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Top image of El Morro de Moravia courtesy of Medellín.Travel Steph Dyson is a bilingual travel journalist, guidebook author and blogger at WorldlyAdventurer.com who specializes in South America.

By Steph Dyson, CNN It’s a sunny afternoon in Moravia, and people are busy weeding the communal gardens on top of El Morro de Moravia (Moravia Hill), which sits at the heart of this working-class Medellín neighborhood. Others are in the greenhouse, inspecting orchids in myriad tropical shades and rows of bromeliads, whose glossy orange

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Oscar Holland, CNN Last year, Mike Winkelmann — better known as Beeple — joined the world’s most valuable living artists when he sold an NFT for a record-breaking $69.3 million. Now, the graphic designer is back with a new multi-million-dollar creation: A video installation depicting an astronaut-like figure striding through a dystopian landscape. Dubbed “Human

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By Jack Guy, CNN A close-up of a gull’s eye is the overall winner of this year’s British Ecological Society photography competition, the organizers have announced. Category winners include an image of moss set against the sunset, a close-up of a blowfly and a jumping spider with a freshly caught butterfly, according to a news

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Jacqui Palumbo, CNN The 2022 Winter Olympic Games in Beijing are not yet upon us, but Team USA and Team Canada are already facing off for style points. Hot off the heels of Team Canada’s six-year Lululemon partnership announcement on Tuesday — which also included the unveiling of the 2022 Olympic and Paralympic opening and

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By Hannah Ryan, CNN A major insight into how Romans residing on the southeastern English coast would have lived has been revealed by the excavation of a historic amphitheater, where thousands would have once gathered to witness gladiatorial combat, wild animal hunts and executions. English Heritage archaeologists working in Richborough, Kent discovered a cell within

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Assault on flight attendant ‘one of the worst’ in airline’s history, American Airlines CEO says

CNN, DELTA AIRLINES, AMERICAN AIRLINES By Pete Muntean, CNN A coast-to-coast flight was diverted to Denver on Wednesday night after a passenger “physically assaulted a flight attendant,” American Airlines said in a statement. Flight 976 from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City to Santa Ana, California, landed in Denver safely where police

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By Pete Muntean, CNN A coast-to-coast flight was diverted to Denver on Wednesday night after a passenger “physically assaulted a flight attendant,” American Airlines said in a statement. Flight 976 from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City to Santa Ana, California, landed in Denver safely where police “removed and apprehended the passenger,”

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Jacqui Palumbo, CNN The cosmo, the appletini, a glass of rosé — these are the cloyingly sweet and pastel-colored beverages stereotypically associated with women. In a culture where feminine drinks are seen as lesser and wine moms and party girls are relentlessly judged, author Mallory O’Meara has set out to topple double standards. “All drinks

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Francesca Street, CNN Sallie Kuria relocated to Germany from Kenya in 2010, unsure what to expect but ready to embrace a new adventure. Sallie, then 23, arrived in the small town of Eschbach, near Freiburg in the mountainous Black Forest region, to work as an au pair for a guy who owned a company that

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Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Manhattan is no stranger to supertall skyscrapers but Brooklyn’s skyline has now radically changed as its first supertall reached its full, vertiginous height on Thursday. The 93-story, 1,066-foot-tall residential building, standing at 9 DeKalb Avenue in Downtown Brooklyn, was designed by SHoP Architects. (Supertalls, by definition, are residential or office buildings reaching

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‘Shakespeare in Love’ screenplay writer Tom Stoppard said ‘Leopoldstadt’ would be his last play — now he’s not so sure

CNN Christiane Amanpour CNN, Emmet Lyons CNN, Ken Olshansky CNN Legendary playwright Tom Stoppard has said that he remains unsure as to whether he has written his last work. “At the moment, I’m sitting here with nothing to write, and I’m thinking I really ought to try and write something else now,” Stoppard told CNN’s

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Christiane Amanpour CNN, Emmet Lyons CNN, Ken Olshansky CNN Legendary playwright Tom Stoppard has said that he remains unsure as to whether he has written his last work. “At the moment, I’m sitting here with nothing to write, and I’m thinking I really ought to try and write something else now,” Stoppard told CNN’s Christiane

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By Amy Woodyatt, CNN There have long been theories that when great white sharks bite humans, it is a case of mistaken identity. Now, new research simulating the way that a shark would view the world has shown that this may really be the case. Researchers from Australia’s Macquarie University in Sydney found that swimming

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Livia Borghese and Sana Noor Haq, CNN A stately villa in the heart of Rome, which houses the world’s only ceiling mural by the Italian painter Caravaggio, will be auctioned at a starting price of 471 million euros ($547 million) in January, a court in Rome has confirmed. While most of the infrastructure was demolished

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Ben Jones, CNN You wake up in suburban Innsbruck, the snowcapped peaks of the Austrian Tyrol glistening in the distance. After breakfast you hop a tram to Innsbruck Hauptbahnhof, the city’s main railway station and climb aboard an Austrian Railways ÖBB Railjet bound for Vienna. After more than four hours crossing some of the prettiest

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By Scottie Andrew, CNN For Summer and Kaleigh Kailani, the most wonderful time of the year is already here — haunted house season. The sisters and horror buffs are hosts for Sharp Productions, a YouTube channel with more than half a million subscribers that sees the pair brave the scariest Halloween attractions around their native

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Harmeet Kaur, CNN A private collector has returned a Mayan artifact to Guatemala after it was initially slated for auction in 2019. The stone fragment depicts a bird headdress belonging to an ancient ruler of Piedras Negras, the capital of a Mayan kingdom that flourished between 4th century BC and 9th century AD and is

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By David Williams, CNN A Colorado rescue team has some simple advice for lost hikers or anyone else who might find themselves stranded in the mountains — answer your phone. Lake County Search and Rescue says it got a report last week that a hiker hadn’t returned from a hike on Mount Elbert. The hiker

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