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By Maureen O’Hare, CNN Among the clouds over 2022, we’re finding silver linings. Some popular countries for tourism are relaxing entry…
Continue ReadingBy Maureen O’Hare, CNN Among the clouds over 2022, we’re finding silver linings. Some popular countries for tourism are relaxing entry…
Continue ReadingBy Sara Spary, CNN A panel of prehistoric stone artworks, thought to be between 4,000 and 8,500 years old, have been “irreparably…
Continue ReadingBy Swati Gupta, CNN At least 10 passengers have escaped from an airport in the northern Indian city of Amritsar after testing positive for Covid-19,…
Continue ReadingJulia Buckley, CNN It’s the stuff of travel nightmares. Taking something precious on your trip, keeping it close to hand so you don’t…
Continue ReadingBarry Neild, CNN The pilot, who is just inches away from his passengers, reaches up and flicks the metallic toggle switches that fire up his engines.…
Continue ReadingJessie Yeung, CNN A 3,000-year-old cemetery containing the tombs of a wealthy clan has been uncovered in central China following two years of…
Continue ReadingJacqui Palumbo, CNN The short life and meteoric rise of artist Jean-Michel Basquiat will once again be told on the silver screen in an upcoming…
Continue ReadingBy Marnie Hunter, CNN Some members of a rowdy group shown dancing, drinking and vaping maskless aboard a flight to Cancun find themselves stranded in…
Continue ReadingBy Marnie Hunter, CNN Some members of a rowdy group shown dancing, drinking and vaping maskless aboard a flight to Cancun find themselves stranded in…
Continue ReadingJohn Walton, CNN During almost any other year, a look ahead to what the future holds for aviation would almost certainly be centered on exciting…
Continue ReadingHarmeet Kaur, CNN The past few months have been a whirlwind for Hoyeon Jung. The South Korean model-turned-actress shot to international fame almost…
Continue ReadingBy Jack Guy and Jeevan Ravindran, CNN A team of scientists is trying to find out why dozens of children were mummified and buried in catacombs at a…
Continue ReadingGawon Bae and Toyin Owoseje, CNN Kim Mi-soo, a South Korean actress who appeared in the Disney+ series “Snowdrop” and Netflix’s…
Continue ReadingBy Marnie Hunter, CNN Norwegian Cruise Line has announced the cancellation of voyages on eight ships, citing “ongoing travel…
Continue ReadingBy Marnie Hunter, CNN The year is off to a rough start for air travelers. Widespread cancellations, tied in part to the spread of the Omicron variant…
Continue ReadingBy Karol Suarez and Stefano Pozzebon, CNN Rio de Janeiro has canceled its world-famous Carnival street parades due to a surge in Covid-19 cases, the…
Continue ReadingTamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN England has ditched its requirement for pre-departure tests for inbound travelers in the latest shake up to Covid…
Continue ReadingTamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN England has ditched its requirement for pre-departure tests for inbound travelers in the latest shake up to Covid…
Continue ReadingOscar Holland, CNN With Covid-19 causing delays in construction schedules and project openings, compiling CNN’s annual architecture lookahead…
Continue ReadingJacqui Palumbo, CNN On Instagram or TikTok, if you’ve seen a Dove wipe-dispensing bra, footwear made of tennis balls or a toasty bread hat with…
Continue ReadingFrancesca Street and Teele Rebane, CNN More than 3,000 passengers and crew members were held on a major cruise liner in Hong Kong on Wednesday after…
Continue ReadingFrancesca Street, CNN Photographer Jalil Najafov’s first thought when he saw the great white was: “Is that real?” It was August…
Continue ReadingBy Joe Sutton and Amy Simonson, CNN Amtrak passengers traveling through Virginia were delayed for about 30 hours Monday night after trees downed…
Continue ReadingBy Joe Sutton and Amy Simonson, CNN Amtrak passengers traveling through Virginia were delayed for about 30 hours Monday night after trees downed…
Continue ReadingTamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN The past year has proved to be yet another incredibly difficult one for airlines as the slump in air travel continued…
Continue ReadingBy Karol Suarez and Stefano Pozzebon, CNN Rio de Janeiro has canceled its world-famous Carnival street parades due to a surge in Covid-19 cases, the…
Continue ReadingBy Eric Cheung and Will Ripley, CNN Darryl Chan tested positive for Covid-19 when he landed in Hong Kong last month. More than two weeks later…
Continue ReadingFrancesca Street and Teele Rebane, CNN More than 3,000 passengers and crew members were held on a major cruise liner in Hong Kong on Wednesday after…
Continue ReadingAfter you finish your fries, eat the ketchup packet. When you add your pasta to boiling water, toss the bag into the pot,…
Continue ReadingFrancesca Street and Livia Borghese, CNN One of the largest cruise ships operating in the Mediterranean has become the latest to be hit by a Covid…
Continue ReadingJacqui Palumbo, CNN After you finish your fries, eat the ketchup packet. When you add your pasta to boiling water, toss the bag into the pot, too. If…
Continue ReadingBy Yong Xiong and Karla Cripps, CNN After nearly four years of construction, China’s longest underwater highway tunnel is now open to vehicle…
Continue ReadingLaura Smith-Spark and Francesca Street, CNN British-born Sikh army officer Preet Chandi has become the first woman of color to complete a solo…
Continue ReadingTravel is more challenging now than it has been in a long…
Continue ReadingBy Jessie Yeung, CNN A man who was abducted as a child in China more than 30 years ago has been reunited with his parents — thanks to social…
Continue ReadingBy Sana Noor Haq, CNN Footprints discovered on a beach in Wales are believed to have been made by an early dinosaur more than 200 million years ago,…
Continue ReadingBy Lilit Marcus, Forrest Brown, Julia Buckley, Karla Cripps, Tamara Hardingham-Gill, Marnie Hunter, Barry Neild, Maureen O’Hare and Francesca…
Continue ReadingOscar Holland, CNN | Teele Rebane, Lizzy Yee and Cheryl Ho Depicting a heap of screaming faces and contorted torsos, the “Pillar of…
Continue ReadingJacqui Palumbo, CNN On the last day of each year, it has become a ritual for large crowds to gather in the brightly lit chaos of New York’s…
Continue ReadingBy Sara Smart and Jeevan Ravindran, CNN After a woman tested positive for Covid-19 midflight, the bathroom became her seat for the next few hours.…
Continue ReadingBy Sara Smart and Jeevan Ravindran, CNN After a woman tested positive for Covid-19 midflight, the bathroom became her seat for the next few hours.…
Continue ReadingJacqui Palumbo, CNN Each year, over one million people visit Neuschwanstein, a 19th-century castle in the Bavarian alps, famous for its Romanesque…
Continue ReadingTamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN The launch of the new Orient Express La Dolce Vita might still be a while off, but it seems as though the highly…
Continue ReadingScottie Andrew, CNN Poet Amanda Gorman has released a new work, just in time for the year’s end. And like her most famous poem, “The Hill…
Continue ReadingMarianna Cerini, CNN When Dubai-based Basma Abu Ghazaleh launched her luxury ready-to-wear brand Kage in 2009, she said she could count the number of…
Continue ReadingJulia Buckley, CNN The first thing it resembles — this private, manmade island, straddling the Adriatic Sea and the Venetian lagoon — is…
Continue ReadingOscar Holland, CNN Predictions for the future have not always been entirely accurate. If sci-fi author Philip K. Dick’s classic novel “Do…
Continue ReadingBy Paul P. Murphy and Steve Almasy, CNN A Los Angeles woman is facing a federal assault charge after allegedly hitting and spitting on another…
Continue ReadingReuters New crystals from Irish company Waterford have joined over 2,000 sparkling triangles covering the ball that drops over New York’s Times…
Continue ReadingMarianna Cerini, CNN Year two of the pandemic was, in many ways, just as challenging and weird as the first. That said, in-person events made a…
Continue ReadingBy Paul P. Murphy and Steve Almasy, CNN A Los Angeles woman is facing a federal assault charge after allegedly hitting and spitting on another…
Continue ReadingDavid McElhinney Perhaps surprisingly, fewer than 10% of the 6,852 islands making up the Japanese archipelago are inhabited. But among those 400 or…
Continue ReadingBy Forrest Brown, CNN Computer glitches. Awful weather. Staffing shortages. Holiday crunches. So many things can cause a flight to be delayed or…
Continue ReadingBy Forrest Brown, CNN It has been a tough slog for some air travelers ever since the winter holidays rush — and it may not be over soon. Citing…
Continue ReadingFrancesca Street and Livia Borghese, CNN One of the largest cruise ships operating in the Mediterranean has become the latest to be hit by a Covid…
Continue ReadingOscar Holland, CNN | Joe Sutton, CNN and Carma Hassan, CNN Artist Wayne Thiebaud, whose paintings breathed color into the everyday symbols of…
Continue ReadingBy Jason Hanna, CNN At least four ocean cruise ships were turned away from ports of call or were prohibited from letting passengers disembark in the…
Continue ReadingBy Jason Hanna, CNN At least four ocean cruise ships were turned away from ports of call or were prohibited from letting passengers disembark in the…
Continue ReadingBy Alaa Elassar and Sonnet Swire, CNN While the number of people flying out of US airports this year has matched, and at one point exceeded, 2019…
Continue ReadingBy Maureen O’Hare, CNN As Omicron grips the world, the only person enjoying frictionless global travel this Christmas is Santa, thanks to his…
Continue ReadingBy Maureen O’Hare, CNN As Omicron grips the world, the only person enjoying frictionless global travel this Christmas is Santa, thanks to his…
Continue ReadingCNN Staff If you’re planning to travel to New Zealand, here’s what you’ll need to know and expect if you want to visit during the…
Continue ReadingBy Carma Hassan and Jason Hanna, CNN A Carnival cruise ship that departed Miami has “a small number” of people aboard who have tested…
Continue ReadingBy Carma Hassan and Jason Hanna, CNN A Carnival cruise ship that departed Miami has “a small number” of people aboard who have tested…
Continue ReadingBy Terry Ward, CNN Ever since the movie “Moana” first hit theaters, 8-year-old Mathias Pascal from Cuxac-d’Aude, France, has…
Continue ReadingFrancesca Street, CNN On Christmas morning 2011, Linda Wenger boarded a Metro-North train from New York’s Grand Central Station to head upstate…
Continue ReadingBy Stella Chan, CNN A woman who punched a flight attendant on a May Southwest Airlines flight from Sacramento to San Diego pleaded guilty to…
Continue ReadingBy Laura Ly and Jason Hanna, CNN Next week’s New Year’s Eve celebration in Times Square will be “scaled back,” with fewer…
Continue ReadingHelen Regan, Wayne Chang, Teele Rebane and Karen Smith, CNN For more than 20 years the “Pillar of Shame” sculpture stood as a memorial to…
Continue ReadingMarianna Cerinni, CNN The Middle East nation of Qatar has announced an ambitious plan to expand its public art program as it prepares to play host to…
Continue ReadingJacqui Palumbo and Scottie Andrew, CNN Acclaimed American writer Joan Didion, an essayist and novelist who rose to prominence in the 1960s, has died…
Continue ReadingLeah Dolan, CNN The literary landscape has never been richer or more reflective of our present moment. Compassionate depictions of the ongoing…
Continue ReadingTamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN The notion of what the world would look like if humans were to vanish has been explored extensively by scientists, as…
Continue ReadingBy Melissa Alonso and Aya Elamroussi, CNN A Royal Caribbean cruise ship was denied entry into two island nations after 55 fully vaccinated crew…
Continue ReadingOscar Holland, CNN In the 40-year history of the official White House Christmas ornament, produced annually by the White House Historical Association…
Continue ReadingLeah Dolan, CNN As the trend for Y2K-inspired fashion continues to resurface wardrobe staples from 20 years ago, it was only a matter of time before…
Continue ReadingWhile many of the world’s most popular tourist destinations are expected to reopen to travelers in 2022, there are still some places that will be…
Continue ReadingFor the past six months, the days have grown shorter and the nights have grown longer in the Northern Hemisphere. But that’s about to reverse…
Continue ReadingReuters A giant straw Yule goat in the Swedish town of Gavle, 200 miles northwest of Stockholm, was set ablaze on December 17 for the first time in…
Continue ReadingMegan C. Hills Remember when Bruce Willis’ character in “Die Hard” fought a group of terrorists at an office Christmas party,…
Continue ReadingBy Forrest Brown, CNN For the past six months, the days have grown shorter and the nights have grown longer in the Northern Hemisphere. But…
Continue ReadingBy Lilit Marcus, CNN While many of the world’s most popular tourist destinations are expected to reopen to travelers in 2022, there are still…
Continue ReadingSeveral European countries have been forced into lockdown over the past few days as the highly-contagious Omicron variant continues to spread at an…
Continue ReadingTamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN Omicron is continuing to spread at an alarming rate across Europe and governments are once again being forced to make…
Continue ReadingJulia Buckley, CNN Flying into Venice, on the right hand side of the airplane, you’ll see the city unfurl beneath you: a mass of terracotta…
Continue ReadingJulia Buckley, CNN Flying into Venice, on the right hand side of the airplane, you’ll see the city unfurl beneath you: a mass of terracotta…
Continue ReadingBy Andy Rose and Francesca Street, CNN Despite stringent measures supposed to minimize Covid outbreaks on ocean cruises, operator Royal Caribbean…
Continue ReadingBy Andy Rose and Francesca Street, CNN Despite stringent measures supposed to minimize Covid outbreaks on ocean cruises, operator Royal Caribbean…
Continue ReadingThomas Page, CNN Julia Ducournau lights a cigarette, as if to punctuate her point. The French writer-director had been musing about love in her film…
Continue ReadingJacqui Palumbo, CNN When you think of an engagement ring, what do you picture? Perhaps a sparkling solitaire stone, or a halo of smaller gems…
Continue ReadingBy Sarah Fortinsky and Amir Vera, CNN Despite a rise in Covid-19 cases and new restrictions emerging across the country, travelers at US airports do…
Continue ReadingDespite a rise in COVID-19 cases and new restrictions emerging across the country, travelers at US airports do not appear to be deterred from…
Continue ReadingHilary Clarke, CNN | Jonny Hallam, CNN Pritzker Prize-winning architect Richard Rogers, whose landmark buildings include the Centre Pompidou in…
Continue ReadingJeevan Ravindran, CNN A stunning gold-wrapped jar crafted out of rock crystal has finally been uncovered in its entirety, revealing a Latin…
Continue ReadingJacopo Prisco, CNN Beloved by passengers for its spaciousness and comfort, but disliked by airlines because of its running costs, the Airbus A380 has…
Continue ReadingFrancesca Street, CNN For Kristy Burns, her partner Annette Demel and close friend Lynn Edminston, hitting their 50s and 60s marked a beginning, not…
Continue ReadingFrancesca Street, CNN The last Airbus A380 ever made has been delivered to Emirates, marking the end of an era for the superjumbo that was once…
Continue ReadingOne of the greatest luxuries when we fly is space: the space to stretch out, relax, work and sleep while flying seven miles above the Earth at nearly…
Continue ReadingJoseph Ataman and Francesca Street, CNN UK travelers are to be banned from traveling to France for tourism and will instead be required to present a…
Continue ReadingJohn Walton, CNN One of the greatest luxuries when we fly is space: the space to stretch out, relax, work and sleep while flying seven miles above…
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