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By Francesca Street, CNN (CNN) — Mike Grossman was adamant he wasn’t going to fall for anyone in Australia. After all, he’d only be in…

By Oscar Holland, CNN (CNN) — On October 4, 1883, the legendary Orient Express departed Gare de l’Est in Paris for the very first time,…

By Christian Edwards, CNN (CNN) — The 2024 Nobel Prize in literature has been awarded to Han Kang, a South Korean author, for her “intense…

By Chris Lau, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Tucked away in a residential neighborhood in the west of Hong Kong, the Kennedy Town Playground’s…

By Stephy Chung, CNN (CNN) — The Great Wall of China has inspired countless works of art in its more than 2,000-year history. Among the most…

By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — Though often underappreciated, menswear has been undergoing a renaissance on red carpets and runways. Next year,…

By Christian Edwards and Saskya Vandoorne, CNN (CNN) — Air France has opened an investigation into how a jet flying from Paris to Dubai went…

By Jack Guy, CNN London (CNN) — An auction house in England has withdrawn human remains, including shrunken heads and ancestral skulls, from…

By Joseph Ataman and Caroline Baum, CNN Paris (CNN) — A large French alpine ski resort faced with declining snowfalls is to close after it…

By Zoe Whitfield, CNN (CNN) — Despite the ugly realities of war, military-adjacent aesthetics have enjoyed a long affiliation with the fashion…

By Natasha Chen, CNN (CNN) — Disneyland fans woke up Wednesday morning to find about a 6% price increase on most park tickets and a price…

By Jack Guy, CNN London (CNN) — A magical underwater image of western toad tadpoles has won the 2024 Wildlife Photographer of the Year…

CNN, KATMAI NATIONAL PARK, EXPLORE.ORG, SHANE GROSS , WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR, ALEXIS TINKER-TSAVALAS , KATMAI NATIONAL PARK/EXPLORE.ORG,…

By Forrest Brown, CNN (CNN) — In an exciting and personal rematch from last year, 128 Grazer and 32 Chunk faced off again in the final round of…

By Michelle Watson and Forrest Brown, CNN (CNN) — Hurricane Milton is prompting closure of some of Florida’s biggest and most beloved tourist…

By Mark Johanson, CNN (CNN) — What is the highest mountain on Earth? Turns out the answer to that question is more debatable than you might…

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — A lift technician at a museum in the Netherlands mistakenly threw away a piece of artwork made to look like two empty…

By Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — “You do not lose your feminine qualities just because you are a prime minister,” Margaret Thatcher told British…

By Karla Cripps, CNN (CNN) — Things got unexpectedly racy onboard a recent Qantas flight when an R-rated film was played on all the…

By Marnie Hunter and Sharif Paget, CNN (CNN) — A computer problem with the train that shuttles passengers between concourses at Atlanta’s…

By Marnie Hunter, CNN (CNN) — JetBlue’s economy class passengers will no longer find hot meals on the menu aboard transatlantic flights. The…

By Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — There’s not much that is relatable about Meghan, Duchess of Sussex: from her rise to British royal notoriety to…

By Richard Quest and Joe Minihane, CNN (CNN) — Motorcycles whizz by in all directions. Street vendors ply their wares at every turn. To the…

By Francesca Street, CNN (CNN) — When baby pygmy hippo Moo Deng appeared on Molly Swindall’s social media feed for the first time, it was…

By Oscar Holland, CNN Singapore (CNN) — Tropical plants creep up vast structural columns and dangle from ledges, hundreds of feet above the…

By Amarachi Orie, CNN (CNN) — Dubai’s Emirates airline has banned pagers and walkie-talkies from its planes, following last month’s attacks…

By Holly Yan, CNN (CNN) — The 8,000-acre Biltmore Estate, Asheville’s biggest attraction that welcomes 1.4 million visitors a year, had…

By Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN (CNN) — To say that there have been many twists and turns in the tale of the three-and-a-half-year cruise is…

CNN By Helen Regan and Kocha Olarn, CNN Bangkok (CNN) — Flash floods swept through a popular elephant sanctuary in northern Thailand on…

By Chris Lau and Nodoka Katsura, CNN Tokyo (CNN) — Japanese toymaker MegaHouse has unveiled a miniature Rubik’s Cube — one so tiny that you…

By Helen Regan and Kocha Olarn, CNN Bangkok (CNN) — Flash floods swept through a popular elephant sanctuary in northern Thailand on Thursday,…

By Barbie Latza Nadeau and Antonia Mortensen, CNN Rome (CNN) — More than 180 people were evacuated Thursday from a Ryanair Boeing passenger jet…

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — Late planners in the United States hoping to travel abroad have a little more breathing room than they once…

By Marnie Hunter, CNN (CNN) — With the full extent of the devastation and loss of life still coming into view, tourism officials in states…

By Alice Pfeiffer, CNN Paris (CNN) — What role fashion can play in bleak times? As France — and much of Europe — grapple with the seemingly…

By Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN (CNN) — After spending eight years living in the United Arab Emirates before the birth of their daughter in the…

By Oscar Holland, CNN (CNN) — Construction of Saudi Arabia’s kilometer-high Jeddah Tower, which will become the world’s tallest skyscraper…

By Jemal Polson, CNN (CNN) — With her witty one-liners, meticulous style and comically stoic demeanor, it’s easy to see why “Desperate…

By Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN (CNN) — A painting discovered by a junk dealer in the basement of an Italian villa six decades ago is actually the…

By Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN (CNN) — It finally set off on a three-and-a-half-year cruise from Belfast, Northern Ireland on Monday night…

By Blane Bachelor, CNN (CNN) — In late August, UK television personality Kirstie Allsopp found herself in an unexpected media storm after a…

By Maggie Hiufu Wong, CNN (CNN) — Many of us of a certain age can still remember the first time we picked up a Nintendo Entertainment System…

By Forrest Brown, CNN (CNN) — The bracket for 2024’s Fat Bear Week contest was revealed Tuesday night, but only after a deadly bear-on-bear…

By Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN (CNN) — As he walked back to his hometown alongside his beloved dog Savannah after seven years on the road,…

By Ben Jones, CNN (CNN) — Sixty years ago, early in the morning of October 1, 1964, a sleek blue and white train slid effortlessly across the…

By Lilit Marcus, CNN (CNN) — The price of a smoother experience going through American airports has just gone up by 20%. US Customs and Border…

By Tamara Hardingham-Gill and Julia Buckley, CNN (CNN) — The ship was scheduled to set sail four months ago for a three and a half year cruise.…

By Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — First Rihanna’s bathrobe, now Gigi Hadid’s DHL tape dress — it seems that luxury fashion is looking right…

By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — Do we ever really truly know our parents? As children, it’s often hard to imagine that they had full and…

By Chris Lau, CNN (CNN) — New Zealand has reclaimed the world record for the largest mass Haka, with thousands packing a major stadium on…

By Aishwarya S Iyer Chandni Chowk was once the kind of neighborhood that people spoke about with awe. Built in the 17th century by Emperor Shah…

By Tacita Quinn, CNN (CNN) — Your business is our pleasure. Your pleasure is our business.” This was the slogan hung outside a Harvard dorm…

CNN By Oscar Holland and Gawon Bae, CNN (CNN) — Born almost a decade before the first Miss Universe contest was held in 1952, 80-year-old Choi…

By Oscar Holland and Gawon Bae, CNN (CNN) — Born almost a decade before the first Miss Universe contest was held in 1952, 80-year-old Choi…

By Francesca Street, CNN (CNN) — When a few weeks passed and Nana Prempeh still hadn’t heard from the guy she met on vacation, she turned to…

By Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — Celebrities have been out in full force this Paris Fashion Week as brands put not only their collections but their…

By Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN (CNN) — For Regina and John Zdravich, the Italian dream began more than 20 years ago, after a friendship with a…

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — A smiling elephant seal, a stuck squirrel and a contemplative chimpanzee are among the images shortlisted for this…

By Alice Pfeiffer, CNN Paris (CNN) — On the second day of Paris Fashion Week at the city’s Palais de Tokyo, a giant inflatable elephant…

By Christian House, CNN Los Angeles (CNN) — In a new show at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), the zany work of a nonagenarian…

By Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — On Monday, Kendall Jenner stepped out onto the L’Oréal Paris womenswear runway in a scarlet red Mugler gown that…

By Francesca Street, CNN (CNN) — While ticking famous landmarks off your bucket list is always a highlight of a city break, there’s also…

By Forrest Brown, CNN (CNN) — America is called a melting pot – and that’s certainly true of its food. The USA’s culinary history is that…

By Francesca Perry, CNN (CNN) — Andrew Holmes’ images of trucks on Californian highways are sun-drenched, saturated and sharp. Looking at the…

By Lilit Marcus, CNN (CNN) — For travelers, there’s a very specific image of Fiji that comes to mind: flawless white stretches of sand,…

By Scarlett Conlon, CNN Milan (CNN) — The strapline to the recent Spring-Summer 2025 shows at Milan Fashion Week should read: “expect the…

By Terry Ward, CNN (CNN) — New York City author Lisa Wixon always knew she had a path to EU citizenship through her maternal great-grandfather,…

By Amarachi Orie, CNN (CNN) — A diamond necklace that has been worn at two British coronations, and is thought to contain stones from the…

By Richard Quest and Joe Minihane, CNN (CNN) — Tree-covered peaks soaring from sparkling azure seas. Hiking trails that stretch for miles over…

By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — On a different timeline, the New York Stock Exchange might have been housed inside an imposing, Mayan…

By Chris Lau, CNN (CNN) — The US is returning 297 history-spanning antiquities stolen or smuggled from India, many dating back centuries.…

By Jack Guy and Joyce Jiang, CNN (CNN) — Hong Kong-based airline Cathay Pacific has banned two passengers from its flights after an argument…

By Joe Yogerst, CNN (CNN) — For those who find themselves awed by arid landscapes, there’s no place like Africa. The continent boasts nine…

By Lilit Marcus, CNN (CNN) — He’s a “walking feathery poop machine.” And he’s also a celebrity. Meet Pesto the king penguin. At just…

By Silvia Marchetti, CNN (CNN) — Relocating to another country is a dream come true for many people, yet when the language is a nightmare it…

By Lilit Marcus, CNN (CNN) — This week in travel news: why going on vacation could be better than using eye cream, how a hippopotamus became…

By Hannah Seligson, CNN (CNN) — Tell someone you’re going to Greece, and you’ll probably be asked “which Island are you visiting?”…

By Freya Rogers, CNN (CNN) — Applying makeup is a powerful ritual, deeply ingrained into our souls. Many little girls (or boys) have a story…

By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — In late 1965, at what’s now London Heathrow airport, a commercial flight coming from Paris made history by…

By Oscar Holland, CNN (CNN) — CNN’s coverage of the 1980 US presidential election, broadcast just five months after the network’s launch,…

By Alex Stambaugh and Manveena Suri, CNN (CNN) — A zoo in China has admitted its star attraction, two so-called pandas, are just painted dogs.…

By Forrest Brown, CNN (CNN) — Twice a year, the sun doesn’t play favorites. Everyone on Earth is seemingly on equal status – at least when…

By Marnie Hunter, CNN (CNN) — JFK and Boston Logan airports will soon be home to JetBlue’s first airport lounges, the carrier announced…

By Julia Buckley, CNN (CNN) — For most people, dinner on a cruise ship is a time to relax. But when influencer couple Abby and Matt Howard…

Essay by Barry Neild, CNN (CNN) — I get that you all love coffee. I get that you think it tastes delicious and that the day only begins after…

By Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — Posing in your bathroom just received the Rihanna stamp of approval. At the UK launch of her latest beauty…

By Fiona Sinclair Scott and Leah Dolan, CNN London (CNN) — Against the backdrop of a challenging economic outlook for many brands — big and…

By Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN (CNN) — Buying a historic cruise ship he found on Craigslist back in 2008 was undoubtedly a life-altering…

By Marnie Hunter, CNN (CNN) — Huge crowds and high prices haven’t kept travelers at home. And many North American air travelers are still…

By Maureen O’Hare, CNN London (CNN) — The Capella Bangkok didn’t have the easiest of beginnings. It opened in 2020, in the first year…