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By Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — If it wasn’t for the fact she was signing autographs outside the CBS studio in New York, many would have thought…
Continue ReadingBy Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — If it wasn’t for the fact she was signing autographs outside the CBS studio in New York, many would have thought…
Continue ReadingBy Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN (CNN) — Ellis Island’s museum is getting a 21st-century makeover, more than 100 years after millions of…
Continue ReadingBig Thunder Mountain Railroad, the “wildest ride in the wilderness,” sits at one edge of Disney World’s Magic Kingdom park, the most visited…
Continue ReadingBy Amarachi Orie, CNN (CNN) — Renowned primatologist Jane Goodall turned 90 on Wednesday—and to mark the occasion, 90 female photographers…
Continue ReadingBy Barbie Latza Nadeau and Amarachi Orie, CNN (CNN) — The tiny, remote Italian island of Alicudi is home to only around 100 residents and,…
Continue ReadingBy Melissa Alonso and Chris Boyette, CNN (CNN) — The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating why a Southwest Airlines plane veered…
Continue ReadingBy Oscar Holland, CNN (CNN) — The deadly 7.4 magnitude earthquake that hit Taiwan on Wednesday and left at least 9 people dead, also damaged…
Continue ReadingBy Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — The basic design of commercial airplanes hasn’t changed much in the past 60 years. Modern airliners like the…
Continue ReadingBy Lilit Marcus, CNN (CNN) — For the first time since the pandemic, China is allowing foreign climbers to access Mount Everest via Tibet.…
Continue ReadingBy Jamiel Lynch, CNN (CNN) — Two people were injured when a Southwest Airlines flight encountered severe turbulence on Wednesday morning and…
Continue ReadingBy Dhruv Tikekar, CNN (CNN) — When New Zealand’s populist Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters strode out to address a political convention…
Continue ReadingOne of the earliest books in existence is expected to fetch upwards of $2.6m when it goes up for auction later this…
Continue ReadingThe Calabria region, right down in the toe of Italy’s boot, is where Italian cuisine gets…
Continue ReadingEclipse mania is approaching fever pitch as people with the best laid plans — and those who have yet to make them, too — strategize about getting…
Continue ReadingBy Marnie Hunter, CNN (CNN) — A New Orleans restaurant featuring a modern Senegalese tasting menu and an Ethiopia-born chef who studied…
Continue ReadingBy Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — A man has pleaded guilty to stealing a toilet made entirely from 18-carat gold and worth more than $6 million…
Continue ReadingBy Brad Lendon, CNN Balanga, Philippines (CNN) — On the grounds of an elementary school in a small Philippine town, the fuse was lit on one of…
Continue ReadingBy Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — One summer evening in 1889, Arthur Conan Doyle and Oscar Wilde sat down for dinner at the Langham Hotel in London…
Continue ReadingBy Briana Ellis-Gibbs, CNN (CNN) — For over a decade, the photographer Nona Faustine shot self-portraits in and around New York City, in many…
Continue ReadingBy Oscar Holland, CNN (CNN) — German soccer authorities will redesign the number “4” on the country’s national jerseys amid claims it…
Continue ReadingBy Marnie Hunter, CNN (CNN) — Eight cruise passengers left behind in the African island nation of São Tomé and Príncipe have been…
Continue ReadingAaron Celestian isn’t a big fan of “Ocean’s…
Continue ReadingThe falls are one of the largest in Africa, although less than a third the size of Victoria Falls.
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By Helen Stoilas, CNN (CNN) — In the latter years of World War II, the New York art scene started coalescing around a group of artists…
Continue ReadingKGO By Sara Smart, CNN (CNN) — Part of a roadway on California’s Big Sur coast crumbled into the ocean over the weekend after part of a cliff…
Continue ReadingBy Sara Smart, CNN (CNN) — Part of a roadway on California’s Big Sur coast crumbled into the ocean over the weekend after part of a cliff…
Continue ReadingBy Julia Buckley, CNN (CNN) — It’s known as the green heart of Italy because of its forested hills and landlocked location. But the region of…
Continue ReadingBy Chris Lau and Moeri Karasawa, CNN (CNN) — Japanese moviegoers finally got the chance to see “Oppenheimer” this weekend, eight months…
Continue ReadingBy Chris Dwyer, CNN (CNN) — When highlighting how the Japanese capital represents the pinnacle of global dining excellence, British chef Daniel…
Continue ReadingHer love affair with Mexico began at a young age, and Marjorie Skouras’ passion for the country only grew with the passing of…
Continue ReadingIn this week’s travel roundup, we bring you transport trivia, Roman engineering marvels and the world’s tastiest…
Continue ReadingBy Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — Earlier this month, a demonstrator aircraft for what could be the first new civil supersonic plane to be…
Continue ReadingBy Rebekah Riess and Michelle Watson, CNN (CNN) — Moose, a dog that was supposed to be on an outgoing Alaska Airlines flight Tuesday from…
Continue ReadingThere’s a photograph of Laura and Adrian on the day they met. It’s a group shot, taken on the outset of an Inca Trail trek in the autumn of…
Continue ReadingCruise vacations cover a range of budgets, with some bargain jaunts costing a few hundred dollars, while more upscale, longer voyages lay on more…
Continue Readingomance was in the air at London’s St. Pancras station on Tuesday, and not just because burgeoning power couple Dua Lipa and actor Callum Turner…
Continue ReadingPicture Vladimir Putin, Angela Merkel and George W. Bush as 7-year-olds. Now set them on a…
Continue ReadingBy Leah Asmelash, CNN (CNN) — Kim Kardashian’s oft-divisive interior design aesthetic is under new scrutiny. The estate of minimalist…
Continue ReadingRonan O’Connell, CNN (CNN) — The Horizontal Falls are one of Australia’s strangest natural attractions, a unique blend of coastal geography…
Continue ReadingJulia Buckley and CNN Travel staff (CNN) — How to define a dumpling? In its most basic sense, it’s a pocket of dough filled with some form of…
Continue ReadingFive out of the six biggest US airlines have raised their checked bag fees since January…
Continue ReadingA one-space mausoleum crypt in the vicinity of Marilyn Monroe and Hugh Hefner will go on auction Saturday, when it is expected to reach between…
Continue ReadingIt’s one of the most iconic, and hotly-debated, props in cinematic history: The floating wood panel that spared Kate Winslet’s “Titanic”…
Continue Reading(CNN) — After losing the number one spot to Bangkok in 2023, Tokyo has reclaimed its crown as the city with the top eatery in the region at the…
Continue ReadingBy Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — Archaeologists have unearthed a “remarkable” Roman villa complex on a housing development site in a small…
Continue ReadingBy Sharon Braithwaite, CNN (CNN) — It’s become Italy’s other “leaning tower.” And now, after mounting concern that the Torre Garisenda…
Continue ReadingBy Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — In February, the artist and ink-maker Thomas Little loaded up his van and traveled around North Carolina to…
Continue ReadingBy Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — A Paris apartment owned by the late fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld has sold for €10 million ($10.8 million). The…
Continue ReadingKristen Rogers, CNN (CNN) — For many people, being diagnosed with breast cancer, and undergoing surgery, brings about a period of grief for the…
Continue ReadingBy Atika Shubert, CNN (CNN) — The Spanish day is famously long. Lunch doesn’t start until two in the afternoon. Work often ends after seven…
Continue ReadingBy Cath Pound, CNN (CNN) — From a steam train shooting out of a fireplace (“Time Transfixed,” by René Magritte) or to the nude back of a…
Continue ReadingBy Oscar Holland, CNN (CNN) — Artist Richard Serra, whose monumental abstract sculptures transformed museums, public spaces and even entire…
Continue ReadingArchaeologists excavating the site of Pompeii have uncovered an ancient building site, revealing Roman construction techniques used by builders at…
Continue ReadingBy Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN (CNN) — After a number of failed IVF rounds, health issues and the death of their beloved dog, US couple Jason…
Continue ReadingBy Victoria Woodcock, CNN (CNN) — Nora Turato is anxious about authenticity. She’s questioning if positive affirmations are positive, or…
Continue ReadingBy Heather Chen, CNN (CNN) — Imagine jumping on a train in southwestern China, traveling some 2,000 miles and arriving in Singapore – less…
Continue ReadingBy Rebecca Cairns, CNN (CNN) — With its soft gray lines and sleek, curving exterior, Project Hive looks less like a school and more like a…
Continue ReadingColorful paintings of daily life in ancient Egypt have been discovered in a tomb dating back more than 4,300…
Continue ReadingBy Chris Menrad, CNN (CNN) — How did an innovative exhibition house, designed in New York City in 1931 — and only meant to stand for seven…
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Continue ReadingBy Silvia Marchetti, CNN (CNN) — Italy’s one-euro-home sales have been attracting a lot of interest over the past few years, with dozens…
Continue ReadingRome might not have built ancient history’s biggest empire – a shout out to Genghis for that one – but it was undoubtedly the most enduring and…
Continue ReadingBy Jack Guy and Amarachi Orie, CNN (CNN) — The Sagrada Familia in Barcelona will finally be finished in 2026, more than 140 years after…
Continue ReadingBy Oscar Holland, CNN (CNN) — Writer and illustrator Laurent de Brunhoff, who continued his father’s legacy by producing dozens of original…
Continue ReadingBy Xiaofei Xu, CNN Paris (CNN) — The army of waiters who are the lifeblood of the French capital’s many cafés often get a bad rap, accused…
Continue ReadingBy David Williams and Ashley R. Williams, CNN (CNN) — Heath Barnes opened his book on the upper decks of the Bahamas-bound Carnival Freedom…
Continue ReadingBy Harmeet Kaur, CNN (CNN) — Martin Greenfield, a tailor who dressed six US presidents, countless A-list actors and professional athletes, died…
Continue ReadingBy Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — In our travel round-up this week: love stories of missed flights and strong connections, the Greek island…
Continue ReadingJust off the D515 state highway to Kuşadası, a meandering asphalted road cuts through the pine trees and undulating olive groves of the…
Continue ReadingMore than 4,000 culturally significant items, including textiles, ceramics, and clothing, have been repatriated to Peru, their country of origin, the…
Continue ReadingCelebrated architect Norman Foster has unveiled plans for a new $1-billion office tower in Los Angeles that will see greenery spilling out from a…
Continue ReadingWithin hours of the Russian invasion in February 2022, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky invoked martial law across the country, setting in…
Continue ReadingBy Colleen Kelsey, CNN (CNN) — Writing in 1863, the French poet and critic Charles Baudelaire turned his eye to a striking faction of Parisian…
Continue ReadingBy Francesca Street, CNN (CNN) — If she can avoid it, Saphia never travels by airplane. Saphia researches the climate crisis for a living –…
Continue ReadingBy Amy Woodyatt, CNN (CNN) — Diamonds are forever – especially for Emily Ratajkowski, who has chosen to turn her engagement ring into…
Continue ReadingBy Nectar Gan, CNN (CNN) — A Netflix adaptation of wildly popular Chinese sci-fi novel “The Three-Body Problem” has split opinions in China…
Continue ReadingBy Maggie Hiufu Wong and Hazel Pfeifer, CNN (CNN) — A short walk from Sensoji, the oldest temple in Tokyo, sits another aging classic –…
Continue ReadingCNN By Maggie Hiufu Wong and Hazel Pfeifer, CNN (CNN) — A short walk from Sensoji, the oldest temple in Tokyo, sits another aging classic –…
Continue ReadingBy Emily Blumenthal, CNN (CNN) — A treasure hunter struggling with faulty equipment has unearthed a gold nugget believed to be the largest ever…
Continue ReadingBy Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — On Tuesday, a starry guestlist poured into the regal halls of London’s National Portrait Gallery for the…
Continue ReadingBy Tom Page and Sean Coppack, CNN (CNN) — Thanda Island, a speck of sand off the Tanzanian coast, has room for only a handful of guests, but…
Continue ReadingBy Oscar Holland, CNN (CNN) — A model of the “Pillar of Shame,” a memorial to victims of the Tiananmen Square massacre that was…
Continue ReadingPoonam Binayak, CNN (CNN) — When planning a trip to India, the “Golden Triangle,” comprising Delhi, Jaipur and Agra, often comes to mind as…
Continue ReadingA Delta Airlines pilot was sentenced to 10 months in prison for reporting for duty at Scotland’s Edinburgh Airport while drunk, according to a…
Continue ReadingThe World Happiness Report is out, and once again Nordic countries are humming along with the highest…
Continue ReadingBy Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — Within an original poem, spelled out in neon lettering, the Indigenous artist Demian DinéYazhi´ hid a message…
Continue ReadingBy Suyin Haynes, CNN (CNN) — Growing up in the UK, photographer Jamie McGregor Smith was familiar with traditional churches and their historic…
Continue ReadingBy Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — There’s a global energy crisis and onshore wind farms are a potential growth option. Larger wind…
Continue ReadingCNN staff (CNN) — Nearly a dozen recent incidents involving United Airlines planes. A fiery runway collision in Tokyo. And the alarming mid-air…
Continue ReadingBy Scottie Andrew, CNN (CNN) — A pair of ruby slippers, famously donned by Judy Garland (in character as Dorothy Gale) in “The Wizard of…
Continue ReadingFor those of us who approach things by the Goldilocks Principle (not too little, not too much), spring equinox is practically…
Continue ReadingA Roman statue dating back almost 2,000 years has been discovered by construction workers building a parking lot in the United…
Continue ReadingPhotos and interviews by Moeri Karasawa, Himari Semans and Getty Images; Text by Oscar Holland, CNN Tokyo, Japan (CNN) — Tokyo Fashion Week…
Continue ReadingBy Zoe Whitfield, CNN (CNN) — “My God, it’s dull,” said interior designer Steven Thomas of the British retail landscape in 2024. As the…
Continue ReadingBy Oscar Holland, CNN (CNN) — Shigeichi Negishi, the entrepreneur who invented the world’s first karaoke machine, has died aged 100. Negishi,…
Continue ReadingBy Rebecca Cairns, CNN (CNN) — When Mohamad Orfali was a child, his favorite meal was breakfast. At his family home in Aleppo, Syria, his…
Continue ReadingA small stone vial discovered in southeastern Iran contained a red cosmetic that was likely used as a lip coloring nearly 4,000 years ago, according…
Continue ReadingFive years before Concorde’s first flight, another majestic supersonic aircraft took to the skies — and almost became the inspiration for an even…
Continue ReadingIn travel news this week: passenger–pleasing airports, cool streets around the world, France’s frog-leg crisis and Ireland’s best food and…
Continue ReadingBy Amy Woodyatt, CNN (CNN) — The FBI has returned a trove of looted Japanese art to its country of origin after a family found a stash of…
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