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By Aya Elamroussi, CNN A woman suffered significant thermal burns from her shoulders to her feet while trying to save her dog who jumped into a hot spring at Yellowstone National Park, officials said Tuesday. The 20-year-old woman from Washington state was visiting the park in Wyoming Monday when she and her father exited their

Jack Guy, CNN Redacted lines from letters between Marie-Antoinette and her alleged lover have been revealed for the first time, using advanced scientific techniques. The letters, exchanged by the doomed French queen and Count Axel von Fersen of Sweden during the French Revolution, were analyzed by a team of scientists from the Centre de Recherche

By John Walton, CNN After a long, golden sunset of being installed on fewer and fewer aircraft, the retirement of older aircraft caused by the Covid-19 pandemic means that when air travel resumes, international first class will be very nearly a thing of the past. Its replacement is a new generation of superbusiness minisuites, more

Jacqui Palumbo, CNN This month marks 90 years since the Waldorf Astoria first opened its doors on New York’s Park Avenue in 1931, becoming the tallest and largest luxury hotel in the world during an inauspicious time, as the Great Depression cast its long shadow. The hotel’s famed Art Deco interiors have been the backdrop

Oscar Holland, CNN With China experiencing a museum boom, and cities of all sizes building cultural venues at unprecedented speed, there is something refreshingly modest about Li Hu and Huang Wenjing’s approach to architecture. The husband-and-wife duo, founders of Beijing-based practice Open Architecture, are responsible for some of the last decade’s most thought-provoking Chinese arts

By Leah Asmelash, CNN The leaves are changing color, there’s a slight crisp feeling in the air and the shelves are stocked with pumpkin spice everything. It all points to one thing: Fat Bear Week is here. Fat Bear Week is an annual competition, nay, celebration, of fat bears everywhere — although in this case,

By Lauren M. Johnson, CNN Many African cultures in the United States have been fighting to keep their traditions and unique way of life alive, and now, an online retail outlet is helping the Gullah community in Charleston, South Carolina, use tech to reach a wider audience. It used to be the only way to

By Alaa Elassar, CNN Celine Wysgalla remembers the first time she stepped foot into Crystal Gardens as a 5-year-old, her tiny body overshadowed by ancient trees that towered above her. For more than two decades, the indoor garden at Chicago’s Navy Pier has been a cherished escape from bustling city life, a reminder of the

By Hira Humayun, Wayne Chang and Jeevan Ravindran, CNN All foreign nationals entering New Zealand will need to be fully vaccinated from November 1, the government announced Sunday. Travelers will have to declare their vaccination status when registering with the country’s isolation system and provide proof of vaccination or exemption to their airline and customs

By Theresa Waldrop, CNN Noreen Wredberg and her husband, Michael, weren’t really expecting to find anything at Arkansas’ Crater of Diamonds State Park, she said, and she wasn’t sure what she had found when she picked up a stone. Turns out, it was a yellow diamond weighing 4.38 carats. “I didn’t know it was a

By Nimi Princewill, CNN News that fully vaccinated travelers from India and many African countries will face mandatory quarantine in the UK, despite a relaxation of the country’s inbound travel rules, has caused an outcry and accusations of discrimination. The UK’s revised travel advisory will take effect on October 4 and visitors from its list

Richard Quest and Joe Minihane, CNN Once upon a time in Scandinavia, a country emerged where the Covid restrictions that many other nations are still living under were completely lifted. Denmark’s decision to become the first European Union member to fully relax Covid-19 rules is thanks in large part to the successful way local traditions

By Scottie Andrew, CNN If you like scary movies — so much that you’d want to live inside of one for a night — you’re in luck this October. Airbnb is offering “Scream” superfans a stay at the home where much of the original film took place — and where Ghostface was first defeated. Oh,

By Rebekah Riess and Theresa Waldrop, CNN A passenger on a flight from Colombia used an emergency exit and walked out onto the wing of the plane at the Miami International Airport on Wednesday evening, Miami-Dade Police said. The plane had just landed and was getting into position at the gate, according to police. After

Nick Remsen, CNN Paris-based designer Rick Owens has been called many things in his long career. An antihero, a goth, fashion’s “prince of darkness.” He’s been labeled as such because of his proclivity for a largely noir, gray and ice-hued oeuvre, his deployment of pentagram motifs on underwear or elk antlers on furniture, and an

Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Each morning this past summer, artist George Condo arrived at his New York studio, turned on the same John Coltrane “Live in Sweden” CD that he’s worked to for years and began exorcising the figures in his paintings. Syncing with the increasing potency of Coltrane’s saxophone, Condo would hurl paint at the

By Jeevan Ravindran, CNN The discovery of a chamber at least 40,000 years old in a Gibraltar cave previously inhabited by Neanderthals could lead to groundbreaking new finds about their lifestyles, according to researchers. Archaeologists from the Gibraltar National Museum have been working since 2012 to find potential chambers and passages blocked by sediment in

By Lianne Kolirin, CNN A Tibetan-style cafe set up in Edinburgh, Scotland after its owner’s chance encounter with the Dalai Lama has been saved from closure by a successful crowdfunding campaign. When Reka Gawa’s landlord told her of his plans to retire and sell up, she feared she would have to close the cafe, which

Lianne Kolirin and Leah Dolan CNN It may have been a long time coming, but Tuesday’s world premiere of the new James Bond film did not disappoint. Stars of screen and stage turned out alongside British royalty for the glittering “No Time to Die” red carpet event at London’s Royal Albert Hall. The long-delayed movie,

Francesca Street, CNN Ignacio Nieto Carvajal and Miguel Piñas Rodríguez met by chance in a gay bar in Madrid, not long after Nieto Carvajal moved to the Spanish capital for work. Nieto Carvajal almost didn’t go out that night, but he says he’s so glad he did. “With Miguel, it was love at first sight,

By Marnie Hunter, CNN Finally, it’s Fat Bear Week — a most welcome week of healthy competition among brown bears. Alaska’s Katmai National Park and Preserve calls it “a celebration of success,” a March Madness style tournament, complete with a bracket, where you can vote on the heftiest brown bear in the bunch. The bears

Rob Picheta and Hada Messia, CNN A bronze statue depicting a scantily-clad female character from a 19th century poem has sparked debate in Italy, with some politicians calling the figure “an offense to women” and demanding it be removed. The likeness portrays a woman from the poem “The Gleaner of Sapri” by Luigi Mercantini. It

Steph Dyson, CNN The water is cold and shouting echoes across the river. As the boat approaches the rapids, a roar goes up to hold still, before a shout of “PADDLE” and the six rafters dig into the tumbling waters in an impressively synchronized display. As they are released by the rapids with barely a

Jacqui Palumbo, CNN With millions of refugees from Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq fleeing their homes over the last decade, images of despair — of people huddled on boats, of bodies washed ashore — also migrated across newspaper front pages and down news feeds. But in Mardin, Turkey, a city close to the Syrian border where

By Marnie Hunter, CNN Norway on Monday moved into the highest-risk category on the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s list of travel advisories for destinations around the world. The Scandinavian country moved up to “Level 4: Covid-19 Very High” just as the country relaxed most of its domestic Covid-related restrictions over the weekend.