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By Marnie Hunter, CNN An AeroMéxico flight from Toronto to Mexico City was diverted to Houston early Thursday morning to remove three passengers who appeared to be intoxicated. AeroMéxico Flight 617 landed at George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston at 3:42 a.m., according to flight tracking site FlightAware. The passengers, two men and a woman,

By Pete Muntean and Marnie Hunter, CNN The reservation system that is the backbone of airlines around the world has terminated its agreement with Aeroflot, crippling the majority government-owned carrier’s ability to sell seats. The technology company Sabre says Aeroflot has been removed from its global distribution system, meaning Russia’s largest airline will not be

Oscar Holland, CNN An NFT of Ukraine’s flag has raised over $6.7 million for the country’s defenses as cryptocurrency donations continue to flood in following the Russian invasion. Organized by UkraineDAO, an initiative backed by a member of the Russian activist group and feminist punk band Pussy Riot, the sale saw thousands of users bid

Nick Remsen, CNN The stars shone brightly at Off-White’s Fall-Winter 2022 show, with fashion and celebrity powerhouses Kendall Jenner, Gigi Hadid, Bella Hadid, Serena Williams, Karlie Kloss, Naomi Campbell and Joan Smalls all walking for the label. But it was another high-profile model moment that stole the limelight: mother-and-daughter duo Cindy Crawford and Kaia Gerber

By Peter Wilkinson, CNN The closure of Europe’s skies to Russia’s airplanes has created real problems for travelers trying to fly both to and from the country as it continues its invasion of Ukraine. That’s led to a scramble for the last planes in and out. For some passengers it was a race against time

By Joe Sutton, Pete Muntean and Karla Cripps, CNN As a growing number of countries move to ban Russian flights from their airspace due to the ongoing invasion in Ukraine, officials in Canada say they are planning to launch an investigation into an Aeroflot flight from Miami to Moscow that entered Canadian airspace Sunday. “We

Marianna Cerini, CNN The ‘new’ vision for Bottega Veneta began with a white tank top and a pair of jeans — the first look to open the Italian label’s Fall-Winter 2022 collection in one of Milan Fashion Week’s most-anticipated shows. The outfit was deceptively simple, but a closer look revealed the trousers to be actually

Mark Eveleigh, CNN The chopper rose smoothly from Maun Airport and we hurtled ahead over Thamalakane River. I knew it was a ‘river’ only because I could see a bridge — there was nothing about the sandy ribbon of dust to suggest it had ever been touched by water. It was hard to imagine that,

Megan C. Hills, CNN Celebrities including Lady Gaga, “Squid Game” star Jung Ho-yeon, and Jared Leto arrived on the silver carpet at the 28th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards, dressed to the nines. The show, which is being held this year at the Barker Hangar in Los Angeles, kicked off the awards season in style

Julia Buckley, CNN In one of the most famous paintings in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy, Federico da Montefeltro gazes at his wife, Battista Sforza, as they stand in front of the landscape over which they ruled. Undulating hills rise to volcano-like peaks on which towns perch. The ragged Apennine mountains stalk the horizon,

John Walton, CNN Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and aviation bans are creating huge no-go areas in the sky, with major implications for long-haul carriers that normally criss-cross the skies of Eastern Europe en route to Asia. All this could have significant consequences for passengers, airlines and the cost of flying if Europe and Russia revive

Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN Airbus just moved one step closer to launching the world’s first zero-emission commercial aircraft by 2035. The French aircraft maker has announced plans to test hydrogen fuel technology using a modified version of one of its A380 jetliners, which were discontinued last year. Airbus has partnered with CFM International, a joint venture

Jacopo Prisco, CNN Deep inside a shaft in the cemetery of Abusir, near Cairo, a team of Egyptian and Czech Egyptologists has found a significant cache of equipment used more than 2,500 years ago to embalm mummies. The set includes 370 pottery storage jars and several smaller vessels, making it the largest of its kind

By Gregory Wallace and Pete Muntean, CNN The airspace over Ukraine and its border with Russia is empty, according to flight tracking websites, with heavy air traffic apparently avoiding the region as evening set in on Thursday, local time. Images from ADS-B Exchange showed no aircraft over Ukraine, though the open-source site cannot display tracking

Maggie Hiufu Wong, CNN Imagine a 5.5 kilometer garden path (3.51 miles), about twice the length of New York’s High Line, sprawling up the twisted façades of two towers, one of which rises more than 300 meters into the sky. That’s what will greet visitors to STH BNK by Beulah — a new dual-tower “greenscraper”

By Marnie Hunter, CNN There are more than 420 sites in the US National Park System, but only 63 carry the headliner — capital N, capital P — “National Park” title. The most visited of those, Great Smoky Mountains National Park in North Carolina and Tennessee, welcomed a record-setting 14.2 million recreation visits in 2021.

Tamara Thiessen, CNN The steamy, jungle-covered tropical island of Borneo was once considered one of the remotest, wildest places on earth. A place where orangutans and headhunters lurked undisturbed. Together with neighboring Sumatra, it’s one of just two places in the world where the orangutan lives in the wild. For decades, forestry and agriculture have

Oscar Holland, CNN and Yuki Kurihara, CNN Having a family portrait taken by Haruhiko Kawaguchi comes with one unusual condition: That he wrap your entire house in plastic and then vacuum-seal you into an airtight bag. From there, the Tokyo-based photographer has just seconds to capture the images he needs before setting his breathless subjects

By Melanie Radzicki McManus, CNN After watching so many impressive Olympic performances, you may be inspired to ratchet up your fitness routine or sports practice. You may even wish you could try an Olympic-caliber workout to see what it’s like. While there are several Olympic training centers in the United States reserved for elite athletes,

By Forrest Brown, CNN Venice knows the burden all too well. So does Amsterdam. And some of the most visited national parks in the United States are going through the same thing — the downside of being popular. It puts them in quite the jam, especially those with short, sought-after peak seasons and one-of-a-kind attractions.

Scottie Andrew, CNN There are few occasions in this life for which we can really dress to the nines — the Met Gala, if you’re a certain kind of famous, or Halloween for us regular folk. Add to that list the icy stage at the Winter Olympics. Figure skaters and ice dancers know it takes