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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

By Jeanne Bonner, CNN (CNN) — Ahead of a proposed rule change that would require social media account information from some foreign travelers to the United States, international travel experts are saying the policy could further deter visitors from coming to the US — a decline that could translate into billions of dollars in lost

By Georgiana Ralphs, CNN (CNN) — An AI-generated blog on a tour company’s website has landed tourists in hot water — and not the kind they were looking for — after it emerged the “tranquil” northern Tasmania hot springs it recommended don’t actually exist. Screenshots shared with CNN of the now-deleted blog on Tasmania Tours’

By Francesca Street, CNN (CNN) — The Beefeaters made her do it. Carrin Schottler was trying to focus on the centuries of British history at the Tower of London. Imposing white stone towers. Impressive armor. Ravens circling turrets. She was in a tour group with about a dozen people. The tour guide was talking, but

By Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN (CNN) — In 2018, Amanda Meyer Barkley left her home in Louisiana for what was meant to be a short vacation in Prague. She planned to stay for a few weeks, then return to the United States before moving on to China for a teaching job. Nearly a decade later, she

By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN New York (CNN) — At the base of the world’s most slender skyscraper, stretching high above Billionaires’ Row in Manhattan, Bonhams will relocate its American headquarters next month. The auction house leaves behind its more cloistered Madison Avenue home for airy galleries in an 80-foot glass atrium, as well as an

By Rachel Tashjian, CNN Paris, France (CNN) — Fashion is not a dignified business. It is messy, constantly changing and prone to disposability — of ideas, trends and especially people. So it was heartening to see a fashion house celebrate, with pitch-perfect dignity, the departure of one of its longtime designers at Paris Men’s Fashion