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By Lilit Marcus, CNN Kyushu, Japan (CNN) — There is a legend that a group of Portuguese monks were sailing to Macao when their ship hit bad…
Continue ReadingBy Lilit Marcus, CNN Kyushu, Japan (CNN) — There is a legend that a group of Portuguese monks were sailing to Macao when their ship hit bad…
Continue ReadingBy Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — Elliott Erwitt, the photojournalist and filmmaker who wryly documented the minutiae of American life for over…
Continue ReadingBy Marie Lodi, CNN (CNN) — The 1990s gave birth to many fictional style icons whose wardrobes inspire generation after generation. There’s…
Continue ReadingBy Stephy Chung and Oscar Holland, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Louis Vuitton’s creative director for menswear Pharrell Williams signaled the…
Continue ReadingBy Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — Christmas commercials have become a staple of the holiday season for many retail giants, from Disney to British…
Continue ReadingBy Alex Rees and Tom Page, CNN (CNN) — The 50th edition of the famed Pirelli calendar has been released, with its customary glamour and…
Continue ReadingBy Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — In the 1980s and ’90s, Winona Ryder was a dark-haired waif against a sea of preppy blondes. Pale, brooding and…
Continue ReadingBy Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — In Värmdö, a municipality of 10,000 small islands near Stockholm in Sweden, the school commute is about to get…
Continue ReadingBy Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN (CNN) — In news that won’t come as a surprise to anyone who’s been feeling the pinch, the global cost of…
Continue ReadingBy Pete Muntean and Gregory Wallace, CNN (CNN) — The pre-dawn fog was so dense when two jets nearly collided on an Austin airport runway that…
Continue ReadingBy Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — Timothée Chalamet braved London’s icy breeze with white-knuckles and a bare-chest for the premiere of his new…
Continue ReadingBy Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — A mural painted by Banksy which first appeared not long after Britain voted to leave the European Union (EU) has…
Continue ReadingBy Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — Barbara Bush outfitted the White House Christmas Tree with hundreds of white lilies and iridescent garlands.…
Continue ReadingBy Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN (CNN) — With at least 25 states and 50,000 miles under her belt, Frankie may just be the most well-traveled goat…
Continue ReadingBy Zoe Whitfield, CNN (CNN) — “I never really paid attention to politics before the 2016 election,” confided Japanese photographer Fumi…
Continue ReadingBy Christy Choi, CNN and Reuters (CNN) — Dozens of employees at Italian fashion house Gucci staged a strike on Monday to protest the…
Continue ReadingBy Maggie Hiufu Wong, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — French hotelier Michel Chertouh arrived in Hong Kong during an unusual time: it was 2021 and the…
Continue ReadingBy Lianne Kolirin, CNN London (CNN) — Will it be a picture that reflects the pristine beauty of the natural world, or one that shows the…
Continue ReadingBy Chris Liakos, CNN (CNN) — Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said he was “annoyed” by the last-minute cancelation of a meeting…
Continue ReadingBy Karla Cripps, CNN (CNN) — The world’s biggest cruise ship is now in the hands of its new owner, with Royal Caribbean accepting…
Continue ReadingBy Maria Kostenko, Victoria Butenko and Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — A haul of Ukrainian treasures sent to Europe for an exhibition nearly 10…
Continue ReadingBy Blane Bachelor, CNN (CNN) — Over the last decade, Taylor Swift has had a transformative effect on the music and entertainment industries.…
Continue ReadingBy Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — For the first time, a transatlantic flight operated by a commercial airline will be powered by 100% Sustainable…
Continue ReadingBy Christy Choi and Sam Fossum, CNN (CNN) — Complete with 98 Christmas trees, 72 wreaths and 2.8 miles of ribbon, the White House has been…
Continue ReadingBy Forrest Brown, CNN (CNN) — It’s not often that the words “TSA” and “adorable” come together in the same sentence. Long lines,…
Continue ReadingBy Gregory Wallace and Pete Muntean, CNN (CNN) — US airports are on the verge of setting more travel records as huge numbers of travelers have…
Continue ReadingBy Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — A ruff-collared, pale pink blouse Princess Diana wore in a 1981 engagement portrait is expected to fetch up to…
Continue ReadingBy Claudia Ramos, CNN (CNN) — In the bottom left-hand corner of Africa, just before the landscape gives way to the arid terrain of Namibia,…
Continue ReadingBy Regan Stephens, CNN (CNN) — Anyone who’s ever been swarmed by mosquitoes while trying to unwind on a scenic hike or placid beach is keenly…
Continue ReadingBy Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Rome (CNN) — The massacre was silent, the assassins stealthy and the impact devastating. The victims: more than 30…
Continue ReadingBy Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — In travel news this week: a 50-year romance between a Pan Am pilot and a flight attendant, a three-year…
Continue ReadingBy Christian House, CNN A Caruña (CNN) — Helmut Newton, the German post-war fashion photographer who notoriously posed a model on a bed in a…
Continue ReadingBy Amaya McDonald and Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — To keep up with the ever-changing trends propagated by runway shows, influencers and frenetic…
Continue ReadingBy Lana Lam, CNN London (CNN) — The Coliseum in London’s West End is used to staging epic theatrical productions. But even for the…
Continue ReadingBy Lianne Kolirin, CNN London (CNN) — Airbrushing and beauty filters may feel like a modern phenomenon, but conservation work to a portrait…
Continue ReadingBy Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — Fragments of musical scores discovered at Auschwitz will be played for the first time next week after being…
Continue ReadingBy CNN Staff (CNN) — How creative would you get to shave $500 off a flight? For those kinds of savings, some flyers engage in the practice…
Continue ReadingJulia Buckley, CNN (CNN) — They had signed up for the experience of a lifetime: three years traveling the world from the comfort of a cruise…
Continue ReadingWords by Jane Sit, videos by Kevin Broad, CNN Bulgan, Mongolia (CNN) — It’s early morning and an orange glow has filled the sky as the sun…
Continue ReadingJulia Buckley, CNN (CNN) — If you want to take a day trip to Venice next year, you’re going to have to pay. The city authorities have now…
Continue ReadingBy Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — So you want to live like you’re from the Middle Ages? Well, maybe that’s not a common aspiration, but…
Continue ReadingBy Blane Bachelor, CNN (CNN) — Stephen Lewis and Christian Scali met the old-fashioned way, as Scali likes to call it: at a Starbucks in Los…
Continue ReadingBy Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — Prepare to chortle, titter or even guffaw, for this is the biggest moment of the year for fans of funny…
Continue ReadingBy Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — What’s the color of the year? Pantone is still deciding, but sometimes all the evidence you need for the next…
Continue ReadingBy Nell Lewis, CNN (CNN) — A herd of buffaloes wander parched land amidst a drought, a farmer and his cows wade knee-deep through floodwater,…
Continue ReadingBy Trey Taylor, CNN (CNN) — There is something fascinating about a young man in the public eye — an actor — putting himself so squarely and so…
Continue ReadingBy Forrest Brown, CNN (CNN) — Computer glitches. Air traffic controller shortages. Awful weather. Holiday crunches. Accidents and…
Continue ReadingBy Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — In the not too distant past, the silhouette to beat was no silhouette at all. For many years fashion’s preference…
Continue ReadingBy Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN (CNN) — There’s nothing quite like a festive market to bring out the Christmas spirit in people. While these…
Continue ReadingBy Faye Bradley, CNN (CNN) — Remember when Angelina Jolie’s right leg became a viral sensation? It was 2012, and the actress arrived at the…
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