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By Lilit Marcus, CNN Global mobility company ECA International has released its annual list of the world’s most expensive cities to live in, and once again Hong Kong has landed at the top of the list. The company calculates the list based on several factors, including the average price of household staples like milk and
Continue ReadingOscar Holland, CNN The horrifying photograph of children fleeing a deadly napalm attack has become a defining image not only of the Vietnam War but the 20th century. Dark smoke billowing behind them, the young subjects’ faces are painted with a mixture of terror, pain and confusion. Soldiers from the South Vietnamese army’s 25th Division
Continue ReadingWABC Oscar Holland, CNN The horrifying photograph of children fleeing a deadly napalm attack has become a defining image not only of the Vietnam War but the 20th century. Dark smoke billowing behind them, the young subjects’ faces are painted with a mixture of terror, pain and confusion. Soldiers from the South Vietnamese army’s 25th
Continue ReadingHarmeet Kaur, CNN There are those who take photos and those who make photos, to paraphrase the legendary photographer Ansel Adams. Michelle Watt is firmly the latter. Her richly hued, surrealist compositions — whether she’s shooting a magazine cover or working on a personal project — are brought to life through elaborate productions, involving teams
Continue ReadingCNN Blane Bachelor, CNN Just as summer heats up, the US is lifting its long-standing requirement for all travelers entering the country to present a negative Covid-19 test. The news brings both a collective sigh of relief and a likely flood of new international travelers to an already chaotic summer season. For many American travelers,
Continue ReadingBy Melissa Mahtani, CNN Love them or loathe them, as the travel world re-opens, influencers are back on the move. That’s welcome news for some hotels like the Langham on New York’s Fifth Avenue. “Ninety percent of the people we work with are amazing, they are very diligent, this is their business and they do
Continue ReadingTamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN Ryanair has come under fire for asking South African travelers to take an Afrikaans test to prove their nationality before boarding flights. The low-cost airline is being accused of racial discrimination after presenting passengers with a test in the West Germanic language, which was forced upon black South Africans under apartheid and
Continue ReadingMegan C. Hills Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale” has often provoked controversy, facing book bans over the decades since its release in 1985. In an effort to raise awareness around increasing censorship and a surge in book-banning efforts in American schools, Atwood and publisher Penguin Random House released a single “unburnable” copy of the seminal
Continue ReadingBy Forrest Brown, CNN Once every four years, influential Texas Monthly magazine comes out with one of its most highly anticipated cover stories. And it’s not about oil or the economy or politics or tourism. It’s about something that might be taken even more seriously by folks there. Barbecue. Namely, the 50 best BBQ joints
Continue ReadingBy Maureen O’Hare, CNN The quality of Europe’s bathing waters has improved dramatically in recent decades, and a new report released this week by the European Environment Agency (EEA) reveals that almost 85% of its bathing sites now rank as “excellent.” The annual Bathing Water Report monitored nearly 22,000 inland and coastal swimming spots across
Continue ReadingMelanie Swan, CNN The UAE may have only just celebrated its 50th anniversary of independence but Abu Dhabi has a centuries-old past. The largest of the emirates boasts an array of UNESCO World Heritage sites as well as some of the country’s most well-preserved forts which showcase its key geographical location over the centuries, telling
Continue ReadingHeather Chen, CNN Visiting the world’s largest Buddhist temple is about to get expensive. Borobudur, one of Indonesia’s most popular attractions, will soon be subjected to a massive price hike by government authorities in an effort to “preserve historic and cultural wealth” in the country. “We agreed to limit the tourist quota to 1,200 people
Continue ReadingMegan C. Hills Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations were full of lavish pageantry to mark the British monarch’s 70-year-reign. And with the packed schedule of events, which included a tribute service at St. Paul’s Cathedral and a concert at Buckingham Palace, came many fashion highlights. Members of the Royal Family were seen throughout the
Continue ReadingZoe Sottile, CNN Several ancient works of art at the Dallas Museum of Art, including Greek vessels crafted thousands of years ago, were damaged by an intruder Wednesday night. “June 1, after Museum hours, an individual forcibly entered the Dallas Museum of Art,” the museum said in a statement. “Museum security responded immediately and Dallas
Continue ReadingMohammed Abdelbary, CNN When Iranian actress Zar Amir Ebrahimi fled her country in 2006 due to a leaked tape, she thought her career was over. But on Saturday she became the first Iranian to win the best actress award at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival. Ebrahimi rose to fame in her native Iran, but the
Continue ReadingMegan C. Hills, CNN Meghan, Duchess of Sussex proved she’s still got strong royal fashion game as she made a dazzling arrival to the honorary National Service of Thanksgiving mass in London on Friday, to celebrate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. The duchess made her appearance at St Paul’s Cathedral alongside husband Prince Harry. Their visit
Continue ReadingZiyu Zhang, CNN An opulent 260-year-old gilded carriage hit London streets again for the first time in two decades, beaming a hologram of a young Queen Elizabeth II. The Gold State Coach, which first transported the 96-year-old British monarch from Buckingham Palace to Westminster Abbey on her coronation day in 1953, led a spectacular procession
Continue ReadingBy Jacopo Prisco, CNN A new ship design concept from Norwegian shipbuilder Ulstein could be the first step toward a zero-emission future for expedition cruises and a range of other maritime operations. The proposed 500-foot-long vessel is called Thor — a reference to both the Norse god of thunder and the element thorium, which would
Continue ReadingBy Emiko Jozuka and Yuki Kurihara, CNN Sailing solo across the world’s largest ocean once is enough of an achievement. But 83-year-old Japanese ocean adventurer Kenichi Horie has done it multiple times. On Saturday, June 4, he set a record by becoming the world’s oldest solo yachtsman to sail non-stop across the Pacific Ocean. Horie
Continue ReadingBy Mina Alsharif, Hande Atay Alam and Eliza Mackintosh, CNN Turkey is rebranding itself. The country is now called “Türkiye” in the halls of the United Nations, who agreed to recognize the change on Wednesday after a request from Turkey’s government. The campaign to rebrand as Türkiye began in December. “The process we started under
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