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By Janelle Davis and Foren Clark, CNN His mission was a complicated one: Tell the complex story of the late Anthony Bourdain, a man he had never met.…
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By Janelle Davis and Foren Clark, CNN His mission was a complicated one: Tell the complex story of the late Anthony Bourdain, a man he had never met.…
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Jacopo Prisco, CNN The very first FIFA World Cup final, contested by Uruguay and Argentina in 1930, started with a disagreement: Who would supply the…
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Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN It’s not every day that you spot a cruise ship for sale on Craigslist. So Chris Willson was immediately intrigued…
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By Amarachi Orie, CNN Emperor penguins releasing millions of micro-bubbles from their feathers, children’s dresses hanging on a laundry line on…
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Reuters Costa Rica’s Juan Santamaria International Airport reopened on Thursday hours after a Boeing 757-200 cargo aircraft operated by DHL…
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Abby Baggini, CNN Artwork worth $46 million has been seized by Finnish Customs on its return to Russia, according to a statement from the government…
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Julia Buckley, CNN It’s where the “flight shame” movement was born and no wonder — Europe is home to a superb rail network,…
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Francesca Street, CNN The travel industry has pitched in to help house some of the millions of people who have fled conflict in Ukraine over the past…
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Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN Everyone has their own way of dealing with heartbreak. Some turn to their friends for support, some turn to TV streaming…
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Francesca Street Gigantic cruise ships are a marvel of the modern age, but when it comes to steering these oceangoing titans through stormy seas,…
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Oscar Holland, CNN The topic of masculinity — and perceived threats to it — appears to be increasingly sensitive in today’s China.…
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Francesca Street, CNN Most airplane exteriors look more or less the same — white backdrop, bold lettering, company logo — but every now…
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Sana Noor Haq, CNN A set of rare notebooks filled with notes by Charles Darwin have been anonymously returned to the University of Cambridge, over 20…
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Oscar Holland, CNN and Junko Ogura, CNN One of Japan’s most distinctive works of contemporary architecture, the Nakagin Capsule Tower in Tokyo,…
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Leah Dolan, CNN Artists Megan Thee Stallion and Dua Lipa took to the stage on Sunday night to present the award for Best New Artist at the 64th…
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Vasco Cotovio, Frederik Pleitgen, Byron Blunt and Daria Markina, CNN Its fuselage is a charred and twisted gaping hole. Its gigantic wings are…
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Its fuselage is a charred and twisted gaping hole. Its gigantic wings are slumped to the ground, one of its engines burned and…
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Leah Dolan, CNN Artists Megan Thee Stallion and Dua Lipa took to the stage on Sunday night to present the award for Best New Artist at the 64th…
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Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Doja Cat is up for eight awards at the 2022 Grammys, and the rapper and singer arrived on the red carpet in a sheer, sea…
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Oscar Holland, CNN Contributors: Angie Orellana Hernandez, CNN and Jacqui Palumbo, CNN The Grammy Awards have a reputation for attracting bolder,…
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Oscar Holland, CNN Contributors: Angie Orellana Hernandez, CNN and Jacqui Palumbo, CNN The Grammy Awards have a reputation for attracting bolder,…
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Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Lil Nas X may have taken a stripper pole to hell in his music video for “Montero (Call Me By Your Name),” but his…
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Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Doja Cat is up for eight awards at the 2022 Grammys, and the rapper and singer arrived on the red carpet in a sheer, sea…
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By Zoe Sottile, CNN Betty Reid Soskin, the National Park Service’s oldest active ranger, retired on Thursday, just a few months after…
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By Zoe Sottile, CNN Guests at a Kentucky hotel won’t have to worry about who’s watering their plants while they’re away on…
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By Saeed Ahmed, CNN There are about 7.6 billion people in the world. And around 24% of them — 1.8 billion — are fasting from sunup to…
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By Saeed Ahmed, CNN There are about 7.6 billion people in the world. And around 24% of them — 1.8 billion — are fasting from sunup to…
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By Megan Marples, CNN Some mistakes are hard to shake. For over 100 years, one of the most famous archaeological sites in the world, Machu Picchu,…
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By Nadeen Ebrahim and Isil Sariyuce, CNN As Russia’s war rages in Ukraine, its impact on the Middle East is beginning to stretch beyond the…
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By Nadeen Ebrahim and Isil Sariyuce, CNN As Russia’s war rages in Ukraine, its impact on the Middle East is beginning to stretch beyond the…
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Jacqui Palumbo, CNN The form-fitting bodysuits and undergarments that make up shapewear have become a lucrative business, with Spanx valued at $1.2…
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By Megan Marples, CNN An evil fox spirit is on the loose after breaking free from her rock prison — that is, if you believe in Japanese…
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Aya Elamroussi, CNN | Jacqui Palumbo, CNN A miniature unpublished manuscript written by Charlotte Brontë when she was 13 years old will go on sale…
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Oscar Holland, CNN French fashion photographer Patrick Demarchelier, who is known for his iconic images of some of the 20th century’s most…
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By Forrest Brown, CNN Of the many safety measures that Disney Parks had to set up to operate during the Covid-19 pandemic, requiring guests to keep a…
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Francesca Street, CNN When Tiffany Woods met Bridgette, she was at a crossroads. It was February 1987 and Tiffany was 23. She’d got married two…
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Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN He set off on a round-the-world trip in December 2012 and, nearly a decade later, traveler Tom Grond is still…
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By Maggie Hiufu Wong, CNN Though people in many parts of the world are heading back to the office and kids have returned to school, lockdowns…
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Jacqui Palumbo, CNN The form-fitting bodysuits and undergarments that make up shapewear have become a lucrative business, with Spanx valued at $1.2…
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By Forrest Brown, CNN It’s pretty much a yearly occurrence these days — some amusement park is setting a new roller coaster record. Maybe…
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Leah Dolan, CNN The day before covering a fashion week in virtual reality felt much like the day before any industry event, only instead of renting…
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Julia Buckley, CNN It’s huge, it’s wide, and it’s potentially a lot more sustainable. The Airbus A380, a behemoth of the skies, has…
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By Lilit Marcus, CNN Tuesday night, Den in Tokyo was given top honors by the World’s 50 Best group, recognizing it as the best restaurant in…
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Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Thirty years after families in northern Ukraine were forced to abandon their homes following the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in…
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By Marnie Hunter, CNN Mask mandates in the United States are speeding toward what could be their final frontier: transportation. In less than a…
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Jacopo Prisco, CNN Atop an idyllic hill in the Italian Riviera sits a tiny village with a big dream: becoming an independent nation. The Principality…
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Oscar Holland, CNN Contributors: Angie Orellana Hernandez, CNN After last year’s limited-capacity event, the Academy Awards returned in full…
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By CNN Staff After last year’s limited-capacity event, the Academy Awards returned in full force Sunday evening — and the red carpet was…
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By Zoe Sottile, CNN Florida’s got yet another spring breaker in town: Scot, a massive great white shark, has been recorded swimming off the…
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Zoe Sottile, CNN On most days, Rob Kempton guards the many beautiful works on display at the Baltimore Museum of Art — but this weekend,…
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Angie Orellana Hernandez, CNN The Academy Awards are all about who takes home the golden statuette, but also who looks best doing so. Celebrities…
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Julia Buckley, CNN On 24 February, as she watched the news of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Desislava Tosheva was staring at her couch.…
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Stephy Chung, CNN Korean culture has spread across the world like wildfire in recent years, with the hugely successful K-pop, K-film and K-beauty…
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By Lilit Marcus, CNN This week at CNN Travel, we’re eating our dinner out of the world’s coolest toothpaste tube, dreaming about sunny…
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Barry Neild, CNN A huge new subterranean railway whisked fare-paying passengers deep beneath the streets of London for the first time on Tuesday as…
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Aya Elamroussi, CNN | Seán Federico-O’Murchú, CNN When Vladimir Putin’s forces last approached a capital city, they leveled it. As the…
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Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN Superyachts have been making headlines for all the wrong reasons in recent weeks as more and more vessels linked to…
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Lisa Morrow, CNN Turkey’s Lycian Way crosses steep mountains covered in pines, carob and strawberry trees. It passes through 25 historical…
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Oscar Holland, CNN This week marks two decades since Hollywood served up one of its worst-received red carpets of all time. On a night of big wins…
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By Hilary Whiteman, CNN Australia’s Great Barrier Reef is suffering its sixth mass bleaching due to heat stress caused by climate change, the…
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By Paradise Afshar and Jamiel Lynch, CNN A man was arrested at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta Tuesday after he punched a…
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By Paradise Afshar and Jamiel Lynch, CNN A man was arrested at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta Tuesday after he punched a…
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By Forrest Brown, CNN This was supposed to be our big comeback year for travel with easier times ahead. With Covid-19 caseloads falling dramatically…
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Francesca Street, CNN Dawn Dixon was looking over New York City from one of its best vantage points: the top of the Empire State Building. As she…
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By Rachel Ramirez, CNN Since Russia closed its airspace to airlines from dozens of countries at the end of February — in response to sanctions…
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Jacqui Palumbo, CNN After Lebohang Kganye’s mother died at age 49, the South African artist began going through the things she’d left…
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By Forrest Brown, CNN This was supposed to be our big comeback year for travel with easier times ahead. With Covid-19 caseloads falling dramatically…
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Richard Quest and Joe Minihane, CNN Big, bold and, some might say, brash, Dallas is the epitome of Texas. Houston and San Antonio are home to more…
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Richard Quest and Joe Minihane, CNN Big, bold and, some might say, brash, Dallas is the epitome of Texas. Houston and San Antonio are home to more…
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Richard Quest and Joe Minihane, CNN Big, bold and, some might say, brash, Dallas is the epitome of Texas. Houston and San Antonio are home to more…
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Richard Quest and Joe Minihane, CNN Big, bold and, some might say, brash, Dallas is the epitome of Texas. Houston and San Antonio are home to more…
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Richard Quest and Joe Minihane, CNN Big, bold and, some might say, brash, Dallas is the epitome of Texas. Houston and San Antonio are home to more…
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By Maxime Tamsett, CNN The discovery of a 207-year-old whaling ship in the Gulf of Mexico is shedding light on the history of its Black and Native…
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Katie Hunt, CNN Stan, the world’s most complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton, sold for $31.8 million in 2020 — the highest price ever paid…
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Katie Hunt, CNN Stan, the world’s most complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton, sold for $31.8 million in 2020 — the highest price ever paid…
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Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Before film was invented, early portrait photographers first discovered the titillating pleasure of exposing images of nudes on…
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Oscar Holland, CNN In 1958, artist Yves Klein famously opened an exhibition called “The Void,” which saw him place a large cabinet in an…
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By Lucy Sherriff, CNN Brazil is famed for its thundering Iguaçu Falls in the south, the crescent-shaped Copacabana neighborhood with its dazzling…
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Jacqui Palumbo, CNN One of the most prominent architecture firms in the world is designing a new metaverse — a virtual city that hopes to be a…
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Oscar Holland, CNN One of Andy Warhol’s iconic Marilyn Monroe portraits could become the most expensive 20th-century artwork ever to go under…
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Jacopo Prisco, CNN The oldest registered trademark in the United States dates back to 1870, when it was filed by paint manufacturer Averill. Against…
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Oscar Holland, CNN Chinese Indonesian art collector Budi Tek, who was celebrated for forging cultural connections between China and the West, has…
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Jacopo Prisco, CNN The closure of Russian airspace to some international carriers, including many in Europe, has forced airlines to seek alternate…
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By Forrest Brown, CNN Few of us will ever have a way with words as Emily Dickinson, the Belle of Amherst, did: A Light exists in SpringNot present on…
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Leah Dolan, CNN | Max Burnell, CNN, Angelica Pursley, CNN A long cape in a light-catching dusty pink; a floral brocaded silk robe with a cinched…
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Leah Dolan, CNN | Max Burnell, CNN, Angelica Pursley, CNN A long cape in a light-catching dusty pink; a floral brocaded silk robe with a cinched…
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By Maureen O’Hare, CNN This week at CNN Travel, we look at the countries dropping all their Covid-related rules for entry, innovative airplane…
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By Gregory Wallace, CNN The high cost of fuel is making summer vacations more expensive — and staycations more appealing. But the travel…
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Francesca Street, CNN From an airplane concept with an “underwater” twist to an AI-based food scanner that moderates passengers’…
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By Marnie Hunter, CNN Devastating loss of life and growing uncertainty have the world very much on edge, but there is a bit of good news for…
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Fiona Sinclair Scott, CNN Ukrainian fashion brand Milla Nova, known for its decadent wedding gowns, is now producing attire for the country’s…
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By Maureen O’Hare, illustrations by Sarah-Grace Mankarious, CNN On forgotten walls of country churches or crumbling castles throughout Ireland,…
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Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Oscar Holland, CNN Stage curtains are closing, art exhibitions are being halted and performers are being replaced. Over the past…
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Silvia Marchetti, CNN Perhaps because it’s so darned delicious, there isn’t generally much radical experimentation done with Italian food…
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By Blane Bachelor, CNN With many travel restrictions finally relaxing in early 2022, Gabriele Antoni booked a trip she’s been wanting to take…
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By Blane Bachelor, CNN With many travel restrictions finally relaxing in early 2022, Gabriele Antoni booked a trip she’s been wanting to take…
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Oscar Holland, CNN One of the stars of Moscow’s Bolshoi Ballet, Olga Smirnova, has quit the company over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and…
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Jacqui Palumbo, CNN One of the UK’s largest architecture firms has unveiled plans for a verdant new “city within a city” in…
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Julia Buckley, CNN Just as passengers were feeling safe to get back on the water, a new problem has struck the cruise industry — in this case,…
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Oscar Holland, CNN Two years after promising to reexamine how it “portrays the American dream” amid the Black Lives Matter movement,…
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