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18 JAN 2026 Stiff knees, aching hips, and the slow grind of chronic joint pain are often accepted as an unavoidable part of getting older. But while osteoarthritis is the world’s most common joint disease, experts say the way we treat and prevent it is badly out of step with …

17 JAN 2025  Global ship recycling no longer suffers from a lack of rules. It suffers from a failure to connect them. What is often described as a compliance gap is, in reality, a governance failure created by fragmented legal regimes that refuse to engage with where and how ship …

17 JAN 2026 Seaborne coal shipments to China fell 10% in 2025 as increased domestic supply and weakening demand from steel manufacturing and electricity generation combined to reduce the world’s largest coal importer’s appetite for the fuel, according to a new analysis from BIMCO. The decline, which particularly affected shipments …

16 JAN 2026 The 2025 tariff landscape delivered one of the sharpest bilateral trade contractions in recent memory, with U.S. imports from China falling 28% year-over-year and exports to China dropping 38%, according to a new report from project44 released Monday. The dramatic decline marks a fundamental restructuring of global …

15 JAN 2026  South Africa is reporting one of its most dramatic rescue operations in recent years, saving the lives of 21 fishermen who were forced to abandon ship after their trawler went up in flames Monday evening. The National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) reports that multiple rescue teams were …

15 JAN 2026  A Greek-owned tanker that was caught in a series of back-and-forth maneuvers between the United States and Iran in 2023 and 2024 has quietly been released two years after the Iranians seized the ship and said they were taking its oil cargo. The move comes as Iran …