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Julia Buckley, CNN (CNN) — As the aviation world looks to battery-powered planes to help sustainability, the rail sector has been quietly working on a faster alternative. Enter Europe’s first battery-powered trains. A 20-strong fleet of Hitachi Masaccio trains is now running in Italy, where they are known as “Blues.” It’s the first phase of
Continue Reading CNN, CNNI By Thomas Page, CNN (CNN) — Tom Cruise – he’s just like us. Speaking in London ahead of the release of “Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One,” Cruise shared that, yes, he feels fear. “It’s not that I don’t get scared,” the actor said. “It’s that I don’t mind being scared.” And there
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Idris Elba says he felt “super complimented for a long time” when it came to suggestions he should play James Bond. Until things took a turn. During a recently released conversation on Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes and Will Arnett’s podcast “Smartless,” Elba addressed the many times he’s been
Continue Reading By Marianne Garvey, CNN (CNN) — Here comes the bride. Nicole Scherzinger is engaged to be married. The Pussycat Dolls alum said yes to her fiancé Thom Evans, she revealed on Instagram, adding a picture of the two on the beach. “I said yes,” she wrote. Evans also shared the pictures to Instagram, writing, “My
Continue Reading Review by Brian Lowry, CNN (CNN) — It’s always interesting to see what actors have been up to while working on a for-the-ages show like “Succession,” which sets a high bar for what comes next. Two low-key examples arrive this week, with Sarah Snook anchoring “Run Rabbit Run,” a creepy little macabre Australian thriller, while
Continue Reading Review by Brian Lowry, CNN (CNN) — Idris Elba is another right guy in the wrong place in “Hijack,” a tense real-time thriller in the mode of “24,” which follows a hijacked plane from the perspectives of its passengers, their captors and authorities on the ground. Crisp and tense, the seven-episode Apple TV+ series overcomes
Continue Reading Review by Brian Lowry, CNN (CNN) — At first blush, “Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed” seems determined to find every movie phrase uttered by the actor – famously closeted throughout his career as a leading man – that could be construed to have a double meaning hinting at who he really was. Yet the
Continue Reading By Thomas Page, CNN (CNN) — Tom Cruise – he’s just like us. Speaking in London ahead of the release of “Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One,” Cruise shared that, yes, he feels fear. “It’s not that I don’t get scared,” the actor said. “It’s that I don’t mind being scared.” And there ends our
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Jennifer Lawrence is setting the record straight about speculation she and Liam Hemsworth had a “secret fling” while he was with Miley Cyrus. Here’s the backstory: Lawrence costarred with Hemsworth in the “Hunger Games” franchise in which their characters, Lawrence’s Katniss Everdeen and Hemsworth’s Gale Hawthorne, were romantically
Continue Reading CNN By Nell Lewis, CNN (CNN) — The rain-lashed isle of Islay off Scotland’s west coast is not always easy to get to. Temperamental ferries run three times a day from the mainland port of Kennacraig and frequent sea mists can disrupt the small passenger planes that fly daily from Glasgow. Even so, the island
Continue Reading By Francesca Street, CNN (CNN) — Should you haul yourself out of bed in the middle of the night to be on the first flight of the day? Should you pack snacks or rely on airplane food? Who should you turn to if your flight is canceled? Summer travel always brings highs – long-awaited vacations
Continue Reading By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Australian metalcore band Polaris have confirmed the death of guitarist Ryan Siew at the age of 26. Siew died on June 19, the band announced in a post on Instagram, in which they called the guitarist “our dear brother and bandmate,” and “our best friend and artistic soulmate.” “He
Continue Reading CNN, WSOC By Julia Buckley, CNN (CNN) — If you’ve ever thought that having an empty seat beside you on a flight is the ultimate travel goal, try this for size: an entire plane to yourself. That was the dream scenario for Phil Stringer, who was flying from Oklahoma to North Carolina on Sunday at
Continue Reading By Julia Buckley, CNN (CNN) — If you’ve ever thought that having an empty seat beside you on a flight is the ultimate travel goal, try this for size: an entire plane to yourself. That was the dream scenario for Phil Stringer, who was flying from Oklahoma to North Carolina on Sunday at 6.30 a.m.
Continue Reading By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Toward the end of his life, England’s King Henry VIII left a series of doodles in a prayer book, revealing his anguish over his health and his past actions, new research shows. Henry, who ruled from 1509 until his death in 1547, made the annotations in a copy of
Continue Reading By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — In recent years, wooden buildings have reached new heights, with soaring timber skyscrapers completed or underway in countries like Norway, Switzerland and Australia. Singapore, meanwhile, can lay claim to the largest timber building in Asia with a sprawling 468,000-square-foot college campus that opened in May. Now, real estate developer
Continue Reading By Heather Chen, Junko Fukutome and Emiko Jozuka, CNN (CNN) — Visitors to a beach resort city in southwest Japan got a shock on Tuesday when they woke to discover the usually crystal-clear sea had turned an ominous shade of red – after a local brewery sprung a leak. Photos and videos shared online showed
Continue Reading Marianna Cerinni, CNN (CNN) — Think of 1990s fashion, and supermodels like Kate Moss, Naomi Campbell and Linda Evangelista immediately spring to mind. The decade that popularized velvet suits, low-rise jeans and slip dresses is closely linked to the women who first donned them on runways and in racy ad campaigns (like Calvin Klein’s now-infamous
Continue Reading By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — Some members of the Screen Actors Guild — American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) have written a letter to union leadership urging the negotiating committee not to settle with the Hollywood studios on a deal that does not represent their demands. The letter, which was shared with
Continue Reading By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — Clark Kent and Lois Lane have officially been cast in James Gunn’s new DC superhero blockbuster “Superman: Legacy.” Rachel Brosnahan has been tapped to play Lois Lane and David Corenswet will wear Superman’s iconic red cape, representatives for Warner Bros. Pictures, the film’s studio, confirmed to CNN on Tuesday.
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