Life

By Thomas Page, CNN (CNN) — Jack Fisk had an audacious request. The production designer behind “The Revenant” and “There Will Be Blood,” whose collaborations with Terrence Malick, Paul Thomas Anderson and David Lynch have made him the stuff of industry legend, was about to recreate a crime scene. Fisk was on location in Oklahoma

By Cathaleen Chen, CNN (CNN) — The radical transformation of Victoria’s Secret is over. The American lingerie chain has spent the last two years overhauling its hyper-sexualized image in a bid to regain cultural relevance and win back young consumers who preferred more on-trend upstarts like Savage X Fenty and Parade. There were some successes,

By Mayumi Maruyama and Kathleen Magramo, CNN (CNN) — Japan’s flag carrier had to make last minute changes to deal with excess weight – not from baggage, but from a group of passengers who just so happened to be sumo wrestlers. Japan Airlines (JAL) realized that two of its planes were at risk of exceeding

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — Leonardo da Vinci was a painter, inventor and anatomist, to name just a few of his talents — and now, you can add innovative chemist to the polymath’s many gifts. It turns out the master artist was more experimental with his renowned “Mona Lisa” than previously thought — and

By Helen Stoilas, CNN Greenwich, Connecticut (CNN) — Sharon Stone throws herself into her art. For years, her chosen medium was performance, but since the Academy Award-nominated actor picked up a paintbrush in the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, she hasn’t put it down. “I just get in this kind of trance,” Stone said

Silvia Marchetti, CNN (CNN) — There’s an island off the coast of Rome where locals have been living in cozy grottoes since the dawn of time. The shores and fishermen village of Ponza – the largest island of the Pontine archipelago, which sits offshore between Rome and Naples – are dotted with cave dwellings cut

Julia Buckley, CNN (CNN) — Venice may be known as La Serenissima, but for those who have encountered her resident seagulls, the experience can be anything but serene. The gulls are infamous for stealing food from anyone naïve enough to be eating outside, swooping down onto café terraces, breaking crockery, grabbing sandwiches out of walkers’

By Blane Bachelor, CNN (CNN) — Dermatologist Zeina Nehme says her clinic usually sees a number of cases every summer in which patients have been bitten by bedbugs while traveling. Yet surprisingly enough, she says none materialized this year. However, like anyone else not living under a rock, Nehme has seen the flurry of headlines

By Scottie Andrew, CNN (CNN) — Louise Glück, the former US Poet Laureate and 2020 Nobel Prize awardee whose deceptively simple poems revealed visceral truths about love, loss and survival, has died at 80. “Louise Glück’s poetry gives voice to our untrusting but unstillable need for knowledge and connection in an often unreliable world. Her

By Thomas Page, CNN (CNN) — “Did she do it?” The question has lingered on audiences’ lips ever since Palme d’Or winner “Anatomy of a Fall” premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May. Written and directed by Justine Triet and starring Sandra Hüller, the courtroom drama about a woman accused of killing her husband

By Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN (CNN) — After dealing with the death of her mother, losing her job of 10 years and finalizing her divorce, Barbara Barto was at a crossroads in her life. The 62-year-old, from Fort Worth, Texas, who had been working as an office manager, struggled to find another role and felt as

By Christy Choi, CNN (CNN) — This year’s Miss Universe pageant will feature at least two trans women for first time, after 23-year-old flight attendant Marina Machete was last week named Miss Portugal. Machete will compete for the crown at the 72nd Miss Universe competition in El Salvador this November alongside Rikkie Kollé, who in

By Lilit Marcus, CNN (CNN) — “Love is strong, but our bolt cutters are stronger,” reads a new Facebook post from Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona. In the post shared on social media earlier this week, the park management expresses concern about ‘love locks.’ These popular objects are padlocks that are hung from a

Julia Buckley, CNN (CNN) — As overtourism continues to throttle European cities, one destination has taken a step against cruise ships, restricting access to the port. Barcelona has closed its northern port terminal to cruise traffic, after an agreement with the local authorities to move ships further out of town. Cruise ships must now dock

Anne Pinto-Rodrigues, CNN (CNN) — From dramatic humpback breaches to enthralling dolphin acrobatics, a springtime visit to the Azores is synonymous with incredible sightings of whales and dolphins. The remote Portuguese archipelago, consisting of nine volcanic islands about 900 miles west of Lisbon, lies in the North Atlantic Ocean, putting it on the migration route

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — The US State Department is warning Americans to reconsider travel to Israel in the wake of the weekend’s deadly Hamas attacks. The agency raised its travel advisory level on Wednesday to Level 3: Reconsider Travel because of civil unrest and terrorism, advising that “the situation in Israel remains dynamic; mortar and

By Eve Brennan, CNN (CNN) — A British Airways flight from London to Tel Aviv made an abrupt U-turn shortly before it was due land in the Israeli city on Wednesday as the airline canceled all flights to the destination amid safety concerns. Flight BA165 from London’s Heathrow Airport was on the approach to Tel

By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — As Juul’s popularity began to surge in 2016, the sleek USB-shaped e-cigarette was seemingly everywhere overnight, with clouds of vapor and the audible crackle of a deep pull. If you were a millennial, brought up amid secondhand smoke in homes and restaurants in the ’80s and ’90s (like this

By Natty Kasambala, CNN London (CNN) — It was a painting in the lobby of a Benin hotel last year that changed the way Afrobeats star Mr Eazi thought about art. “I saw this piece by (Benin-based artist) Patricorel of two skeletons sitting on a bench,” the 32-year-old Nigerian music star told CNN in an

By Scottie Andrew, CNN (CNN) — Though he may not wear his hair quite as tall and unkempt as he once did, and he’s ditched the smeared eyeliner and all-black dress code, founding member of The Cure Lol Tolhurst still considers himself goth. Life looks vastly different now for Tolhurst, who played drums and keyboard

By Richard Quest and Joe Minihane, CNN (CNN) — It’s a place that oozes sophistication, bonne humeur and joie de vivre, conjuring up an air of elegance unlike anywhere else on Earth. This is the Côte d’Azur, the grand dame destination for European vacations. Stretching from Cassis to Menton in the far southeast of France,

By Jessie Yeung and Emiko Jozuka, CNN Tokyo, Japan (CNN) — In an ink illustration, two siblings clutch their worldly possessions — a few bags and suitcases bearing the label “13660.” The same digits are pinned to their clothing, denoting the number their family was assigned at the detention camp they are about to enter.

By Niamh Kennedy and Sharon Braithwaite London (CNN) — Flights at London’s Luton Airport are due to resume hours after the break out of a “significant” fire in the airport’s Terminal 2 parking lot, the airport said in a statement on Wednesday. The first flights were expected to depart from 3 p.m. local time, according

By Nell Lewis, CNN (CNN) — A spooky image of a mushroom, a beached orca taking its final breaths, and a pair of Nubian ibex battling on a clifftop are among the winning images of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2023 competition. This year’s grand title was awarded to French underwater photographer and marine

By Sowmya Krishnamurthy (CNN) — Chanel’s 1991 Fall-Winter ready-to-wear show was set in Paris, but its soul was right off the streets of New York City. A remix of Nancy Sinatra’s “These Boots Are Made for Walkin’” blared overhead as one thousand or so spectators, like “Rocky” actors Sylvester Stallone and Dolph Lundgren, gazed at

By Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — A regular fixture in the style press, LA-born actor Chris Pine is a consistently top ranking name across best dressed lists. There was the red velvet Etro suit jacket Pine paired with a matching pussybow shirt for the 2022 Vanity Fair Oscar Party, or of course his fashion forward,

By Oscar Holland, CNN (CNN) — Clips of David and Victoria Beckham are flooding social media this week with the release of Netflix’s “Beckham” documentary. But while Victoria’s eponymous clothing label is, today, a credible fashion fixture, and David is a dapper style icon, it wasn’t always that way. For one thing, who can forget

By Elena Goukassian Following several years of planning, a pandemic closure, a temporaryreopening and a $67.5m makeover, the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) in Washington, DC, officially reopens on 21 October, showcasing reconfigured galleries and event spaces, as well as a cleaned exterior. An ambitious new exhibition, “The Sky’s the Limit,” will welcome visitors back

By Rebecca Cairns, CNN (CNN) — Parked at the curbside of a tree-lined street, Luvly O looks a lot like any other small car. Boxy but sleek, the modern-classic aesthetic of the cream-colored vehicle embodies Scandi minimalism. It wouldn’t look out of place in an IKEA showroom — for more reasons than one. That’s because,

By Leah Asmelash, CNN (CNN) — Almost 200,000 books are being used to train artificial intelligence systems by some of the biggest companies in technology. The problem? No one told the authors. The system is called Books3, and according to an investigation by The Atlantic, the data set is based on a collection of pirated

By Raja Razek, Nouran Salahieh, Conor Powell and Taylor Romine, CNN (CNN) — The Maui County Council has voted unanimously in favor of a resolution urging Hawaii’s governor to delay the October 8 reopening of West Maui to tourism. “Opening up on the exact date that marks two months from the fire is not trauma-informed,”

By Alex Rees, CNN (CNN) — Maybe it’s the ascendance of fast fashion or the increasing reach of industry conglomerates, often seen at the expense of smaller labels and independent creatives. It could be due to the frenetic turnover of brands and microtrends spinning amid social media-forward news cycles — what’s that old adage, “one

By Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — Customs workers at a Minnesota airport discovered a traveler had brought a unique souvenir in her luggage: Giraffe feces. The passenger arrived at the Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport from Kenya on September 29, according to a news release from US Customs and Border Protection. “The passenger declared giraffe feces

By Forrest Brown, CNN (CNN) — Parts of West Maui are still on track to begin a phased reopening to tourists starting Sunday, October 8 – but the action comes with some controversy. A portion of the popular Hawaiian island was devastated by deadly wildfires in early August, and some residents of hard-hit Lahaina have

By Robb Young and Graciela Martin (CNN) — In the ad campaign for Loewe’s latest “Paula’s Ibiza” collection, the singer Karol G is seen emerging from the sea in a white slip dress, waves reflected in sunglasses that set off her (then) flame-red hair as she gazes into the horizon. The image, captured on Colombia’s

By Samantha Tse, CNN Paris, France (CNN) — It was an emotional nine days in Paris. The energy was high even though many attendees were tired after a long season of shows across New York, London and Milan — and with unpredictable weather in each city. Paris proved to be no different. Bursts of rain

By Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — An American man has been arrested in Israel on suspicion of “the deliberate defacement” of valuable sculptures at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, Israeli police have confirmed. The unnamed 40-year-old was arrested after police were called to reports from security personnel at the cultural institution in Jerusalem. According to

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — Selena Gomez was in full bloom at her inaugural Rare Impact Fund Benefit on Wednesday, wearing a hand-embroidered purple dress from designer Rahul Mishra. With loosely sculptural pieces resembling a lush flower’s petals, the floral minidress was comprised of thousands of meticulously placed amethyst-colored sequins that flowed over the

By Callum Sutherland, CNN (CNN) — As their populations dwindle worldwide, photographing leopards in the wild is becoming increasingly difficult. It is also becoming harder to imagine a secure future for one of nature’s most captivating animals. Through her Remembering Wildlife project, British photographer Margot Raggett is fighting against this trend. She started the initiative

By Lilit Marcus, CNN (CNN) — Tokyo’s Shibuya Crossing is the busiest intersection in the world, with five crosswalks interlacing through 10 lanes of car and bus traffic. But the local government would like it to be one of the safest, which is why they have asked people to refrain from celebrating Halloween there. The

By Jane Sit, CNN (CNN) — Following the success of “Squid Game” on Netflix and “Pachinko” on Apple TV+, “Moving” has landed Disney+ its first Korean hit. The star-studded Disney+ Original has become its most successful K-drama globally and the most popular on Hulu in the US, beating out the likes of Star Wars and

By Funmi Fetto, CNN London (CNN) — A young, elegantly dressed Black woman wears a small but determined smile on her face. Graffiti on the door next to her reads “KEEP BRITAIN WHITE”. The photograph, taken by Jamaican-born photographer Neil Kenlock forms an arresting part of a new exhibition at “The Missing Thread, Untold Stories of

Christian Edwards and Ed Upright, CNN (CNN) — The 2023 Nobel Prize in literature has been awarded to Jon Fosse for “his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable,” the Swedish Academy announced in Stockholm on Thursday. Fosse, 64, was born on the west coast of Norway. His work consists of around