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By Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — It’s been deemed the end of Adidas Sambas. Once hailed as the favorite shoe of Harry Styles, Kaia Gerber, Bella Hadid, Paul Mescal and even Rihanna, just to name a few, it’s now apparently all over for the 1950s three-striped sneaker. Why? Because UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was seen

Reuters Spain will scrap its so-called “golden visa” program granting residency rights to foreigners who make large investments in real estate in the country, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez told reporters on Monday. Ending the scheme would help make access to affordable housing “a right instead of a speculative business,” Sanchez said. The program awards non-EU

By Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — In one photo, Julo stares down the camera dressed in a tie-dye t-shirt, dreadlocks and a red snapback cap. In another, Adbul wears low-waisted jeans, a motorcycle jacket and a decadent fur scarf. Candace is pictured in a pair of Nike Air Jordans, her long platinum hair stark against

By Lilit Marcus, CNN (CNN) — As the 2024 Himalayan mountaineering season gets underway, another high-altitude project is in the works: removing tons of trash from Mount Everest. According to the Nepali army, the Mountain Cleanup Campaign collected 110 tons of waste between 2019, when the program started, and 2023. The army, which conducts the

The mashup of diverse landscapes begins rolling past your car window within 30 minutes of departing San Luis Potosí, the capital city of the Mexican state of the same name.

By Joan Kennedy (CNN) — It’s so hard to get your hands on an Hermès Birkin bag that it should be illegal. That’s according to two would-be Birkin buyers who filed a complaint against the French luxury brand in a Northern California district court on March 19. The plaintiffs have accused Hermès of exploiting the

By Catherine Nicholls, CNN (CNN) — New Zealand announced it has tightened its visa rules, introducing language and skill criteria and shortening work permit lengths in response to “unsustainable net migration.” The changes to the Accredited Employer Worker Visa (AEWV) scheme have gone into immediate effect, and will mean that New Zealand is “better testing

By Lianne Kolirin, CNN London (CNN) — A rental property secretly transformed by the eccentric artist who lived there for three decades has been officially protected by the British government, five years after his death. Shortly after Ron Gittins died in September 2019 at age 79, his family visited the apartment where he had lived

By David G. Allan, CNN (CNN) — “Do you know where IPAs come from?” I have asked many a friend, with my elbow angled upon the bar holding “exhibit B” in a pint glass, and hoping they don’t already know the answer. Heaven? The hop fairy? My dreams? All good guesses, but no. “When the

By Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN (CNN) — A sickening sense of deja vu flooded over Barb Handley and her siblings as news of the midflight blowout of an Alaska Airlines plug door – and the gaping hole it left behind – emerged in January. Images of the refrigerator-sized void conjured up heart-wrenching memories of the death

By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — Half a millennium ago, the Protestant rebel priest Martin Luther sent out a number of small paintings as a marital announcement with political implications. He’d commissioned German painter Lucas Cranach the Elder to commemorate his controversial union with the nun Katharina von Bora in 1525 through complementary round portraits

By Karla Cripps, CNN Bangkok, Thailand (CNN) — On the surface, Thailand’s annual Songkran festival appears to be just one great big water fight. Every April, people young and old take to the streets all over the country, armed with plastic guns and water buckets, and engage in hours-long battles from morning till dusk. And

By Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — If it wasn’t for the fact she was signing autographs outside the CBS studio in New York, many would have thought Billie Piper was attempting to go unnoticed. Like an old Hollywood film star caught on the fly, Piper was photographed on Tuesday evening in a pair of oval

By Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN (CNN) — Ellis Island’s museum is getting a 21st-century makeover, more than 100 years after millions of immigrants took their first steps in America there. A new $100-million project aims to revitalize the 125-year-old landmark with immersive and modern exhibits. Recently announced renovations and upgrades at the historic site also

By Amarachi Orie, CNN (CNN) — Renowned primatologist Jane Goodall turned 90 on Wednesday—and to mark the occasion, 90 female photographers have put their work up for sale for 90 days. A young woman positioned as a blooming night flower, polar bears seemingly hugging but actually play-fighting, and snow geese blasting off from a pond

By Barbie Latza Nadeau and Amarachi Orie, CNN (CNN) — The tiny, remote Italian island of Alicudi is home to only around 100 residents and, ideally, about 100 wild goats. This year, however, the ratio of humans to animals has become wildly unbalanced. The island has been overrun by six times its desired number of

By Melissa Alonso and Chris Boyette, CNN (CNN) — The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating why a Southwest Airlines plane veered off course and had a close call with an air traffic control tower during an attempted landing at New York’s LaGuardia Airport, the agency said Thursday. The incident happened around 1 p.m. on March 23 when

By Oscar Holland, CNN (CNN) — The deadly 7.4 magnitude earthquake that hit Taiwan on Wednesday and left at least 9 people dead, also damaged more than 100 buildings across the island, according to the National Fire Agency (NFA). About half of them were near the epicenter in Hualien County, where four structures partially collapsed.

By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — The basic design of commercial airplanes hasn’t changed much in the past 60 years. Modern airliners like the Boeing 787 and the Airbus A350 have the same general shape as the Boeing 707 and the Douglas DC-8, which were built in the late 1950s and solidified the “tube and

By Lilit Marcus, CNN (CNN) — For the first time since the pandemic, China is allowing foreign climbers to access Mount Everest via Tibet. Adrian Ballinger, who has summited Everest eight times, is one of the Western guides who prefers the Tibet route to the top of the world’s tallest mountain (from the north), as

By Jamiel Lynch, CNN (CNN) — Two people were injured when a Southwest Airlines flight encountered severe turbulence on Wednesday morning and had to make an emergency landing in Tampa, Florida, according to a spokesperson for Tampa International Airport. Southwest Flight 4273 was traveling from New Orleans to Orlando when the captain declared an emergency after

By Dhruv Tikekar, CNN (CNN) — When New Zealand’s populist Deputy Prime Minister Winston Peters strode out to address a political convention in the city of Palmerston North in March, the sound of British punk band Chumbawamba’s iconic song “Tubthumping (I Get Knocked Down)” blared over the speakers. And while this wasn’t the first time

By Marnie Hunter, CNN (CNN) — A New Orleans restaurant featuring a modern Senegalese tasting menu and an Ethiopia-born chef who studied psychology before turning to a culinary career are among the restaurants and chefs named as finalists for the coveted James Beard Awards. The finalists for the Restaurant and Chef Awards were announced Wednesday

By Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — A man has pleaded guilty to stealing a toilet made entirely from 18-carat gold and worth more than $6 million from the English stately home where wartime leader Winston Churchill was born. James Sheen, 39, pleaded guilty to burglary, converting or transferring criminal property and conspiracy to do the

By Brad Lendon, CNN Balanga, Philippines (CNN) — On the grounds of an elementary school in a small Philippine town, the fuse was lit on one of the worst war crimes of the 20th century while at the same time setting in motion one of the greatest survival stories in US military history. The main

By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — One summer evening in 1889, Arthur Conan Doyle and Oscar Wilde sat down for dinner at the Langham Hotel in London with J.M Stoddart, the American businessman and editor of Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine. By the time they left, Wilde had committed to writing “The Picture of Dorian Gray” and

By Briana Ellis-Gibbs, CNN (CNN) — For over a decade, the photographer Nona Faustine shot self-portraits in and around New York City, in many instances posing fully nude apart from a pair of crisp white pumps. Faustine’s captivating photographs immerse viewers into often-forgotten histories; the series, “White Shoes,” highlights the city’s historic role in the

By Oscar Holland, CNN (CNN) — German soccer authorities will redesign the number “4” on the country’s national jerseys amid claims it resembles a logo used by Nazi paramilitary units. The German Football Association (DFB) made the announcement Monday after social media users began using an online customization service to create shirts bearing the number

By Marnie Hunter, CNN (CNN) — Eight cruise passengers left behind in the African island nation of São Tomé and Príncipe have been struggling for days to catch up with their Norwegian Cruise Line ship as it makes its way up the western coast of Africa. The passengers were late getting back to the ship on March

By Helen Stoilas, CNN (CNN) — In the latter years of World War II, the New York art scene started coalescing around a group of artists including Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, visionaries who would develop a daring new movement known as abstract expressionism, which shifted the art world away from surrealism and its

By Sara Smart, CNN (CNN) — Part of a roadway on California’s Big Sur coast crumbled into the ocean over the weekend after part of a cliff gave way in what officials are calling a “slip out.” A portion of Highway 1 remained closed, according to a Sunday evening post from Caltrans District 5. All Big

KGO By Sara Smart, CNN (CNN) — Part of a roadway on California’s Big Sur coast crumbled into the ocean over the weekend after part of a cliff gave way in what officials are calling a “slip out.” A portion of Highway 1 remained closed, according to a Sunday evening post from Caltrans District 5. All

By Julia Buckley, CNN (CNN) — It’s known as the green heart of Italy because of its forested hills and landlocked location. But the region of Umbria, in central Italy, is about to become the beating heart of the country – or, even, the very fast beating heart – thanks to its new tourist attraction.

By Chris Lau and Moeri Karasawa, CNN (CNN) — Japanese moviegoers finally got the chance to see “Oppenheimer” this weekend, eight months after the biopic’s worldwide release, following concerns over how it might be received in the only country to directly experience the horror of nuclear weapons. The Oscar-winning blockbuster by British-American director Christopher Nolan

By Chris Dwyer, CNN (CNN) — When highlighting how the Japanese capital represents the pinnacle of global dining excellence, British chef Daniel Calvert of Sézanne once opted to use a soccer reference. “Tokyo really is the Champions League of cooking,” he said. Well if that’s the case, Calvert’s restaurant in the elegant surrounds of the

By Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — Earlier this month, a demonstrator aircraft for what could be the first new civil supersonic plane to be launched since the 1960s took to the skies. It’s a milestone moment in the highly anticipated new era of supersonic travel. The XB-1, a technology demonstrator aircraft built by Colorado-based Boom

By Rebekah Riess and Michelle Watson, CNN (CNN) — Moose, a dog that was supposed to be on an outgoing Alaska Airlines flight Tuesday from Raleigh-Durham International Airport, has been reunited with its owner after a “misstep in the cargo loading process,” the airline said. Moose did not make it onto the Tuesday flight and