Calling the pontiff “one of our own,” Representative Jonathan L. Jackson, Democrat of Illinois, wrote that the Catholic leader was “a Chicago kid who carried the values of our neighborhoods all the way onto the world stage,” and that the whole city was with him now and wished him strength and a full recovery.

Archaeologists say the wreck is up to 4,700 years old, dating to the Early Bronze Age.

By Joshua McElwee VATICAN CITY, Oct 14 (Reuters) - World leaders, Catholics across the globe and senior cardinals at the Vatican offered prayers for Pope Leo on Wednesday after doctors announced the 71-year-old pontiff had been diagnosed with lung cancer and had part of one lung removed.

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has set a new record for the longest distance traveled on the surface of another planet, the space agency said.

This amazing discovery is thought to be the world's oldest shipwreck containing objects from around the time of the building of the pyramids of Giza.