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By Forrest Brown, CNN (CNN) — Retired public relations professional Bonnie Sashin and her husband had just spent a nice Thanksgiving visit and meal with family at her stepson’s suburban home in the Connecticut city of Fairfield, a charming burg of about 61,000 on Long Island Sound. By the time they departed the 2022 family

By Lilit Marcus, CNN (CNN) — Seder means “order” in Hebrew, and that should be the first clue that this traditional Passover meal has very special significance. Passover (Pesach in Hebrew) is an annual holiday marking the story from the Book of Exodus when the Jews, led by Moses, fled captivity in Egypt. The holiday

By Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — In travel news this week: the world’s best and busiest airports, the European capital banning new hotels, the Hawaiian attraction being removed because of bad tourist behavior, plus the real-life animal crossing being built over a California freeway. Animals on the move Almost nothing stops Japan’s bullet trains –

By Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN (CNN) — When Margaret Bensfield Sullivan envisioned the type of family who might jet off for a year to explore the world together, she had a very specific image in her head. It involved a “bandana,” a baby in the back carrier” and a “smiling selfie” at a “noodles stand on

By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — Everyone knows the familiar shapes that make up New York’s skyline. There’s the Art Deco curved crown of the Chrysler Building, the sweeping isosceles triangles that twist around One World Trade Center, the stepped limestone and granite rectangles of the Empire State Building and the triangular prism of the

By Brooklyn White-Grier, CNN (CNN) — “I was having wash day with my kids, and I was looking at their hair,” the photographer Tomesha Faxio, a mother of two daughters, explained to CNN in a video call of her new monograph. “I was just sitting in that moment, and it just dawned on me. Like,

By AJ Willingham, CNN (CNN) — Every good wedding has to have one teensy, tiny crisis. For Calivé and Shannon Jackson, everything was going according to plan as they exchanged vows on the sands of Playa Del Carmen on December 16, 2023. The couple had decided to elope, hopping a plane from their home in

By Francesca Street, CNN (CNN) — Samantha Hannah was traveling through Australia and New Zealand, soaking up new places and experiences, while simultaneously reflecting on her past and considering her life so far. It was late 2017. Samantha, from Perth, Scotland, was 31. Her brother had passed away unexpectedly a couple of years previously. “I

By Leona Liu, CNN Geneva (CNN) — When the luxury Watches and Wonders fair closed its doors in Geneva earlier this week, it had hosted an estimated 49,000 luxury watch enthusiasts and collectors from around the world, all eager to be inspired by the best new designs and complications. According to a report by the

By Forrest Brown, CNN (CNN) — National Park Week starts on Saturday, and it also starts off with a bang-for-your-buck. That’s because every US National Park Service site will have free entry on Saturday. NPS manages almost 430 sites, and the majority of them already offer free entry every day. But this is your chance

By Amarachi Orie, CNN (CNN) — Eight of Formula One legend Michael Schumacher’s luxury and personalized watches are going up for auction – and they could sell for more than $4.8 million in total. The rare timepieces will be exhibited in New York from May 3 to May 5, the weekend of the Miami Grand

By Caitlin Chatterton, CNN (CNN) — “That is not a painting, it’s a humiliation!” Winston Churchill (played by John Lithgow) angrily tells the renowned painter Graham Sutherland (actor Stephen Dillane) in the first season of “The Crown,” Netflix’s six-series dramatization about the English monarchy. Churchill is talking about his own portrait, commissioned to celebrate his

By Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — A French photographer has scooped the most prestigious prize at this year’s Sony World Photography Awards for a documentary project about the sterilization of women in Greenland. Juliette Pavy was named as the overall winner of the annual competition at a ceremony in London on Thursday for her series

By Chrissie McClatchie, CNN (CNN) — This summer, crowds are expected to flock to Paris for the summer Olympic games. Prices for hotel rooms are likely to skyrocket. Tickets for even the lesser events will be eagerly sought. And almost every aspect of visiting the French capital is likely to become trop cher for ordinary

By Amarachi Orie, CNN (CNN) — Sophie Kinsella, the best-selling author behind the “Shopaholic” book series, has revealed that she is receiving treatment for brain cancer. “I’ve wanted for a long time to share with you a health update and I’ve been waiting for the strength to do so,” she wrote in an Instagram post

By Barry Neild, Mostafa Salem, Francesca Street and Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN (CNN) — Dubai International Airport, one of the world’s busiest aviation hubs, remained in disarray Thursday after unprecedented heavy rain led to airliners having to negotiate flooded runways. While check-ins for Emirates and Flydubai, the airport’s two main operators, had reopened, the airport warned

By Nicole Mowbray, CNN (CNN) — This week sees the opening of the Venice Biennale, an 8-month-long festival of art and culture staged every other year. For 2024 — the show’s 60th iteration — Brazilian curator Adriano Pedrosa has chosen the topic of “Foreigners Everywhere,” and announced an intention to spotlight artists from diverse and

By Lilit Marcus, CNN (CNN) — Ali versus Frazier. The Red Sox versus the Yankees. Doha versus Singapore. For the last decade, Singapore’s Changi International Airport and Doha’s Hamad International Airport have been going back and forth, battling over the title of ‘world’s best’. Every year, UK-based airline and airport review and ranking site Skytrax