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By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — Britney Spears has some new music dropping soon. The pop star is collaborating on a new single with producer and former Black Eyed Peas frontman Will.i.am, who teased a new song titled “Mind Your Business” on his Instagram on Monday. “Uh oh!!! This summer is about to be hot!!!”
Continue Reading By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — What fits your personal belongings and can cost a full year’s salary — or two, or three? In the 1990s, you might have said “a house,” but today a valid answer could also be a Hermès Birkin bag, the capacious saddle-stitched status symbol that has become A-Listers’ accessory of
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Charity Lawson is fully aware that “The Bachelorette” doesn’t have the best track record when it comes to participants find lasting love. “The Bachelor” franchise as a whole has seen most of its couples fail at creating a happily ever after, but Lawson isn’t focused on that. “I
Continue Reading Review by Brian Lowry, CNN (CNN) — Just seeing Timothy Olyphant locked and loaded again as Raylan Givens will probably be enough for fans of “Justified,” but the FX revival subtitled “City Primeval” more than justifies the encore. Featuring an older Givens with more to lose facing off against a truly nasty bad guy, the
Continue Reading By Alexandra Willingham, CNN (CNN) — Country superstar Jason Aldean is responding to the criticism surrounding his latest single, which has been subject to even more controversy since the recent release of its music video. Aldean’s single, “Try That in a Small Town,” was released in May. On the surface, it has the makings of a
Continue Reading By Mick Krever, Anna Chernova, and Olga Voitovych, CNN (CNN) — Russian tour operators are pleading with vacationers to Crimea not to make decisions “based on emotions,” as Ukraine’s strike on the Crimea bridge on Monday played havoc on travel between the occupied Ukrainian peninsula and Russia. Hundreds of cars were waiting Tuesday to cross
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — It’s up to you to debate whether this is a case of divine intervention. While Hollywood has ground to a halt due to parallel writers’ and actors’ strikes, there’s a US-based series that is being allowed to continue to production. “The Chosen,” a faith-based series about the life
Continue Reading By Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — The jiggling and jostling atop the global passport rankings for 2023 just got a little more interesting. For five long years, Japan has been sitting pretty in the No.1 position in the Henley Passport Index, which measures global travel freedom in terms of how much visa-free and visa-on-demand access
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Taylor Swift is breaking records by making records. The superstar pop singer has now broken the record for most No. 1 albums by a female artist, according to Billboard. By notching her 12th No. 1 with “Speak Now (Taylor’s Version),” Swift has surpassed the former record holder Barbra
Continue Reading By Ulrike Lemmin-Woolfrey, CNN (CNN) — “Paris is always a good idea,” as Audrey Hepburn tried to persuade Humphrey Bogart in the 1954 film “Sabrina.” He was less convinced but for most of us, living in Paris is a dream. A dream that can feel impossible to achieve – but it can come true. Officially,
Continue Reading By Oscar Holland, CNN (CNN) — The Belgian city of Antwerp may be known as the world’s diamond trading hub, while most rough stones are mined in Russia or Africa. But some 150 miles north of Mumbai, India, lies a lesser-known gem capital: Surat, where around 90% of all the planet’s diamonds are cut. Now,
Continue Reading CNN By Oscar Holland, CNN (CNN) — The Belgian city of Antwerp may be known as the world’s diamond trading hub, while most rough stones are mined in Russia or Africa. But some 150 miles north of Mumbai, India, lies a lesser-known gem capital: Surat, where around 90% of all the planet’s diamonds are cut.
Continue Reading By Maggie Hiufu Wong and Karla Cripps CNN (CNN) — In many travelers’ minds, Mongolia conjures images of vast plains, nomadic gers, desert landscapes and one of the most famous warriors of all time, Genghis Khan. Though the famed first khagan of the Mongol Empire died in 1227, his legendary pursuits continue to reverberate across
Continue Reading CNN, WBBM By Raja Razek, Gregory Wallace and Brad Parks, CNN (CNN) — A United Airlines Boeing 767 plane lost its emergency evacuation slide in mid-air Monday – and it ended up in the backyard of a home near Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport, officials and a witness said. Patrick Devitt lives in the neighborhood where
Continue Reading By Raja Razek, Gregory Wallace and Brad Parks, CNN (CNN) — A United Airlines Boeing 767 plane lost its emergency evacuation slide in mid-air Monday – and it ended up in the backyard of a home near Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport, officials and a witness said. Patrick Devitt lives in the neighborhood where the slide
Continue Reading CNN By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — Miranda Lambert just wants to sing her songs, and she wants her concertgoers to put their phones down to listen. The opposite was the case during her performance in Las Vegas on Sunday, where video footage from the concert shows the country star stopping mid-song because some audience
Continue Reading By Thomas Page and David Daniel, CNN (CNN) — “The bomb, Dimitri. The hydrogen bomb,” an exasperated US president reminds his Soviet counterpart in Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 classic “Dr Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.” As if the bomb could ever be forgotten. At the height of the Cold
Continue Reading By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — Sofía Vergara and Joe Manganiello’s marriage of nearly eight years is officially ending. The couple shared the news in a statement to PageSix on Monday, saying, “We have made the difficult decision to divorce.” “As two people that love and care for one another very much, we politely ask
Continue Reading By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — Lindsay Lohan’s family just got a little bigger. The “Mean Girls” actor and her husband Bader Shammas have welcomed a son, according to a representative for Lohan who confirmed the happy news in a statement sent to CNN on Monday. “Lindsay Lohan and her Financier husband, Bader Shammas, welcomed
Continue Reading By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — Miranda Lambert just wants to sing her songs, and she wants her concertgoers to put their phones down to listen. The opposite was the case during her performance in Las Vegas on Sunday, where video footage from the concert shows the country star stopping mid-song because some audience members
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