Tourists continue to visit Hawaii’s Haiku Stairs even as it gets removed for overtourism
By Lilit Marcus, CNN (CNN) — The soap opera surrounding the Haiku Stairs, a disused staircase in a remote part of eastern Oahu that has become…
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By Lilit Marcus, CNN (CNN) — The soap opera surrounding the Haiku Stairs, a disused staircase in a remote part of eastern Oahu that has become…
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By Christopher Lamb, CNN Venice (CNN) — Pope Francis has become the first pontiff to visit Venice’s contemporary art festival during a trip…
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By Melissa Magsaysay, CNN (CNN) — ”This is nerve-wracking,” James Canody exclaimed — through an exhale — of his new job as an…
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By Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — In travel news this week: a gelato ban in Italy, runaway horses in central London, the orange fog that hit…
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By Alex Rees, CNN (CNN) — At the premiere of his new film “Poolman” in Los Angeles on Wednesday night, Chris Pine stepped onto the red carpet…
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By Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — An idyllic 453-acre private island is up for sale off the west coast of Scotland and it comes with sandy…
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A picturesque Japanese town is putting up a giant mesh barrier to block a popular selfie spot near Mount…
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By Emily Blumenthal and Catherine Nicholls, CNN (CNN) — A gold watch worn by John Jacob Astor IV, a member of the wealthy Astor family and the…
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By Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — Turnips, radishes, potatoes… This is not the beginning of Emily Blunt’s shopping list, but rather the items that…
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By Joan Kennedy (CNN) — There’s a lot of talk about luxury’s rising prices, but it’s at auction that fashion is selling for the most…
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The blades of the windmill atop the famous Parisian dancehall the Moulin Rouge fell off overnight, damaging the facade of the building, it was…
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By Will McGough, CNN (CNN) — On the north side of Molokaʻi — the least-visited Hawaiian Island — a piece of land called the Kalaupapa…
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By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — A 12-string guitar played by Beatles stars John Lennon and George Harrison and thought to have been lost for almost 60…
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By Julia Buckley, CNN (CNN) — For over 100 years, it has been a staple of the British seaside – one so classic that one of the best-known…
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CNN By Christy Choi, CNN | Interview by Julia Chatterley, CNN (CNN) — With “Shogun,” Hiroyuki Sanada wanted to get things right.…
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By Christy Choi, CNN | Interview by Julia Chatterley, CNN (CNN) — With “Shogun,” Hiroyuki Sanada wanted to get things right. “Sometimes…
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By Julia Buckley, CNN Venice, Italy (CNN) — April 25 has long been a historic day in Venice – the date is not just Italy’s Liberation day,…
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By Christy Choi, CNN (CNN) — An arms fair may contain all the trappings of war, but it is nothing like a battlefield. It is “an oversized…
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By Lilit Marcus, CNN (CNN) — “I only go to casinos once a year, on Chinese New Year,” says Vivian Lai, a second-generation Macao resident…
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A work contract signed by Diana Spencer two years before she married the then-Prince of Wales is expected to fetch thousands of dollars at…
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A portrait by Gustav Klimt that was unseen for almost a century has sold for $32 million – the bottom end of its pre-auction…
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Venturing down the cobbled back streets of Milan in search of a late-night gelato is an intrinsic part of Italian culture for many residents in the…
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By Francesca Street, CNN (CNN) — It’s a midweek lunchtime on an unassuming residential street in Vauxhall, south London. There aren’t many…
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CNN By Alexandra Banner, CNN (CNN) — A multi-day storm threat is set to impact millions of people in the central US through the weekend.…
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By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — A Polish pilot proposed to his flight attendant girlfriend during a flight from Warsaw to Krakow, and she said yes.…
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By Gregory Wallace, CNN (CNN) — Airline canceled your flight? The plane arrived hours late after a maintenance issue? The inflight Wi-Fi…
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What’s old is new again, and the longstanding phrase couldn’t be more apropos when it comes to pre-owned and vintage luxury watches by the likes…
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Japan’s beloved Shinkansen trains are getting another…
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By Emma Russell, CNN (CNN) — Mong Shuan was just 16 when she turned to an unconventional source of income: selling betel nuts from a little…
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By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — A British university has given back four spears taken more than 250 years ago from an aboriginal community in…
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By Marie Lodi, CNN (CNN) — After being humiliated on the night of her 13th birthday party, Jenna Rink wakes up as her adult self. Confused by her…
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By Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — There’s been a trend in recent years for billionaire basements – subterranean extensions to the homes…
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By Lisa Morrow, CNN (CNN) — Turkey is rich with ancient wonders. Straddling Europe and Asia, the country has been at the heart of numerous…
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By Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — As the dust settles on Coachella for another year, it’s clear the most memorable fashion moments happened on…
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By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — What is one of the earliest and enduring subjects in art and media — as well as one of the most censored?…
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By Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN (CNN) — When Kema Ward-Hopper and her then-fiance Nicholas Hopper, both from the US, decided to get married in…
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By Martha Zhou, CNN (CNN) — A shiny new high-speed railway station is usually a highly anticipated affair in China – but this one is causing…
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By Christy Choi and Hassan Tayir, CNN (CNN) — There’s a new kind of “get ready with me” video trending in mainland China — one of…
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By Forrest Brown, CNN (CNN) — Retired public relations professional Bonnie Sashin and her husband had just spent a nice Thanksgiving visit and…
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By Lilit Marcus, CNN (CNN) — Seder means “order” in Hebrew, and that should be the first clue that this traditional Passover meal has very…
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CNN By Lilit Marcus, CNN (CNN) — Seder means “order” in Hebrew, and that should be the first clue that this traditional Passover meal has…
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By Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — In travel news this week: the world’s best and busiest airports, the European capital banning new…
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By Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN (CNN) — When Margaret Bensfield Sullivan envisioned the type of family who might jet off for a year to explore…
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By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — Everyone knows the familiar shapes that make up New York’s skyline. There’s the Art Deco curved crown of the…
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By Jeffrey Kopp, CNN San Francisco (CNN) — San Francisco is suing its neighbor across the Bay over a plan to change the name of Oakland’s…
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By Brooklyn White-Grier, CNN (CNN) — “I was having wash day with my kids, and I was looking at their hair,” the photographer Tomesha Faxio,…
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By AJ Willingham, CNN (CNN) — Every good wedding has to have one teensy, tiny crisis. For Calivé and Shannon Jackson, everything was going…
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By Francesca Street, CNN (CNN) — Samantha Hannah was traveling through Australia and New Zealand, soaking up new places and experiences, while…
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By Leona Liu, CNN Geneva (CNN) — When the luxury Watches and Wonders fair closed its doors in Geneva earlier this week, it had hosted an…
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By Forrest Brown, CNN (CNN) — National Park Week starts on Saturday, and it also starts off with a bang-for-your-buck. That’s because every…
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By Amarachi Orie, CNN (CNN) — Eight of Formula One legend Michael Schumacher’s luxury and personalized watches are going up for auction –…
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By Caitlin Chatterton, CNN (CNN) — “That is not a painting, it’s a humiliation!” Winston Churchill (played by John Lithgow) angrily tells…
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By Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — A French photographer has scooped the most prestigious prize at this year’s Sony World Photography Awards for…
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By Chrissie McClatchie, CNN (CNN) — This summer, crowds are expected to flock to Paris for the summer Olympic games. Prices for hotel rooms are…
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By Amarachi Orie, CNN (CNN) — Sophie Kinsella, the best-selling author behind the “Shopaholic” book series, has revealed that she is…
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By Barry Neild, Mostafa Salem, Francesca Street and Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN (CNN) — Dubai International Airport, one of the world’s busiest…
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By Nicole Mowbray, CNN (CNN) — This week sees the opening of the Venice Biennale, an 8-month-long festival of art and culture staged every…
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By Lilit Marcus, CNN (CNN) — Ali versus Frazier. The Red Sox versus the Yankees. Doha versus Singapore. For the last decade, Singapore’s…
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By Maggie Hiufu Wong, CNN (CNN) — Walking into the Lion Cafe, in Tokyo’s Shibuya district, the first thing one notices is the seating. All…
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By Rob Picheta and Louis Mian, CNN (CNN) — Police launched an investigation Wednesday into the fire that tore through Copenhagen’s famous…
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By Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — Former Spice Girl and current business mogul Victoria Beckham turns 50 today, and as she barrels forward into a new…
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By Moeri Karasawa, CNN Tokyo (CNN) — Almost nothing stops Japan’s famous high-speed bullet trains from running exactly on time – but a tiny…
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By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — In Justine Kurland’s photographs, shot across the American West, trains silently pass through the picture…
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By Lilit Marcus, CNN (CNN) — A picturesque staircase leading to a Hawaiian beauty spot is being torn down as tourists continued to access the…
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By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — On the whirlwind night that saw the stars of the most-watched season of women’s college basketball officially…
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By Maureen O’Hare, CNN London (CNN) — The first human to experience what’s now known as the “overview effect” was Soviet astronaut…
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By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Meghan, Duchess of Sussex has unveiled the first product from her new lifestyle brand American Riviera Orchard,…
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Julia Buckley, CNN (CNN) — June, 1940. Italy enters World War II, and Fascist dictator Benito Mussolini promptly sets about constructing air…
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By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — While many celebrity homes look less than lived-in, ranging from spotless minimal to ostentatiously palatial,…
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By Benjamin Brown, CNN (CNN) — Israel’s representative at Venice’s Biennale exhibition has said she won’t unveil the country’s…
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By Silvia Marchetti, CNN (CNN) — Ditching the US and relocating close to the French Pyrenees wasn’t part of Taylor Barnes’ life plan. But…
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By Stephanie Halasz, Antonia Mortensen and Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN (CNN) — A huge fire has engulfed Copenhagen’s old stock exchange, one…
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By Karla Cripps and Kocha Olarn, CNN Bangkok (CNN) — There are said to be more than 200 types of mangoes grown in Thailand. But when it comes…
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By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — Renowned author Salman Rushdie has revealed more details about the knife attack that left him blind in one eye,…
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KVVU, CNN By Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN (CNN) — Two visitors at Lake Mead National Recreation Area were captured on video destroying ancient rock…
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By James Imam (CNN) — The French street artist JR has unveiled perhaps his most complex Italian trompe l’oeil illusion piece yet, turning a…
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By Marnie Hunter, CNN (CNN) — Globe-trotters are on the move again in a big way, boosting the rankings of a handful of international aviation…
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By Yahya Salem, CNN (CNN) — Faith Ringgold, the pioneering artist and author best known for her narrative quilts that interwove art with activism,…
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By Blane Bachelor, CNN (CNN) — It has happened to a model, a medical doctor and a hairstylist, along with many other airline passengers: being…
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By Allison C. Meier (CNN) — The colossal cascades and currents that flow by Niagara Falls have inspired countless artists with their majesty, but…
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By Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — This week in travel news, we bring you hidden Edens and overlooked islands, the secret history of favorite…
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By Angus MacKinnon, CNN Islay, Scotland (CNN) — Everything you need to know about whisky and its umbilical bond to Scottish identity can be…
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By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — While Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola was watching his team play Real Madrid in the first leg of the…
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By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — Roberto Cavalli, the Italian fashion designer who made his mark on the fashion world with distinctive, glamorous…
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In 1969, Stefano Ripamonti was feeling good about life. He was in his late twenties, working a glamorous job at an Italian high fashion shoe firm.…
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This week, Rihanna stunned in a new cover shoot for Interview magazine that challenged much about we know and expect of the traditional image of a…
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By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — Spread across sprawling convention centers, art fairs often deal at a grand scale: huge floorplans, major…
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By Barbie Latza Nadeau and Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — In the seven centuries since the Ponte Vecchio was first built in Florence, Italy, the…
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By Leah Collins, CNN London (CNN) — I’m personally a massive fan of any meal that involves chicken, from deep-fried wings to a gourmet-style…
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By Alex Rees, CNN (CNN) — The Miss Universe Organization is disputing a flurry of what it calls “false and misleading” reports of Saudi…
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2024 is shaping up to be the year of travel…
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By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Qatar Airways has avoided a lawsuit over an incident in which a number of female passengers were forced to undergo…
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By Leah Asmelash and Alex Rees, CNN (CNN) — Zendaya has always aced the red carpet. But her latest press tour is, well, a grand slam. In recent…
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By Amarachi Orie, CNN (CNN) — Ancient Romans were enjoying more than just the food during their feasts, a new discovery at the archaeological…
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By Forrest Brown and Gregory Wallace, CNN (CNN) — The Transportation Security Administration reports that its officers intercepted 1,503…
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By Silvia Marchetti, CNN (CNN) — For many people, sudden unemployment – especially in later life – can be a time of insurmountable crisis.…
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By Leda Joy Abkenari, CNN (CNN) — Climbing up abandoned, unfinished floors and tightrope walking across balcony ledges, backpacks clanging with…
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By Emily Blumenthal and Chris Stern, CNN (CNN) — For a brief moment, one German man achieved his dream: his artwork hanging in a famous museum.…
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A couple of African paradise islands have been on the radar of avid world travelers for some…
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