Mar. 16, 2025
Sister André.Photo: Florian Escoffier/Abaca/Sipa USA(Sipa via AP
A French nun believed to be the second-oldest known living person in the world has beaten COVID-19, just days before she’s set to celebrate her 117th birthday, according to reports.
Sister André tested positive for the virus in mid-January, but showed no symptoms, French media reported, according to theAssociated Press.
“I didn’t even realize I had it,” she reportedly told French newspaperVar-Martin.
“No, I wasn’t scared because I wasn’t scared to die,” she said, according toReuters.
Mar. 16, 2025
Photo: Carrabelle Boat Club/Facebook
Ships washed ashore more than 100 years ago on a Florida island were completely unearthed earlier this monthwhen Hurricane Michael touched down, wreaking havoc on parts of the state, reports say.
More than a century ago, in 1899, 15 ships washed ashore on Dog Island, in Franklin County, during Carrabelle Hurricane and lay grounded on the barrier island for 119 years, according toUSA Today. Now, a few of the ships are now completely visible due to Hurricane Michael’s deadly surge beginning on Oct.
Mar. 16, 2025
Photo: Moriah Angott/N.C. Zoo
On Monday, the zooannouncedthe births of three litters of critically endangered American red wolves.
Part of the facility’s red wolf breeding program, the litters — made up of 12 pups total — were born last month in the three-day span of April 28 to April 30.
This occasion marks the first time the zoo’s breeding program has welcomed three litters in one spring season.
Currently, the wold pups and their mothers “are healthy and doing well,” the zoo said.
Mar. 16, 2025
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Shane Gillis Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic
Gillis wasfired from the showahead of the 2019 season before even appearing on television after a video of him using racial slursresurfaced online.
AnSNLspokesperson said in a statement on behalf of show creatorLorne Michaels, “After talking with Shane Gillis, we have decided that he will not be joiningSNL.”
The statement read, “We wantSNLto have a variety of voices and points of view within the show, and we hired Shane on the strength of his talent as comedian and his impressive audition forSNL.
Mar. 16, 2025
01of 12KEIRA KNIGHTLEY ONATONEMENTAlex Bailey/Focus FeaturesKnightley revealed that the unforgettable green dress she wore for her love scene with James McAvoy was so delicate that it kept getting damaged during filming. “I break them all. Well, maybe I didn’t break them all, but I broke most of them,“she told BBC Radio 1about the 2007 movie. “The problem with a sex scene in a dress like that, it was all laser cut at the front — so all the patterns were laser cut, and literally, if you touched it [they would break].