By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — Lady Gaga isn’t joking around about releasing new music. The Oscar-winner announced on Tuesday that she’s releasing a new album titled “Harlequin,” which she said in an Instagram post is a companion album to the upcoming film “Joker: Folie à Deux,” in which she stars alongside Joaquin Phoenix. “Harlequin”
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By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Dick Van Dyke is 98 and feeling it. After the legendary comedic actor had to pull out of a planned appearance at the recent Emmy Awards and an event in Utah, the New York Post caught up with Van Dyke as he was leaving a pharmacy in Malibu
Continue Reading By Scarlett Conlon, CNN Milan (CNN) — The strapline to the recent Spring-Summer 2025 shows at Milan Fashion Week should read: “expect the unexpected.” The runways staged across the Italian city were a stark contrast to Milan’s usual doubling down on house codes and familiar signatures. Just six months ago, designers were offering up collections
Continue Reading By Terry Ward, CNN (CNN) — New York City author Lisa Wixon always knew she had a path to EU citizenship through her maternal great-grandfather, who arrived in the United States in 1906 from Rijeka in western Croatia. Croatia is one of many countries in the European Union to recognize jus sanguinis (the “right of
Continue Reading By Amarachi Orie, CNN (CNN) — A diamond necklace that has been worn at two British coronations, and is thought to contain stones from the infamous necklace at the heart of a Marie Antoinette scandal, sold for over 4.2 million Swiss francs ($4.8 million) at an auction in Geneva, Switzerland on Wednesday. Weighing approximately 300
Continue Reading By Richard Quest and Joe Minihane, CNN (CNN) — Tree-covered peaks soaring from sparkling azure seas. Hiking trails that stretch for miles over rugged, beautiful and underexplored terrain. And enough food on offer to feed an army. This is Turkey’s Muğla Province. Situated in the destination’s stunning southwest, it’s a region that, beyond a few
Continue Reading By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — On a different timeline, the New York Stock Exchange might have been housed inside an imposing, Mayan temple-shaped tower; Disney World would exit to an after-party companion park named Night World, and Paris’ Centre Pompidou could have risen tall as a 344-foot-tall alabaster egg. For every architectural project built,
Continue Reading By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — Dolly Parton has learned her special connection with goddaughter Miley Cyrus is even deeper than she originally thought. Genealogy and family tree tracking site Ancestry announced on Monday that by using “billions of historical records and public family trees,” they’ve discovered that the two music powerhouses are actually seventh
Continue Reading By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — A new game show looking for the Ultimate “Friends” fan is coming to Max in honor the beloved NBC sitcom’s 30th anniversary. “Fast Friends” is a four-part game show that is set to start production in October at New York City’s “Friends Experience: The One” activation, Max announced on
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Erik Menendez is slamming the “dishonest portrayal” of his life in Netflix’s “Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story.” Menendez was convicted with his older brother, Lyle, of the fatal 1989 shootings of their parents Kitty and Jose Menendez. The two brothers, who are serving life sentences for
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — The world may never know about Cameron and Mitch’s life after “Modern Family. The man who played Cameron, Eric Stonestreet, shared his disappointment about a sitcom spinoff that never came to be in a recent interview with Graham Bensinger. The show would have focused on the lives of
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Jamie Foxx recently stepped into a new role as father of the bride. The Oscar-winning actor walked his daughter, Corinne Foxx, down the aisle at her nuptials over the weekend, appearing to get emotional as he escorted the 30-year-old to the altar. The touching moment was captured by
Continue Reading By Chris Lau, CNN (CNN) — The US is returning 297 history-spanning antiquities stolen or smuggled from India, many dating back centuries. Marking the handover, President Joe Biden and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi posed for a photo in front of several of the artifacts, during a recent meeting between the two leaders. In July,
Continue Reading By Amarachi Orie, CNN (CNN) — ABBA legend Björn Ulvaeus has tied the knot for the third time, marrying his partner Christina Sas on Saturday in a ceremony officiated by comedian and ex-“Great British Bake Off” host Sandi Toksvig. “Today on the 21st of September 2024, Björn Ulvaeus married Christina Sas from Herning, Denmark,” a
Continue Reading By Jack Guy and Joyce Jiang, CNN (CNN) — Hong Kong-based airline Cathay Pacific has banned two passengers from its flights after an argument over seat-reclining etiquette descended into xenophobic insults. The incident occurred during a flight from Hong Kong to London on September 17, and a female passenger from mainland China recounted her experience
Continue Reading By Joe Yogerst, CNN (CNN) — For those who find themselves awed by arid landscapes, there’s no place like Africa. The continent boasts nine separate deserts, including a vast Sahara that sprawls across much of the north, the rust-colored Kalahari of the southwest, and the bizarre Turkana Basin of northern Kenya. All of them have
Continue Reading By Lilit Marcus, CNN (CNN) — He’s a “walking feathery poop machine.” And he’s also a celebrity. Meet Pesto the king penguin. At just nine months old and 22.5 kilograms (50 pounds), he’s already bigger than his parents at the Sea Life Melbourne Aquarium in Australia. Photos of Pesto – who is 90 centimeters (about
Continue Reading By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — Twin sisters Tia Mowry and Tamera Mowry-Housley broke out in the mid-1990s when they starred in the sitcom “Sister, Sister” and went on to become one of the most beloved pop culture duos. But with the passage of time, according to Mowry, their dynamic has changed. In a clip
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By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson helped put smiles on the faces of some students from Apalachee High School, where earlier this month a gunman killed four people and injured nine others. On Saturday, Johnson posted a series of photos and videos to his Instagram showcasing his visit with students, identified
Continue Reading By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — Olivia Munn and John Mulaney are now parents of two. On Sunday, the couple announced on Instagram that they welcomed a daughter named Méi June Mulaney on September 14. “My heart has exploded,” Munn wrote, adding that their daughter’s name means “plum” in Chinese. Mulaney and Munn wed in
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