By Forrest Brown and Marnie Hunter, CNN (CNN) — A Philadelphia restaurant with an eight-course tasting menu, a Haitian restaurant in the Pacific Northwest and a chef who focuses on a sustainable menu of oysters and wild vegetables in Washington, D.C., were three of the big winners at the 2023 James Beard Awards, widely considered
Continue ReadingLianne Kolirin and Stephanie Halasz, CNN (CNN) — A statue of an antisemitic politician who is said to have inspired Adolf Hitler is to be tilted 3.5 degrees to the right. The monument to Karl Lueger, situated in Dr. Karl Lueger Platz in the center of Vienna, has long been a subject of fierce debate
Continue ReadingTamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN (CNN) — Their shared love of travel was one of the main topics of conversation during their first date back in 2004. But other than a “couple of cruises,” Janell and Stu Clarke, both from Australia, had barely traveled beyond their home country nearly a decade later. Once Janell got her motorbike
Continue ReadingLianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — Creating the perfect backdrop for the upcoming “Barbie” movie required so much pink paint that it led to a global shortage, according to its production designer. “The world ran out of pink,” said Sarah Greenwood in a recent interview with Architectural Digest. Greenwood, who has been nominated for six Academy
Continue ReadingCNN Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — Creating the perfect backdrop for the upcoming “Barbie” movie required so much pink paint that it led to a global shortage, according to its production designer. “The world ran out of pink,” said Sarah Greenwood in a recent interview with Architectural Digest. Greenwood, who has been nominated for six
Continue ReadingMitchell McCluskey, CNN (CNN) — Yellowstone National Park has urged visitors to protect wildlife after a string of incidents that have left animals killed or endangered, including one in which tourists gave a newborn elk a ride in their car. The park issued a plea late last week asking visitors to drive carefully and follow
Continue ReadingBy Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — There was the hope that when mask mandates on planes ended and people got used to traveling again, airplane passenger behavior might improve. Perhaps all those midair scraps, diverted flights and the abuse and harassment of flight attendants might die down. That dream’s been dashed. Unruly passenger incidents were
Continue ReadingMary Novakovich, CNN (CNN) — Mention Dalmatia, and Split and Dubrovnik usually spring to mind. But head to the northern stretch of this coastal Croatian region and you’ll find a road a little less traveled. Croatia’s coast from Zadar to Trogir manages to pack in an astonishing amount of history and culture, as well as
Continue ReadingOscar Holland, CNN Singapore (CNN) — Singapore has long billed itself as a “garden city,” a term coined in the 1960s by the country’s founding father and former prime minister, Lee Kuan Yew. In the decades since, the island has embarked on extensive tree-planting programs and embraced so-called “biophilic” architecture, with greenery often seen creeping up urban facades
Continue ReadingBy Helen Regan, CNN (CNN) — Australia plans to triple the size of an ecologically important marine park and close off an area larger than Germany to fishing and mining, the government announced Monday, protecting millions of vulnerable seabirds and animals. The remote Macquarie Island Marine Park, located off Australia’s southeastern coast between Tasmania and
Continue ReadingBy Zenebou Sylla and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN (CNN) — A disruptive passenger on a Friday flight from Paris, France, to Detroit, Michigan, is facing criminal charges after his behavior caused the plane to be diverted to Canada, police said. Ahmed Omar Aden, 34, was acting in an “unruly manner” and was believed to be under
Continue ReadingBy Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — In CNN Travel’s latest news roundup, we bring you the world’s best airlines for 2023, city break inspiration from Texas to Mongolia to Ecuador and why China might have overstretched itself by building a 15-mile, $6.7 billion bridge. Feeling the squeeze Weight load and distribution is a delicate balance
Continue ReadingCNN Staff (CNN) — Emirates Airlines has officially gotten rid of its physical boarding pass for some of its travelers, opting for a digital-only version. Do you keep your old, paper boarding passes from memorable or important trips as mementos? Why do you keep them? We’d love to hear from you. Please share your answer
Continue ReadingTamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN (CNN) — After struggling with anxiety and depression for years, Christian Lewis, a former paratrooper from Wales, had hit an incredibly low point and realized he needed to make some drastic changes in his life. On the verge of becoming homeless for the second time, the single father made a “split-second decision”
Continue ReadingMariya Knight, CNN (CNN) — On the side of a building in Kyiv, the haggard face of a soldier stares into the distance. The mural, around five stories tall, is of captured Ukrainian soldier Oleksandr Matsiyevsky, executed by Russian forces last year after he shouted the words “Glory to Ukraine.” The mural is the work
Continue ReadingBy Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — Don’t cry because “Succession” is over, smile because J. Smith Cameron wore an extravagant set of feather-trimmed pajamas to the finale watch-party. Earlier this week, while fans of the show (which is produced by Warner Bros. Discovery, parent company of CNN) were mourning the end of “Succession,” Smith Cameron
Continue ReadingBy Jessie Yeung and Sugam Pokharel, CNN (CNN) — Gelje Sherpa was on his way to the top of the world’s highest mountain when he spotted the climber clinging to the rope. They were in the “death zone,” an area near the summit of Mount Everest where temperatures are extremely low and where there isn’t
Continue ReadingBy Francesca Street, CNN (CNN) — Grace Dvornik is pretty used to cooking in tight spaces. She measures out ingredients before getting started, chops vegetables in advance and always cleans up as she goes. The trick, says Dvornik, is “thinking about time and motion, it’s almost like choreography.” That way you avoid constantly opening and
Continue ReadingBy Paradise Afshar, CNN (CNN) — A man has pleaded guilty to intentionally disturbing wildlife following an encounter with a newborn bison calf at Yellowstone National Park that resulted in the young animal being euthanized. Clifford Walters pleaded guilty to one count of feeding, touching, teasing, frightening or intentionally disturbing wildlife, the US attorney’s office
Continue ReadingIssy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — For more than 50 years, the famously passionate and long-lasting marriage between actors Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward entranced Hollywood during its “Golden Age.” Now, a menagerie of more than 300 items that they accumulated during that time is back in the public eye at a Sotheby’s auction this week,
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