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By CNN Staff (CNN) — How creative would you get to shave $500 off a flight? For those kinds of savings, some flyers engage in the practice known as skiplagging. Also called hidden-city ticketing or throwaway ticketing, it’s a way some travelers work around an often-counterintuitive airline booking system, shaving money off the price of

Julia Buckley, CNN (CNN) — They had signed up for the experience of a lifetime: three years traveling the world from the comfort of a cruise ship, at prices that rivaled regular living expenses. But now the dream is over for passengers who’d signed up for Life at Sea Cruises’ inaugural three-year voyage. After weeks

By Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — Fragments of musical scores discovered at Auschwitz will be played for the first time next week after being painstakingly restored by a composer. Leo Geyer, 31, who is also a conductor, said he stumbled upon the collection of musical manuscripts by accident during a visit to Auschwitz in 2015.

Words by Jane Sit, videos by Kevin Broad, CNN Bulgan, Mongolia (CNN) — It’s early morning and an orange glow has filled the sky as the sun slowly rises over a seemingly endless desert landscape. Every few hours, herders walk into view, hundreds of sheep and goats in tow as they make their way to

Julia Buckley, CNN (CNN) — If you want to take a day trip to Venice next year, you’re going to have to pay. The city authorities have now approved dates and prices for the much discussed entry fee to the UNESCO-listed destination. There will be 29 days affected between April and July 2024. It’ll be

By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — So you want to live like you’re from the Middle Ages? Well, maybe that’s not a common aspiration, but nevertheless, it’s a subject that’s become Olivia M. Swarthout’s expertise. Swarthout is the researcher behind the popular art history-inspired social media account Weird Medieval Guys, which has attracted nearly 700,000 followers

By Blane Bachelor, CNN (CNN) — Stephen Lewis and Christian Scali met the old-fashioned way, as Scali likes to call it: at a Starbucks in Los Angeles’ West Hollywood neighborhood. It was spring of 1997, and Scali, a law student, was buried deep in his textbooks. Lewis, who at the time was in private practice,

By Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — Prepare to chortle, titter or even guffaw, for this is the biggest moment of the year for fans of funny animal photos. The judges of the UK-based Comedy Wildlife Photo Awards have studied more than 1,800 images submitted from 85 countries, assessing whether they are chucklesome, rib-tickling or an

By Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — What’s the color of the year? Pantone is still deciding, but sometimes all the evidence you need for the next must-have shade is sitting on the top of celebrities’ heads. In August, Billie Eilish revived her signature hairstyle — an all-over black gloss with a striking root dye job

By Nell Lewis, CNN (CNN) — A herd of buffaloes wander parched land amidst a drought, a farmer and his cows wade knee-deep through floodwater, and people walk across a bridge over a multicolored river of trash. All three scenes were among the winning images of the Environmental Photographer of the Year 2023 competition, and

By Trey Taylor, CNN (CNN) — There is something fascinating about a young man in the public eye — an actor — putting himself so squarely and so specifically in the purview of gay desire that he becomes, as “Saturday Night Live” star Bowen Yang recently termed it, “gay famous.” The 26-year-old actor Jacob Elordi

By Forrest Brown, CNN (CNN) — Computer glitches. Air traffic controller shortages. Awful weather. Holiday crunches. Accidents and investigations. Unruly passengers. So many things can cause a flight to be delayed or canceled. It’s no wonder travelers are wary about making it to their destinations on time – or at all. (And even if they

By Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — In the not too distant past, the silhouette to beat was no silhouette at all. For many years fashion’s preference was slouchy and sloth-like — from ballooning wide leg pants to enveloping raglan coats. A-listers such as Justin Bieber, Bella Hadid and Zoe Kravitz helped keep the oversized fit firmly

By Faye Bradley, CNN (CNN) — Remember when Angelina Jolie’s right leg became a viral sensation? It was 2012, and the actress arrived at the 84th Academy Awards in a strapless black velvet dress by Atelier Versace. But this was no ordinary gown: It bore a daring thigh slit — one so high that it

By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — An animatronic head of E.T., the beloved alien left behind on Earth in Steven Spielberg’s classic movie, is expected to sell for as much as $1 million at an auction held on December 14-17 in Beverly Hills, California and online. The animatronic model from “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial” is part

By Tara Subramaniam, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Elsa, Anna, Olaf and Sven have a new home on a subtropical island in Asia. World of Frozen, Disney’s first-ever themed land dedicated to the “Frozen” media franchise, opened at Hong Kong Disneyland on November 20. The new land at the park on Hong Kong’s Lantau Island

By Cath Pound, CNN (CNN) — Soheila Sokhanvari’s retrospective “We Could Be Heroes…” takes its name from David Bowie’s 1977 classic “Heroes,” a song which has particular resonance for the Iranian born, UK-based artist. Like the two lovers separated by the Berlin Wall in Bowie’s song, Sokhanvari was separated from everything she knew and loved

By Steve Almasy, Carlos Suarez and Denise Royal, CNN (CNN) — American Airlines said it is reviewing a video posted on TikTok that shows a baggage handler releasing a passenger’s wheelchair to slide down a jet bridge chute, where it crashed into a metal barrier, flipped over and tumbled onto an airport tarmac. The post, which has millions of views, has brought