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A powerful tornado tore through western Sicily, causing injuries, widespread destruction and forcing evacuations across the cities of Marsala and Petrosino.

A Palestinian boy was seen fleeing after Israeli settlers attacked his father and stole their car in Ramallah. At least 19 pogroms by Israeli forces and settlers were reported across the occupied West Bank on Friday morning.

India’s Cockroach Janta Party says its members have been subjected to mass arrests across India ahead of Saturday’s protest in New Delhi. Protesters are demanding the election panel chief’s resignation over alleged irregularities in voter-list revisions that critics say benefited Modi’s BJP.

International Court of Justice judge Navi Pillay has been awarded this year’s Nobel Peace Prize. A former head of the UN’s inquiry into the occupied Palestinian territories, the Nobel committee called her ‘one of the great defenders of international legal principles’.

There are protests and outrage in New York after ICE agents shot a man after surrounding his vehicle. The victim had a five-year old child in the car at the time. New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani has called President Trump to demand ICE withdraw from the city.

Families cheered and embraced their loved ones as the USS Abraham Lincoln returned home to San Diego after more than 300 days at sea to support the US-led war on Iran. The extended deployment led to supply shortages, facility breakdowns and reports of suicide attempts.

Four astronauts returned to Earth on Thursday from an eight-month mission to the International Space Station. The crew completed a parachute-assisted splashdown in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California.

Police fired tear gas and water cannons as demonstrators gathered in Paris to demand more funding, teachers, and better conditions in schools. The movement has entered its third week, with police tactics under scrutiny after several teenagers were seriously injured.

New York City’s Mayor Zohran Mamdani was met by crowds calling him a ‘traitor’ for attending a vigil organised by Israelis for Peace on the third anniversary of the October 7 attacks. Mamdani was also criticised by pro-Israel groups over a statement he released on the same day.

French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu has promised to address student concerns as growing protests force hundreds of schools to close. Students are demanding better school conditions and more teachers, while criticism grows over how police are handling the demonstrations.

Stanford University has released a video showing US scientist Karl Deisseroth breaking the news to his son and two daughters that he won the Nobel Prize in Medicine. His children were seen erupting in joy, jumping and hugging him.

Guantanamo Bay opened after the US invasion of Afghanistan and once held hundreds of detainees. Twenty-five years later, the war is over, but the prison remains open. Why? Al Jazeera’s Noor Wazwaz explains.

A Nashville judge ordered Tennessee officials to preserve evidence from Christa Pike’s failed execution, including drugs, syringes, medical equipment and recordings. Pike’s lawyers say the two failed lethal-injection attempts amounted to unconstitutional cruel punishment.

Pro-Palestine students took to the streets of London on October 7, despite police calls to postpone the march. Al Jazeera’s @Lina_Serene reports.

At the 2026 International Astronautical Congress in Turkiye, SpaceX unveiled a new visualisation of its plan to put a million satellites in space to power AI data centres.

Argentina’s head coach Lionel Scaloni said it was an ‘emotional day’ as Lionel Messi brought his international career to an end, calling it a ‘dream’ to have coached him. Messi scored in his final game, a 3-0 friendly victory over Benin.

Gaza City’s port was a hub for fishing and tourism before the genocide. Then Israel destroyed it. Al Jazeera’s Maram Humaid shows what’s left.

A 200-year-old cottonwood tree has been cut down to make way for an expansion of a US-Mexico double border wall. Activists staged protests for months and camped at the tree to prevent it from being cut down.

Israeli students and teachers spoke to Al Jazeera’s Ava Warriner about how Palestinians are being erased from their school system.

An explosion has ripped through Venezuela’s second-largest oil refinery, causing it to suspend activities. Reuters reports that the fire at the Cardon facility in Punto Fijo, Falcón state, started in a gas line. The facility can process 300,000 barrels of oil per day when operational.

Three years after the October 7 attacks, the politics of Israeli society has shifted further right, sidelining voices calling for a political settlement with Palestinians. But as Al Jazeera’s Nour Odeh explains, the shift began years before October 7.

The Syrian embassy in Berlin has returned the passport of a citizen that the former Assad government seized 43 years ago. Adnan Wahoud, a mechanical engineer and inventor residing in Germany, says his passport was confiscated because he refused to cooperate with the former government.