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By Lilit Marcus, CNN Riau Islands, Indonesia (CNN) — An urgent message lit up phones around the island: it was baby sea turtle o’clock.…
Continue ReadingBy Lilit Marcus, CNN Riau Islands, Indonesia (CNN) — An urgent message lit up phones around the island: it was baby sea turtle o’clock.…
Continue ReadingBy Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — John Galliano, the controversial British designer, will no longer be the subject of an exhibit linked to the Met…
Continue ReadingBy Oscar Holland, CNN (CNN) — Unmasked thieves smashed open a glass display case with a hammer before stealing a diamond-encrusted necklace…
Continue ReadingBy Silvia Marchetti, CNN Rome (CNN) — In the classic movie “Roman Holiday,” Gregory Peck’s American reporter encounters Audrey…
Continue ReadingBy Jeanne Bonner, CNN (CNN) — This week in travel news: A frenzy erupts over Italian pastries, a college town serves up serious pizza, plus…
Continue ReadingBy Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — Yayoi Kusama was an artist of many mediums — sculpture, painting, performance art and film — but many people…
Continue ReadingBy Elina Baudier Kim, CNN Paris (CNN) — Secluded under the rooftops of Paris’s renowned Haussmannian buildings — home to some of the…
Continue ReadingBy Jonathan Hawkins, CNN Taranto, Italy (CNN) — Greek legend tells the story of Taras, son of Poseidon, whose ship was wrecked while sailing…
Continue ReadingBarbie Latza Nadeau, CNN; Becky Anderson, CNN (CNN) — Tilman Fertitta, the US ambassador to Italy, wants everyone to see he has a very normal…
Continue ReadingBy Oscar Holland, CNN (CNN) — Yayoi Kusama, one of the world’s most celebrated and best-selling artists, has died age 97, according to a…
Continue ReadingBy Jacqui Palumbo, Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — Adorned in rhinestones and elevating her 5-foot stature with sky-high heels and voluminous blonde…
Continue ReadingBy Diego Mendoza, CNN (CNN) — A jersey worn by Michael Jordan during one of the most famous seasons of his career is going up for auction and…
Continue ReadingBy Julia Buckley, CNN (CNN) — Of the eight TripAdvisor reviews of the amphitheater near Arcugnano, in Italy’s northern Veneto region, all…
Continue ReadingBy Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — In our roundup of travel stories this week: A collapsing sandcastle that trapped a teenager, the Vatican…
Continue ReadingBy Stephy Chung, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — There’s a plucky little Qing Dynasty artifact that at first glance looks out of place among China’s…
Continue ReadingBy Bianca Betancourt, CNN In a world of manufactured pop princesses, how does a young artist achieve timeless, on-stage style? Olivia Dean’s answer…
Continue ReadingBy Stephen Lioy, CNN Saimaluu Tash Valley, Kyrgyzstan (CNN) — Under the dark canopy of night, the starry sky is reflected by the stones. Ten…
Continue ReadingBy Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN (CNN) — A normally peaceful Alpine refuge — “rifugio” — high in the Italian Dolomites has been overrun with…
Continue ReadingBy Lianne Kolirin, CNN Vusanje, Montenegro (CNN) — There are no obvious checkpoints or border crossings to disrupt the beauty of the Peaks of…
Continue ReadingBy Sheena McKenzie, CNN. Photographs by Sophie Green for CNN. Ramsgate, England (CNN) — For the past hour, Trudi Jackson has been painting on a…
Continue ReadingBy T.M. Brown, CNN (CNN) — Unless you have a passionate opinion about your preferred artificial intelligence model, it’s likely the clothes…
Continue ReadingBy Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — In our roundup of travel stories this week: why mosquitoes are getting better at outsmarting humans, the…
Continue ReadingBy Charlotte Reck, CNN (CNN) — A person has been fined for sounding a foghorn that woke a slumbering polar bear in Norway’s Svalbard…
Continue ReadingBy Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Rome (CNN) — Scorching temperatures and a long, dry summer have given locals and tourists alike a rare opportunity…
Continue ReadingBen Jones, CNN (CNN) — You’ve spent the day exploring Vienna, one of Europe’s great capital cities. You’ve visited its wonderful museums…
Continue ReadingBy Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — With almost three quarters of the world covered in water, it’s hardly surprising that the oceans provide such…
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By Emma Balleste, CNN New York (CNN) — Passengers may not expect a hot, sunny summer day to be the reason their flight gets delayed or even…
Continue ReadingBy Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — In a post-Rihanna world, we all like to talk about how maternity wear — or at least the expectations of how…
Continue ReadingBy Lilit Marcus, CNN Busan, South Korea (CNN) — In the US, a mall is a place to get a slice of pizza from Sbarro and buy some T-shirts at the…
Continue ReadingBy Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Chicago (CNN) — In Chicago, a lone statue of George Washington is now surrounded by “Other Washingtons,” which take…
Continue ReadingText by Lilit Marcus, Video by Justin Robertson, CNN Beijing/Hong Kong (CNN) — In the top corner, there’s a very small Star of David. On the…
Continue ReadingBy Charlotte Reck, CNN (CNN) — A multimillion-dollar power link between the United Kingdom and Ireland has been diverted after distraught…
Continue ReadingBy Sheena McKenzie, CNN (CNN) — On an April evening in 1939, an estimated 150 million listeners from across the globe tuned in to a remarkable…
Continue ReadingBy Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — In our roundup of travel stories this week: The families who were ripped apart by Italy’s new…
Continue ReadingBy Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — Employees at an airline catering facility located next to Los Angeles International Airport have filed a…
Continue ReadingBy Lianne Kolirin, CNN London (CNN) — It takes a lot to get British people hot under the collar, but a proposal to curb a venerable pub…
Continue ReadingBy Marnie Hunter, CNN (CNN) — A new luxury resort in Mexico that costs thousands of dollars a night is off to a rocky start after a reviewer…
Continue ReadingBy Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — For a stop on the final week of “The Odyssey” press tour, actor Charlize Theron wore a head-to-toe Tom Ford…
Continue ReadingBy Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — “I love Hitler,” the designer John Galliano said to a woman across from him at a Paris bar. “People like you…
Continue ReadingBy Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN (CNN) — Two years ago, Jeffrey Davidson and Walter Zak hadn’t even set foot in Greece. But the couple, who…
Continue ReadingBy Julia Buckley, CNN (CNN) — On Sunday night, Gustavo Monasterios went to sleep as a Venezuelan citizen. On Monday morning, he awoke to find…
Continue ReadingBy Kati Chitrakorn (CNN) — Mihwa Kim loved makeup so much that she became a host on a beauty home shopping show in South Korea — comparing,…
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By Bianca Betancourt, CNN. Photographs by Marco Postigo Storel, CNN. New York has a bad habit of inflicting trend culture upon the masses —…
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By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Authorities in Malaysia are introducing new rules for hikers, following a spike in search and rescue operations linked…
Continue ReadingBy Jacqui Palumbo | Photos: Austin Steele, CNN (CNN) — While browsing for antiques, an eye caught the eyes of David and Nan Skier. The married…
Continue ReadingBy Sylvie Zhuang, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — This summer vacation, some of the world’s most influential people will be soaking up the sun in…
Continue ReadingBy Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — In our roundup of travel news this week: Dubai’s $800 incentive scheme to lure back tourists, a…
Continue ReadingBy Maggie Hiufu Wong, CNN More than 120 years ago, Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore, National Geographic magazine’s first female writer, photographer and…
Continue ReadingBy Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — It can’t be easy being Zendaya’s co-star — at least in terms of vying for red carpet attention. While…
Continue ReadingChris Dwyer A century ago, motorists winding their way through France gained a new option when choosing where to stop for a meal: the Michelin star.…
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