How Trump’s ‘careless’ Pearl Harbour joke in Oval Office shook eighty years of US-Japan diplomacy March 20, 2026 at 10:40PM

At an otherwise routine Oval Office meeting on Thursday, Donald Trump made a joke about Pearl Harbour directly to Japan's prime minister Sanae Takaichi, invoking the 1941 surprise attack that killed 2,400 Americans and drew the United States into the Second World War. Takaichi widened her eyes, said nothing, and moved on. For eight decades, American presidents have avoided the subject in Japanese company, understanding that the alliance depends in part on leaving certain histories alone. Trump, characteristically, did not.

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10 interesting facts about our solar system that will surprise you March 19, 2026 at 12:30AM

The Solar System is a weird place filled with incredible physics and geological oddities that often break down in human terms. The way we learn the order of the planets is the classroom version of what is actually happening. For instance, Venus is hotter than Mercury and has a surface that looks like it was formed in a volcanic hell, while ice giants are believed to have ‘diamond rain’ falling through their atmosphere. NASA’s Solar System exploration archives state that 99.8 per cent of the Solar System's mass is contained in the Sun. These 10 things you didn't know about the solar system highlight a universe that is far more dynamic than any textbook could ever tell.