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By Lisa Morrow, CNN Istanbul (CNN) — It’s been a prison, a fortress, an imperial treasury, and a desolate ruin. Over hundreds of years,…
Continue ReadingBy Lisa Morrow, CNN Istanbul (CNN) — It’s been a prison, a fortress, an imperial treasury, and a desolate ruin. Over hundreds of years,…
Continue ReadingBy Lex Harvey, CNN (CNN) — Most bus passengers know how annoying it is when a fellow commuter blasts music or has a loud conversation on…
Continue ReadingPraachi Raniwala Mumbai, India (CNN) — It’s no secret that Europe’s biggest luxury houses routinely rely on Indian craftspeople for some of…
Continue ReadingBy Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — Don’t put your bikini in storage just yet. There’s a new travel season just around the corner and…
Continue ReadingBy Fiona Sinclair Scott, CNN London (CNN) — How can a 170-year-old brand feel modern? The answer may lie in understanding the difference…
Continue ReadingBy Leah Dolan, CNN London (CNN) — This season, many of the designers showing at London Fashion Week seemed to want to remind us of one thing:…
Continue ReadingBy Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Items owned by French cultural icon Brigitte Bardot, including her copy of the Kama Sutra and pairs of her famous…
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By Adam Pourahmadi, CNN (CNN) — Small, shy and clad head-to-claw in black, New Zealand’s karure, or black robin, has been crowned the…
Continue ReadingBy Joe Yogerst, CNN As the MV Alejandrina docked along the waterfront of Quellón in southern Chile, a few dozen passengers rushed to reserve their…
Continue ReadingBy Oscar Holland, Alli Rosenbloom, Elizabeth Wagmeister, CNN (CNN) — The death of Cindy Crawford’s son, model Presley Gerber, is being…
Continue ReadingBy Marnie Hunter, CNN We’re all a little too preoccupied with the quest for the best — the best cheesesteak, the best taco, the best new…
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By Leah Asmelash, CNN | Photographs by Austin Steele, CNN Atlanta (CNN) — It was 4:54 p.m. — six minutes until So So Fed opened for Sunday…
Continue ReadingBy Lilit Marcus, CNN This week in travel: why hotels struggle to address noise complaints, the fake tourist attractions luring in visitors, and South…
Continue ReadingBy Barry Neild, CNN London (CNN) — Wars. Climate chaos. Soaring fuel prices. Disruptive passengers duct-taped to their seats. It’s not…
Continue ReadingBy Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — When Benjamin Rasmussen arrived at Theranos’ headquarters in Palo Alto, California, to photograph Elizabeth…
Continue ReadingBy Maya Baylis and Jack Bantock, CNN (CNN) — A stroll through Pepper Steps’ social media posts reveals all the hallmarks of a quintessential…
Continue ReadingBy Hilary Whiteman, CNN Brisbane, Australia (CNN) — French backpacker Zoe has been waiting tables for months. By doing so, she’s trying to…
Continue ReadingJing Zhang (CNN) — Modern design often veers into the sort of minimalism that comes across as tasteful and sophisticated, but bland. Yinka…
Continue ReadingBy Bianca Betancourt, Photographs by Marco Postigo Storel, CNN This New York Fashion Week served up something the city has in swathes: confidence.…
Continue ReadingBy Francesca Street and Gage Goulding, CNN (CNN) — One of the best things about a city break is when it starts to feel like a home away from…
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By Bianca Betancourt, CNN Every few seasons, New York Fashion Week is in need of a savior. Someone who shakes up what can often be a monotonous cycle…
Continue ReadingBy Maggie Hiufu Wong, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — My father’s very first memory of dining out was as a penniless child in rural China. A few older…
Continue ReadingBy Jacqui Palumbo, Oscar Holland | Photographs and Video by Grace Widyatmadja, Jennelle Fong (CNN) — Awards season kicked off on Monday as the…
Continue ReadingBy Zoe Sottile, Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — The legendary fashion and costume designer Bob Mackie, who dressed divas from Cher to Diana Ross in…
Continue ReadingBy Jay Gentile, CNN Aspen, Colorado (CNN) — Come for the five-star hotels, high-end boutiques and world-class skiing that have helped make…
Continue ReadingBy Oscar Holland, CNN Singapore (CNN) — One of history’s largest ever money laundering busts left officials in Singapore with a…
Continue ReadingBy Oscar Holland, CNN (CNN) — The head of American fashion’s leading trade association has taken a professional leave of absence after…
Continue ReadingBy Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — In our roundup of travel news this week, what five Americans discovered when they left the States for new…
Continue ReadingTanya Fevzi (CNN) — Remember when professional wrestler Joan Marie Laurer — better known by her ring name, Chyna — walked the Emmy Awards…
Continue ReadingBy Amarachi Orie, CNN (CNN) — Princess Diana’s head-turning “revenge dress,” which broke royal protocol and created a sensational pop…
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By Tanya Fevzi, CNN London (CNN) — A new sculpture has been unveiled in London’s Trafalgar Square, where it will stand for the next two…
Continue ReadingJen Rose Smith, CNN (CNN) — When Benjamin Galaz was 10 years old, a stranger arrived in Nacozari de García, a mining town in the Mexican state…
Continue ReadingBy Tanya Fevzi, CNN (CNN) — Liev Schreiber has always been terrified of chickens – it’s an anxiety that has plagued the “Ray Donovan”…
Continue ReadingBy Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Rome (CNN) — The city of Rome has revealed for the first time the biggest Roman wall mosaic ever found, and a…
Continue ReadingBy Charlotte Reck, CNN (CNN) — A portrait capturing an extraordinary moment between an adult seahorse and two newly born juveniles in French…
Continue ReadingBy Michel Ghanem (CNN) — In FX’s “The Shards,” a group of friends at an elite prep school in Los Angeles are entering their senior year…
Continue ReadingBy Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — Suzanne Schiltz was hungry. Cleaning is exhausting business, especially as a hotel chambermaid in Paris — one of…
Continue ReadingBy Jennifer Korn, CNN Cholpon-Ata, Kyrgyzstan (CNN) — It’s 4 p.m. on day two of the World Nomad Games, and eight horses are converging on a…
Continue ReadingBy Jack Guy and Saskya Vandoorne, CNN (CNN) — Thieves took less than five minutes to steal four paintings from the Renoir Museum in southern…
Continue ReadingBy Rhea Mogul, CNN (CNN) — The Eiffel Tower in Paris was closed on Monday as employees went on strike to protest claims female colleagues were…
Continue ReadingBy Jack Guy, CNN London (CNN) — A pilot project trialing a “calm space” for neurodivergent subway travelers in London has been met with…
Continue ReadingBy Georgiana Ralphs London (CNN) — London suburb Richmond-upon-Thames, on the western outskirts of the UK capital, has long been famous for its…
Continue ReadingBy Vivian Song Historic heat waves are putting French dairy cows that normally graze outdoors in summer under heat-related stress. Prolonged periods…
Continue ReadingBy Arimeta Diop, CNN. Photographs by Emmalee Reed, CNN. When actor Charity Bedu-Addo first read the script for “Shifters” — an intimate, Black…
Continue ReadingBy Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — In our roundup of travel stories this week: Top food destinations in Asia, America’s best town to visit…
Continue ReadingBy Jacqui Palumbo, Dan Heching, CNN Los Angeles (CNN) — In the gardens of the long-awaited Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, a 19th-century cast…
Continue ReadingBy Bianca Betancourt, CNN Britney Spears was ready to drop a new single. But how? It was 2001, and Spears was the biggest pop star in the world, with…
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By Francesca Street, CNN (CNN) — Chuck Pappas almost didn’t show at the archaeological museum in Athens that day. It was a busy, hot morning…
Continue ReadingBy Tanya Fevzi, CNN The Venice Film Festival, which typically sees Hollywood A-listers travel by boat to the little island of Lido every September,…
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By Jeanne Bonner, CNN (CNN) — On a work trip to Mississippi last year, Jason GaNun wound up trying three different hotel rooms to get some…
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