U.S. researcher James Allison of the University of Texas shared the 2018 Nobel Prize in medicine Monday with Tasuku Honjo of Kyoto University for lifesaving cancer research. Allison and Honjo will share the $1.01 million prize for their research into how to help the body marshal its own defenses against invading cancers. Their discovery led to drugs that release the brakes on the immune system and have been used to treat the skin cancer melanoma, as well as cancers of the lung, head and neck, bladder, kidney, and liver.

Pope Francis defrocked a Chilean priest at the center of the ongoing sex abuse scandal in Chile, the Vatican announced Friday. The statement cited the “exceptional amount of damage” the priest’s crimes had done, adding that Francis was stiffening the sentence for “the good of the church.”

Tesla stocks slid on Friday after government securities regulators asked on Thursday for the removal of Elon Musk as CEO of the electric car company. The Securities and Exchange Commission asked the U.S. District Court in Manhattan to bar Musk from serving as an officer or director of a public company. The complaint says that Musk’s claim on Twitter in August that funding was secured for Tesla Inc. to go private at $420 a share was false and amounted to securities fraud. Musk and the company’s board later said they decided not to go private after all.

A tsunami hit central Sulawesi, Indonesia, on Friday, triggered by the second of two massive earthquakes earlier in the day. The tsunami swept away houses and families were missing, Indonesian disaster agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said in a TV interview. He said search and rescue efforts were underway, but operations were hampered by darkness. Communications are down in central Sulawesi, where the tsunami hit the provincial capital of Palu and the city of Donggala.

Not wanting to interfere with the ongoing confirmation hearing of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, President Donald Trump postponed his meeting with Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein on Thursday. Rosenstein oversees special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. After a week of rumors that Rosenstein would either resign or be fired, the president said Thursday that he wants to allow him to keep working.

U.S. stocks briefly dipped Wednesday after the Federal Reserve raised short-term interest rates by a quarter point, but the markets made new gains Thursday shortly after opening. Fed policymakers said they expect to raise the interest rate a fourth time later this year and three times next year to keep a check on inflation in the strengthening U.S. economy.

President Donald Trump chaired the UN Security Council meeting for the first time Wednesday and used the opportunity to continue his criticism of Iran’s leadership, saying it “must never be allowed to obtain” a nuclear weapon. The 15 members of the Security Council take one-month turns leading the group, and this is the first rotation for the United States during Trump’s presidency.