FBI returns looted artifacts found in Massachusetts attic to Japan
By Amy Woodyatt, CNN (CNN) — The FBI has returned a trove of looted Japanese art to its country of origin after a family found a stash of…
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By Amy Woodyatt, CNN (CNN) — The FBI has returned a trove of looted Japanese art to its country of origin after a family found a stash of…
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By Terry Ward, CNN (CNN) — For all the stories of American families who’ve bid adieu to the United States to give their kids a different…
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By Christian House, CNN (CNN) — As accidental adverts for art shows go, a giant pooch made of flowers is a crowd pleaser. Outside the…
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By Matt Villano, CNN (CNN) — Visitors love Las Vegas for the glitz, glam and garishness of the resorts that line the 4.2-mile Las Vegas Strip,…
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By Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN (CNN) — Look at almost any modern high-horsepower supercar and you will see the work of auto designer Marcello…
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Essay by Yemisi Aribisala, CNN (CNN) — Femi Oyebade, a Nigerian diasporan for more than 30 years and a Guinness beer connoisseur, assures me…
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Do you know your Gearóid from your Gobnait? Your Fearghal from your…
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A football floats on the surface of the Atlantic Sea; it looks like new from above the water, but below a huge collection of barnacles have attached…
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Christian Friese was standing in the arrivals area in Honolulu Airport, Hawaii, peering at a large airport…
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By Francesca Street, CNN (CNN) — Long lines. Feeling bleary-eyed and exhausted after an overnight flight. Scrambling to get your documents…
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By Lilit Marcus, CNN (CNN) — Tourists to the Galapagos Islands will be asked to pay twice as much in entry fees from this year amid concerns…
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Nine years ago, Sethembile Msezane stepped on top of a plinth, wearing a black body suit and stiletto heels, her arms adorned with wings she…
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By Jennifer Hauser, CNN (CNN) — Royal Caribbean is suspending cruise ship ports of call in Labadee, on the northern coast of Haiti, as violence…
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In a man’s world, Katharine Hepburn often wore the pants. The Hollywood leading lady and trailblazer defiantly embraced menswear staples, amid…
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Valencia has long been one of Spain’s sunniest cities, thanks to its prime location on the Mediterranean. Now, it can also claim to be the most…
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Concorde, the world’s fastest commercial aircraft, has been making a rare journey – floating down New York’s Hudson…
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By Steffi Cao, CNN (CNN) — At the turn of the millennium, web-based technology was in a state of chrysalis. Google was just one of several…
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By Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — While there was an abundance of daring looks at the Oscars red carpet this year, one of the evening’s most…
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Here’s something for serious stamp collectors only. This summer, philatelists will have a chance to snag the rarest US stamp ever: the 1868…
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As she prepared for a risky spine operation around 18 months after sustaining injuries in a horrific 2011 car accident that left her in constant…
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After a first intervention for the fashion house’s seismic creative director John Galliano failed, Dior’s then-CEO Sidney Toledano staged a…
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What makes a street “cool?” Is it a plethora of restaurants, bars, cafes you can spend hours dipping in and out of? Is it independent stores,…
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By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — The disastrous Willy Wonka-inspired experience held in Glasgow, Scotland, last month has already been immortalized…
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By Hilary Whiteman, CNN Brisbane, Australia (CNN) — For more than a decade, Australian billionaire Clive Palmer has been the driving force…
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A man trying to swim to shore after his recreational sailboat capsized at Everglades National Park suffered an apparent bite from an American…
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By Dimitris Sideridis, CNN (CNN) — For miles on end, there is nothing but huge swathes of desert and the burning blue of the sky. In this…
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By Lyn Slater (CNN) — In the fall of 2019, I received an e-mail from a group of Parsons Fashion Design and Society MFA students who had been given…
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By Yoonjung Seo, CNN (CNN) — Ever since her 2020 birth, Fu Bao has been one of South Korea’s biggest celebrities, with fans eagerly following…
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CNN By Kathleen Magramo, Manveena Suri and Alex Stambaugh, CNN (CNN) — The pilot of a terrifying flight from Australia to New Zealand told…
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There are more than 8 billion people in the world. And about a quarter of them are fasting from sunup to sundown. Every day. For an entire…
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By Catherine Nicholls, CNN (CNN) — Three Belgian climate activists who were previously sentenced to prison for a protest targeting Johannes…
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By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — Archaeologists in Turkey have discovered groundbreaking evidence connecting prehistoric facial piercings to…
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More and more tourist hot spots are introducing visitor caps and entry fees to prevent overcrowding – and, whaddya know, it gives their coffers a…
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The popularity of the famous French delicacy of cuisses de grenouille, or frogs’ legs, is threatening the existence of certain frog species, a…
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The stars of the new “Wicked” movie appear to be gearing up for an epic “method dressing” press tour, having opted for color-coded looks on…
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By Lilit Marcus, CNN (CNN) — Bali, Indonesia is one of the world’s most popular vacation destinations. The streets tingle with the whizz of…
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The red carpet at Hollywood’s Dolby Theatre shimmered on Sunday, as the stars arrived at the Oscars in a flurry of sequins, sparkles and striking…
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By Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — There was something uncanny about Sydney Sweeney’s look at the Vanity Fair Oscars party last night. The wavy…
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By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — An awards ceremony curveball indeed: Emma Stone, winner of the Oscar for Best Actress for her performance in…
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By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — The cast of “Barbie” will go down in red-carpet history for their dedication to method dressing, as stars…
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By Marianne Garvey and Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — Billie Eilish, Finneas, Mark Ruffalo, Ava DuVernay, Ramy Youssef and Quannah Chasinghorse…
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By Ray Sanchez and Carlos Suarez, CNN (CNN) — Miami Beach may be breaking up with spring break, but spring break isn’t moving on just yet.…
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It’s been over a century since theater mogul Sid Grauman introduced the concept of the Hollywood red carpet at the 1922 premiere of “Robin…
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By Alex Rees, CNN (CNN) — Besting 111 of her fellow titleholders from across the globe, Krystyna Pyszková of the Czech Republic was crowned…
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By Julia Buckley, CNN (CNN) — How do you connect to the internet while barreling through the sky at 500 miles per hour? How can you brew hot…
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Jack Latham was on a mission to photograph farms in Vietnam — not the country’s sprawling plantations or rice terraces but its “click…
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By Terry Ward, CNN (CNN) — Some 130 miles north of Haiti’s capital of Port-au-Prince, which has been gripped by a wave of gang attacks, a…
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By Francesca Street, CNN (CNN) — The first time Jasmijn van Waalwijk van Doorn accompanied her pilot father, Jorrit van Waalwijk van Doorn, to…
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By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — From the gospel song title “We Shall Overcome” emblazoned on banners and buttons during the Civil Rights…
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By Christy Choi, CNN (CNN) — Spanish police said they have shut down an alleged forgery ring selling fake Banksy artworks across the US and…
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By Gisella Deputato and Thomas Page, CNN (CNN) — Rem Koolhaas is always looking for an exit. The Pritzker Prize-winning architect behind the…
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By Jamiel Lynch, CNN (CNN) — Miami-Dade County told the Dolphin Company, which runs the Miami Seaquarium, in a letter on Thursday that the…
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When Napoleon first encountered a Camembert cheese, legend has it, he was so delighted he kissed the waitress who plonked it in front of…
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Life in the United States is pretty expensive these…
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Hokkaido, Japan’s northernmost main island, is unlike anywhere else in the…
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CNN By Ana De Oliva, CNN (CNN) — Diamonds are the hardest material on Earth — and finding one in nature is comparably tough. For thousands of…
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The fountains at Bellagio Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas were paused after a rare bird stopped by for a…
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By Shawn Deng, CNN (CNN) — A flight in China was delayed by more than four hours on Wednesday after a passenger threw coins into the engine,…
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By Catherine Nicholls and Kocha Olarn, CNN Bangkok, Thailand (CNN) — An endangered red panda has been found alongside 86 other animals inside…
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By Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN (CNN) — As they walked through the stunning palazzo and gazed up at its frescoed ceilings, Kelly and Jesse…
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By Wayne Chang and Manveena Suri, CNN (CNN) — It’s about to get easier for some foreign travelers to visit China, with the government…
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By Susan Griffin, CNN (CNN) — When Helena Bonham Carter walked onto the set of 2012’s Dark Shadows movie, she was stinking of bourbon whiskey…
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By Pau Mosquera and Oscar Holland, CNN (CNN) — Gabriel García Márquez’s last novel, “Memories of My Melancholy Whores,” was published…
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By Ana De Oliva, CNN (CNN) — Diamonds are the hardest material on Earth — and finding one in nature is comparably tough. For thousands of…
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CNN By Milly Chan, CNN Hokkaido, Japan (CNN) — Hokkaido, Japan’s northernmost main island, is unlike anywhere else in the country. Fully…
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CNN By Milly Chan, CNN Hokkaido, Japan (CNN) — Hokkaido, Japan’s northernmost main island, is unlike anywhere else in the country. Fully…
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By Carlie Porterfield (CNN) — More than half of the countries that signed a declaration endorsing the Washington Principles — a set of…
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By Alice Pfeiffer, CNN Paris (CNN) — Although Paris Fashion Week is usually the talk of the town — and every social network — this week the…
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A new version of Italian artist Michelangelo Pistoletto’s “Venus of the Rags” has been unveiled in Naples after the original was destroyed in a…
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By Francesca Street, CNN (CNN) — Touching down in a destination via private jet, helicopter or yacht – or some combination of all three.…
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By Suyin Haynes, CNN (CNN) — Fashion writer Patrick Mauriès first met Karl Lagerfeld in 1981, after he quoted the fashion designer in a short…
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By Lilit Marcus, CNN (CNN) — Mount Fuji, a UNESCO World Heritage site and an icon of Japan, has put new regulations in place for climbers amid…
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By Jemal Polson, CNN (CNN) — “Cruel Intentions,” the 1999 teen drama which celebrates its 25th anniversary this week, tells the story of…
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By Oscar Holland, CNN (CNN) — In the Pritzker Prize’s 45-year history, no country has produced more winners than Japan. And on Tuesday,…
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By Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — It was the shirt that stole a generation of hearts and now it has sold for a swoonsome $25,000. The legendary…
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By Daniel-Yaw Miller, CNN (CNN) — When AC Milan took the field last month in a home game against Napoli — a clash of two of Italy’s most…
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By Alice Pfeiffer, CNN Paris (CNN) — Unscathed by the PETA protesters who disrupted her show, Victoria Beckham closed out the fifth day of…
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By Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — It began with a bellowing horn. Then out came singer Sam Smith, trudging onto the catwalk wearing a tartan shawl…
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It rains an average of 171 days per year in Singapore. But one hotel in the Lion City is taking a gamble to ensure that rain doesn’t spoil its…
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New Year’s Eve 2020 was peculiar for many of…
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In travel news this week: Circling the calendar for peak cherry blossoms, a very rare peek at post-pandemic North Korea and the insightful…
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By Oscar Holland, CNN (CNN) — Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates and Ivanka Trump were among the high-profile international figures who jetted to…
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By Matt Villano, CNN (CNN) — Leave it to Las Vegas to upstage Travis and Taylor, Usher and the most-watched Super Bowl ever. Sure, last…
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By Catherine Nicholls, Abel Alvarado and Nectar Gan, CNN (CNN) — Iceland has evacuated its world-famous Blue Lagoon due to nearby seismic…
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By Amy Woodyatt, CNN (CNN) — Victoria Beckham’s Paris Fashion Week show was disrupted by animal rights activists as they joined her models on…
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By Julia Buckley, CNN (CNN) — Ed Pierson was flying from Seattle to New Jersey in 2023, when he ended up boarding a plane he’d never wanted…
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By Hilary Whiteman, CNN (CNN) — Through oversized black-rimmed glasses, Iris Apfel for over a century surveyed the world with the confidence of…
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By Francesca Street, CNN (CNN) — Bianca Gignac was swimming under the stars, against a backdrop of colorful, cliffside houses, with a complete…
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(CNN) — Twenty-four floors up a Manhattan high rise, the photographer Ahn Jun sat on her windowsill one crisp day in 2008, dangling her leg…
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Ahead of the 2024 Mount Everest season, Nepal has announced a new requirement that all climbers must rent and use tracking chips on their…
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In the spring of 1888, New York socialite Eleanora Iselin welcomed the portrait artist John Singer Sargent into her home, feverish over the question…
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Crowded, hot, noisy, hectic – subway systems can test the sanity of even the most hardened urbanite, but can you imagine the world’s biggest…
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Airlines damaged or lost more than 11,000 passenger wheelchairs last year – and a new federal proposal seeks cut the inconvenience for…
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By Dan Q. Dao, CNN (CNN) — An-My Lê doesn’t identify as a war photographer. Though her body of work across the last three decades deals…
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A little more than 10 years ago, in October 2013, a Wizz Air A320 arriving from Budapest made headlines by becoming the first commercial passenger…
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This year hasn’t started well for aviation safety, with a runway collision at Tokyo’s Haneda airport and a door plug blowing out mid-air from an…
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Kohl use in the Middle East and North Africa is as rich and varied as the region…
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By Lilit Marcus and Saki Toi, CNN (CNN) — Geisha and maiko (teenage apprentices training to become geisha) are women who perform Japanese…
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Archaeologists have unearthed a 2,000-year-old clay head that once belonged to a Roman figurine of the god…
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Families attending a Willy Wonka-inspired event in Glasgow, Scotland were promised “optical marvels” and “extraordinary props” for a £35…
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