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By Alaa Elassar and Andy Rose, CNN An orca that became stranded on a rocky beach in Prince of Wales Island, Alaska, Thursday morning was freed with the help of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and sailors who happened to be nearby. The stranded killer whale was first discovered on the rocks by

Leah Dolan, CNN In the new trailer for Ridley Scott’s “House of Gucci,” Lady Gaga strides through an Italian side street shrouded in furs and dripping in gold. “It was a name that sounded so sweet,” she says in a vocal fry, “so seductive.” Set in Italy in 1995, the fashion biopic centers on the

Skylar Mitchell Over the course of the last century, Washington, DC has positioned itself as a leader in arts and culture. The nation’s capital is home to a network of several dozen museums and galleries, including more than 20 devoted primarily to exhibiting visual art. Only a handful of galleries are Black-owned. Mehari Sequar, owner

CNN Staff If you’re planning to travel to Turkey, here’s what you’ll need to know and expect if you want to visit during the Covid-19 pandemic. The basics Turkey is currently enduring high numbers of Covid cases as the omicron variant continues to spread around the country. The county is largely open to visitors but

By Marnie Hunter, CNN Six guests have tested positive for Covid-19 on Royal Caribbean’s Adventure of the Seas cruise ship, the cruise line confirmed Friday. Four of the guests are vaccinated and two are unvaccinated minors, Royal Caribbean International said in a statement. The seven-night cruise departed from Nassau, Bahamas, on July 25. One of

Sara Spary, CNN A World War II Royal Air Force (RAF) pilot’s uniform is set to be sold at auction after it was discovered wrapped in newspaper dating back to 1951. The “mystery” parcel containing the jacket and pants was found in a house in a village in East Staffordshire, England. It had been unopened

Francesca Street, CNN It was October 2012 and Mae Edilyn Lumba Fortuna had temporarily left behind her busy life in Manila to vacation on the Filipino island of Boracay. With her friend Ivy in tow, Fortuna spent her evenings out dancing and her days lazing on Boracay’s spectacular White Beach. This particular morning, Ivy didn’t

By Madeline Holcombe, CNN The start of Chicago’s famed music festival, Lollapalooza, has stirred fears of a rise in Covid-19 cases as thousands gather for four days of performances. The festival, which kicked off Thursday, is expected to bring hundreds of thousands of people to Grant Park in downtown Chicago. But with nationwide concern over

By Rachel Ramirez, CNN Greenland is experiencing its most significant melting event of the year as temperatures in the Arctic surge. The amount of ice that melted on Tuesday alone would be enough to cover the entire state of Florida in two inches of water. It’s the third instance of extreme melting in the past

By Stella Chan and David Williams, CNN Air traffic controllers warned pilots to be on the lookout after a “man in a jetpack” was spotted near Los Angeles International Airport. “Use caution, the jet man is back,” an air traffic controller said in an audio transmission obtained by CNN. “Let me know if you see

By Gregory Wallace and Pete Muntean, CNN “Help!” yelled a flight attendant as she grabbed a knife-wielding man and wrestled to pin the knife against her hip. “I need help!” Then the struggle stopped. “Alright, let’s do it again,” the instructor said. “Reset!” The knife was made of rubber. The man was a fellow flight

Francesca Street, CNN A prehistoric solar observatory in the middle of a desert. A decades-old railway that bisects two soaring mountain ranges. Striking art etched into rocks that dates back 7,000 years. These are just some of the spectacular destinations newly inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List. After several days of online deliberations, the

Jeevan Ravindran, CNN The luxurious 16th-century London mansion that belonged to King Henry VIII of England’s notorious chief minister, Thomas Cromwell, has been recreated for the first time. Nick Holder, a historian and research fellow at English Heritage and the University of Exeter, conducted research into the 58-room mansion and worked with illustrator Peter Urmston

By Reuters Jerome Powell, this story’s for you. The Federal Reserve chair, always on the lookout for signs of inflation, might want to drop by Manhattan’s Upper East Side, where a $200 plate of french fries stretches the definition of haute cuisine. The restaurant Serendipity 3 already claims world records for the most expensive burger

By David Williams, CNN Extreme athlete Ray “Reza” Baluchi planned to spend the next three or four weeks on the Atlantic Ocean “walking” from Florida to New York in a hamster wheel-like vessel he calls his bubble. Equipment issues forced him to abandon the effort after less than a day and he came ashore in

By Lilit Marcus, CNN Vacation homes are one of those things that many people aspire to. And with house prices recently seeing double-digit percentage increases in 90% of US metro areas, along with other urban centers around the world, some of those fantasy properties in less expensive destinations are starting to look pretty appealing. Though

David Williams and Justin Lear, CNN A stolen painting by famed American artist Margaret Keane is back home with its original owners — including one of the women depicted in the portrait — almost 50 years after someone swiped it from a Honolulu dentist’s office. The owners had been searching for the painting, known as

By Aya Elamroussi and Rebekah Riess, CNN Tennessee officials voted Thursday to remove the bust of a Ku Klux Klan and Confederate leader Nathan Bedford Forrest from the State Capitol and into the Tennessee State Museum. “After more than a year in the making, this process has finally come to a close,” said Tennessee Republican

By Jeanine Barone, CNN Packing four bathing suits for a one-week vacation might seem like overkill. Especially when the trip involves a 50-plus-mile hike through one of Spain’s rainiest regions. The trail snakes atop soaring, rugged cliffs that drop precipitously to the sea, and our trek would be along a portion of shoreline known as

Chloe Melas, CNN While Billionaires Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos have embarked on their own space race this month, there’s one spaceman that has found its home in the Caribbean Sea. Created by artist Brendan Murphy, the 22-foot, 3,000-pound sculpture named “The Boonji Spaceman,” stands on a dock in the middle of the ocean at

By Ben Westcott, CNN The Australian government and a United Nations body faced off this week over whether the Great Barrier Reef is “in danger” of losing its “outstanding universal value” and its place on the World Heritage List. On Friday, the World Heritage Committee decided to not place the reef on a list of

Julia Buckley, CNN It’s famous for its docks, the Beatles, and its two world-renowned soccer teams — but now, Liverpool is going through a different kind of notoriety. The port city in northwest England — which built much of its fortune on slavery — has been stripped of its coveted UNESCO World Heritage status, after

By Julia Hollingsworth, CNN A 39-year-old man allegedly used a rope made from bed sheets to shimmy down from a fourth floor hotel room and flee Australian quarantine, police said. The man arrived in Western Australia from Brisbane on Monday afternoon, but didn’t meet the exemption requirements needed to enter the state, which currently has

By Amy Woodyatt, CNN Former US President Bill Clinton declined offers of tea with Queen Elizabeth and dinner at the British Prime Minister’s official country house because he wanted to “be a tourist,” go shopping and eat Indian food during his first official visit to the UK with Tony Blair as leader in 1997, according

By Amanda Jackson, CNN A ranger at Yosemite National Park is pleading to visitors to drive slow and stay alert after another bear was killed by a car. The warning to visitors was shared on the park’s website and Facebook account last week along with a heartbreaking photo showing a mama bear standing over the

Scottie Andrew, CNN “Patria o muerte” — “homeland or death.” It’s a phrase often emblazoned on Cuban pesos, one that was frequently invoked by former longtime leader Fidel Castro during the dawn of the country’s Communist revolution. Now, the familiar saying has been repurposed for the protest anthem “Patria y Vida,” or “homeland and life,”

By Jack Guy, CNN A “slip of the tongue” by an air traffic controller at Paris Charles de Gaulle airport saw two planes come within 300 feet of crashing into each other last July, according to a report released Tuesday. The incident on July 20, 2020, involved a United Airlines Boeing 787 arriving from Newark,

By Paula Newton, CNN The long wait will soon be over for foreigners who have been banned from entering Canada for nearly 16 months. Beginning August 9, fully vaccinated citizens and permanent residents of the United States currently residing in the US will be permitted to enter Canada. Non-essential travel into Canada has been banned

By Alaa Elassar, CNN Bekah King, Abi Roberts, and Morgan Tabor have a lot in common. They describe themselves as free spirited adventurers and fearless risk takers, all obsessed with music and the movie “Megamind.” They say they also unknowingly had the same boyfriend at the same time. Following their discovery, rather than succumbing to

By Lilit Marcus, CNN As long as humans have known of its existence, they have wanted to visit Antarctica. It is the world’s least visited, least populated continent. On the best day, it is extremely hard to get to. And yet, the appeal of the unknown and the desire to set foot on every continent

Thomas Page, CNN French filmmaker Julia Ducournau has become only the second female director to win the Palme d’Or, the Cannes Film Festival’s top prize, for her film “Titane.” In a shock moment, jury president Spike Lee announced the win in error early in the awards ceremony after a miscommunication. Gasps rang around the Grand

By Forrest Brown, CNN It’s not up to you after all, New York. And Chicago — the wind has been taken out of your deep dish sails. The honor of best pizza city in the United States goes not to those traditional standard bearers of pizza but instead to that innovative West Coast upstart of

Julia Buckley, CNN When England played Italy in the Euros 2020 soccer final on July 11, the images went around the world. Not just of the Italian team — who eventually won the game on penalties — and not just of the devastated England team. But of the scenes at Wembley, in London, where the