Start your day off right with five things you need to know this morning.
Some fans of Ryan Reynolds and his Welsh soccer team Wrexham AFC have convinced themselves that the Vancouverite actor has managed to get a soccer player cast in the new Deadpool movie. They believe striker Ollie Palmer appears in the trailer for the film.
Wrexham meets Wolverine! Ryan Reynolds casts Wrexham striker Ollie Palmer in his new Hollywood film, as eagle-eyed fans spot footballer's cameo in Deadpool & Wolverine trailer https://t.co/Z7dmj493Fi pic.twitter.com/JbIV0cDZf2
— Daily Mail Online (@MailOnline) April 23, 2024
Police have arrested dozens of students at some of America's most prestigious universities amid a surge in anti-Jewish racism among students on campus. Arrests were made at Yale, New York University and Columbia, among other institutions.
Arrests and anger at US university pro-Palestinian demos https://t.co/zsivAErNRz
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) April 23, 2024
Canadians have been warned against acquiring exotic pets such as scorpions, tigers, alligators and tarantulas. One wildlife campaigner said keeping certain animals as pets is "very cruel."
Keeping these exotic pets is 'cruel' and 'dangerous,' Canadian animal advocates say https://t.co/LG8mbA3x5W
— CTV News (@CTVNews) April 23, 2024
Elon Musk has been attacked by Australia's prime minister over his social media company's reluctance to remove footage of a bishop being stabbed in Sydney last week. An Aussie court has ordered X to hide the videos, with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese branding Musk an "arrogant billionaire" who "thinks he's above the law."
Elon Musk blasts Australia’s ‘censorship’ after court orders X to take down terror video https://t.co/rngbsmtbwc pic.twitter.com/KkYqAu8sU8
— New York Post (@nypost) April 23, 2024
Humanity's most distance object, a spacecraft launched in 1977, has begun sending information back to Earth once again. Voyager 1 is now more than 24 billion kilometres away from home, floating through interstellar space.
Imagine a computer chip fails in your 1977 vehicle. Now imagine it's in interstellar space, 15 billion miles away. @NASA's Voyager probe just got fixed by this team of brilliant software mechanics.
— Chris Hadfield (@Cmdr_Hadfield) April 23, 2024
The backstory: https://t.co/Wjo8l8tM7C pic.twitter.com/kR9FeP81cR
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