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CNN By Jessie Yeung, Mike Valerio and Yoonjung Seo, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — The oldest member of the K-pop phenomenon BTS is spending…
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CNN By Jessie Yeung, Mike Valerio and Yoonjung Seo, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — The oldest member of the K-pop phenomenon BTS is spending…
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By Nathan Kay, CNN Budapest (CNN) — For most of the last century, the story of the Gresham Palace closely mirrored that of the city in which it…
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By Jessie Yeung, Mike Valerio and Yoonjung Seo, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — The oldest member of the K-pop phenomenon BTS is spending his…
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By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Flights at Palma de Mallorca airport in Mallorca, Spain, were suspended Tuesday after a sudden storm flooded runways.…
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By Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — Over the weekend, Drake posted an outfit to Instagram that has since generated a lot of chatter online. Dressed in a…
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By Zoe Whitfield, CNN (CNN) — What is perhaps most striking about the 32 photographs that make up Jack Lueders-Booth’s new book, “Women…
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By Maggie Wong, CNN (CNN) — Boasting 51,000 statues carved into 252 caves and niches some 1,500 years ago, China’s Yungang Buddhist Grottoes…
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CNN By Niamh Kennedy, Louis Mian and Leah Dolan, CNN London (CNN) — Activists from an animal rights group have vandalized the first official…
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By Francesca Street, CNN (CNN) — Any air travel can be stressful, but facing down a long-haul flight can be especially intimidating. Should you…
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By Niamh Kennedy, Louis Mian and Leah Dolan, CNN London (CNN) — Activists from an animal rights group have vandalized the first official…
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By CNN Staff, CNN (CNN) — Sometimes it’s the smallest things that ruin your day. For the passengers of a flight between the eastern Chinese…
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By Christy Choi, CNN (CNN) — Black shades and a red towel were all Blackpink’s Jennie Kim needed to look chic ahead of the Jacquemus show in…
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By Sarah Royce-Greensill, CNN (CNN) — In 2016, jeweler Olivia Young of Ouroboros sold a red spinel ring for £6,000 ($7,700). Last year, the…
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By Marnie Hunter, CNN (CNN) — The Oscars of the food world — the James Beard Awards — were handed out Monday night to many chefs and…
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By Alex Sherr, CNN Papeete, French Polynesia (CNN) — It’s a cloudless morning and the sun is shining brightly off the coast of French…
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CNN By Raja Razek, Susannah Cullinane and Andy Rose, CNN (CNN) — The major highway near Grand Teton National Park that was closed after a…
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CNN By Natasha Chen, CNN (CNN) — A ride based on the story of Disney’s first Black princess opens to the public on June 28 in Orlando,…
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By Natasha Chen, CNN (CNN) — A ride based on the story of Disney’s first Black princess opens to the public on June 28 in Orlando, Florida,…
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Story by Maureen O’Hare, video by Nina Avramova, CNN (CNN) — Before 2010, Holmes Chapel was but another quiet leafy village in northern…
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By Stephanie Halasz, CNN (CNN) — An Austrian Airlines plane was badly damaged by hail when the airborne jet hit a “thunderstorm cell”…
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By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — After having sex, some women hoping to get pregnant will immediately raise their legs up high, for a few minutes…
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By Scottie Andrew, CNN (CNN) — To many, the stereotypical image of a drag queen is one of a gay man dressed in exaggerated feminine getup,…
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By Jewel, for CNN (CNN) — Walking through “The Portal” — the immersive art experience that I have created at Crystal Bridges Museum of…
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By Julia Buckley, CNN (CNN) — Temperatures are rising. Hotel prices are exploding. And travelers are already behaving badly. Welcome to another…
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By Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — In this week’s roundup of travel news, we bring you the world’s best restaurants for 2024,…
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By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — “Bridgerton” fans haven’t been able to stop talking about that long-awaited carriage scene that closed out the…
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By Xiaofei Xu, CNN Paris (CNN) — Lying on a sunny beach in France, occasionally sipping an ice-cold beverage, and then jumping into warm water.…
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By Francesca Street, CNN (CNN) — Tristano always loves telling the tale of how he met his wife Alessandra – it’s an amazing,…
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By Issy Ronald, and Saskya Vandoorne, CNN Paris (CNN) — There are familiar sights synonymous with every Olympics and Paralympics — emotional…
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Ana María Cañizares and Abel Alvarado, CNN (CNN) — Ecuador may have a 46-year-old woman representing the small Andean nation in the Miss…
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By Maggie Hiufu Wong, CNN (CNN) — Tokyo DisneySea – the global brand’s only ocean-themed park – has just unveiled its long-awaited…
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By Kaila Nichols, CNN (CNN) — A trove of ancient Mexican artifacts brought to Seattle decades ago is finally going home. In January 2022,…
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By Joseph Ataman and Rosa Rahimi, CNN (CNN) — Ben, the French artist best known for his irreverent approach to modern art, has died aged 88, taking…
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By Silvia Marchetti, CNN (CNN) — Dwindling Italian towns have been pulling out all the stops to lure new residents in recent years, with…
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By Leah Dolan, CNN London (CNN) — Dressed in an ivory white leotard and tutu, a tall Black figure poses in retiré. Arms and legs angular,…
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By Karla Cripps, CNN (CNN) — Any doubts that Spain remains the fine dining center of the world may just have evaporated with the revealing of…
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By Stephy Chung, CNN (CNN) — Virginie Viard is exiting Chanel after five years serving as the French luxury house’s artistic director of…
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By Christy Choi, CNN (CNN) — On the cover of Lisa Birnbach’s “The Official Preppy Handbook,” a tongue-in-cheek 1980s guide to looking,…
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By Rebekah Riess and Forrest Brown, CNN (CNN) — A Florida man is facing a felony grand theft charge in Broward County after a plucky airline…
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By Rosa Rahimi and Xiaofei Xu, CNN (CNN) — A famous waterfall in China has drawn even more attention than usual – after a video revealed…
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By Cat Woods, CNN (CNN) — Before the nationwide influx of suburban malls and the convenience of online shopping, there was a golden age of…
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By Francesca Street, CNN (CNN) — A new “floating” staircase in Norway promises spectacular views and undeniable thrills – but it’s…
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By Simon Usborne, CNN (CNN) — Ameerh Naran is relentlessly international. Born and raised in Zimbabwe to an Indian family of shoemakers, he…
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By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — There are some secret areas on widebody aircraft, where the pilots and cabin crew go to rest during long flights.…
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By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — By now, the famed photographer Gregory Crewdson’s well-oiled, large-scale shoots are well documented. He has…
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By Francesca Street, CNN (CNN) — Now that we carry around personal devices with high resolution, 4K screens in our back pockets, the seatback…
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By Francesca Street, CNN (CNN) — It’s a phenomenon you might be familiar with if you’ve ever boarded an airplane on a humid day. Hot, muggy…
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By Nectar Gan, CNN (CNN) — As Taiwan’s biggest rock band took to the stage in Beijing late last month, their home island was reckoning with…
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By Amarachi Orie, CNN London (CNN) — A letter giving a rare insight into Franz Kafka’s struggle with writer’s block is going up for…
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By Caitlin Chatterton, CNN (CNN) — “I like anonymity,” designer Karl Lagerfeld (played by Daniel Brühl) tells Jacques de Bascher (actor…
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By Joshua Berlinger, CNN Bernieres-sur-Mer, France (CNN) — Their target was an elegant, two-story villa sitting solitary on a misty beach. No…
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By Lilit Marcus, CNN (CNN) — One of Tokyo’s most popular tourist neighborhoods is making a move to curb bad behavior – by taking alcohol…
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By Sahar Akbarzai, CNN staff (CNN) — The Maldives has announced it will ban Israeli passport holders from entering the country amid its war on…
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By Suyin Haynes, CNN (CNN) — Both a source of inspiration and a place to ground herself, Harlem holds a special meaning for the artist…
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By Julia Buckley, CNN (CNN) — When Emma-Jane Nutbrown went on a family vacation to Jamaica last year, she did so with one condition: that…
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By Rebekah Riess, CNN (CNN) — A United Airlines plane that departed from Vancouver, Canada, was removed from service to undergo a deep cleaning…
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By Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — A statue of a bearded man striding forward was crafted from black basalt over 2,000 years ago during the Ptolemaic…
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By Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — Strap up, people, we’re going boots-on-the-ground for this week’s CNN Travel newsletter. Let’s leave…
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By Maggie Wong, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — During the 11 years Chinese leader Xi Jinping has been in power, he’s unintentionally kicked off…
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By Billy Stockwell, CNN London (CNN) — Some of the most unforgettable photos of Princess Diana, such as her “revenge dress” that broke…
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By Lianne Kolirin and Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — There’s nothing like getting lost in a good book, but one reader in Finland seems to have taken…
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By Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — Actions, or in this case clothes, sometimes speak louder than words. On the final day of Donald Trump’s hush…
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By Francesca Street, CNN (CNN) — Meryl Gage woke up wondering if she’d imagined the whole thing. As she came to, she heard the rumble of…
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By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — The Airbus Beluga, one of the world’s strangest airplanes, now has its own airline. The odd-looking, oversized…
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By Leah Dolan, CNN London (CNN) — “This is not daredevil stuff,” says 75-year-old fine art photographer Donn Delson as we sit in a…
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By Karla Cripps, CNN (CNN) — One of India’s biggest airlines has just launched a new feature that allows female travelers to see where other…
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By Rebecca Cairns, CNN Dubai (CNN) — In a dark, round dining room, the late French chef Paul Bocuse explains the next dish. It has all the…
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By Al Goodman, CNN (CNN) — Badly behaved bachelor and bachelorette partygoers could soon face heavy fines if they overstep the mark in a…
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By Francesca Street, CNN (CNN) — Some travelers pick a city break based on the destination’s cultural offerings – shortlisting the best…
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By Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — A Stegosaurus skeleton described as the “most complete and best preserved” of its kind ever discovered is…
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By Christian House, CNN (CNN) — Reindeer skulls that signify the past traumas and tentative progress of Scandinavia’s Sámi communities.…
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By Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — When planning a trip, you can’t guarantee your flight won’t be delayed, your bag won’t go missing,…
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You’re out for a hike, reveling in glorious nature. Suddenly, you spot a bear. And the bear has spotted you, too. Would you know what to do…
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By Francesca Street, CNN Hamburg, Germany (CNN) — From an economy cabin concept allowing rows of fliers to sit opposite one another to a…
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Twenty-four hours and 26 minutes, without stopping to sleep: Nepal’s Phunjo Lama has just broken the world record for the fastest ascent of Mount…
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By Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN (CNN) — Children’s sketches of violent scenes of gladiators and hunters battling animals have been uncovered at…
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By Victoria Woodcock, CNN (CNN) — “Fragile Beauty” is an exhibition of extremes. The new show of “Photographs from the Sir Elton John…
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By Leah Asmelash, CNN (CNN) — Vanity Fair France has issued an apology after editing a photo of actor Guy Pearce, in which a Palestinian flag…
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By Marnie Hunter, CNN (CNN) — Shayne Burke let out a scream. A grizzly bear had just taken a “good chomp right to the bone” on his leg. The…
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CNN By Francesca Street, CNN Hamburg, Germany (CNN) — It’s the airplane seat design that launched a thousand memes, kickstarted a media storm…
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It looked more like a museum exhibition of Italian art than a crime scene, but in the Central Institute for Restoration’s offices, located inside a…
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France’s iconic Eiffel Tower is increasing its ticket prices by 20%, CNN’s affiliate BFMTV has reported, to help cover the costs of renovation…
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A lost Caravaggio painting that was almost mistakenly sold at auction for a bargain price has gone on display at the Prado Museum in Madrid, Spain,…
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Bolivia doesn’t seem like an obvious foodie…
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By Francesca Street, CNN Hamburg, Germany (CNN) — It’s the airplane seat design that launched a thousand memes, kickstarted a media storm and…
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Joe Yogerst, CNN (CNN) — 2024 is already shaping up to be another banner year for nudity around the world with a nude cruise and nude beach…
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By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — Over two years ago, a 40-minute-long public plea made on Instagram Live rippled across social media. In the…
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By Rosa Rahimi, CNN (CNN) — Kevin McCallister’s childhood home has hit the market for $5.25 million. At just over 9,000 square feet, the…
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By Kathleen Magramo, CNN (CNN) — “Once Upon a Time in Shaolin” is as mysterious as its title. Recorded by legendary hip-hop group Wu-Tang…
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By Sydney Bishop and Colin McCullough, CNN (CNN) — Two cruise ships set sail for the sea from Baltimore this weekend for the first time since…
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By Diana Pearl (CNN) — A decade ago, Lilly Pulitzer’s bright prints were omnipresent on college campuses across the US, and a pop-up for its 2015…
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By Rhea Mogul, CNN (CNN) — Filmmaker Payal Kapadia made history Saturday, as she became the first person from India to clinch the prestigious…
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By Thomas Page, CNN (CNN) — The final, searing shot of Rungano Nyoni’s “On Becoming a Guinea Fowl” is a convergence of everything…
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By Karla Cripps, CNN (CNN) — Bette Nash, holder of the Guinness World Record for longest-serving flight attendant, has died at the age of 88,…
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On a trip to Florence in 2015, while immersing herself in Italian food and history, Nada Badran had a “eureka moment.” The former management…
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Train enthusiasts and history buffs alike will soon have a new Southeast Asian destination to visit, as Vietnam prepares to unveil a revamped pair of…
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By Julia Buckley, CNN (CNN) — A party invitation. A broken flipflop. A wig. Letters of complaint about road conditions, and an urgent request…
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By Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — In travel news this week: why climate change might make airplane turbulence worse, the best beaches in the…
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By Jonathan Chatwin, CNN (CNN) — Above Beijing’s imperial center rises Jingshan, or Prospect Hill. From a pagoda at its modest peak, a…
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By Lilit Marcus, CNN (CNN) — The United States has just won a significant honor – being named the world’s best country for travel and…
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