Deir al-Balah: An Israeli strike on a school sheltering the displaced in the Gaza Strip killed at least 27 people on Thursday, Palestinian medical officials said.

Two activists from the group Youth Demand replaced Pablo Picasso’s painting Motherhood at the National Gallery in London with a photograph of a Gazan mother and child, calling for a two-way arms embargo on Israel. The incident took place on Wednesday, with protesters covering the 1901 artwork with the photograph and pouring red paint on the gallery floor to symbolise bloodshed in Gaza.

Tel Aviv: At least six people were stabbed and wounded in northern Israel in what police say was a militant attack.

Istanbul, Turkey: A Turkish Airlines pilot died after collapsing mid-flight, forcing the Turkish national carrier to make an emergency landing in New York, the airline said on Wednesday.

The Nobel Prize in chemistry was awarded Wednesday to David Baker, Demis Hassabis and John Jumper for their work with proteins.

John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton were awarded the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for discoveries and inventions that formed the building blocks of machine learning.

The once-familiar environment of Nasser Hospital in Gaza has transformed into a shelter for both the war-wounded and displaced civilians, a far cry from its typical operations just a year ago. Located in Khan Younis, it is now one of the few medical facilities still functioning amidst the devastating conflict in the Gaza Strip. The hospital’s courtyards and corridors are filled with those seeking refuge, while its staff, including many newly arrived doctors, continue their work under extremely challenging conditions.

Authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have launched a vaccination campaign against Mpox, following a significant outbreak that prompted the World Health Organization (WHO) to declare a global emergency nearly two months ago.