Entertainment

By Vivian Song, CNN Paris (CNN) — Luxury jewelry and watch maker Chopard has quietly opened an “anti-hotel” in the heart of Paris, a new development in a growing category of hospitality in the French capital. Much about the brand’s first-ever hotel project — starting with its name, 1 Place Vendôme, and the property’s unusual

By Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — In travel news this week: the world’s leading destinations for neighborliness and tranquility, what’s trending in aircraft interiors and top picks for city getaways and Asian hotels. World’s most peaceful countries What do Iceland, Denmark and Ireland have in common, other than being Northwestern European countries with oceanic climates

By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — “You don’t dwell on the past?” The question hangs in the air in a key scene in “May December,” as Julianne Moore and Natalie Portman cut and arrange flowers, sizing each other up. The unnerving, slow-burn Todd Haynes-directed film — hitting Netflix on December 1 after a limited theatrical

By Oscar Holland, CNN Singapore (CNN) — A Chinese boarding school designed to let students unwind and “waste time mindfully” has been named 2023’s World Building of the Year. Featuring a rooftop park, treehouses and elevated walkways in a “floating forest,” the Huizhen High School in Ningbo, Zhejiang province in eastern China, won the coveted title at the

Julia Buckley, CNN (CNN) — It’s the ‘leaning tower’ that has stood tipsily – but steadily – for nearly 1,000 years. But now, the days of the Garisenda tower in Bologna, Italy, could be numbered. Following investigations last month, the city is instigating a civil protection plan for the “sudden and unexpected collapse of the

By Simon Cullen, Max Foster and Chris Liakos, CNN (CNN) — King Charles has worn a tie emblazoned with the Greek flag, just days after the British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak canceled a meeting with his Greek counterpart in a diplomatic dispute over the Parthenon Sculptures, also known as the Elgin Marbles. The King wore

By Francesca Street, CNN (CNN) — Brian Aerni’s favorite photo of himself was taken when he was just three years old. It was 1976. Aerni was living in Denver, Colorado, where his father worked as a station agent at Stapleton International Airport – then Denver’s aviation hub. Young Aerni was obsessed with airplanes and in

By Suyin Haynes, CNN (CNN) — With a painted white face and head, wearing an all-white ensemble save for long black gloves and gigantic black platform stiletto boots, Gena Marvin teeters as she balances on snow-covered rocks. She poses for a photograph, the sea rippling gently in the background behind her contorted figure, frozen still

By Barbie Latza Nadeau and Jack Guy, CNN Rome (CNN) — A painting by the 15th-century master Sandro Botticelli, recorded as missing since the 1980s, has been found at a home in southern Italy. The depiction of the Virgin Mary and infant Christ was discovered in a home in the town of Gragnano, near Naples,

By Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN (CNN) — The world’s first underwater sculpture park has just gotten a lot bigger. Created by British sculptor and ecologist Jason deCaires Taylor in 2006, the Molinere Bay Underwater Sculpture Park in Grenada is now one of the Caribbean country’s most popular underwater attractions. The captivating installation recently expanded significantly, with