By Blane Bachelor, CNN (CNN) — On a recent chilly, drizzly afternoon in Amsterdam’s city center, a steady stream of patrons venture out of the rain and into a narrow 17th-century building on the Haarlemmerdijk, a popular shopping street. A gilded sign shaped like a shining sun hangs above the front door, reflecting the shop’s
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By Olivia Kemp, CNN (CNN) — The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) has updated its flag policy for the Eurovision Song Contest, overturning a ban on banners such as the Palestinian flag in the audience, but introducing tougher restrictions on artists. Under the new policy, spectators in Basel, Switzerland, are allowed to wave any flag permitted
Continue Reading By Nicole Mowbray, CNN (CNN) — From stopping dust and dirt getting into the eyes to prompting our blink reflex, eyelashes do more than just look pretty. Which makes it hard to explain the social media trend of men trimming down — or even entirely shaving off — their eyelashes in a bid to look
Continue Reading By Lilit Marcus, CNN (CNN) — Hanoi’s Metropole Hotel sits imposingly on a corner in the city center, bright white with neat black shutters. As guests pull up in front of the French Colonial building, they are greeted by staff members wearing chic silk tunics. Framed photos throughout the lobby show some of the hotel’s
Continue Reading By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — Shonda Rhimes knows her friend and “Grey’s Anatomy” star Ellen Pompeo is always going to give her the truth, plain and simple. It’s why Rhimes lovingly admitted on Tuesday during her speech at Pompeo’s Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony that when she met the actress two decades ago during
Continue Reading By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — Alan Alda approves of Netflix’s new TV series reboot of “The Four Seasons,” which is inspired by his 1981 classic movie of the same name. Alda made this clear when he visited Tina Fey, who created, wrote, executive produced and stars in the new series, and her co-showrunners Tracey
Continue Reading By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — British pop star and podcast host Lily Allen has apologized for criticizing US singer Katy Perry for taking part in a recent all-female space flight. “I would actually like to apologize for being mean about Katy Perry last week,” Allen said on her podcast “Miss Me?” in an episode
Continue Reading By Rosa Rahimi, CNN (CNN) — Watchmaking doesn’t feel like the most 21st century profession. The job requires unwavering patience and a delicate touch, with watchmakers taking months or even years to create a single timepiece. Meanwhile, most people tell the time by looking at their phones. But this seemingly bygone profession appears to be
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By Lilit Marcus, CNN Brno, Czech Republic (CNN) — From the street, it doesn’t look like anything special. Most tourists trying to find this UNESCO World Heritage site are usually looking for a grand European classical villa, so they often walk right past what they think is just a typical family home in a quiet
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By Terry Ward, CNN (CNN) — Imagine this: you pull your kids out of school for a year, stash your stuff in storage, rent out your house, put your career on pause and set out into the wide world, bound for all seven continents as a family. You serve up lessons the kids would miss
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By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — Beyoncé kicked off her Cowboy Carter and the Rodeo Chitlin’ Circuit tour in Los Angeles on Monday, delivering a nearly three-hour performance that proved it certainly ain’t Queen Bey’s first rodeo. The concert at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood was a celebration of Southern Black culture, freedom of expression and
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By Maggie Hiufu Wong, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Is xiaolongbao a bao or a dumpling? What exactly are “husband-and-wife lung slices” made of? With international travel to China on the rise, thanks much in part to its friendlier tourist visa policies, foreigners will inevitably encounter some amusing restaurant menu translations as they experience the
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By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — John Stamos proved he’s always up for a challenge in a new video for YouTube channel Drumeo, in which he was tasked with drumming along to a song he’d never heard before. Enter Papa Roach’s “Last Resort.” For all the Millennials currently gasping that the former “Full House” star
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By Elizabeth Wagmeister, CNN (CNN) — The jury pool in the Sean “Diddy” Combs’ trial could be asked about their views on sex with multiple partners, drugs and hip-hop, among other topics. Proposed questions for the voir dire process, which is set to begin in New York next week, were filed by both federal prosecutors
Continue Reading By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — Rupert Grint is now a girl-dad-of-two. The “Harry Potter” star announced on Sunday that he and his partner Georgia Groome have welcomed a new baby girl to their family. “‘Secret Child Slightly Revealed’ Introducing Goldie G. Grint,” he wrote on his Instagram page. “A 10/10 baby (so far).” Grint
Continue Reading By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — Bill Hader was in Malibu filming a Volkswagen commercial with his former “SNL” co-stars Kristen Wiig and Fred Armisen when a devastating wildfire began ripping through the Pacific Palisades, the affluent West Los Angeles neighborhood perched atop a peak overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Hader opened up about seeing his
Continue Reading By Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — A huge painting by Mark Rothko, thought to be worth tens of millions of dollars, has been removed from display in a Dutch museum after it was damaged by a visiting child. Conservators will now have to repair the artwork, “Grey, Orange on Maroon, No. 8,” after it was
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By Saskya Vandoorne and Sérène Nourrisson, CNN Paris (CNN) — Nearly nine years after billionaire reality TV star Kim Kardashian was bound, gagged and robbed at gunpoint during Paris Fashion Week, the trial of nine men and one woman accused of carrying out the dramatic heist opened Monday at a packed courthouse in the French
Continue Reading Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — First-time nominees Chubby Checker, Joe Cocker and Bad Company will be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, a class that also includes pop star Cyndi Lauper, the hip-hop pioneers Outkast, the rock duo the White Stripes and grunge masters Soundgarden. Salt-N-Pepa, the first female rap act
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By Jack Guy and Junko Ogura, CNN (CNN) — Authorities in Japan have rescued the same climber from the slopes of Mount Fuji twice in the space of a week. The 27-year-old man was first rescued on Tuesday after falling ill, Shizuoka prefectural police told CNN on Monday. He had to be rescued again on
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