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By Karla Cripps, CNN Let’s set the scene. You’ve been dating someone for a few months, things are going well. It’s time to take the next step — a weekend away together. You find a great hotel that ticks all the right boxes: nice neighborhood, some enticing food and drink options and phenomenal reviews for

By Griffin Shea, CNN Luanda (CNN) — Along Luanda Bay’s Marginal promenade, the colonial-era National Bank — pink and white, formal and imposing — still dominates the view. But tucked beneath one of the shaded arches along its arcade, restaurant Teimosa da Banda buzzes with life. A kitchen window opens directly onto the walkway. Government

By Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — A picture is often said to speak a thousand words, but do we still trust it to tell the truth? The internet, editing tools, social media and — of course — AI, have made us increasingly aware that when it comes to photography, looks can be deceiving. Fabricated images,

By Justin Calderon, CNN Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka (CNN) — Visit the ancient city of Anuradhapura on a full moon day and the past feels anything but distant. Buddhist pilgrims dressed in white walk barefoot along dusty paths. Saffron-robed monks chant at dawn. Foreign visitors — from Taiwan to Canada — join local worshipers in rituals

By Charlotte Reck, CNN (CNN) — A flamboyance of flamingos dazzling against a backdrop of power lines, a crafty crab hitching a ride on a jellyfish and a young sloth safe in his mother’s embrace are among the shortlisted images for the Wildlife Photographer of the Year People’s Choice Award 2026. London’s Natural History Museum

By Silvia Marchetti, CNN (CNN) — After decades of building businesses, designing buildings and traveling, Edward Krueger Connors Jr. reached an unexpected conclusion in his early 80s: staying put no longer made sense. “I was bored of America,” Connors tells CNN Travel. In January 2026, just weeks before his 81st birthday, the Vietnam War hero,

By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — The women wear high-collared puffer jackets and billowing sports jerseys, the fabrics richly painted in acid yellow and bubblegum pink. Bathed in cool light against shadowy backdrops, they seem to glow as they regard the viewer dispassionately with an aristocratic air. For the past few years, the Spanish artist

By Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Rome (CNN) — Legend has it that tossing a coin into Rome’s Trevi Fountain guarantees a return to the Eternal City. Two coins promise love with an Italian. Three, marrying an Italian. As of February 2, however, making any of those wishes comes with a price. Visitors now need to

By Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — Does bad taste make for good fashion? At the 2026 Grammy Awards, several celebrities opted for clothes that were a little odd and a little ugly. Arguably they were also the most memorable. Amid some of the more conventionally tasteful outfits — see Hailey Bieber in a black strapless

By David G. Allan, CNN Cocoa Beach, Florida (CNN) — Cape Canaveral is no dusty history tour, despite the consecrated status this oceanside resort area holds as the birthplace of American spaceflight. The Space Coast, as it’s often called, is not just where this bold era of science began, with multiple museums to document it.

By Oscar Holland and Stephy Chung, CNN; Photo editor: Jennifer Arnow, CNN (CNN) — The music industry’s red carpets are usually bolder, brighter and more adventurous than their Hollywood counterparts. And they don’t get bigger than the Grammys — the awards ceremony that brought you Michael Jackson’s bedazzled military jacket, Pharrell Williams’ oversized hat and

By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — A funerary portrait from Roman Egypt, featuring a strikingly modern-looking male subject with piercing hazel eyes and graying hair, sold for more than double its high estimate on Thursday during Sotheby’s Masters Week sales in New York. The painting, which brought in $889,000 with fees, is one of 900

By Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN (CNN) — For more than a decade, images of Santa Maddalena, a small village church in northern Italy framed by jagged peaks of the Dolomite Mountains, have circulated online. But locals say it was last summer that the steady stream of visitors became a flood. Now, authorities are stepping in

By Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — This week, a pack has been circling. It began at the Schiaparelli haute couture show in Paris on Monday, when Demi Moore arrived in a cheetah print catsuit and matching coat designed by the house’s creative director Daniel Roseberry. Then at the Chanel show on Tuesday, a scene-stealing look