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By Maureen O’Hare, CNN London (CNN) — Britain, birthplace of rail transport, will get its first ever luxury sleeper train touring England and Wales next summer. The Britannic Explorer, A Belmond Train, UK will set off from London in July 2025 on three routes through the picturesque hills, valleys and coastlines of Cornwall, the Lake

By Jessie Yeung, CNN (CNN) — In the Australian city Geelong, just south of Melbourne, thousands are lining up for the rare chance to see – and smell – an unusual plant. “It’s rank,” one visitor told CNN affiliate Nine News, coughing and gagging through his hand. “It smells like dead possum,” a child said

By Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — While some might be growing weary of celebrity method dressing — the styling phenomenon that sees actors match their red carpet garb to their latest movie role — character-based fashion shows no sign of stopping. Last year, Margot Robbie and her stylist Andrew Mukamal made sure the press tour

By Francesca Street, CNN (CNN) — The city of Lisbon, known for its picturesque cobbled streets, eye-catching colorful buildings and mouth-watering Portuguese custard tarts, has become an increasingly popular vacation destination in recent years. But as overall monthly overnight stays in Portugal reached an all time high in August, some Lisbon residents are becoming frustrated

By Justin Calderón, CNN Tirana (CNN) — Walk by the home of Albania’s former communist dictator Enver Hoxha in central Tirana and you may not even know it. There is no sign to mark its historical significance. The two-story residence, humble by dictator standards, looks like it’s being remodeled instead of preserved, its wide windows

By Leah Asmelash, CNN (CNN) — Limited Too’s colorful, girly clothing defined childhood for many American Millennials. Now, the brand is back — this time, for adults. The brand, which first shuttered back in 2008 amid economic woes, came back this summer at department store chain Kohl’s. The new lines featured all the classic pieces

By Barbie Nadeau and Antonia Mortensen, CNN Rome (CNN) — Rome’s baroque Trevi Fountain opened Saturday morning with selfie-takers lining a newly installed metal walkway, as workers start the painstaking process of carefully cleaning the 18th-century masterpiece. The walkway, made of building scaffolding and covered with a vinyl rug, can hold 130 people at a

By Lilit Marcus, CNN (CNN) — This week in travel news: why true crime buffs are heading to Beverly Hills, a look at the world’s only Michelin-starred ice cream restaurant and the reaction to a “makeunder” of one of Italy’s star attractions. Gawking at the Menendez mansion A new Netflix series about Lyle and Erik

By Chris Lau and Joyce Jiang, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Lin En could have easily reached his destination in six hours had he caught a flight. But during a trip earlier this year, the 23-year-old opted for a bus ride that took three days to cross from Xinjiang, in China’s northwest, to Astana, Kazakhstan’s

By Oscar Holland, CNN Singapore (CNN) — A humble suburban school in Australia has fended off competition from skyscrapers, museums and airport terminals to be named World Building of the Year 2024. Darlington Public School, in the Sydney suburb of Chippendale, beat more than 220 other shortlisted designs to win the coveted annual prize at

By Caroline Baum and Rosa Rahimi, CNN (CNN) — More than five years since a catastrophic fire destroyed large parts of the Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris, the bells of the historic church have rung once more. On Friday morning, eight of the cathedral’s bells tolled for the first time since April 2019, according to Alexandre

CNN By Caroline Baum and Rosa Rahimi, CNN (CNN) — More than five years since a catastrophic fire destroyed large parts of the Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris, the bells of the historic church have rung once more. On Friday morning, eight of the cathedral’s bells tolled for the first time since April 2019, according to

By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — An AI robot’s painting of British computer scientist and codebreaker Alan Turing has sold for $1.08 million, becoming the most valuable artwork by a humanoid robot ever to change hands at auction and raising new questions about the role of artificial intelligence in art. The sale price far exceeded

By Francesca Street, CNN (CNN) — It was 5.30 in the morning and Royal Caribbean’s Voyager of the Seas cruise ship was floating off the coast of Fiji. American passenger Bobbi Waterman was one of only two people on the deck, gazing out at the ocean as the sky illuminated the water with amber and

By Joe Yogerst, CNN Almaty, Kazakhstan (CNN) — Several cities around the globe have reinvented themselves in recent years, but none more successfully than Almaty. Since the collapse of the USSR, Kazakhstan’s largest city (population 2.2 million and growing) has evolved from a drab, run-of-the-mill Soviet metropolis into the urban star of Central Asia. Along

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — A pair of rare Ming Dynasty fish jars dating from the 16th century have sold for £9.6 million ($12.5 million) at auction, smashing their estimate of £1 million ($1.3 million). The porcelain jars, made for the Jiajing Emperor, sparked a 20-minute bidding war among more than 10 collectors before

By Terry Ward, CNN (CNN) — A lower cost of living. Affordable health care. Enhanced quality of life. Better bread. By now, many Americans are used to hearing a variety of reasons why life across the Atlantic has tempted more than a few fellow citizens to uproot and settle down anew in places such as