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By Chris Lau and Joyce Jiang, CNN Hong Kong/Beijing (CNN) — The making of dim sum — the bite-sized delicacies hailing from southern China —…

By Rachel Tashjian, CNN (CNN) — The late fashion editor Diana Vreeland — who pioneered a spirit of probing whimsy that inflects everything…

By Rachel Tashjian, CNN When “The Devil Wears Prada” was released in 2006, it won over countless fans: critics adored how it spikily satirized…

By Lilit Marcus, CNN Peleliu, Palau (CNN) — The island is lush, myriad shades of green made deeper by the effects of the morning’s rainfall.…

By Kati Chitrakorn, CNN London (CNN) — Buying a tailored suit is not something many would associate with Nigo, the Japanese multi-hyphenate…

By Lianne Kolirin, CNN London (CNN) — Visitors to London Zoo will soon be able to watch its vets in action as they carry out operations, health…

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — A photo of a gannet with grass blowing over its face has been voted winner of the People’s Choice award at the Nikon…

By Francesca Street, CNN (CNN) — Every time you board a flight, you’re stepping into a matrix — a web of choices that have been made for…

By Chris Dwyer (CNN) — Pancakes — in all sorts of forms, made from all sorts of ingredients — have graced tables around the world for…

By Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN (CNN) — After deciding to cancel her June trip with friends to Dubai when the emirate became the target of…

By Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — In our roundup of travel news this week: the viral “snow” spot that’s actually hazardous waste, the…

By Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — The dense forests, twisting rivers and granite peaks of Northern Ireland’s Mourne Mountains have lived…

By Jessie Yeung, CNN (CNN) — Anxiety is growing at Everest Base Camp, more than 5,300 meters above sea level. Hundreds of climbers including…

By Francesca Perry Milan (CNN) — Held every springtime, Milan Design Week is the biggest moment of the year for the world of design – from…

By Avni Trivedi, CNN (CNN) — The last row of economy are the airplane seats few people want to sit in. There’s no room to recline your seat…

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — A tourist has caused thousands of dollars in damage to a 16th-century monument in Florence, Italy, after climbing on…

By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN The curator Jeffrey Uslip wants everyone to know that everything is normal. “This is the smoothest exhibition I’ve curated…

By Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — This week, Rihanna fronted the cover of W Magazine in head-to-toe Dior. Her eyes were ringed in purple shadow, her…

By Lilit Marcus, CNN (CNN) — Kevin Miller considers himself a bit of a travel pro. The photographer says he’s able to fit all of his camera…

By Adam Pourahmadi, CNN (CNN) — Salimeh stands in her yard, a rug suspended behind her, still heavy from washing. Her clothes, patterned in…

By Vivian Song (CNN) — Steve Schwarzbach has attended every World Cup event since 2006. He had no apprehensions about attending the games in…

By Marianna Cerini, CNN Milan (CNN) — If Sabato De Sarno were to distill the past year into a single idea, the gift of time might be it. After…

By Griffin Shea, CNN Kampala (CNN) — Walking through the compound that houses the Kasubi Tombs, the main path leads to what should be an…

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…

By Sheena McKenzie, CNN (CNN) — Backlit by an orange sky, Romeo appears. He smokes on a derelict outdoor stage; the only curtains here the…

By Harmeet Kaur, CNN (CNN) — Why are TikToks about dining out so boring? Dillon Davis and Nichols Neff were debating the question from their…

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…

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…

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Citlali Fabián has been named Photographer of the Year at the Sony World Photography Awards 2026, with the judging…

By Julia Buckley, CNN Gibellina, Italy (CNN) — Sicily’s landscapes are a mix of dreamy coastline, rugged peaks and rolling hills that are…

By Julia Buckley, CNN (CNN) — The Italian diaspora continued the fight against the government’s restrictions on citizenship by descent this…

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…

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…

By David G. Allan, CNN You can stay at The Overlook Hotel, the famously chilling accommodation conjured by author Stephen King and director Stanley…

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…

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.…

By Francesca Street, CNN (CNN) — The double-level airplane seat concept is back, this time in what designer Alejandro Núñez Vicente calls the…

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…

By Marnie Hunter, CNN (CNN) — The world’s busiest airport rankings for 2025 are out. Global air traffic last year showed significant growth,…

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…

By Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN (CNN) — They drove almost everywhere when they lived in Miami, but since moving to the Italian city of Rimini…

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…

By Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — In our roundup of travel stories this week: how Paris’ first female mayor transformed the city,…

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…

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…

Steve Salter, CNN (CNN) — Over the next few days, something unusual will be happening across Spanish soccer. Nearly 40 men’s professional…

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…

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…

By Terry Ward Hollywood, Florida (CNN) — On a sunny and warm late-February day at Richard’s Motel in Hollywood, Florida, guests mostly from…

By Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — Experiencing the Eiffel Tower can be a crowded affair – about 7 million people visit each year – but now you…

By Edward Russell, CNN (CNN) — Step aboard a Boeing 767 operated by United Airlines and you’ll encounter the carrier’s very latest cabin…

By Silvia Marchetti, CNN (CNN) — During a storm in a quiet village in southern France, artist MB Boissonnault couldn’t stop herself crying as…

By Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — In travel news this week: India’s enormous new airport, countries’ shifting citizenship rules and, as…

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…

By Rachel Tashjian, CNN (CNN) — If Taylor Swift’s record-breaking engagement announcement is any indication, Polymarket bets, group chats and…

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…

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…

By Rachel Tashjian, CNN (CNN) — When Glenn Martens became the creative director of Paris-based fashion house Maison Margiela in January 2025,…

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…

By Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — Karl Lagerfeld, who was known to have a portfolio of lavish homes, once said: “The most beautiful house is…

By Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN (CNN) — Paintings by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Paul Cezanne and Henri Matisse have been stolen from a museum in…

By Vivian Song (CNN) — When Donald Trump was first elected in 2016, New York State resident Ellen Robillard briefly looked into getting…

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…

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,…

By Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — China’s robot restaurant, the challenges of African airspace, plus TIME’s pick of the best places to…

By Rachel Tashjian, CNN (CNN) — Fashion has long danced alongside the medium of art, with designers taking inspiration from the work of…

By Oscar Holland, CNN (CNN) — Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue. So goes the Victorian-era English rhyme that…

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…

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…

By Stephy Chung, Oscar Holland, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — At Art Basel Hong Kong, Asia’s biggest art fair, a mysterious AI agent silently…

By Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN (CNN) — When chef René Redzepi issued an apology to staff for past behavior and announced he was stepping away…

By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — The image of an Iberian lynx playing with its prey has won the prestigious Wildlife Photographer of the Year…

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…

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.…

Oscar Holland, CNN Singapore (CNN) — At Singapore’s secretive Le Freeport, a fortified luxury storage facility often dubbed “Asia’s Fort…

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…

By Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — The biggest mystery in the art world has apparently been solved: Banksy has been unmasked as a bespectacled…

By Lisa Courbebaisse and Elina Baudier Kim, CNN Paris (CNN) — Anyone visiting Paris just over a decade ago would doubtless have been charmed by…

By Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — The world’s happiest countries for 2026, what travelers can expect in terms of rising air fares, plus…