By Oscar Holland, CNN (CNN) — Photographer Felipe Romero Beltrán’s depiction of a migrant facility in Spain oozes with the boredom and malaise of life in legal limbo. His young subjects are seen smoking cigarettes, lifting weights and trimming one another’s hair. Other images show them hanging out in a grubby yard or lying around
Continue ReadingAl Goodman and Hafsa Khalil, CNN (CNN) — Peruvian novelist and Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa has been hospitalized in Madrid with Covid-19, his son said Monday. “In light of the interest by the news media in our father’s health, we make public that he has been hospitalized since Saturday after being diagnosed with Covid-19,”
Continue Readingby Victoria Woodcock Isla del Rey, Menorca (CNN) — On the tiny Menorcan island of Isla del Rey, Christina Quarles is sitting under a canopy of olive trees. While birds chirp loudly overhead and the sea splashes at the shore a few feet away, the Los Angeles-based artist talks of her new exhibition with Hauser
Continue ReadingBy Mitch McCluskey, Jillian Sykes and Raja Razek, CNN (CNN) — Inspectors were at a North Carolina amusement park Monday to continue investigating a roller coaster shuttered since shortly after a dad spotted a crack at the top of one of its steel support pillars. “I’m not an engineer, but that’s not right,” Jeremy Wagner
Continue ReadingFeride Yalav-Heckeroth, CNN (CNN) — Rize province, on the Black Sea coast near Turkey’s northeast border with Georgia, is still largely unknown to many international travelers. Yet it is here that some of the country’s most untouched alpine terrains continue to fascinate nature lovers who want to take the road less traveled. Away from Rize
Continue ReadingBy Tara Subramaniam, CNN (CNN) — A Filipino ad agency has come under fire for using footage of other countries in a promotional video for the country’s new tourism campaign, “Love the Philippines.” Days after the campaign launched on June 27, the Department of Tourism (DOT) said it was investigating allegations that the video contained
Continue ReadingCNN By Mitch McCluskey, Jillian Sykes and Raja Razek, CNN (CNN) — Inspectors were at a North Carolina amusement park Monday to continue investigating a roller coaster shuttered since shortly after a dad spotted a crack at the top of one of its steel support pillars. “I’m not an engineer, but that’s not right,” Jeremy
Continue ReadingBy Jay Croft and Raja Razek, CNN (CNN) — Carowinds amusement park in North Carolina closed a roller coaster Friday after discovering a crack in a support pillar, park officials said. The park says the Fury 325 is one of the tallest and longest rides in the massive park that straddles the North and South
Continue ReadingBy Kate Springer, CNN (CNN) — Chutatip “Nok” Suntaranon still remembers the moment she first saw Ziv Katalan in vivid detail. It was September 2006 on a Thai Airways flight from Bangkok to New York City. A Business Class flight attendant, Suntaranon was roaming the cabin and greeting guests as they settled into their seats.
Continue ReadingBy Ashley R. Williams, CNN (CNN) — Two Delta Air Lines pilots say they visited 48 US states in under 48 hours, potentially breaking a world record, the Atlanta-based carrier reported. Captains Barry Behnfeldt and Aaron Wilson completed their goal of stopping in all 48 contiguous states in less time than they expected – accomplishing
Continue ReadingBy Maggie Hiufu Wong, CNN (CNN) — In China – the land of hot noodles, steaming rice and warm soups – a new and unlikely food trend has swept across the country’s social media platforms in recent weeks. People have been sharing images of what most would consider incredibly bland foods, such as raw carrots wrapped in
Continue ReadingBy Lilit Marcus, CNN (CNN) — It’s almost the Fourth of July. This week has been rough for air travelers in the United States, but we have flight attendants’ secrets for surviving summer travel. Around the country, people are setting up grills and stocking up on sunscreen. And if you’ve always dreamed of spending the
Continue ReadingBy Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — On which basketball court can you get the most air? Brooklyn’s latest addition to the New York City skyline, the Brooklyn Tower, is offering its residents those bragging rights. The 93-story, 1,066 foot-tall residential building in Downtown Brooklyn — which is the borough’s first supertall skyscraper — unveiled the
Continue ReadingBy Amy Woodyatt, CNN (CNN) — A deputy mayor in Helsinki is facing possible legal action after being caught spray-painting graffiti with a friend. Paavo Arhinmäki, deputy mayor responsible for culture and leisure in the Finnish capital, issued a statement Saturday admitting that he and a friend had been caught by security guards after painting
Continue ReadingBy Yola Mzizi (CNN) — Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by The Business of Fashion, an editorial partner of CNN Style. When 19-year-old Charles Chen got a perm in early 2022, it was a spur of the moment decision. “I was looking for something simple to style,” he said of his “naturally bone straight”
Continue ReadingBy Barry Neild and Xiaofei Xu, CNN (CNN) — With violent and fiery protests gripping Paris and other cities across France in the wake of the fatal police shooting of a teenage boy, many of the millions planning a visit there this summer will be wondering if it’s safe to go ahead with their trip.
Continue ReadingBy Mark Tutton, CNN (CNN) — You may have seen kitesurfers in action, harnessing the power of the wind to pull them over the sea. Now imagine the same concept applied to a 1,000-square-meter kite, flying 300 meters above the water – only instead of towing a surfer across the waves, it’s helping to propel
Continue ReadingBy Lilit Marcus and Wayne Chang, CNN Taipei (CNN) — A noodle shop in southern Taiwan has upped the ante by creating “Godzilla Ramen,” where it looks like the famous Japanese movie icon is about to crawl out of the bowl and grab you. The dish, served at Witch Cat Kwai, a restaurant in Douliu
Continue ReadingBy Julia Buckley, CNN (CNN) — He caused shockwaves around the world when he was filmed apparently carving his name into a wall of Rome’s 2,000-year-old Colosseum – and grinning when he realized he was caught on camera. Now, he’s likely to be in shock himself. The visitor who this week allegedly scratched “Ivan+Hayley 23”
Continue ReadingBy Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — Naomi Campbell announced the birth of her second child Thursday, nearly two years after she welcomed a daughter. “My little darling, know that you are cherished beyond measure and surrounded by love from the moment you graced us with your presence. A True Gift from God,” the 53-year-old supermodel
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