Julia Buckley, CNN So you’ve always wanted a destination wedding. Italy, maybe. In the Eternal City, perhaps. Or one of those hilltop towns — think of the wedding photos! There’s just one problem — weddings are expensive at the best of times, destination weddings involve even more expense, and these aren’t the best of times.
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Richard Collett, CNN “Who wouldn’t want to buy an island?” Marshall Mayer asks above the roar of the engine as the boat cuts through the still waters of the Caribbean Sea. Belize City is fast disappearing behind, as a group of mangrove-covered islands grows larger on the horizon. “And I don’t know about you,” says
Continue ReadingA Ukrainian photographer is using TikTok to turn war zone destruction into art
CNN By Shelby Rose, CNN Sirens blare in the distance. Everywhere she looks, there’s devastation. Windows are cracked and pieces of wood and building debris lie scattered in the streets. The streets are eerily empty. This is the scene that Ukrainian photographer Valeria Shashenok witnesses every day when she walks down the street in war-torn
Continue ReadingBy Shelby Rose, CNN Sirens blare in the distance. Everywhere she looks, there’s devastation. Windows are cracked and pieces of wood and building debris lie scattered in the streets. The streets are eerily empty. This is the scene that Ukrainian photographer Valeria Shashenok witnesses every day when she walks down the street in war-torn Chernihiv,
Continue ReadingBy Maxime Tamsett, CNN Anyone with a bird feeder — or a cat — knows that watching the avian world go about its business can be mesmerizing. Now imagine being right at the center of the action in a spherical room suspended among the trees, covered in 350 birdhouses. That’s what Treehotel, a hotel in
Continue ReadingOscar Holland, CNN Not only is Maria Prymachenko among the 20th century’s great self-taught artists, she is an icon of Ukrainian national identity. Her fantastical paintings, praised during her lifetime by the likes of Pablo Picasso, are now found in some of the country’s most important museums. Her work has also been featured on postage
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By Theresa Waldrop and Paradise Afshar, CNN Hawaii’s mask mandate will expire March 25, Gov. David Ige said Tuesday, making it the last US state to announce its face-cover requirement will be dropped. “It’s taken the entire community to get to this point — with lowered case counts and hospitalizations,” Ige said in a tweet.
Continue ReadingBy Maureen O’Hare, CNN Against the snow-frosted backdrop of Alaska’s Chugach Mountains, serving a city of just 300,000 people, sits what might just be the best-located airport in the world today. While a look at a standard 2-D map of Earth might tell you Alaska is a far-flung outpost, spin the globe in your head
Continue ReadingTamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN Paris is already home to some of the most popular attractions in the world, and the French capital could be about to get its very first urban cable car. Proposed plans for a brand new 4.5 kilometer-long aerial tramway connecting various suburbs in the southeast to the Paris Metro are pressing ahead,
Continue ReadingAtika Shubert, CNN The walls of Lviv’s National Museum stand bare. Elaborate gold lacquered panels, on display after being recovered from 17th century Baroque churches, have been bundled up and hidden in the basement in a race to save the city’s cultural treasures from possible Russian attack. “Today we see how Russia is shelling residential
Continue ReadingToyin Owoseje, CNN Supermodel Gigi Hadid has announced that she will donate all her fashion month earnings towards relief efforts in Ukraine. “Having a set Fashion Month schedule has meant that my colleagues and I often present new fashion collections during heartbreaking and traumatic times in history,” she wrote on Instagram, alongside a series of
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CNN, HLN Fiona Sinclair Scott, CNN In the month leading up to the Fall-Winter shows in Paris, it was widely believed that the event would mark a significant return to business as usual — a celebration for the fashion world after two years of pandemic-related disruptions. Coronavirus cases were relatively low, international travel to and
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CNN By Janelle Davis and Foren Clark, CNN His mission was a complicated one: Tell the complex story of the late Anthony Bourdain, a man he had never met. Documentary filmmaker Morgan Neville said when he researches a film subject, he tries to get inside the person’s head as much as possible. While researching “Roadrunner:
Continue ReadingAnthony Bourdain documentary dives deep into a restlessness ‘he could never turn off’
CNN By Marnie Hunter, CNN Feelings about Anthony Bourdain are no less raw, nearly four years after his shocking death. Director Morgan Neville’s poignant documentary chronicles Bourdain’s trajectory from New York chef to celebrated author to beloved globe-trotting TV personality, and tries to shed some light on the mystery of his 2018 suicide at age
Continue ReadingBy Marnie Hunter, CNN Feelings about Anthony Bourdain are no less raw, nearly four years after his shocking death. Director Morgan Neville’s poignant documentary chronicles Bourdain’s trajectory from New York chef to celebrated author to beloved globe-trotting TV personality, and tries to shed some light on the mystery of his 2018 suicide at age 61.
Continue ReadingNick Remsen, CNN With all eyes on Balenciaga, one of Paris Fashion Week’s most anticipated collection unveilings, the brand’s creative director Demna used his platform to pay tribute to Ukrainians in a dramatic show that evoked a deep sense of unease about the future. For the designer, the humanitarian crisis unfolding in eastern Europe, where
Continue ReadingJulia Buckley, CNN Borders closing, travelers stranded, and small businesses haemorrhaging money — that’s how those in the travel industry will remember the period two years ago, when the world closed down in a matter of days. On March 11, 2020, Covid-19 was declared a pandemic by the World Health Authority, and countries around the
Continue ReadingBy Faith Karimi and Samantha Kelly, CNN Volodymyr Bondarenko spends most of his day holed up in his apartment in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv. Between listening for air-raid sirens and frantically messaging family for updates, he trades messages with a flurry of Airbnb guests booking his one-bedroom rental in the heart of Ukraine’s capital.
Continue ReadingTop image: Returning international passengers are greeted on arrival at the Perth International Airport Terminal on March 3, 2022 in Perth, Australia. (Photo by Paul Kane/Getty Images)
By Maureen O’Hare, CNN After almost 700 days, one of the world’s longest border closures has finally ended Down Under, Yellowstone National Park is celebrating its 150th anniversary, and we have an update on India’s high-speed rail ambitions. Here’s what’s been happening in travel this week. Reopenings and rule changes In some happy news, families
Continue ReadingRamishah Maruf, CNN, Fiona Sinclair Scott, CNN Elsa Klensch, who was among the first to bring fashion to TV screens with CNN’s “Style with Elsa Klensch” in the 1980s, has died at 92 in New York City, CNN has confirmed. For two decades, she gave CNN viewers a front row seat to runways all over
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