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By Joe Minihane, CNN (CNN) — Lauren Shaw loves to travel. But putting her own place up for rent? No way. “I’ve never felt comfortable…
Continue ReadingBy Joe Minihane, CNN (CNN) — Lauren Shaw loves to travel. But putting her own place up for rent? No way. “I’ve never felt comfortable…
Continue ReadingBy Will Ripley, CNN (CNN) — For most of the world, the dark days of Covid-19 feel like a distant memory. But not in North Korea, said Justin…
Continue ReadingBy Tacita Quinn (CNN) — At first glance, you would be forgiven for thinking that the work of contemporary Indonesian artist Citra Sasmita was…
Continue ReadingBy Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — In a time of rising living costs, when celebrities are often lambasted for being out of touch with reality, it seems…
Continue ReadingBy Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — New Zealand’s new tourism campaign – with its slogan “Everyone must go!” – has prompted ridicule…
Continue ReadingBy Harrison Pierce, CNN (CNN) — You arrive at the airport, and you’re told that you won’t get the airplane seat you paid for.…
Continue ReadingBy Leah Dolan and Kati Chitrakorn, CNN London (CNN) — Considered the biggest night in the UK film industry, the British Academy Film Awards…
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Hauser, CNN (CNN) — More than 100 people were evacuated as flames ripped through a popular luxury hotel and restaurant in central…
Continue ReadingBy Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — In travel news this week: robot legs take off in China, the Italian influencer who mobilized her own…
Continue ReadingBy Karla Cripps, CNN Bangkok (CNN) — In recent years, no TV series has gotten viewers excited about luxury travel quite like “The White…
Continue ReadingBy Francesca Street, CNN (CNN) — It wasn’t an obvious day to climb the Eiffel Tower. It was the end of November, 1989. Overcast and cold,…
Continue ReadingBy Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN (CNN) — From steam-powered ships, to mega-liners, the cruise industry has been through quite a transformation…
Continue ReadingBy Joyce Jiang, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — A towering 5,000 feet high, with more than 7,000 steps, Mount Tai, in the eastern Chinese province of…
Continue ReadingBy Oscar Holland, CNN (CNN) — By his own admission, James Crombie knew “very, very little” about starlings before Covid-19 struck. An…
Continue ReadingBy Edward Russell, CNN (CNN) — Nashville’s honky-tonks are going to get a little busier in April. That’s when Aer Lingus launches its first…
Continue ReadingBy Rebecca Cairns, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Perched atop several flights of concrete stairs, Blue Lotus Gallery is nestled beside hipster coffee…
Continue ReadingBy Chris Lau, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — China will launch a fleet of special “silver trains” specially built for the comfort and safety of…
Continue ReadingBy Zenebou Sylla, CNN (CNN) — A plane carrying 27 passengers, including crew, slid off the taxiway before coming to a stop at St. Louis Lambert…
Continue ReadingBy Karla Cripps, CNN (CNN) — For many travelers, sleeping while seated upright is a huge challenge, making long-haul flights an exhausting…
Continue ReadingBy Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — When it first opened in 1977, the Centre Pompidou sent shockwaves through Parisian society. The mammoth cultural…
Continue ReadingBy Hassan Tayir, CNN (CNN) — Warner Bros. Discovery announced its intention Wednesday to build a “Harry Potter Studio Tour” in Shanghai.…
Continue ReadingBy Kati Chitrakorn, CNN (CNN) — Twenty-four years since actor Renée Zellweger first appeared in the film adaptation of Helen Fielding’s…
Continue ReadingBy Carlie Porterfield (CNN) — Nearly 4,000 people have signed an open letter calling on Christie’s New York to cancel an upcoming sale…
Continue ReadingBy Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN (CNN) — A war between a TikTok influencer and Italian ski resorts has escalated after she urged her two million…
Continue ReadingBy Richard Collett, CNN (CNN) — “Hello from Free Syria. I’m in Damascus right now. It’s a beautiful winter. Everything is better than…
Continue ReadingBy Francesca Street, CNN (CNN) — If you’ve seen images of the infamous double-level airplane seat concept and thought “that’s never going…
Continue ReadingBy Julia Buckley, CNN (CNN) — The Venice entry fee is back — and this time it’s double the trouble. Or rather, it will be for last-minute…
Continue ReadingBy Issy Ronald, CNN London (CNN) — Art historians studying a painting by Pablo Picasso have uncovered the mysterious portrait of a woman,…
Continue ReadingBy Ulrike Lemmin-Woolfrey, CNN (CNN) — Back at the turn of the 21st century, Qatar was a country with few cultural attractions to keep visitors…
Continue ReadingBy Jacqui Palumbo, CNN New York (CNN) — What is the state of American fashion right now? It’s a question at least partly answered by New York…
Continue ReadingBy Oscar Holland, CNN (CNN) — This year’s Super Bowl halftime show was hardly a fashion extravaganza, with headliner Kendrick Lamar keeping…
Continue ReadingBy Lilit Marcus, CNN (CNN) — One of the best things that can happen to a zoo or aquarium is for one of their resident animals to go viral. Just…
Continue ReadingBy Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN (CNN) — How important is extra legroom on a plane? Extremely important, if the results of the AirlineRatings.com…
Continue ReadingBy Christopher Lamb, CNN Rome (CNN) — A man has caused minor damage at St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican after jumping onto the main altar…
Continue ReadingBy Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — In our travel news roundup this week: the rise in solo dining, where to save money at US ski resorts, plus…
Continue ReadingBy Oscar Holland, CNN; Photo editor: Jennifer Arnow, CNN (CNN) — Postponed twice due to the wildfires that devastated LA last month, the…
Continue ReadingBy Karla Cripps, CNN (CNN) — Dubai is famous for its attention-grabbing architecture, whether it’s the world’s tallest building, the Burj…
Continue ReadingBy Lianne Kolirin and Sérène Nourrisson, CNN (CNN) — A man in France has been fined $200 for using the speakerphone on his cell while in a…
Continue ReadingBy Sophie Tanno, CNN (CNN) — The seismic activity rattling Santorini and other Greek islands is not over and the biggest quake yet could be…
Continue ReadingBy Agostino Petroni, CNN (CNN) — The Italian island of Sardinia sits in the middle of the Tyrrhenian Sea, gazing at Italy from a distance.…
Continue ReadingBy Forrest Brown, CNN (CNN) — A gastrointestinal illness has broken out this week on the Radiance of the Seas cruise ship, according to the US…
Continue ReadingBy Oscar Holland, CNN (CNN) — One of the biggest-selling K-pop acts, NewJeans, has changed its name amid a long-running legal dispute that has…
Continue ReadingBy Danny Freeman, CNN Philadelphia (CNN) — After a series of delays, everything finally seemed set. The SS United States looked like it was…
Continue ReadingBy Chris Liakos and Christian Edwards, CNN (CNN) — A state of emergency has been declared in Santorini after the strongest earthquake was…
Continue ReadingBy Lei Takanashi (CNN) — If you’ve recently started running, the hardest part may have been deciding what kit to buy. Options for running…
Continue ReadingBy Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN (CNN) — When she visited Italy for the first time with her father back in 1975, Rabbi Barbara Aiello, from the…
Continue ReadingBy Rosa Rahimi, CNN London (CNN) — Anna Wintour is rarely seen without her shades. But for a special occasion, she was prepared to break with…
Continue ReadingBy Chris James (CNN) — Last week, American company Boom Supersonic flew faster than the speed of sound with its XB-1 supersonic demonstrator…
Continue ReadingCNN By Leah Dolan and Lillie Sophie Otto, CNN Berlin (CNN) — When British comedian and presenter Amelia Dimoldenberg stepped onto the red…
Continue ReadingBy Leah Dolan and Lillie Sophie Otto, CNN Berlin (CNN) — When British comedian and presenter Amelia Dimoldenberg stepped onto the red carpet to…
Continue ReadingBy Chris Liakos and Christian Edwards, CNN (CNN) — Thousands of people have fled the island of Santorini as hundreds of quakes continued to…
Continue ReadingBy Gawon Bae, Jay Ganglani and Chris Lau, CNN Seoul (CNN) — Security officials confiscating bottles of water, tubes of shower gel and pots of…
Continue ReadingCNN By Elinda Labropoulou, Billy Stockwell and Chris Liakos, CNN Athens, Greece (CNN) — The Greek island of Santorini is being rattled by…
Continue ReadingBy Leah Dolan and Oscar Holland, CNN (CNN) — It was arguably the biggest red carpet trend of 2024, dominating the Academy Awards, the Met Gala…
Continue ReadingBy Terry Ward, CNN (CNN) — In ski towns, “earning your turns” comes with inalienable bragging rights. The term, thought to originate from…
Continue ReadingCNN By Maggie Hiufu Wong and Karla Cripps CNN (CNN) — In many travelers’ minds, Mongolia conjures images of vast plains, nomadic gers, desert…
Continue ReadingBy Maggie Hiufu Wong and Karla Cripps CNN (CNN) — In many travelers’ minds, Mongolia conjures images of vast plains, nomadic gers, desert…
Continue ReadingBy Chris Lau and Lisako Neriki Ancheta, CNN (CNN) — Tranquil and blanketed in pristine white snow, the Japanese city of Otaru serves as the…
Continue ReadingBy Oscar Holland, CNN; Photo editor: Jennifer Arnow, CNN (CNN) — The Grammy Awards are renowned for outlandish fashion. But on a night of…
Continue ReadingBy Elinda Labropoulou, Billy Stockwell and Chris Liakos, CNN Athens, Greece (CNN) — The Greek island of Santorini is being rattled by dozens of…
Continue ReadingBy Kristen Rogers, CNN (CNN) — When air travel accidents such as the fatal midair collision near Washington, DC, occur, the consequences can…
Continue ReadingBy Chelsea Bailey, CNN (CNN) — For the briefest of moments, a silence fell over the pews of New Orleans’ famed St. Louis Cathedral, as the…
Continue ReadingBy Jessie Yeung and Chris Boyette, CNN (CNN) — A critical aviation warning system that went down Saturday has been restored to working order,…
Continue ReadingBy Julia Buckley, CNN (CNN) — By the time he died, aged just 32, he had redrawn the map of the northern hemisphere, conquering land across…
Continue ReadingBy Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — In this week’s roundup of travel news: Denver’s weed church, zodiac predictions for the Year of the…
Continue ReadingBy Alice Pfeiffer, CNN Paris (CNN) — Haute couture is an enigma to most. Accessible to only a select few (an estimated few thousand people…
Continue ReadingBy Marnie Hunter and Julia Buckley, CNN (CNN) — This week’s close call at Chicago Midway Airport between a Southwest aircraft and a private…
Continue ReadingBy Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — A world-famous ballet school has agreed a legal settlement with a woman who claimed she developed an eating…
Continue ReadingBy Francesca Street, CNN (CNN) — Three years after Arthur “Chip” Gaudio Jr. last met his friend Jenny Teresia Sundberg, he decided to visit…
Continue ReadingBy Oscar Holland, CNN (CNN) — Dutch police have arrested three people in connection with a museum heist that saw thieves blow open a door with…
Continue ReadingBy Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — A painting bought at a garage sale in Minnesota is a previously unknown portrait by Dutch artist Vincent Van Gogh,…
Continue ReadingBy Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN (CNN) — After vacationing in Spain a few times, Cristina Martinez, from the US, felt enamoured with the European…
Continue ReadingBy Kathy Rose O’Brien, CNN (CNN) — A year and a half ago, chef Robbie McCauley left behind the swanky kitchens of some of the UK and…
Continue ReadingBy Barbie Latza Nadeau and Antonia Mortensen, CNN (CNN) — Not all publicity is good publicity. Especially when it leads to 10,000 daytrippers…
Continue ReadingBy Catherine Nicholls, CNN London (CNN) — A British man has become a Guinness World Record holder after visiting an unparalleled 42 museums in…
Continue ReadingBy Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — A girl staring into the distance, two Chinese coal miners joking during a break from work, and a Pallas cat lying…
Continue ReadingBy Julia Buckley, CNN (CNN) — It’s the train set to whisk people across the largest country in the Middle East — and to do so in style,…
Continue ReadingBy Lilit Marcus and Lisako Neriki Ancheta, CNN Tokyo, Japan (CNN) — One of Japan’s biggest cities is “beautifying” itself ahead of…
Continue ReadingCNN By Maggie Hiufu Wong, CNN (CNN) — Seeing an overabundance of red lately? From clothing shops to city streets, the fiery hue is going to be…
Continue ReadingBy Maggie Hiufu Wong, CNN (CNN) — Bidding farewell to the mythical Dragon, the world welcomes the Year of the Snake on January 29 — the first…
Continue ReadingBy Alice Pfeiffer Paris (CNN) — As Paris Men’s Fashion Week kicked off — one day after the second inauguration of US President Donald Trump…
Continue ReadingBy Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — With her eyes fixed straight ahead, first lady Melania Trump leans forward onto an impossibly reflective surface —…
Continue ReadingBy Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — The return of supersonic travel has been remarkably slow for something faster than the speed of sound, but…
Continue ReadingBy Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN (CNN) — She’s been described as the “Indiana Jones for girls,” and after becoming the first woman to walk…
Continue ReadingBy Chris Lau, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — China and India have agreed to resume direct commercial flights for the first time in five years, in the…
Continue ReadingBy David G. Allan, CNN New York City (CNN) — Before she died of typhus at 15 inside the German concentration camp Bergen-Belsen, Anne Frank…
Continue ReadingBy Lilit Marcus, CNN (CNN) — It’s a matter of national pride, with carefully chosen teams spending years training in pursuit of winning the…
Continue ReadingCNN By Oscar Holland, CNN (CNN) — Thieves have stolen four ancient artifacts, including an approximately 2,500-year-old gold helmet, after…
Continue ReadingBy Oscar Holland, CNN (CNN) — Thieves have stolen four ancient artifacts, including an approximately 2,500-year-old gold helmet, after using…
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Klaassen and Serene Nourrisson, CNN Paris (CNN) — Throughout his legendary fashion career, Karl Lagerfeld maintained that “Art is…
Continue ReadingBy Maggie Hiufu Wong, CNN (CNN) — Seeing an overabundance of red lately? From clothing shops to city streets, the fiery hue is going to be on…
Continue ReadingCNN By Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — In our travel roundup this week: How a forgotten airport was once the gateway to Europe and the tale…
Continue ReadingBy Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — In our travel roundup this week: How a forgotten airport was once the gateway to Europe and the tale of a…
Continue ReadingBy Pete Muntean, Eve Brennan, Avery Schmitz, Kaila Nichols and Alexandra Skores, CNN (CNN) — Four passengers and two crewmembers were hurt on…
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Skores and Sarah Dewberry, CNN (CNN) — Delta Air Lines had to call off one of its flights Thursday after crew members accidentally…
Continue ReadingBy Amarachi Orie, CNN (CNN) — Local politicians in Edinburgh have approved a tourist tax for visitors staying overnight the Scottish capital,…
Continue ReadingBy Megan Cassidy-Welch (CNN) — Travelers have always faced health hazards when far from home. Medieval people were no exception. Pilgrims,…
Continue ReadingBy Oscar Holland, CNN (CNN) — Cult American designer Rick Owens transformed his Paris Fashion Week set into an industrial dystopian futurescape…
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Skores, CNN (CNN) — Passengers flying Spirit Airlines might need to conceal some tattoos or put on more clothing for their next…
Continue ReadingBy Jessica Jordan, CNN (CNN) — For most of us, the chances of having Martha Stewart visit our garden is vanishingly small. Until now. After…
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