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By Silvia Marchetti, CNN When Francis Ford Coppola cast Enza Trimarchi as an extra in “The Godfather” in 1971, the 22-year-old seamstress had no…
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By Silvia Marchetti, CNN When Francis Ford Coppola cast Enza Trimarchi as an extra in “The Godfather” in 1971, the 22-year-old seamstress had no…
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By Sheena McKenzie, CNN (CNN) — Backlit by an orange sky, Romeo appears. He smokes on a derelict outdoor stage; the only curtains here the…
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By Harmeet Kaur, CNN (CNN) — Why are TikToks about dining out so boring? Dillon Davis and Nichols Neff were debating the question from their…
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By Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — This week’s Unlocking the World newsletter is all about air travel: the world’s busiest and best-rated…
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By Charlie Boyd, for CNN Geneva (CNN) — While working out what women want in a timepiece might be less philosophical than asking what they want…
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By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Citlali Fabián has been named Photographer of the Year at the Sony World Photography Awards 2026, with the judging…
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By Julia Buckley, CNN Gibellina, Italy (CNN) — Sicily’s landscapes are a mix of dreamy coastline, rugged peaks and rolling hills that are…
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By Julia Buckley, CNN (CNN) — The Italian diaspora continued the fight against the government’s restrictions on citizenship by descent this…
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By Marianna Kim, CNN Every weekend, hundreds of thousands of people of all ages set out on treasure hunts in the heart of Seoul. Locals and tourists…
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By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — Katie Holmes had not one but two major reunions at a film screening in New York on Tuesday. The first was with…
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By David G. Allan, CNN You can stay at The Overlook Hotel, the famously chilling accommodation conjured by author Stephen King and director Stanley…
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By Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — Glamis Castle has a rich history. Reputed to be the most haunted castle in Scotland, it once hosted Mary, Queen…
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By Nina Giraldo, CNN Economy passengers can soon pay to lie down and stretch out for a few hours in bunk beds on Air New Zealand’s newest planes.…
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By Francesca Street, CNN (CNN) — The double-level airplane seat concept is back, this time in what designer Alejandro Núñez Vicente calls the…
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Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — For weeks, months and even years before World War II broke out in September 1939, many Jewish people in Germany and…
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By Marnie Hunter, CNN (CNN) — The world’s busiest airport rankings for 2025 are out. Global air traffic last year showed significant growth,…
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By Kate Youde, for CNN (CNN) — Our Earthly concept of time looks very different in space. For astronauts on board a space station orbiting our…
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By Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN (CNN) — They drove almost everywhere when they lived in Miami, but since moving to the Italian city of Rimini…
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By Foren Clark, CNN (CNN) — The roots of French cooking run deep. The foundations of the country’s culinary empire were laid as early as the…
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By Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — In our roundup of travel stories this week: how Paris’ first female mayor transformed the city,…
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By Jake McGowan, CNN (CNN) — A painting by famed Spanish artist Pablo Picasso, valued at more than $1 million, has sold for the price of a…
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By Blane Bachelor, CNN (CNN) — When New Yorker Antoni Scarano visited Romania in 2019, the trip marked his first return to his country of birth…
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Steve Salter, CNN (CNN) — Over the next few days, something unusual will be happening across Spanish soccer. Nearly 40 men’s professional…
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By Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — This spring, it’s all about tradwife with a twist. For a recording of the “Mark and Kelly Show” in New York on…
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By Maggie Hiufu Wong, CNN Every Friday night of his childhood, Kurt Evans and his mother would order cartons of Chinese takeout, the cardboard boxes…
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By Terry Ward Hollywood, Florida (CNN) — On a sunny and warm late-February day at Richard’s Motel in Hollywood, Florida, guests mostly from…
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By Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — Experiencing the Eiffel Tower can be a crowded affair – about 7 million people visit each year – but now you…
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By Edward Russell, CNN (CNN) — Step aboard a Boeing 767 operated by United Airlines and you’ll encounter the carrier’s very latest cabin…
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By Silvia Marchetti, CNN (CNN) — During a storm in a quiet village in southern France, artist MB Boissonnault couldn’t stop herself crying as…
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By Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — In travel news this week: India’s enormous new airport, countries’ shifting citizenship rules and, as…
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By Vivian Song Paris (CNN) — One of the hottest restaurants in Paris right now does not boast a celebrity chef or a palatial dining room. In…
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By Rachel Tashjian, CNN (CNN) — If Taylor Swift’s record-breaking engagement announcement is any indication, Polymarket bets, group chats and…
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By Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — When we think about the quest to slow aging, perhaps no one is more monomaniacal about the pursuit than American…
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By Salma Arafa (CNN) — As the rare sight of land appeared on the horizon, Egyptian traveler Omar Nok jumped from his narrow bunk and climbed up…
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By Rachel Tashjian, CNN (CNN) — When Glenn Martens became the creative director of Paris-based fashion house Maison Margiela in January 2025,…
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By Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — Evan Fry was born in 2003, a point in human history when many people’s back pockets held a Nokia 1100 or the Sony…
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By Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — Karl Lagerfeld, who was known to have a portfolio of lavish homes, once said: “The most beautiful house is…
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By Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN (CNN) — Paintings by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Paul Cezanne and Henri Matisse have been stolen from a museum in…
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By Vivian Song (CNN) — When Donald Trump was first elected in 2016, New York State resident Ellen Robillard briefly looked into getting…
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By Aishwarya S Iyer, CNN New Delhi (CNN) — One of India’s most ambitious aviation projects, touted to be among the largest in South Asia, has…
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By Julia Buckley, CNN (CNN) — When Kellen Matwick, his wife Jacqueline and their two children boarded a one-way flight to Italy in August 2024,…
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By Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — China’s robot restaurant, the challenges of African airspace, plus TIME’s pick of the best places to…
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By Rachel Tashjian, CNN (CNN) — Fashion has long danced alongside the medium of art, with designers taking inspiration from the work of…
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By Oscar Holland, CNN (CNN) — Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue. So goes the Victorian-era English rhyme that…
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By Jeanne Bonner, CNN (CNN) — Standing in a long line at the airport isn’t always the worst thing. For many travelers, it’s standing in a…
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By Stephy Chung, Oscar Holland, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — At Art Basel Hong Kong, Asia’s biggest art fair, a mysterious AI agent silently…
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CNN By Stephy Chung, Oscar Holland, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — At Art Basel Hong Kong, Asia’s biggest art fair, a mysterious AI agent silently…
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By Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN (CNN) — When chef René Redzepi issued an apology to staff for past behavior and announced he was stepping away…
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By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — The image of an Iberian lynx playing with its prey has won the prestigious Wildlife Photographer of the Year…
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By Will Noble, CNN (CNN) — Britain is far from the wettest place on Earth, but its reputation as a gray landscape populated by perma-sodden…
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By Rebecca Cope, CNN (CNN) — It has become a popular internet pastime for people to speculate about what work a female celebrity has had done.…
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Oscar Holland, CNN Singapore (CNN) — At Singapore’s secretive Le Freeport, a fortified luxury storage facility often dubbed “Asia’s Fort…
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By Francesca Street, CNN (CNN) — Amelie Malmfält opened the message at work. When she saw Kris Brock’s name, her face broke out into a huge…
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By Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — The biggest mystery in the art world has apparently been solved: Banksy has been unmasked as a bespectacled…
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By Lisa Courbebaisse and Elina Baudier Kim, CNN Paris (CNN) — Anyone visiting Paris just over a decade ago would doubtless have been charmed by…
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By Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — The world’s happiest countries for 2026, what travelers can expect in terms of rising air fares, plus…
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By Kati Chitrakorn, Hanako Montgomery, CNN Seoul (CNN) — The moment that BTS fans have been waiting for has arrived: Members RM, Jin, Suga,…
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By Milena Lazazzera, CNN (CNN) — Gemini? Scorpio? Sagittarius? What is your moon sign? And your sun? These are not, it seems, trivial questions…
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CNN By Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — The world’s happiest countries for 2026, what travelers can expect in terms of rising air fares,…
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By Lilit Marcus, CNN (CNN) — Perched along a craggy rock overhang, the ornate Buddhist temple provides sweeping views of the sea, making it a…
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By Jeanne Bonner, CNN (CNN) — If happiness were an Olympic event, the Nordic countries would be guaranteed a spot on the podium. Actually, all…
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By Lisa Morrow, CNN (CNN) — On hot summer nights, a long line forms near the waterfront of Eski Foça, a small town on Turkey’s Aegean coast.…
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By Oscar Holland, CNN Singapore (CNN) — It was pushing 4 a.m. when Vignesh Sundaresan bought one of the most expensive artworks in history.…
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By Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — For many around the world, St. Patrick’s Day is a celebration of green beer, fiddle music, and the best…
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By Sam Peters, CNN Hakuba, Japan (CNN) — At 5 p.m., the line outside Ohyokkuri has already begun to form. The traditional izakaya, or pub, is…
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By Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — The Oscars red carpet is typically viewed as the apex of awards season dressing. What the stars wear to the Dolby…
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CNN By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — After feathers fully took over fall fashion weeks, we predicted that veritable flocks of birds would arrive…
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By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — After feathers fully took over fall fashion weeks, we predicted that veritable flocks of birds would arrive by…
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By Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — In our travel news roundup this week: the 200th anniversary of a revolutionary suspension bridge, Time…
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By Julia Buckley, CNN (CNN) — Since Italy became a country in 1861, there has been a surefire way to know who is and isn’t an Italian…
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By Leah Asmelash, Scottie Andrew, CNN (CNN) — Across medieval Europe, aristocrats repeatedly set off fashion fads and scandals by wearing…
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By Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — This week, fashion editors, influencers and those generally in the business of expensive clothes went green with…
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By CNN Travel staff, CNN (CNN) — From the gas pump to the superstore checkout, the repercussions of the war with Iran will soon start to eat…
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By Sam Peters, CNN (CNN) — The head chef and co-founder of Noma, one of the highest-rated restaurants in the world and recipient of three…
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By Oscar Holland, CNN (CNN) — Chilean architect Smiljan Radić, whose often-experimental designs include a doughnut-shaped pavilion in London…
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By Rachel Tashjian, CNN Paris (CNN) — At the Paris fashion shows that wrapped this week, there were luxuriously plain black dresses and coats…
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By Joe Yogerst, CNN Scattered across the Seto Inland Sea, the islands of the Geiyo archipelago have long been under the radar. Until 1999, that is,…
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By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — Before South African high school students complete their final exams, they first walk the red carpet, pulling…
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By Rachel Tashjian, CNN Paris (CNN) — “Stop this world, let me off,” the blues musician Mose Allison once crooned – a relatable sentiment…
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By Julia Buckley, CNN (CNN) — It was built to ferry horse-drawn carriages across a notoriously wild stretch of water, and was a crucial…
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By Oscar Holland, CNN To the untrained eye, there is very little difference between the three known versions of “The Lute Player.” Almost…
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By Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — In our roundup of travel news this week, why social bathhouses are a hot new wellness trend, the…
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By Fiona Sinclair Scott, CNN London (CNN) — In Trump’s America, the question of what art is shown in national galleries and museums is a…
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By Karen Esquivel, CNN en Español (CNN) — Yesica Aramburo traveled on vacation to Mexico in April 2017 for the festivities in her Mexican…
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By Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN (CNN) — Iran’s recent strikes on Dubai have done considerable damage to Dubai’s reputation as a “safe…
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By Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — Since the invention of moving pictures, directors have been drawn to Mary Shelley’s 19th century gothic classic,…
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By Alex Leeds Matthews, Soph Warnes, Rosa de Acosta, Rhyannon Bartlett-Imadegawa, Lou Robinson, Renée Rigdon, CNN (CNN) — Hundreds of…
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By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — In front of the Louvre Pyramid, Eileen Gu stepped out this week wearing a set of diaphanous wings — a fitting…
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By Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN (CNN) — He got his first motorcycle at 15, and Steven Barnett, originally from Los Angeles, has ridden across…
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By Kati Chitrakorn, CNN London (CNN) — Soccer star Chloe Kelly plays as a forward for Arsenal, the Women’s Super League club in England.…
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By Jen Rose Smith, CNN Montreal (CNN) — By the time DJ Brinassa dropped her throbbing house beat, the barely clad Friday crowd at Montreal’s…
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By Karla Cripps, Marnie Hunter, Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — Countries around the world are still working to safely return nationals stranded…
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By Francesca Street, CNN (CNN) — Lesley Ballantyne woke in the early hours to an emergency alert flashing on her phone: “Potential missile…
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By David G. Allan, CNN Flagstaff, Arizona (CNN) — For no explainable practical reason, humans are enamored with – and even empathetic toward…
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By Rachel Tashjian, CNN Milan, Italy (CNN) — There comes a time during fashion week, as you look at a throng of photographers fighting to…
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By Francesca Street, CNN (CNN) — Open the airplane-tracking website Flightradar24 right now and the change is unmistakable. Where one of the…
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By Marnie Hunter, Karla Cripps, CNN (CNN) — The war with Iran continues to cause aviation chaos in the Middle East and beyond as some of the…
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By Oscar Holland and Stephy Chung, CNN; Photo editor: Jennifer Arnow, CNN (CNN) — The Screen Actors Guild Awards returned on Sunday evening,…
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By Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — In our roundup of travel stories this week: a man recreates his father’s round-the-world bicycle trip, a…
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By Rachel Tashjian, CNN Milan, Italy (CNN) — Backstage at the runway debut of the new new Gucci – the third rebrand that the luxury titan has…
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