Entertainment

By Oscar Holland and Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — A 55.22-carat ruby has become both the largest and most valuable gem of its kind ever to sell at auction, netting $34.8 million on Thursday. The stone went under the hammer in New York in June, less than a year after Canadian firm Fura Gems discovered

By Harmeet Kaur, CNN (CNN) — On the first day that Richa Moorjani walked onto the set of “Never Have I Ever,” she realized she was a part of something special. For one, she wasn’t the only South Asian person there. For another, she and her fellow South Asian castmates Maitreyi Ramakrishnan and Poorna Jagannathan were the

By Paradise Afshar, CNN (CNN) — Rescuers in Washington state are praising the resourcefulness of a 10-year-old girl who survived on her own for more than 24 hours in the rugged terrain of the Cascade mountains after getting lost while out with her family. Shunghla Mashwani was at a gathering with her extended family in

Lianne Kolirin, CNN London (CNN) — Archaeologists have unearthed dozens of Roman tweezers in Britain, revealing the ancient culture’s obsession with hairlessness. The collection has now gone on display in a new museum at Wroxeter Roman City, which in its prime would have been as large a settlement as Pompeii. The simple tools would have

By Benjamin Sutton Françoise Gilot, a tireless artist who defied simple categorization — and efforts to define her merely as a footnote in the story of her former lover Pablo Picasso — died Tuesday in New York. She was 101. Her death was confirmed to The New York Times by her daughter, Aurelia Engel, who said Gilot

By Richard Collett, CNN (CNN) — “I like to put it simply,” says Randy “R Dub!” Williams, a late-night “slow jams” DJ from San Diego who’s also known as “the Sultan of Slowjamastan.” “I ran out of countries, so I created my own.” A broadcaster by night, Williams has spent his life attempting to visit

Xiaofei Xu, CNN Paris (CNN) —  Since being launched in 2007, Paris’ public Vélib’ rental bikes have proven a hit with tourists and locals as a trouble-free way to get around the French capital, especially in summer when Metro trains are hot and crowded. This year, however, the popular bikes have unwittingly become embroiled in

By Francesca Street, CNN Hamburg, Germany (CNN) — A new airplane seat concept that allows wheelchair users to stay in their own chair throughout a flight was revealed this week by a subsidiary of US airline Delta, a move welcomed as a “huge step” by potential customers. “Unbelievably excited,” is how power wheelchair user and

By Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — What do late former US president George H. W. Bush, ’60s muse Jane Birkin and rapper Wiz Khalifa all have in common? Despite their vastly differing personal styles and occupations, they have all been spotted in a pair of Gucci horsebit loafers. This year marks the 70th anniversary of

KGO By Chris Liakos, Tara John, Michael Conte and Uliana Pavlova, CNN (CNN) — An Air India flight sent to the remote Russian city of Magadan to pick up its stranded passengers has landed safely in San Francisco, the airline said Thursday. “All our passengers are being extended maximum on-ground assistance with clearance formalities and

CNN By Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — The United States has been charging visitors for electronic travel authorization since 2009, and now the United Kingdom and the European Union are rolling out entry fees, too. Also in our latest CNN Travel roundup, we bring you a double-decker plane seat and bunk beds in the sky.

Richard Quest and Joe Minihane, CNN Tokyo (CNN) — It’s the biggest city in the world, a vast metropolitan area that’s home to more than 37 million people. A place where cutting edge modernity and deeply held tradition exist in close proximity. Few cities manage to bring together the cut and thrust and the slower