CNN Travel (CNN) — When Elizabeth Gilbert shared the story of her year spent traveling post-divorce, it inspired more than a memoir. Eat, Pray, Love, her story of traveling to Italy, India, and Indonesia, became a touchstone for many women around the world. Since the book’s publication in 2005 and the release of the Julia
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CNN By Lilit Marcus, CNN Phnom Penh, Cambodia (CNN) — In 1967, four years after her husband President John F. Kennedy was assassinated and she became the most recognizable widow in the world, Jacqueline Kennedy visited Cambodia. When she arrived in the capital city of Phnom Penh amid a generation-defining war, there was no question
Continue Reading By Lilit Marcus, CNN Phnom Penh, Cambodia (CNN) — In 1967, four years after her husband President John F. Kennedy was assassinated and she became the most recognizable widow in the world, Jacqueline Kennedy visited Cambodia. When she arrived in the capital city of Phnom Penh amid a generation-defining war, there was no question where
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By Miquel Ros Tabarca, Spain (CNN) — Spain’s Mediterranean islands have come to represent an ideal of lifestyle and leisure. Chances are you’re familiar with the Balearic archipelago. Every year, millions flock every year to the islands of Majorca, Menorca, Ibiza and Formentera to wander whitewashed towns, soak up pristine beaches, embrace the laidback vibes
Continue ReadingBy Fiona Sinclair Scott, CNN Paris (CNN) — After a month of designer debuts — more than a dozen across fashion weeks in London, Milan and New York — the task fell to Chanel’s new artistic director, Matthieu Blazy, to present his vision for the future of one of history’s most storied houses. Bringing Paris
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By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — Vogue will no longer feature “new animal fur in editorial content or advertising,” according to updated guidelines on the website of its parent company, Condé Nast. The guidelines — which allow for “defined exceptions, including byproducts of subsistence and indigenous practices” — will also affect other titles owned by
Continue ReadingBy Maggie Hiufu Wong, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — It’s not an exaggeration to call Mid-Autumn Festival the world’s largest full moon party. Even Labubu, the wildly popular Pop Mart toy, has been known to celebrate the event. Falling on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month, the festival is marked primarily across East
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By Kati Chitrakorn, CNN Paris (CNN) — When guests arrived for the Balenciaga show during Paris Fashion Week on Saturday evening, several found themselves on familiar ground: a chapel built during the reign of the former French King Louis XIII, which is part of the historic Laennec headquarters of Balenciaga’s owner, Kering. After all, it
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By Jenny Adams New Orleans (CNN) — A bowtie is adjusted. A trombone is hoisted. On the corner of Dauphine and Toulouse, two motorcycle cops block the intersection. The opening notes of “Just a Closer Walk with Thee” emerge from a trumpet. The melody is carried as a saxophone and sousaphone join in. The band
Continue ReadingBy Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — In this week’s roundup of travel news: an Italian town has introduced a tourist tax for dogs, a New Yorker who moved to Italy and met her future husband, plus a Polish hotelier who wants to boost his country’s birth rate by hosting celebrations for expectant couples. Spread the
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By Catherine E. Shoichet, CNN Little kids line up in white graduation caps and gowns. Family members pose for formal photos at a wedding. Cousins laugh as they cut into the frosting of a giant birthday cake. These scenes from Amar Shah’s childhood flash across the screen in a new film. And they share something
Continue ReadingBy Alexandra Skores, CNN (CNN) — Delta Air Lines pilots and dispatchers didn’t look at all available weather information when they sent a plane into a damaging hailstorm in Italy in 2023, Italian transportation investigators ruled in a report published Thursday. On July 24, 2023, the Boeing 767 took off from Milan’s Malpensa Airport headed
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By Alexandra Skores, CNN Washington (CNN) — The International Civil Aviation Organization rejected a proposal Friday that would have allowed older commercial pilots to keep flying. Airline trade group, the International Air Transport Association called for the mandatory pilot retirement age to be raised to 67 from 65 at ICAO’s meeting in Montreal last month.
Continue ReadingBy Ben Church, CNN (CNN) — On the face of it, George and Josh Kohler are just like any other father and son duo — only these two men are on an extraordinary mission. Having set off from home in the east of England in March this year, the pair are attempting to cycle around
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By Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — Pamela Anderson, blonde bombshell of the 1990s and beyond, is no more. Instead, the actor has gone red. Glimpses of Anderson’s strawberry-colored locks were first spotted at a Vogue magazine party in Paris earlier this week. As the runway shows kicked off across the city — Paris Fashion Week
Continue ReadingBy Francesca Street, CNN (CNN) — It was set to be the worst flight of Anesu Masube’s life. The day before, he’d received the devastating news that his mother had passed away. Anesu was living in Washington, DC. His family lived 7,000 miles away in Zimbabwe. In the depths of grief, he had to try
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By Lisa Morrow, CNN Istanbul (CNN) — Cocooned in the warm embrace of the hamam, sounds are muffled. Gentle light from oculi, “eyes” in a large dome overhead, etches patterns across the marble surfaces below. Running water and softly dripping taps lap at the edges of consciousness like a lullaby. In the steamy, almost mystical
Continue ReadingBy Oscar Holland, CNN (CNN) — In Morris Lum’s photographic archive of Chinatowns, change is the only constant. Wall murals are painted then covered up. Restaurant menus adapt to diners’ evolving palates. Colorful shopfronts fade and are replaced, as family businesses fall victim to rising rents or the disinterest of aging owners’ children and grandchildren.
Continue ReadingBy Lilit Marcus, CNN (CNN) — The Yankees and the Red Sox. Celtic and Rangers. Real Madrid and Barcelona. In a competition bear-ly more ferocious, 12 chunky brown bears in Alaska’s Katmai National Park and Preserve have been battling it out in one of the most cutthroat places on the planet – the internet. As
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Scarlett Harris (CNN) — Throughout her four-decade career, costume designer Ellen Mirojnick has been lauded for transporting viewers across time and place, from the metaphor-heavy suiting of Oscar-winning “Oppenheimer” to the elaborate period pomp of Emmy-winning “Bridgerton.” Her work on the 1995 cult classic “Showgirls,” however, often elicits a very different response: Did it even
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