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By Forrest Brown, CNN (CNN) — Since the summer solstice back in June, the days have grown steadily shorter and the nights have grown steadily longer in the Northern Hemisphere. But that’s about to reverse itself. Winter solstice, the shortest day of the year and the official first day of winter, is on Saturday, December

By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — One of the world’s most widely used cargo planes completed an entire flight with no one on board for the first time. Lasting approximately 12 minutes in total, the flight departed from Hollister Airport, in Northern California, and was operated by Reliable Robotics, which has been working since 2019

By Radhika Marya, CNN (CNN) — It was the summer of 1966. The Beatles were in the middle of a tour that had them play five shows in just three days at Japan’s famed Nippon Budokan arena — but when they weren’t performing, they were holed up in the presidential suite of the Tokyo Hilton

By Jennifer Henderson, Caroll Alvarado and Sarah Engel, CNN (CNN) — Passengers on the cruise ship MSC Meraviglia didn’t get the balmy getaway they were expecting. The ship, scheduled to sail to the Bahamas this week, instead headed to New England and Canada “due to unseasonable and rapidly worsening weather that would have made it

By Jack Guy and Claudia Colliva, CNN (CNN) — A French court has rejected an appeal by an elderly couple who were paid €150 ($165) for a rare Gabonese mask that later sold for more than €4 million ($4.4 million) at auction. The couple claimed that the art dealer who bought the mask from them

By Silvia Marchetti, CNN Rome (CNN) — A five-year dig into the side of Rome’s Palatine Hill yielded treasure last week when archaeologists discovered a deluxe banquet room dating from around the first or second century BC, featuring a sizeable, intact, and brightly colored wall mosaic. Estimated to be around 2300 years old, the work

By Heather Chen, CNN (CNN) — A man has been charged with theft after allegedly stealing more than $23,000 in cash from three fellow passengers while on a budget flight from Vietnam to Singapore. The man was named in court charge sheets as Zhang Xiuqiang, a 52-year-old Chinese national who had been on board a

By Christy Choi and Oscar Holland, CNN (CNN) — The term “post-Covid” is a troublesome one — not least for those currently living with the disease or its long-term effects. But while experts still consider Covid-19 a pandemic, 2023 was the year the World Health Organization declared that it was no longer “a public health

By Marie Lodi, CNN (CNN) — A time capsule is often a small cache of significant items representing a particular moment in history — newspaper clippings, photographs, memorabilia and other cultural artifacts. But in early 2022, a different kind of capsule (and certainly one much larger than usual) was unearthed, after being hidden away for

By Marnie Hunter, CNN (CNN) — Planes are going to be crowded. Patience will be tried. Some level of aggravation is all but inevitable. Throw in a seat-kicker, a tipsy stranger and someone who’s blissfully barefoot, and the holiday odyssey becomes a little more challenging. And this Thanksgiving is poised to be a record-setter for

By Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — It has been a busy year for bookworms. In 2023, literary heavyweights Bret Easton Ellis, Salman Rushdie, Margaret Attwood and Zadie Smith returned to the scene and published new work, in some cases, for the first time in over a decade. In the summer, authors such as Eliza Clark,

By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — In Rembrandt’s enormous 17th-century masterpiece “The Night Watch,” a troupe of Dutch civilian soldiers gathers in a darkened room and prepares to march out to defend their city. Rembrandt, a master of light and shadow, strategically illuminated his subjects’ expressive hands and faces, while dimness hid the room’s details

By Samantha Tse, CNN (CNN) — Borosilicate glass, mylar film, polyurethane, glass organza, polyamide powder and thermo-plaster polymers. These are the raw materials used by Dutch couturier Iris van Herpen to create the sculptural, otherworldly confections worn by stars including Lady Gaga, Tilda Swinton and Jennifer Lopez. Though Van Herpen may not yet be a

Julia Buckley, CNN (CNN) — Stripping off from the waist down at a sacred site. Driving a car across a medieval bridge, as fragile as it is famous. Carving your name into a world icon, and going on a punishing hike… to take illegal drugs. These are just some of the things tourists have got

Reuters A sleeping cat hugs a fish in a picture seen from the air, picked out in sprouting rainbow seedlings in a rice field in Thailand to illustrate a traditional proverb about abundance. Farmer Tanyapong Jaikham and a team of workers planted the seedlings at various spots in the field in the northern province of Chiang Rai to depict cartoon cats, hoping

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — A dress worn by Princess Diana in 1985 has sold for a record $1.148 million at auction, 11 times its estimate. The blue and black dress, designed by Moroccan-British fashion designer Jacques Azagury, is now the most expensive dress worn by the princess to be sold at auction, smashing

By Marnie Hunter, CNN (CNN) — Processing times for passport applications are back to pre-pandemic levels, the US State Department announced on Monday. The return to normal wait times comes after years plagued by delays as the department worked through a backlog caused largely by the coronavirus pandemic. Processing time for routine service is now

By Jack Guy, CNN London (CNN) — Renowned British artist Tracey Emin has revealed that she is recovering after her “small intestine nearly exploded.” Emin, who underwent extensive surgery to treat an aggressive bladder cancer in 2020, said she had been traveling before feeling “very unwell.” “Not cancer but horrible complications with my intestines bought