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By Maureen O’Hare, CNN As Omicron grips the world, the only person enjoying frictionless global travel this Christmas is Santa, thanks to his very well-ventilated sleigh. CNN Travel wishes you happy holidays if you’re celebrating and for better times ahead for those missing loved ones this year. Here are the biggest developments in travel this

CNN Staff If you’re planning to travel to New Zealand, here’s what you’ll need to know and expect if you want to visit during the Covid-19 pandemic. The basics New Zealand was a poster child early on for how to deal with Covid-19. Its early lockdown and strict border measures meant it suppressed the virus

By Terry Ward, CNN Ever since the movie “Moana” first hit theaters, 8-year-old Mathias Pascal from Cuxac-d’Aude, France, has dreamed of visiting the land of “Vaiana” — the name for the ebony-haired heroine of the 2016 Disney blockbuster in its French release. “He watched the film ever since he was little, and I’d tell him,

Francesca Street, CNN On Christmas morning 2011, Linda Wenger boarded a Metro-North train from New York’s Grand Central Station to head upstate to Katonah. She was in her mid-50s and had been divorced for 10 years. Her daughters always spent the holidays with her ex-husband — Wenger is Jewish, so she didn’t have much affiliation

Marianna Cerinni, CNN The Middle East nation of Qatar has announced an ambitious plan to expand its public art program as it prepares to play host to the 2022 Fifa World Cup. Leading the initiative, Qatar Museums — the state-run organization under which many of the nation’s cultural institutions sit — says it will display

Jacqui Palumbo and Scottie Andrew, CNN Acclaimed American writer Joan Didion, an essayist and novelist who rose to prominence in the 1960s, has died at age 87, her publisher confirmed to CNN on Thursday. “We are deeply saddened to report that Joan Didion died earlier this morning at her home in New York due to

Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN The notion of what the world would look like if humans were to vanish has been explored extensively by scientists, as well as many post-apocalyptic movies. However, French photographer Romain Veillon is making it his mission to capture in pictures the potential result of a planet without people. The 38-year-old has spent

Leah Dolan, CNN The literary landscape has never been richer or more reflective of our present moment. Compassionate depictions of the ongoing refugee crisis won Zanzibar-British novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah the 2021 Nobel Prize for Literature, while American writer Jason Mott took home the National Book Award for his novel on the racism, police brutality and

By Melissa Alonso and Aya Elamroussi, CNN A Royal Caribbean cruise ship was denied entry into two island nations after 55 fully vaccinated crew members and passengers contracted Covid-19 only days after the ship had set sail from Fort Lauderdale, the Miami Herald reported Wednesday. Odyssey of the Seas was barred from entering Curacao and

Oscar Holland, CNN In the 40-year history of the official White House Christmas ornament, produced annually by the White House Historical Association (WHHA), this year’s design is among the most conventionally festive. Depicting a Christmas tree displayed in the residence’s Blue Room in 1967, the new ornament features a reproduction of a painting originally commissioned

Leah Dolan, CNN As the trend for Y2K-inspired fashion continues to resurface wardrobe staples from 20 years ago, it was only a matter of time before the Ugg boot made its divisive return. Over the past year, reformed versions of the classic beige sheepskin shoes have been spotted on Hailey Bieber and Bella Hadid, as

Reuters A giant straw Yule goat in the Swedish town of Gavle, 200 miles northwest of Stockholm, was set ablaze on December 17 for the first time in five years, reviving a long-running tradition of locals illegally attempting to torch it and authorities scrambling to stop them. Police said they had arrested a man in

Megan C. Hills Remember when Bruce Willis’ character in “Die Hard” fought a group of terrorists at an office Christmas party, barefooted and wearing a tank top? Throughout the movie, Willis, who played John McClane, sported a white undershirt that got progressively dirtier and bloodier — a sight so legendary that a screen-worn version of