CNN, NOAA, WMTV, NWS ABILENE, SAN ANGELO, KEYE, TWITTER | @NWSSANANTONIO By Forrest Brown, CNN (CNN) — Do you yearn for long days and short nights? Then this could be the best day of the year for you and fellow sunlight seekers. The summer solstice is Wednesday, June 21. It’s the longest day and shortest
Continue ReadingBy Hilary Whiteman, CNN Brisbane, Australia (CNN) — Li Cunxin, who found international fame for his remarkable rise from rural China to become one of the world’s leading ballet dancers, has announced his retirement as the artistic director of Queensland Ballet due to health issues. Now 62, Li is perhaps better known as “Mao’s Last
Continue ReadingBy Marnie Hunter, CNN (CNN) — Peru’s capital city – and undoubtedly its gastronomic capital – had a tremendous showing Tuesday at The World’s 50 Best Restaurants awards, taking the No. 1 title and earning more slots in the top 50 than any other city. Four Lima restaurants made the 50 Best list: Central at
Continue ReadingBy Glory Ngwe, CNN (CNN) — Whether it’s the ripped jeans and studs of 1970s punk or the heavy make-up of 1980s new romantics, the visual politics of alternative (‘alt’) fashion have always been proudly divergent from mainstream culture. Aligned with music scenes and subcultures as far back as the 1950s and 60s, from rockabilly
Continue ReadingBy Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — When it comes to the soft-leathered, leg-outstretched world of the absolute top-tier aviation elite, Singapore Airlines has been flying high for decades. Now, for the fifth time in the accolades’ 23-year history, it’s been named best airline in the prestigious Skytrax World Airline Awards 2023. The announcement came at
Continue ReadingBy Marnie Hunter, CNN (CNN) — When RMS Titanic set sail on April 10, 1912, she was the largest passenger ship in service and considered to be “unsinkable.” Just four days later, Titanic’s maiden voyage was transformed into an international tragedy when the ship struck an iceberg in the North Atlantic at 11:40 p.m. April
Continue ReadingIssy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — A Rubens painting lost to history and misidentified for almost 300 years has re-emerged with the help of X-ray analysis and could now fetch up to £6 million ($7.7 million) at auction next month. Flemish painter Peter Paul Rubens completed “Saint Sebastian Tended by Two Angels” more than 400 years
Continue ReadingBy Gawon Bae and Kathleen Magramo, CNN Seoul/ Hong Kong (CNN) — A 19-year-old Korean man who tried to open a plane door mid-flight tested positive for drugs following an investigation by the Incheon Airport police. Police told CNN they conducted a simple drug test with the consent of the man after his “abnormal behavior.”
Continue ReadingBy Kate Springer, CNN (CNN) — Travel has come a long way since the age of Silk Road caravans, daunting sea voyages and steam locomotives -– and will continue to transform in years to come. Concepts that feel plucked from sci-fi novels and films are quickly making their way into mainstream travel, shaping every step
Continue ReadingReuters Bhutan will lower the nightly fees it charges tourists who stay more than four days in an attempt to boost visitor numbers that are still a fraction of the level before the COVID-19 pandemic. When the scenic Himalayan kingdom reopened its borders for tourists in September last year after more than two years of pandemic
Continue ReadingBy Sarah Kent (CNN) — When Ingrid Newkirk co-founded People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) in 1980, fur was a status symbol. “Everyone aspired to have a fur,” Newkirk recalled. “But that’s all gone now.” PETA has played a significant role in that shift, blending aggressive protest tactics — including throwing red paint
Continue ReadingTamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN (CNN) — This summer, Canadian firefighter Markus Pukonen is due to arrive back in his home city of Toronto, seven years after beginning an epic quest to circumnavigate the world using just his “muscles and some wind.” During that time, the adventurer will have walked, canoed, kayaked, cycled, tricycled, skied, rowed, trimaraned,
Continue ReadingBy Patrice Gaines, CNN (CNN) — Marvin C. Ross was just 8 years old the first time he watched Willis Spells, his neighbor in Dorchester, South Carolina, make barbecue hash. Relatives and friends showed up to sit outside with Spells as he stirred ground hog’s head meat with something that looked like a boat oar.
Continue ReadingCNN By Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — It was a somber week in tourism as five explorers were lost in the “catastrophic implosion” of a Titanic-bound submersible. The disaster marks another chapter in the shipwreck’s tragic history. The week also brought news of the world’s best restaurants, the rise of luggage trackers and the post
Continue ReadingVideo by Sofia Couceiro and Teodora Preda, text by Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — When this year’s all-woman team arrived on Antarctica’s Goudier Island to run the world’s most remote post office, it was shovels they needed rather than stamps. They’d traveled some 8,000 miles from the UK, by plane and boat, and Britain’s Royal
Continue ReadingBy Martha Alexander, CNN (CNN) — The countdown to this weekend’s Glastonbury Festival is on; the stages are built, headliners are on their way and some 200,000 people are expected to attend. Now a global juggernaut, the festival has changed unrecognizably since the summer solstice of 1971 when the first Glastonbury Fair, as it was
Continue ReadingBy Harmeet Kaur, CNN (CNN) — Picture Captain America. Maybe you see the blue-eyed, blond-haired man from the comics, or maybe you see Chris Evans, the actor who played him in the movies. But what if one of the most quintessential American superheroes was a bearded, brown-skinned, turban-wearing Sikh? It’s a question Vishavjit Singh has
Continue ReadingJulia Buckley, CNN (CNN) — Out of the post-pandemic travel chaos, a hero has emerged. Unassuming and undercover, this hero has spent much of the past year traveling the globe, stepping in when airlines mess up to save people’s precious vacations. Its name? Well, it goes by a few. To you, it may be Tile,
Continue ReadingBy Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — CNN Travel has your back when it comes to your vacation needs. Confused about tipping? Read our guide. Don’t know which currency option to pick when making card payments? Here’s what to do. Want a roundup of all the week’s news? Read on. Irish island homes New opportunities are
Continue ReadingBy Forrest Brown, CNN (CNN) — You’re out for a hike on a glorious fall day. Suddenly, you spot a bear. And the bear has spotted you, too. Would you know what to do next? Beth Pratt sure would. She was once on the Old Gardiner Road Trail in Yellowstone National Park, enjoying her run
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