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MELBOURNE, Australia — Thirty passengers were evacuated from a cruise ship that ran aground on a reef in Fiji, the ship’s owner said Monday.The MV Fiji Princess, operated by Blue Lagoon Cruises, ran aground Saturday near Monuriki Island, scene of the 2000 movie starring Tom Hanks “ Cast Away,” the Fiji-based tourism company said in a statement.“Whilst the investigation is in its early stages, conditions upon the ship anchoring in the area were calm, and it appears a severe squall caused the ship’s anchor to drag towards a nearby reef whereby the ship became grounded,” the statement said.A ferry was…

Stephen Coates and Andrew CawthorneApril 6, 2026 — 6:28pmSaveYou have reached your maximum number of saved items.Remove items from your saved list to add more.Save this article for laterAdd articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime.Got itAAAWashington/Cairo: The United States and Iran have received a draft proposal calling for a 45-day ceasefire and the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz, according to sources, a day after US President Donald Trump threatened to rain “hell” on Tehran if it did not make a deal.The peace framework was put forward by Egyptian, Pakistani and Turkish mediators who hoped…

Critics are leveling baseless charges of antisemitism and bigotry at the mega-streamer. But they’re really scared of the challenge he poses to their power. Ad Policy Hasan Piker.(YouTube) Over the past few weeks, Democratic establishment figures and the Israel lobby have come together to denounce mega-streamer Hasan Piker and to demand that left-wing Democrats shun his extremely popular platform. Their charge is that he’s an antisemite. The reality, of course, is that Piker is not an antisemite. But he is a trenchant critic of Israel’s oppression of the Palestinian people, of US warmongering, and of a Democratic establishment that supports…

First it was Sour, then it was Guts. For her third album, Olivia Rodrigo is using more than four letters for the title: Yesterday (April 2), she announced You Seem Pretty Sad For A Girl So In Love, set for June 12. Beyond the title and album cover, we don’t know much about the project yet, though Rodrigo has given some hints. In a recent interview with British Vogue, Rodrigo spoke about how the album features “sad love songs,” saying, “I realized all my favorite romantic love songs were beautiful because they had a tinge of fear or yearning in…

Saul ‘Canelo’ Alvarez looks set to get an immediate opportunity to win back one of the world titles he lost to Terence Crawford in September last year.Canelo, who held the undisputed super-middleweight title on two occasions, had not been beaten in the division until Crawford pulled it off. The American, who became a five-weight champion that night, retired shortly after, scattering the four belts.While the WBO and IBF still remain vacant, Jose Armando Resendiz now holds the WBA, and the WBC – who actually stripped Crawford days before his retirement – has upgraded Christian Mbilli to full champion.Mbilli is the…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Central banking is a funny old game. Mervyn King knew this in 2005 when he expressed the “Maradona theory of interest rates” as governor of the Bank of England. Lord King was talking about central bankers’ ability to move markets with words, changing the restrictiveness of policy while allowing central bankers to glide along doing nothing. It was, he said, rather like the Argentine striker running in a straight line to score against England in the 1986 World Cup quarter-final, while English…

It’s official: The Artemis II astronauts have arrived in the moon’s cosmic neighborhood.Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content.The crew’s Orion capsule entered what’s known as the lunar sphere of influence at around 12:41 a.m. ET Monday, crossing into the region of space where the moon’s gravitational pull is stronger than the pull of Earth’s.“That’s a significant milestone on our mission,” NASA flight director Rick Henfling said Sunday in a news briefing.The lunar sphere of influence isn’t a physical or tangible border. Rather, it’s a mathematical boundary that signifies that the astronauts…

U.S. forces launched a daring raid that rescued an American fighter pilot deep behind enemy lines in Iran, President Trump said Sunday, just hours before he warned Tehran to “open the f——— Strait” of Hormuz or face major strikes on its power plants and bridges. The harrowing mission to rescue the crew member, whose F-15E Strike Eagle went down over Iran early Friday, represented the most significant U.S. ground operation in Iran since the start of the war five weeks ago. Hundreds of U.S. personnel and dozens of aircraft were involved, military sources said, and the injured pilot was extracted…

President tells Iran government «you’ll be living in Hell» if they don’t reopen Strait of Hormuz, «Praise to be Allah» President Donald Trump welcomed Easter Sunday by warning the Iran government to “open the Fuckin’ Strait [of Hormuz] you crazy bastards.” In a Truth Social post that preceded his actual Easter Sunday video, Trump also dropped a rare presidential f-bomb, writing, “Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell – Just WATCH!” Trump closed…

Researchers from the University of Illinois, Chicago report that doxorubicin, a long-established cancer drug, can block the herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) in laboratory models and in mice. Their findings suggest we might see a new treatment option alongside existing antivirals, like acyclovir, on the shelves, but not just yet. This drug has a few hurdles to jump before it’s ready for clinical use against the herpes virus.Most people carry the Herpes Simplex virus without knowing it. For the majority, it stays quiet, occasionally surfacing as a cold sore or staying hidden entirely. For cancer patients, transplant recipients and…