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By Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — In travel news this week: new airport openings and upgrades in Asia, the greatest cheese of 2024 as well as tips on how to handle encounters with roadside spiders and hungry, hungry bears. Bears and bugs A spider caused a car accident in California’s Death Valley National Park this

By Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — Whether you’re going out or just going to bed, Kim Kardashian wants to make sure you can glisten head-to-toe. The reality star-turned-business mogul’s clothing brand Skims revealed this week a new partnership with jewelry brand Swarovski: A line of shimmering crystal bodysuits, dresses and even underwear launching November 7.

By Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — Before Kim and Kanye or even Posh and Becks, there was Priscilla and Elvis Presley: A fashion-forward couple whose tumultuous relationship is still remembered for its distinctive style as much as anything else. Priscilla was just 14 years old when she was first introduced to 24-year-old Elvis during a

By Francesca Street, CNN (CNN) — Flight attendant Ilona Zahn was less than impressed when she first met pilot Ian Duncan. It was 1970. Ilona was working the first class cabin on the Pan American World Airways flight from Rome to Tehran, traveling via Beirut and Damascus. Ilona first caught sight of Ian a couple

By Karla Cripps, CNN (CNN) — Singapore’s Changi Airport has fully reopened Terminal 2 following a massive 3.5-year expansion project. And given it was voted the world’s best airport in the 2023 Skytrax Airport Awards, it should come as little surprise this was no ordinary makeover. Around 21,000 square meters (226,000 square feet) have been

By Callum Sutherland, CNN (CNN) — To the naked eye not much happens on tree branches in the depths of our forests. But a closer look through a camera lens can tell a different story — one of motherly love. That’s exactly what was captured by the overall winner of the 2023 European Wildlife Photographer

By Melissa Marra-Alvarez and Elizabeth Way, CNN (CNN) — Food and fashion seem an unlikely pairing. While encouraging the consumer consumption of luxury goods, high fashion has long glorified thinness, with eating deemed almost taboo. In recent years, however, their convergence seems to be everywhere. The worlds of clothing design and cuisine have deep and complex

Julia Buckley, CNN (CNN) — He’s known for his colossal works, such as the statue of David, the floor-to-ceiling frescoes of the Sistine Chapel, and the dome of St. Peter’s which dominates the Rome skyline. But it’s Michelangelo Buonarroti’s less bombastic work that’s on display to the public for the first time in the artist’s

By Jack Bantock, CNN (CNN) — A helicopter drops you off on the edge of a mountain. You stand at the tee perched on the precipice as a pride of lions stalk an unsuspecting antelope a sheer 430-meter (470 yard) drop below. Golf is nothing like an extreme sport – but it absolutely is in

By Lilit Marcus, CNN (CNN) — A tourist tried to avoid a wild animal in a national park and got in a car accident. But it wasn’t a bear or bison that caused the driver to freak out – it was a tarantula. According to a press release issued by the Death Valley National Park

By Katie Lockhart, CNN Luang Prabang, Laos (CNN) — We’ve all heard of buffalo mozzarella. But in one popular Southeast Asia destination, a farm is offering travelers a chance to sample a wide variety of cheeses using milk from local buffalos instead of cows. Laos Buffalo Dairy, in the UNESCO-listed heritage town of Luang Prabang,

By Wayne Chang, CNN Beigan, Taiwan (CNN) — In a sleepy Taiwanese island village just eight miles off the coast of mainland China, scooters whiz past an unassuming building that has stood here, largely overlooked, for decades. As far as residents of Beigan — part of the outlying archipelago of Matsu — are concerned, the

Julia Buckley, CNN (CNN) — Savior of many a cramped pair of legs, the jet stream is well known for lopping roughly an hour off long haul west-to-east flights. But it’s working especially hard for travelers in economy class right now, with the jet stream over the Atlantic so strong that flights heading from the

By Francesca Perry, CNN (CNN) — In the wealthy neighborhood of Mayfair in London, Gallery Fumi — a contemporary design space — is showcasing a new collection of furniture. This would be no surprise were it not for the incongruous material these chairs and tables are made from: cardboard. “Box” has been designed by British

By Flo Cornall, CNN (CNN) — When you think of a guitar what comes to mind? Maybe it’s a simple maple acoustic, the kind played by countless singer-songwriters over the years, or perhaps a double-necked mahogany electric, favored more by rock-god types. While these classic guitars will always have a firm spot in our playlists,

CNN By Leah Asmelash and Nicole Chavez, CNN (CNN) — Día de los Muertos, known in English as Day of the Dead, is a time-honored tradition in Mexico with origins that go back thousands of years. In the US, you’ve probably seen the signs commonly associated with the holiday: papel picado (colorful paper with cutouts),

By Ulrike Lemmin-Woolfrey, CNN (CNN) — Normally just the unlovely places where passengers step on and off en route to somewhere more picturesque, cruise ports aren’t usually known as destinations in their own rights. But in Qatar, a regular port of call on Arabian Sea itineraries, there’s a reason to stop and stare. Doha’s Grand

By Devon M. Sayers, CNN (CNN) — A section of the Blue Ridge Parkway has been closed by officials “after multiple documented reports of visitors feeding and attempting to hold a young bear in recent weeks,” the National Park Service said in a news release. The closure affects an eight-mile section of the parkway near

By Francesca Street, CNN (CNN) — A restroom with an out-of-this-world view could be the surprise highlight for travelers adventuring with space tourism start-up Space Perspective. The Florida-based company plans to take travelers some 100,000 feet to the edge of space via a pressurized capsule suspended from a high-tech balloon. As trips are set to