By Leah Dolan and Kati Chitrakorn, CNN London (CNN) — Considered the biggest night in the UK film industry, the British Academy Film Awards (BAFTAs) on Sunday afternoon was a welcome distraction from a dreary climate that extended beyond the country’s weather. (Alongside one of the gloomiest winters on record, the UK has faced a
Continue Reading By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — “Saturday Night Live” is celebrating its big 50th anniversary milestone in a way that only the long-running sketch show can: with a very star-studded special. “SNL50: The Anniversary Special” is set to air this Sunday with favorite “SNL” alums like Adam Sandler, Eddie Murphy and Kate McKinnon, among many
Continue Reading By Jennifer Hauser, CNN (CNN) — More than 100 people were evacuated as flames ripped through a popular luxury hotel and restaurant in central London on Friday. “Twenty fire engines and around 125 firefighters tackled a fire at a hotel on Chiltern Street in Marylebone,” the London Fire Brigade said in a statement. The blaze
Continue Reading By Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — In travel news this week: robot legs take off in China, the Italian influencer who mobilized her own TikTok army, plus one of the most terrifying whale encounters since Jonah. Animal encounters A Chilean father recently captured the moment a humpback whale briefly swallowed his son while kayaking in
Continue Reading By Karla Cripps, CNN Bangkok (CNN) — In recent years, no TV series has gotten viewers excited about luxury travel quite like “The White Lotus.” It’s easy to understand why. It’s got murder. Sexy scandals. Gorgeous beaches. And, perhaps most importantly, wealthy travelers behaving terribly. Seasons one and two of the satirical dark comedy-drama, written
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Blame it on high divorce rates or changing societal norms— but fewer people are looking for love. According to a Pew research, society has seemed to fall out of love with romance. “Half of singles say they are not currently looking for a relationship or dates, while a growing share of Americans are not getting
Continue Reading By Elizabeth Wagmeister, CNN (CNN) — A Jane Doe who alleged Sean “Diddy” Combs and Jay-Z sexually assaulted her 25 years ago has withdrawn her lawsuit against them. In a notice of voluntary dismissal filed Friday, attorneys for the woman dropped the lawsuit with prejudice, preventing it from being re-filed in the future. “Counsel of
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Desert modernism defines Palm Springs’ unique style. Whether you’re visiting or a local, the next 10 days offers a chance to explore the city’s design, architecture, and lifestyle. News Channel 3’s Allie Anthony has what you can look forward to during Modernism Week.
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Scott Foley is well aware that people are buying homes in Italy to renovate them, and he’d liked to help. “Scott really is out here trying to get anybody to get a home so he can renovate it,” Maia Reficco, who shares the screen with Foley in the
Continue Reading By Dan Heching, CNN (CNN) — Sabrina Carpenter is riding off into the sunset with a true musical legend. The “Espresso” singer surprise-dropped a new version of her hit song “Please Please Please” on Thursday night, featuring the one and only Dolly Parton, who compliments Carpenter’s vocals on the track with a beautiful falsetto. In
Continue Reading By Dan Heching, CNN (CNN) — Less a ‘whodunnit’ than a ‘whowasitdunnto,’ “The White Lotus” features the discovery at each season’s opening of a dead body (or bodies) at an eponymous upscale resort, followed by a reset to one week prior, which slowly fills in the pieces of what happened, how it happened, and most
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — The awards campaign for an Oscar frontrunner hasn’t quite gone the way Netflix executives had hoped. With 13 nominations and a history-making star, “Emilia Pérez” leads among Oscar-nominated films this year. Then Karla Sofía Gascón, who plays the movie’s titular character, found herself in a firestorm after her
Continue Reading By Francesca Street, CNN (CNN) — It wasn’t an obvious day to climb the Eiffel Tower. It was the end of November, 1989. Overcast and cold, with clouds obscuring the city. Anita Hansen, then in her early 20s, was studying French at college in Denmark. The university had arranged for Anita and her fellow students
Continue Reading By Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN (CNN) — From steam-powered ships, to mega-liners, the cruise industry has been through quite a transformation over the years. And the market has skyrocketed. Back in 1970, an estimated 500,000 people went on a cruise holiday. That figure had jumped to five million by 1997. So what brought about this sudden
Continue Reading By Sandra Gonzalez, CNN (CNN) — An unemployed Oregonian, a divorced mother of three, a freshman college student, the governor of South Dakota and an 80-year-old grandmother from New Orleans all wanted the same thing: to host “Saturday Night Live.” On November 19, 1977, the five finalists of the show’s first — and, ultimately, only
Continue Reading By Joyce Jiang, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — A towering 5,000 feet high, with more than 7,000 steps, Mount Tai, in the eastern Chinese province of Shandong, is known for turning legs to jelly for anyone game for scaling to the top. Videos all over Chinese social media, such as TikTok’s sister app Douyin, show
Continue Reading By Oscar Holland, CNN (CNN) — By his own admission, James Crombie knew “very, very little” about starlings before Covid-19 struck. An award-winning sports photographer by trade, his only previous encounter with the short-tailed birds occurred when one fell into his fireplace after attempting to nest in the chimney of his home in the Irish
Continue Reading By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — “Insecure” star Issa Rae has canceled a previously scheduled event set to be held at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts following news that President Donald Trump was elected the center’s new chairman. In a statement posted to her Instagram Story Thursday, Rae thanked her followers for “selling
Continue Reading By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — Wedding bells are ringing for “Cobra Kai” costars Mary Mouser and Tanner Buchanan, and the timing couldn’t be better. The couple announced that they are engaged in an Instagram post shared to both of their pages on Thursday, the same day that Netflix dropped the final episodes of the
Continue Reading By Lisa France, CNN (CNN) — Lily Allen is sharing details surrounding a recent visit to a treatment center. The singer discussed the visit on the latest episode of her BBC podcast “Miss Me?” with her cohost Miquita Oliver. Oliver began the episode by expressing excitement that Allen was back, with Allen responding in part,
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