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By Rachel Tashjian, CNN (CNN) — Is there still room in fashion for true originality? That’s the question raised by the latest news out of…

By Maureen Ohare, CNN (CNN) — What’s la plus belle city of all the world, enticing more than 18 million visitors in 2025 alone? Paris has…

By Bijan Hosseini, CNN Dubai (CNN) — Dubai has a new record-breaker on its skyline — almost by accident. The world’s tallest hotel, Ciel…

By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Miami (CNN) — A pack of robot quadrupeds trot around the floor, bearing the hyperrealistic silicone faces of tech…

CNN By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Miami (CNN) — A pack of robot quadrupeds trot around the floor, bearing the hyperrealistic silicone faces of tech…

By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — Capturing the cultural zeitgeist and trends for the year ahead is a tricky business. But every year, the Pantone…

By Cy Neff Skopje, North Macedonia (CNN) — Spiked with ridges and peaks that deliver scenery running the full four-seasons gamut — from…

Rachel Tashjian New York (CNN) — On Tuesday afternoon, Kristen Stewart was ensconced in a New York City subway car, feeling “genuine…

By Oscar Holland, CNN (CNN) — One of the last Fabergé eggs in private hands sold for £22.9 million ($30.2 million), with fees, on Tuesday,…

By Rachel Tashjian, CNN (CNN) — On Monday, Melania Trump revealed the 2025 White House Christmas decorations. And with them, she showed that…

By Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Rome (CNN) — Italian officials are on thin ice after a skating rink was built around a bronze statue of Luciano…

By Lilit Marcus, CNN Vientiane, Laos (CNN) — Aditta Kittikhoun has learned to anticipate the question. No, not Thailand, but it’s next to…

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — A painting by Flemish Baroque artist Peter Paul Rubens that had been out of the public eye for centuries has sold for…

By Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — Humans are living 20 years longer than they did in 1950 and a growing number of people are choosing to…

By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — If gift-giving talents were ranked by profession, interior designers would likely top the list — after all,…

By Max Saltman, CNN (CNN) — The award-winning British playwright and screenwriter Tom Stoppard has died, according to his talent agency United…

By Oscar Holland, CNN (CNN) — Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. And for the scandal-ridden Miss Universe pageant, this is proving a big…

By Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — For our CNN Travel roundup this Thanksgiving weekend, we’re bringing you a potluck of stories about…

By Jack Guy, CNN London (CNN) — Grace Richardson, a 20-year-old musical theater student, has become the first-ever out lesbian winner of the…

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — A visit to the Louvre museum in Paris is set to become significantly more expensive for travelers from outside Europe,…

Oscar Holland, CNN (CNN) — There may soon — potentially very soon — be a time when even the world’s greatest riches are unable to…

By Lilit Marcus, CNN Psadek, Cambodia (CNN) — After years guiding tourists around Cambodia, Nao Sok has a clear answer when asked which…

By Francesca Street, CNN (CNN) — It was the night before Thanksgiving, 1980. An unexpected blizzard had coated central Missouri in inches of…

By Ali Halit Diker, CNN (CNN) — The village of Akyaka is one of those places you hope no one else finds out about. Tucked between pine-covered…

By Yahya Salem, CNN (CNN) — International tourists visiting popular national parks in the US next year will be required to pay additional fees…

By Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Rome (CNN) — In video footage, it almost looks like an earthquake. The ancient Torre dei Conti, which has occupied…

By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — When you think of clothing silhouettes that evoke power and presence, 1980s-era padded shoulders might come to…

By Kati Chitrakorn, Antoinette Radford, CNN (CNN) — Anna Wintour described the American philanthropist and former journalist Lauren Sánchez…

By Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — Our pre-Thanksgiving travel news roundup is all about transportation, from flight attendants’ holiday…

By Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — Isidor and Ida Straus are remembered as two of the highest-profile victims of the Titanic disaster, and among…

CNN By Lex Harvey, CNN (CNN) — Fatima Bosch of Mexico has been named Miss Universe 2025 in a scandal-hit competition where she emerged as a fan…

By Francesca Street, CNN (CNN) — Navigating airports and airplanes can be stressful at the best of times. As millions of travelers take to the…

By Kati Chitrakorn, CNN (CNN) — In popular culture, the archetypal look of a witch is a female figure generally depicted wearing a black dress,…

By Maureen O’Hare, CNN Bodrum, Turkey (CNN) — The mountainous Bodrum Peninsula rises over the vibrant blue Aegean Sea, its peak richly…

By Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — A copy of the first ever issue of “Superman,” discovered in a Californian attic last year, has become the…

By Joe Yogerst, CNN (CNN) — It’s only taken a few hundred years, but the “Spice Islands” region of eastern Indonesia — now known as the…

By Lex Harvey, CNN (CNN) — Fatima Bosch of Mexico has been named Miss Universe 2025 in a scandal-hit competition where she emerged as a fan…

By Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — A self-portrait by Mexican artist Frida Kahlo has become the most valuable work by a female artist sold at…

By Devon M. Sayers, Alexandra Skores, CNN (CNN) — The Transportation Security Administration is proposing an $18 fee for travelers without a…

By Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Rome (CNN) — Italians have very strict rules when it comes to making carbonara. The classic combination of Italian…

By Francesca Street, CNN (CNN) — Hitting the streets is a great way to catch a city’s real pulse — drifting through indie stores, ducking…

By Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Rome (CNN) — For more than two centuries, the Antico Caffè Greco has been part of the cultural landscape of Rome.…

By Kati Chitrakorn, CNN (CNN) — The Spring-Summer 2026 collections, shown across the main fashion capitals of New York, London, Milan and Paris…

By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — What does a notorious gold toilet and a nearly destroyed Klimt painting have in common? They christened…

By Nayeli Jaramillo-Plata, CNN (CNN) — Flight delays and the recent government shutdown are pushing more travelers onto US highways this…

By Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — A self-portrait by Mexican artist Frida Kahlo is expected to break records when it goes up for auction in New…

By Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — On Sunday, Jennifer Lawrence arrived at the Governors Awards in Los Angeles, part movie star, part walking advert.…

By Rachel Tashjian, Leah Dolan, CNN New York (CNN) — What’s the best dressed painting of all time? It’s a question the Metropolitan Museum…

By Richard Collett, CNN (CNN) — For decades, Somalia’s name has been shorthand for conflict, piracy and danger. Since the country’s civil…

By Christy Choi, CNN (CNN) — For more than seven decades, the family behind electronics giant Samsung amassed one of Asia’s largest private…

By Terry Ward (CNN) — Is there a food more humble yet universally adored than the sandwich? And while one person’s go-to hamburger snack…

By Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — This week in travel: The world’s best cheese and plenty of delicious bread to pair with it, another…

By Zoe Whitfield, CNN (CNN) — It’s not uncommon for a bar or café to remind patrons that someone famous once ate there by having a physical…

CNN By Kati Chitrakorn, CNN (CNN) — Two years ago, six young women — Sophia, Lara, Manon, Daniela, Megan and Yoonchae — went from relative…

By Kati Chitrakorn, CNN (CNN) — Two years ago, six young women — Sophia, Lara, Manon, Daniela, Megan and Yoonchae — went from relative…

By Barry Neild, CNN Bern, Switzerland (CNN) — Remember that time you had too much cheese, felt a bit queasy and — as a greasy sheen broke out…

By Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — What does a cowgirl look like? For some, the question may call forth images of flanneled shirts, Stetson hats and…

CNN By Marnie Hunter, Alexandra Skores, CNN (CNN) — Air travelers have been on a wild ride this fall with flight cancellations and staffing…

By Marnie Hunter, Alexandra Skores, CNN (CNN) — Air travelers have been on a wild ride this fall with flight cancellations and staffing…

By Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — On Monday, Joe Jonas arrived at a taping of “Good Morning America” in New York looking a little bit like a…

By Didem Kuzu, CNN Adıyaman, Turkey (CNN) — Mount Nemrut rises more than 2,000 meters over Adıyaman province, its slopes fading from olive…

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Dozens of British lawmakers have called for the release of 15 penguins “trapped” at a London aquarium without…

By Julia Buckley, CNN Caltanissetta, Sicily (CNN) — The countdown to the holidays has begun. Christmas markets, mulled wine, ice skating —…

By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — Two years ago, Gustav Klimt’s final portrait — a vibrant portrait of an unidentified woman with a fan —…

By Wayne Chang, CNN Taipei, Taiwan (CNN) — The Louvre’s “Mona Lisa,” the British Museum’s Rosetta Stone, MoMA’s “Starry Night”…

By Vivian Song, CNN Paris (CNN) — When the baguette received official UNESCO heritage status in Paris in 2022, the French delegation waved…

By Lilit Marcus, CNN (CNN) — This week in travel: a secret garden is a secret no longer in Beijing, one of France’s classic pastries is the…

By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — Just 80 years ago, traveling to Sydney or Melbourne from London or New York took more than a week. Now, a passenger…

By Marcel Krueger, CNN (CNN) — You’ve seen the French sauntering around with slender baguettes under their arms or sporting jaunty berets as…

By Oscar Holland, CNN (CNN) — In an age when clocks are found in most pockets and on every screen, watchmaker Col&MacArthur’s selling…

By Fred He Beijing (CNN) — When Ho Puay-peng first visited Beijing’s Forbidden City in the late 1980s, the Singaporean architect saw many of…

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — The city of Paris has announced a lottery with a twist: Instead of a cash prize, entrants can instead win the chance…

By Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN (CNN) — There’s nothing quite like a festive market to bring out the Christmas spirit in people. While these…

By Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — There are three things Amaarae can’t tour without — and no, it isn’t coke, ketamine and molly, despite what…

By Maggie Hiufu Wong, CNN (CNN) — Holding an elegant black box embossed with the words “World’s Best Rice” in gold, Japanese chef Kenichi…

By Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — Sequins? In November? Groundbreaking. Yes, when Salma Hayek, Doja Cat, Iris Law, Angela Bassett, Alex Consani, Emma…

By Maureen O’Hare, CNN Kaçkar Mountains, Turkey (CNN) — In the little wooden hut perched high on metal-wrapped stilts, the drone is…

By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — The houses are worn by weather and time, photographed in isolation like forgotten monuments. They have a haunted…

By Jeanne Bonner, CNN (CNN) — In our travel news round-up this week: advice for holiday travelers, a robot that could save old languages from…

By Oscar Holland, CNN (CNN) — When Róisín Heneghan received a phone call 22 years ago announcing that her four-person architecture firm had…

By Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN London (CNN) — It’s only been open for six years, but Rosewood Hong Kong has quickly become a distinguished…

By Francesca Street, CNN (CNN) — Claire Chabaud-Tropéano was walking through the streets of Brooklyn, New York, wondering if that night was…

By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — It might be the most famous — or infamous — toilet in the world: the 220-pound, 18-karat solid gold throne…