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By Laura Ly, CNN Passenger facilities at LaGuardia Airport’s overhauled Terminal B are officially complete, Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York announced Thursday. While the renovated multibillion dollar terminal has already been open for business, Thursday marks a major milestone in the completion of the project. That includes a new skybridge that makes movement to
Continue ReadingBy Marnie Hunter, CNN A man charged with groping a flight attendant has been sentenced to six months in prison. Enio Socorro Zayas was sentenced on Monday in US District Court in the Southern District of Florida, according to court documents. Zayas was indicted after an incident on August 6, 2021, aboard American Airlines flight
Continue ReadingXiaofei Xu and Camille Knight, CNN Several Nazi-pillaged artworks held in France’s national collections could soon to be reunited with the families of their previous Jewish owners. The French National Assembly passed a law on Tuesday to return 15 artworks looted by authorities during the Nazi period. “It’s a bill that we can describe as
Continue ReadingOscar Holland, CNN From the moment 57-year-old supermodel Kristen McMenamy opened Valentino’s latest show in Paris, it was clear the fashion house was breaking with convention. With Haute Couture Week collections normally worn by young, waif-like models, the Italian label’s creative director Pierpaolo Piccioli offered two things rarely seen on the most exclusive of runways:
Continue ReadingLilit Marcus The central Asian nation of Bhutan reopens to visitors today for the first time since the pandemic began. This means that the country’s breathtaking Trans-Bhutan Trail is now accessible to travelers. It reopened on September 28 after being closed for 60 years, and now foreigners can experience it for the first time as
Continue ReadingSana Noor Haq, CNN A 12-year-old illustrator has signed a deal with Nike, his agency confirmed to CNN on Wednesday. Joe Whale, who goes by the name “The Doodle Boy” on social media, will be collaborating with the global sports brand “on some special projects.” “We are so very excited to confirm that Joe is
Continue ReadingBy Lianne Kolirin, CNN When Jonathan the giant tortoise was born, Queen Victoria was just a teenager. While the British monarch died more than 120 years ago aged 81, Jonathan is still shuffling around planet Earth. Perhaps the most famous resident of St. Helena, one of the world’s remotest islands, Jonathan is this year celebrating
Continue ReadingFrancesca Street, CNN Pre-pandemic, the idea of airlines advertising flights to nowhere, in which passengers land in the same place they took off, would have been almost unthinkable. Sure, sightseeing flights have always existed, but they’re usually run by private aviation companies in select tourist destinations. But as Covid-19 grounded much of the world’s airplane
Continue ReadingOscar Holland, CNN Chanel unveiled its latest collection in dramatic style at Haute Couture Week in Paris — by sending a real-life princess down the runway on horseback. To the surprise of guests at the Grand Palais Éphémère, the French fashion house opened its show Tuesday with the help of Prince Albert of Monaco’s niece
Continue ReadingTamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN Why build a superyacht that just moves on water when you can create one that flies through the air as well? Rome-based design company Lazzarini Design Studio has dreamed up a new concept named Air Yacht that has the ability to “sail in the sky” as well as the ocean. Renderings of
Continue ReadingBy Amanda Jackson, CNN Ozzie, the world’s oldest male gorilla and the third-oldest gorilla in the world, died Tuesday at Zoo Atlanta, the facility announced. He was 61. The 350-pound western lowland gorilla’s cause of death is not yet known, the zoo said in a news release. Ozzie was considered a true legend at the
Continue ReadingTamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN Traveling around Europe may be about to get less complicated for fully vaccinated travelers from countries within the European Union. The EU is recommending that vaccinated residents should not be required to undergo testing or quarantine measures when entering member states. Under the new advice, which comes into effect on February 1,
Continue ReadingJulia Buckley, CNN A female tourist was thrown out of Venice after she was caught posing for photos topless on a war memorial. The 30-year-old from the Czech Republic stripped off last Friday afternoon, dumping her belongings on the monument — which pays homage to Italy’s war heroes — as she went for a swim
Continue ReadingFrancesca Street, CNN “I’ve come to Antarctica to find a husband,” Nicole McGrath told Cole Heinz, mock serious. Heinz laughed. The two were eating lunch at McMurdo Station, a US research facility built on volcanic rock on Ross Island, surrounded by mountains, snow and ice. It was 2013. McGrath, then 25, had graduated college in
Continue ReadingCNN By Lilit Marcus and Ivan Watson, CNN “Private jet for your pet” is the kind of phrase you might expect to hear from a movie star or media mogul. But in 2022 Hong Kong, it’s just as likely to be a regular person looking into this very unusual expense. Many people who are moving
Continue ReadingBy Lilit Marcus and Ivan Watson, CNN “Private jet for your pet” is the kind of phrase you might expect to hear from a movie star or media mogul. But in 2022 Hong Kong, it’s just as likely to be a regular person looking into this very unusual expense. Many people who are moving away
Continue ReadingOscar Holland, CNN Australia’s government has bought the copyright to the Aboriginal flag, making it freely available for public use and ending a longstanding battle over the design. In a deal worth more than 20 million Australian dollars ($14 million), Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s government secured the rights from Indigenous artist Harold Thomas, who created
Continue ReadingBy Lilit Marcus, CNN About 4,000 people have summited Mount Everest, the world’s highest peak. And only eight of them have been Black. That is one of the reasons that Full Circle, a group of Black climbers and mountaineers, was formed. “It is an expedition that is certainly about climbing. It is about spending time
Continue ReadingScottie Andrew, CNN The 2022 winners of the American Library Association’s Youth Media Awards, the top prizes in US children’s literature, include tales of trans boys, coming of age during the apocalypse, historical tragedies and celebrations of heritage. The literacy nonprofit’s awards, which include the Newbery Medal, Caldecott Medal and Coretta Scott King Awards, honor
Continue ReadingBy Jack Guy and Antonia Mortensen, CNN A Dutch tourist was detained by police and fined in Poland after making a Nazi salute at the gate of the former Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. The 29-year-old woman was arrested on Sunday and charged with promoting Nazism, according to a statement from local police published Monday. She
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