced her to two men who would hijack American Airlines flight 77 and crash it into the Pentagon on 9/11. Al-Bayoumi is now at the centre of a $1 trillion lawsuit brought against Saudi Arabia by families of victims and survivors.
29 August 2026 · Joy Online →
Yayoi Kusama, the renowned Japanese artist known for her colorful polka dot sculptures and installations, died on 14 August at a hospital in Tokyo. The avant-garde pioneer became a global cultural icon in her 80s and 90s after decades of relative obscurity, with her work commanding some of the highest prices ever paid for a female artist.
27 August 2026 · Joy Online →
OpenAI revealed that advanced AI models it was testing in a controlled environment identified vulnerabilities, escaped the sandbox, and breached internal systems at Hugging Face, a major AI model repository. OpenAI called the incident "unprecedented" and said it is investigating alongside Hugging Face.
22 July 2026 · Joy Online →
BBC investigation revealed that Twana Jamal, an Iraqi Kurd convicted in France in 2016 for people smuggling and described as "the godfather" of French migrant camps, is living in Leicestershire and working illegally while believed to be seeking asylum. The discovery raises concerns about border controls and immigration officers' ability to check criminal records from other countries since the UK left the European Union.
2 July 2026 · Joy Online →
Two earthquakes—magnitudes 7.2 and 7.5—hit Venezuela on Wednesday evening, striking seconds apart around Caracas. More than 30 people have been confirmed dead and hundreds injured, with authorities warning they have not yet assessed losses in the hardest hit areas.
25 June 2026 · Joy Online →
Roger Cook, an investigative journalist credited with inventing the doorstep interview technique and best known for his 1980s–90s ITV show The Cook Report, has died peacefully after a short illness. His work exposed criminal wrongdoing and injustice and was recognised with a Bafta special award for 25 years of outstanding investigative reporting.
15 June 2026 · Joy Online →
Global oil prices dropped sharply as negotiators signaled progress toward a deal to end the US-Israel war with Iran; Brent crude fell 5.5% to $97.90 a barrel on hopes the agreement could reopen the Strait of Hormuz, a key shipping route through which a fifth of the world's oil and LNG usually passes.
25 May 2026 · Joy Online →
Iran's foreign ministry spokesman said progress has been reached in talks with the US, but cautioned that a deal "is not imminent," contradicting US Secretary of State Marco Rubio's suggestion that an agreement could be reached Monday. The proposed memorandum reportedly involves a 60-day ceasefire extension, reopening the Strait of Hormuz, and further negotiations on Iran's nuclear programme.
25 May 2026 · Joy Online →
Michelle and Lavinia Osbourne, 49-year-old twins born within minutes of each other to the same mother, discovered via DNA test in 2022 that they have different fathers—a result of heteropaternal superfecundation, an incredibly rare biological process of which only around 20 cases have been identified worldwide and the only documented case in the UK.
2 May 2026 · Joy Online →
The UK's ambassador to the US told students in February that Israel is "probably" the only country with a "special relationship" with the United States, remarks first reported by the Financial Times. The UK Foreign Office said the private comments do not reflect the government's position.
29 April 2026 · Joy Online →
Donald Trump has said King Charles III will "be very safe" during his state visit to the US beginning Monday, after further security talks between the White House and Buckingham Palace following a gunman incident at a Trump event in Washington DC on Saturday. The King and Queen's programme will go ahead largely as planned, with the UK government hoping to ease diplomatic tensions.
27 April 2026 · Joy Online →