With music and prayer, well-wishers gather outside Rome’s Gemelli Hospital as Pope Leo XIV recovers from surgery to remove a cancerous lung tumour. Doctors say the pontiff is walking, eating, and making normal progress after the procedure.

Just days after the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Navi Pillay, the White House imposed fresh sanctions on the International Criminal Court. Pillay, the former UN human rights chief, says the timing was no coincidence.

The country is consistently ranked by international organisations as being among the top regions at risk during El Niño cycles.

The research group will spend around five days on the island (Picture: Getty) Researchers have begun to search for the remnants of Amelia Earhart’s plane on a remote Pacific Island.

The number of confirmed cases has surged past 9,000 with more than 4,300 deaths, with many not detected while the patients are still alive.

Mali is facing mounting humanitarian pressure, with hundreds of thousands of people seeking safety inside its borders. As of September 30, 2026, the country was hosting 322,584 refugees and asylum seekers, alongside 414,524 internally displaced people.

South African jurist, Navi Pillay, was honoured for her lifelong commitment to human rights, justice, and accountability.

People endured bites during the 17 hour journey.