How 2023 became the year of the lab-grown diamond
by Diana Pearl, CNN (CNN) — In New York, a stretch of 47th Street is known as the Diamond District for the countless gem shops and appraisers…
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by Diana Pearl, CNN (CNN) — In New York, a stretch of 47th Street is known as the Diamond District for the countless gem shops and appraisers…
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Togolese German Fashion photographer Delali Ayivi has made a name for herself with some high-profile shoots, including photographing Aminata Touré,…
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A quick Google search of the phrase “Cher Halloween costume” will produce far more images of Cher impersonators than the Goddess of Pop dressed…
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Mandy Sanchez was sitting in her bedroom in Texas when she saw the…
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Dame Maggie Smith, the British actress acclaimed for her appearances both on stage and in cinema, has taken on a new role — and this time it’s in…
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By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — Moving beyond cosmetics, skincare and even a Bratz doll line, the youngest Kardashian-Jenner sibling, Kylie…
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By Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN (CNN) — After a number of failed IVF rounds, health issues and the death of their beloved dog, US couple Jason…
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Kristen Rogers, CNN (CNN) — For over two decades now, Heidi Klum has served up tricks, treats and ever-outlandish ensembles to retain her title…
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By Christy Choi, CNN (CNN) — Hidden under years of dirt and grime in storage rooms, hundreds of precious religious objects have been…
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By Matt Villano, CNN (CNN) — One of the most storied hotel companies in the United States is inching closer to a brand new, $3.7-billion resort…
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Dante Alighieri was so spellbound that he wrote about it twice: in the “Divine Comedy,” and in another…
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By Marnie Hunter, CNN Atlanta (CNN) — Georgia’s capital city — home to the world’s busiest airport — can now boast Michelin-star…
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By Ann Binlot, CNN (CNN) — Gabriella “Gaby” Aghion would be proud. Amid a flurry of fashion houses appointing White men as their new…
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By William Emond (CNN) — Travel sickness isn’t just hearsay. Nearly a third of people experience motion sickness – and to this day we…
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By Leah Asmelash, CNN (CNN) — “Oppenheimer” may have given the Trinity Site a boost of fame this summer, but for many history buffs, making…
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By Francesca Perry, CNN (CNN) — Recent headlines from South Africa have reported national crises, from rolling blackouts to the highest…
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Fukuoka, Japan’s sixth largest city by population, has more open-air food stalls than the rest of the country…
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This week in travel news: a record-breaking temple has opened, one of Europe’s best cities is reinventing itself and a Japanese airplane…
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By Gregory Wallace (CNN) — A JetBlue passenger jet lost its balance and tipped like a seesaw while unloading Sunday at New York’s John F.…
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By Oscar Holland, CNN (CNN) — The Cleveland Museum of Art is attempting to block the seizure of a headless bronze statue that US investigators…
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By Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — New York City has unveiled a sculpture paying homage to one of the city’s most enduring myths: Alligators lurking…
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By Melissa Magsaysay, CNN CNN — As a first-generation child of Filipino American immigrants, I grew up with wistful stories my parents told of…
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Having passengers shuffle down the jetway and fumble their way into the cramped seats of a commercial flight is one of the most time-consuming,…
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Offering everything from Michelin-endorsed dim sum to juicy smoked goose served in a world-renowned restaurant, Hong Kong is home to some of the…
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Saying that the Sydney Opera House is a well-known icon of Australia is kind of like saying the Amazon is a…
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By Senay Boztas (CNN) — Six paintings stolen from an old town hall in the small coastal town of Medemblik in north Holland have been returned via…
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Julia Buckley, CNN (CNN) — Due to set sail from Istanbul on November 1, the three-year cruise was meant to be a smooth sail across the globe…
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By Suyin Haynes, CNN (CNN) — Photographer Chloe Sherman had rarely used social media, until a chance discovery by her daughter prompted her to…
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By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — What do you get when you feed bacteria with industrial fruit waste? “A yellow leather jacket” might not be…
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By Oscar Holland, CNN (CNN) — On October 20, 1973 — exactly 50 years ago this Friday — the Sydney Opera House was opened to great fanfare…
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By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — The developers behind Miami’s glittering Waldorf Astoria supertall have unveiled the first look at the…
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By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — To become a “master” authenticator at Fashionphile — the highest level of training to weed out designer…
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“It might sound strange, but I’m going to show you the toilets,” said Ellen van Loon, the RIBA-award winning Dutch architect tasked with…
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By Nathan Kay, CNN (CNN) — For more than 120 years, the Matild Palace has stood over the Elisabeth Bridge, welcoming those who cross the Danube…
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By Chris Liakos and Maya Szaniecki, CNN Paris (CNN) — Eight airports in France were forced to evacuate on Wednesday for security reasons.…
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By Aurore Laborie, CNN Paris (CNN) — The Moomin characters may be internationally famous, but a new exhibition in Paris shows a lesser-known…
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By Karla Cripps, CNN (CNN) — Cambodia’s newest and biggest airport opened to commercial operations in the province of Siem Reap in the…
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By Oscar Holland, CNN Singapore (CNN) — Barcelona has retained its grip on the World’s 50 Best Bars list as intimate cocktail joint Sips…
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By Francesca Street, CNN (CNN) — An easyJet flight was canceled and its passengers made to disembark after someone onboard the aircraft…
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An artsy quarter of Madrid, a sustainable pocket of Melbourne, and an up-and-coming zone in Medellin – what do these places have in…
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No matter what era of Madonna you first got to know her in — the fingerless gloves and crucifixes in the 1980s, the dominatrix alter ego of the…
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By Thomas Page, CNN (CNN) — Jack Fisk had an audacious request. The production designer behind “The Revenant” and “There Will Be…
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By Cathaleen Chen, CNN (CNN) — The radical transformation of Victoria’s Secret is over. The American lingerie chain has spent the last two…
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By Mayumi Maruyama and Kathleen Magramo, CNN (CNN) — Japan’s flag carrier had to make last minute changes to deal with excess weight – not…
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By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — Leonardo da Vinci was a painter, inventor and anatomist, to name just a few of his talents — and now, you can…
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Zero-emission cars are soaring in popularity but running an electric vehicle is next to impossible in places with limited charging…
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By Francesca Street, CNN (CNN) — Flight attendant Cynthia Heck finished up the safety demonstration and walked through the cabin, confirming…
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This week in travel news: An ancient Italian site, a hefty European tourist tax and a bunch of bears in Alaska all got…
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By Helen Stoilas, CNN Greenwich, Connecticut (CNN) — Sharon Stone throws herself into her art. For years, her chosen medium was performance,…
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Silvia Marchetti, CNN (CNN) — There’s an island off the coast of Rome where locals have been living in cozy grottoes since the dawn of time.…
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Julia Buckley, CNN (CNN) — Venice may be known as La Serenissima, but for those who have encountered her resident seagulls, the experience can…
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By Blane Bachelor, CNN (CNN) — Dermatologist Zeina Nehme says her clinic usually sees a number of cases every summer in which patients have…
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By Scottie Andrew, CNN (CNN) — Louise Glück, the former US Poet Laureate and 2020 Nobel Prize awardee whose deceptively simple poems revealed…
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You’d be forgiven for thinking the resurgence of airships and blimps was a load of hot…
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The 20th annual installment of Frieze — London’s biggest and most influential art fair — has officially…
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Classical Greek marble sculptures today appear crisp and white. But they weren’t always that way, according to a new study, which found the famous…
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By Thomas Page, CNN (CNN) — “Did she do it?” The question has lingered on audiences’ lips ever since Palme d’Or winner “Anatomy of a…
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By Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN (CNN) — After dealing with the death of her mother, losing her job of 10 years and finalizing her divorce,…
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By Christy Choi, CNN (CNN) — This year’s Miss Universe pageant will feature at least two trans women for first time, after 23-year-old flight…
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By Lilit Marcus, CNN (CNN) — “Love is strong, but our bolt cutters are stronger,” reads a new Facebook post from Grand Canyon National Park…
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By Forrest Brown, CNN (CNN) — From parking their vehicles for the day to purchasing annual passes, visitors to Disneyland Resort in Anaheim,…
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Julia Buckley, CNN (CNN) — As overtourism continues to throttle European cities, one destination has taken a step against cruise ships,…
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Anne Pinto-Rodrigues, CNN (CNN) — From dramatic humpback breaches to enthralling dolphin acrobatics, a springtime visit to the Azores is…
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By Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — The US State Department is warning Americans to reconsider travel to Israel in the wake of the weekend’s…
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By Eve Brennan, CNN (CNN) — A British Airways flight from London to Tel Aviv made an abrupt U-turn shortly before it was due land in the…
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By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — As Juul’s popularity began to surge in 2016, the sleek USB-shaped e-cigarette was seemingly everywhere…
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Voting is over in Katmai National Park & Preserve’s annual Fat Bear Week contest, in which the public picks from 12 big ‘n’ bulky bears in an…
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By Natty Kasambala, CNN London (CNN) — It was a painting in the lobby of a Benin hotel last year that changed the way Afrobeats star Mr Eazi…
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By Scottie Andrew, CNN (CNN) — Though he may not wear his hair quite as tall and unkempt as he once did, and he’s ditched the smeared…
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By Richard Quest and Joe Minihane, CNN (CNN) — It’s a place that oozes sophistication, bonne humeur and joie de vivre, conjuring up an air of…
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By Jessie Yeung and Emiko Jozuka, CNN Tokyo, Japan (CNN) — In an ink illustration, two siblings clutch their worldly possessions — a few bags…
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By Niamh Kennedy and Sharon Braithwaite London (CNN) — Flights at London’s Luton Airport are due to resume hours after the break out of a…
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By Nell Lewis, CNN (CNN) — A spooky image of a mushroom, a beached orca taking its final breaths, and a pair of Nubian ibex battling on a…
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By Sowmya Krishnamurthy (CNN) — Chanel’s 1991 Fall-Winter ready-to-wear show was set in Paris, but its soul was right off the streets of New…
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By Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN (CNN) — They were only planning to drop in on a friend, but the lives of Robin Johnson and Jim Thaman changed…
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By Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — A regular fixture in the style press, LA-born actor Chris Pine is a consistently top ranking name across best…
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By Oscar Holland, CNN (CNN) — Clips of David and Victoria Beckham are flooding social media this week with the release of Netflix’s…
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Barely a day goes by without railways making the headlines in…
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By Elena Goukassian Following several years of planning, a pandemic closure, a temporaryreopening and a $67.5m makeover, the National Museum of…
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This week in travel news: one country might ban airplane pilots from wearing perfume, the world’s most popular unfinished building edges closer to…
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The last place Madeline Robson expected to meet her future husband was her friend’s bachelorette…
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It sounds like a mathematical problem. How do you make one of the world’s most famous ancient sites…
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By Lilit Marcus, CNN (CNN) — Fighting continues to rage between Israeli forces and Hamas militants following the Islamist militant group’s…
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Over large swaths of the Americas this month and next April, too, all eyes will be on the skies during two spectacular…
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By Rebecca Cairns, CNN (CNN) — Parked at the curbside of a tree-lined street, Luvly O looks a lot like any other small car. Boxy but sleek, the…
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By Leah Asmelash, CNN (CNN) — Almost 200,000 books are being used to train artificial intelligence systems by some of the biggest companies in…
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By Raja Razek, Nouran Salahieh, Conor Powell and Taylor Romine, CNN (CNN) — The Maui County Council has voted unanimously in favor of a…
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By Alex Rees, CNN (CNN) — Maybe it’s the ascendance of fast fashion or the increasing reach of industry conglomerates, often seen at the…
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By Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — Customs workers at a Minnesota airport discovered a traveler had brought a unique souvenir in her luggage: Giraffe…
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By Forrest Brown, CNN (CNN) — Parts of West Maui are still on track to begin a phased reopening to tourists starting Sunday, October 8 – but…
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By Robb Young and Graciela Martin (CNN) — In the ad campaign for Loewe’s latest “Paula’s Ibiza” collection, the singer Karol G is seen…
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By Samantha Tse, CNN Paris, France (CNN) — It was an emotional nine days in Paris. The energy was high even though many attendees were tired…
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By Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — An American man has been arrested in Israel on suspicion of “the deliberate defacement” of valuable…
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By Karla Cripps, CNN (CNN) — In today’s not-so-golden era of domestic air travel, checking a suitcase for free is a luxury afforded to few.…
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To many, the southern Dalmatian coast is…
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A painting valued at $15,000 just two years ago is now expected to fetch up to $18 million at auction after being identified as the work of the Dutch…
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By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — Selena Gomez was in full bloom at her inaugural Rare Impact Fund Benefit on Wednesday, wearing a…
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By Callum Sutherland, CNN (CNN) — As their populations dwindle worldwide, photographing leopards in the wild is becoming increasingly…
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By Lilit Marcus, CNN (CNN) — Tokyo’s Shibuya Crossing is the busiest intersection in the world, with five crosswalks interlacing through 10…
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By Jane Sit, CNN (CNN) — Following the success of “Squid Game” on Netflix and “Pachinko” on Apple TV+, “Moving” has landed Disney+…
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