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By Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — In travel news this week: the world’s most expensive rice, trouble at Rome’s Trevi Fountain, plus how…

By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — When the owner of a tiny sketch sent a photo of it to an auction house’s online valuation portal, they had no…

By Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — Since the first trailer dropped, outrage has surrounded the theatrical costuming of Emerald Fennell’s “Wuthering…

Story by Francesca Street. Video by Max Burnell (CNN) — Niki Ghofranian surveyed the view from atop the stone walls of Dunstaffnage Castle,…

By Laura Sharman, CNN (CNN) — When thieves broke into the Louvre’s Apollo Gallery and cut through display cases with an angle grinder, they…

By Karla Cripps, CNN Let’s set the scene. You’ve been dating someone for a few months, things are going well. It’s time to take the next step…

By Griffin Shea, CNN Luanda (CNN) — Along Luanda Bay’s Marginal promenade, the colonial-era National Bank — pink and white, formal and…

By Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — A picture is often said to speak a thousand words, but do we still trust it to tell the truth? The internet,…

By Justin Calderon, CNN Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka (CNN) — Visit the ancient city of Anuradhapura on a full moon day and the past feels anything…

By Kati Chitrakorn, CNN (CNN) — Back in 2019, Gab Waller would never have expected that her first client as a personal shopper would be the…

By Charlotte Reck, CNN (CNN) — A flamboyance of flamingos dazzling against a backdrop of power lines, a crafty crab hitching a ride on a…

By Silvia Marchetti, CNN (CNN) — After decades of building businesses, designing buildings and traveling, Edward Krueger Connors Jr. reached an…

By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — The women wear high-collared puffer jackets and billowing sports jerseys, the fabrics richly painted in acid…

By Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Rome (CNN) — Legend has it that tossing a coin into Rome’s Trevi Fountain guarantees a return to the Eternal…

By Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — Does bad taste make for good fashion? At the 2026 Grammy Awards, several celebrities opted for clothes that were a…

By David G. Allan, CNN Cocoa Beach, Florida (CNN) — Cape Canaveral is no dusty history tour, despite the consecrated status this oceanside…

By Oscar Holland and Stephy Chung, CNN; Photo editor: Jennifer Arnow, CNN (CNN) — The music industry’s red carpets are usually bolder,…

By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — A funerary portrait from Roman Egypt, featuring a strikingly modern-looking male subject with piercing hazel…

By Lilit Marcus, CNN (CNN) — This week in travel news: Australian travelers descended on an imaginary tourist attraction, a woman recalls the…

By Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN (CNN) — For more than a decade, images of Santa Maddalena, a small village church in northern Italy framed by…

By Rachel Tashjian, CNN Paris (CNN) — “The rest of the year is for reality,” said Daniel Roseberry, the creative director of what is…

By Francesca Street, CNN (CNN) — Peering out the Greyhound bus window, Diann Droste saw the snow coming down fast and thick. “I remember I…

By Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — This week, a pack has been circling. It began at the Schiaparelli haute couture show in Paris on Monday, when Demi…

By Jeanne Bonner, CNN (CNN) — Ahead of a proposed rule change that would require social media account information from some foreign travelers…

By Georgiana Ralphs, CNN (CNN) — An AI-generated blog on a tour company’s website has landed tourists in hot water — and not the kind they…

By Francesca Street, CNN (CNN) — The Beefeaters made her do it. Carrin Schottler was trying to focus on the centuries of British history at the…

By Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN (CNN) — In 2018, Amanda Meyer Barkley left her home in Louisiana for what was meant to be a short vacation in…

By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN New York (CNN) — At the base of the world’s most slender skyscraper, stretching high above Billionaires’ Row in…

By Rachel Tashjian, CNN Paris, France (CNN) — Fashion is not a dignified business. It is messy, constantly changing and prone to disposability…

By Kati Chitrakorn, CNN Paris, France (CNN) — If last year’s discourse over a pink sweater was anything to go by, it’s that attitudes to…

By Ben Jones, CNN (CNN) — At 186 miles per hour, the landscape starts to blur. A mile disappears every 20 seconds. An entire town can blink by…

CNN By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — Four decades ago, 126 of Nan Goldin’s snapshots of love and loss became one of the most influential photo…

By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — Four decades ago, 126 of Nan Goldin’s snapshots of love and loss became one of the most influential photo…

By Harmeet Kaur, CNN (CNN) — When Heather Buzzell saw the video of a federal agent in Minneapolis running toward demonstrators only to slip on…

By Brad Lendon, CNN Manila, Philippines (CNN) — Two gravesites, less than 10 miles apart in a crowded, noisy, Asian metropolis of 14 million,…

By Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — In our travel round-up this week: why Europeans and Americans hold their forks differently, the Spanish…

By Rachel Tashjian, CNN (CNN) — Only a few years ago, seeing scores of women strolling around New York City in real animal fur coats would have…

CNN By Rachel Tashjian, CNN (CNN) — Only a few years ago, seeing scores of women strolling around New York City in real animal fur coats would…

By Amarachi Orie and Pierre P Bairin, CNN (CNN) — France’s famed high-speed rail service TGV INOUI is facing a backlash after introducing a…

By Francesca Street, CNN (CNN) — For Madalin “Cris” Cristea, the danger unfolded in slow motion. Cris and two fellow hikers were descending…

By Leah Dolan and Barbie Latza Nadeau Rome, Italy (CNN) — Peers, supporters, successors and admirers of the late Italian fashion designer…

By Stephy Chung, CNN (CNN) — In 2015, China handed back something of great value to Ai Weiwei: his Chinese passport. The move allowed the…

By Lilit Marcus, CNN Tokyo (CNN) — A group of tourists follows their guide into the building, where he explains the history and context of what…

By Oscar Holland, CNN (CNN) — In the days following the antisemitic attack at Australia’s Bondi Beach that left 15 people dead, a memorial…

By Francesca Street, CNN (CNN) — On January 21, 1976 a teenage John Tye was among crowds of onlookers clinging to a chain link fence, cheering…

By Will Ripley, CNN (CNN) — A North Korean film is captivating audiences with scenes and storylines they have never seen before in a…

B Kati Chitrakorn, y Milan, Italy (CNN) — The skies may have clouded over during the Fall-Winter 2026 season of Milan Men’s Fashion Week, but…

By Hilary Clarke, CNN (CNN) — Italian fashion legend Valentino Garavani, whose elegant evening gowns were favored for decades by some of the…

By Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — Bandanas have long been the crowning glory of festival looks, Instagrammable beach outfits and, more recently, the…

By Amarachi Orie, CNN London (CNN) — A beach in England has disappeared under a blanket of uncooked French fries and onions after a container…

By Silvia Marchetti, CNN Palmarola, Italy (CNN) — Palmarola has no town and no roads. There is no electricity, no mobile phone coverage and no…

By Kati Chitrakorn, CNN Milan, Italy (CNN) — Sporting striped rugby shirts, tangy orange puffers and baseball caps (worn backwards), the kids…

By Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — In our travel news roundup this week: how airlines make sure your pilot is sober, what really happens…

CNN By Jessie Yeung, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — Seven girls sit in a room, waiting for their name to be called. All of them are young, slim…

By Jane Sit, CNN (CNN) — Following the success of “Squid Game” on Netflix and “Pachinko” on Apple TV+, “Moving” has landed Disney+…

By Rachel Tashjian, CNN (CNN) — TikTok influencers no longer have us blindly following a dizzying slate of microtrends – cottagecore one…

By Richard Collett, CNN It has vast mangrove forests, hills covered in tea plantations and record-breaking beaches, but for most tourists, Bangladesh…

By Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — A British restaurant with two Michelin stars has been given a one-star hygiene rating after food standards…

By Steve Salter, CNN (CNN) — From TikTok feeds to high fashion runways, a new mood in men’s fashion has been taking hold. It is not flashy,…

By Leah Dolan, CNN London (CNN) — In 1979, photographer Richard Avedon packed up his antiquated Deardorff camera, jumped in a Chevy Suburban…

By Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN (CNN) — There are few things Arabella Carey Adolfsson enjoys more than going fishing near her lakeside home in…

By Jessie Yeung, Yoonjung Seo, Gawon Bae, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — When the world’s biggest K-pop group announced their hiatus in late…

By Leah Dolan, CNN By the time Nia DaCosta was in 12th grade, she had seen the world — or at least, that’s how it felt. In reality she hadn’t…

By Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — When it comes to traveling from country to country without restrictions and enjoying shorter lines at…

By Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — At this year’s Golden Globes, which took place Sunday night, the red carpet fashion felt split. Many A-listers,…

By Rachel Tashjian, CNN (CNN) — In recent years, having the best vintage dress or a meme-worthy look seemed to be the ultimate red carpet flex…

By Oscar Holland, CNN (CNN) — The red carpet at this year’s Golden Globe Awards is awash with black gowns and Old Hollywood glamour — and…

By Marianna Cerini, CNN (CNN) — Can a single red carpet look turn you into a style icon? If it’s a Giorgio Armani suit and you’re Julia…

By Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — In our round-up of travel stories this week: Hitler’s Wolf’s Lair headquarters in the Polish forest,…

By Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — Swedish musician Robyn’s live performance Thursday of “Sexistential” — the title track of her new album to…

By Kate Springer, CNN It’s widely understood that drinking and operating heavy machinery don’t mix. Alcohol can slow reaction time, impair…

By Laura Sharman, CNN (CNN) — “Will you marry me?” William Maneja asked, locking eyes with the stranger in a white dress. It was his fourth…

By Elizabeth McBride, CNN (CNN) — When travelers head to the Pankisi Valley, the warnings often begin before they arrive, usually from the…

By Oscar Holland, CNN (CNN) — Officials in Brisbane, Australia, have revealed plans for 2032’s Olympic stadium: a $2.3 billion venue inspired…

By Terry Ward, CNN (CNN) — I ask Andy Cory how he came to live on the remote South Pacific island of Niue tending hives abuzz with one of the…

By Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN (CNN) — To get to Rolls Royce’s New York “Private Office,” a VIP design studio for bespoke projects, a…

By Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — There are a lot of variables involved in keeping airline and airport schedules running on time, from…

By Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN (CNN) — Scores of foreign nationals who traveled to a remote Indian Ocean island seeking adventure have become stranded…

By Julia Buckley, CNN (CNN) — Traveling from country to country without restrictions. Shorter lines at the border. The right to live and work…

Oscar Holland, CNN; Photo editor: Jennifer Arnow (CNN) — Just four days into the new year, Hollywood’s 2026 awards season kicked off in chic…

By Lilit Marcus, CNN (CNN) — Welcome to 2026! The new year is a great time to pause, relax and reflect — and start thinking about what…

By Rachel Tashjian, CNN (CNN) — On a frigid New Year’s Day, New York’s new democratic socialist mayor Zohran Mamdani was sworn in, with his…

By Maggie Hiufu Wong, CNN Ask an American to name their favorite Chinese takeout dishes, and images of General Tso’s chicken, chow mein and egg…

By Oscar Holland, CNN (CNN) — For American architecture, 2025 may be remembered for the deaths of icons Frank Gehry, Robert A. M. Stern and…

CNN Travel Team (CNN) — Whether you’re a full-time nomad or a once-a-year vacationer, every special travel memory begins with one essential…