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The Catholic Church recognized its first Millennial saint yesterday, with Pope Leo XIV canonizing English-Italian Carlo Acutis in an open-air ceremony in St. Peter’s Square. Pier Giorgio Frassati, a Catholic activist from the early 20th century, also received sainthood.
Known as “God’s Influencer,” Acutis passed away in 2006 at age 15 from an acute form of leukemia. Increasingly devout and skilled at computer programming from an early age, he developed a worldwide catalog of various miracles and visions recognized as authentic by the church. Millions have flocked to his tomb in the intervening years, and Pope Francis recognized a pair of miracles attributed to his intercession in 2020 and 2024 (a general requirement for sainthood).
The Roman Catholic Church recognizes more than 10,000 people as saints, though the exact number is unknown due to lost historical records. See some of the most well-known here. |
World's Largest Animal Migration |
Wall Street Journal reporters have witnessed the world’s largest animal migration—a movement of over 6 million mammals, almost triple the size of the Serengeti wildebeest trek. Read the WSJ story here (unlocked for 1440 readers).
The Great Nile Migration occurs largely in South Sudan and has rarely been documented by humans. The migration includes four antelope species—white-eared kob, tiang, Mongalla gazelle, and Bohor reedbuck—often in herds of 100,000 animals or more. The antelopes travel in a U shape around Boma National Park into Ethiopia. Their movement patterns—while not entirely understood—are believed to be largely seasonal, with kob heading north for the dry season (November to March) and south for the wet season (April to October). See more here (w/video).
The second-largest land migration, the Serengeti wildebeest trek, generates significant revenue for Tanzania and Kenya, with tourism accounting for 17% of Tanzania’s gross domestic product. South Sudan’s war-torn history has, to date, prevented a similar ecotourism economy. |
Multiple undersea cables were cut this weekend in the Red Sea near Saudi Arabia, slowing internet access for users in the Middle East, Asia, and Europe. The cause of the interruption was not publicly known as of this writing.
There are over 500 undersea fiber-optic cables worldwide serving as the internet’s backbone, collectively over 900,000 miles long and responsible for transmitting 95% of global data. Yemen’s Houthi rebels have threatened to cut the Red Sea cables, interrupting up to 17% of global internet traffic, in protest of the Israel-Gaza war. They have since backed down, however, last year denying involvement in an incident in which three cables were severed. The vast majority of fiber-optic cable disruptions are attributed to fishing and ship anchoring incidents.
Some users in Dubai and Kuwait reported slower traffic as service providers rerouted to backup cables following the incident. See facts about undersea cables here. |
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