Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN Previous offerings include a yacht in the form of a swan and another devised to resemble a shark, but Lazzarini Design Studio’s latest superyacht concept may be one of its most daring yet. The Rome-based design team has just unveiled renderings of a brand new 69-meter yacht design with a “gaping hole”
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By Jack Guy, CNN The owner of a bakery in northern England has been left with a bitter taste in his mouth after authorities told him he had to stop using banned sprinkles sourced from the US. West Yorkshire Trading Standards said the sprinkles contained an artificial coloring which isn’t approved for use in sprinkles
Continue ReadingJacqui Palumbo, CNN At 91 years old, Jasper Johns is one of the most important living artists today, with auction sales worth tens of millions of dollars and a seven-decade career credited with changing the course of 20th-century art. But the American artist has always been reluctant to engage with interpretations or even showings of
Continue ReadingAustralia’s biggest city to end Covid-19 quarantine for international travelers
CNN Story by Reuters Sydney will end its Covid-19 quarantine for fully vaccinated international travelers from November 1, New South Wales Premier Dominic Perrottet said on Friday, October 15 foreshadowing the full return of overseas travel after more than 19 months. Australia closed its international borders in March 2020 in response to the pandemic, allowing
Continue ReadingStory by Reuters Sydney will end its Covid-19 quarantine for fully vaccinated international travelers from November 1, New South Wales Premier Dominic Perrottet said on Friday, October 15 foreshadowing the full return of overseas travel after more than 19 months. Australia closed its international borders in March 2020 in response to the pandemic, allowing entry
Continue ReadingBy Dana Joseph and Jen Rose Smith, CNN October 14 is National Dessert Day. In celebration, CNN Travel did a delicious dive into its archives to uncover six of the best desserts spread across the nation: Apple pie According to the American Pie Council, apple really is the US national favorite. Not to burst the
Continue ReadingBy Maureen O’Hare, CNN When it comes to instantly recognizable cinematic universes, “The French Dispatch” director Wes Anderson has it nailed. Now the auteur known for his distinctively hued vintage whimsy has entered into a chef’s-kiss-perfect design partnership with luxury travel company Belmond. Anderson has redesigned the 1950s-era Cygnus carriage aboard the world-famous Belmond British
Continue ReadingCorrection: This story has been amended to remove an inaccurate reference to Turkey’s capital city.
Francesca Street, CNN When Airbus announced plans to cease production of its A380 aircraft back in 2019, heartbroken aviation fans found solace in the fact that the superjumbo wasn’t set to stop flying anytime soon. Production on this much-loved aircraft was due to continue for another couple years, and plenty of airlines had active A380s
Continue ReadingMegan C. Hills, CNN Luxury brand Coach announced that it will no longer destroy damaged or “unsaleable” goods returned to its stores, after a viral TikTok video claimed the label intentionally “slashed” unwanted items for tax purposes. Without directly referencing the allegations, the American brand wrote on Instagram Tuesday that it had “ceased” destroying in-store
Continue ReadingBy Christina Zdanowicz, CNN A larger-than-life marble statue of civil rights pioneer Mary McLeod Bethune is replacing one of a Confederate general in the US Capitol’s Statuary Hall. The daughter of former slaves, Bethune became an influential Black educator and civil and women’s rights leader. She opened a boarding school for Black children in 1904,
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CNN, KUSA, KTRK, WLS, KTVT By Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN What was supposed to be a special day over the weekend instead became an emotional roller coaster for a bride whose family couldn’t attend her wedding after Southwest Airlines canceled thousands of flights around the country. Kimberli Romano and Kyle Hlavaty live in Chicago, along with
Continue ReadingBy Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN What was supposed to be a special day over the weekend instead became an emotional roller coaster for a bride whose family couldn’t attend her wedding after Southwest Airlines canceled thousands of flights around the country. Kimberli Romano and Kyle Hlavaty live in Chicago, along with most of her family. The
Continue ReadingBy Amy Woodyatt, CNN Iron Age Europeans enjoyed foods that are still part of our diet today — like blue cheese and beer — new research studying ancient poop has shown. As a rule, human fecal matter doesn’t tend to last for thousands of years, except in a few specific places such as dry caves,
Continue ReadingJulia Buckley, CNN Over a decade ago, when Francesco Galietti had to take the train from his native Rome to Milan for work, he used to fly the nearly 400-mile route. Today, he takes the train. Galietti — CEO of Rome-based political risk consultancy Policy Sonar — is not alone. Figures released in 2019 by
Continue ReadingCeline Alkhaldi, CNN Residents of Kabul can read the writing on the wall. “Don’t trust the propaganda of the enemy” says one freshly painted sign. The message replaced a mural of US envoy Zalmay Khalilzad and Taliban leader Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar shaking hands, marking the signing of the 2020 agreement to withdraw American troops
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CNN, ISRAAID, DENI BECHARD, BOAZ ARAD Celine Alkhaldi, CNN Residents of Kabul can read the writing on the wall. “Don’t trust the propaganda of the enemy” says one freshly painted sign. The message replaced a mural of US envoy Zalmay Khalilzad and Taliban leader Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar shaking hands, marking the signing of the
Continue ReadingLeah Dolan, CNN Canadian artist Cassils has been set alight on stage, wrestled a 2,000-pound block of clay in the pitch dark and trained as a bodybuilder on a cocktail of steroids, raw eggs and protein. If art exists to hold a mirror up to humanity, then Cassils’ performances speak to the extremes we can
Continue ReadingBy Simran Vaswani, CNN From Hollywood blockbusters to Wong Kar-wai movies, neon signs have been an iconic representation of Hong Kong. First introduced in the 1920s, these signs flourished in the later half of the 20th century amid the city’s economization. Restaurants, hotels, nightclubs, pawn shops and even mah jong parlors hung up neon lights
Continue ReadingBy Jeevan Ravindran, CNN The winning images in this year’s Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition have been released after a record-breaking number of entries were submitted, with a riveting underwater shot taking home the top prize. Organized by the Natural History Museum in London, the 57th edition of the contest saw 50,000 entries from
Continue ReadingTop image: The abandoned Imperial Baths at Baile Herculane, southwestern Romania, in 2018. (Daniel Mihailescu/AFP via Getty Images)
By Marnie Hunter, CNN Bosnia and Herzegovina, Romania and Belarus were deemed “very high” risk travel destinations on Tuesday by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Saint Vincent and the Grenadines in the Caribbean also moved into the “Level 4: Very high level of Covid-19” category on the agency’s regularly updated list of
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