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By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — If you were a polarizing Canadian rapper who had a tumultuous end to your 30s and had spent the better part of the last year releasing a trove of new music to change the narrative, what would you want to signal through your 40th birthday attire?Drake, who turned 40

By Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Rome (CNN) — Some 250 World War I-era munitions that emerged from rapidly retreating glaciers in the Italian Dolomites have been removed.Artillery shells, mortar bombs and other ammunition had initially been found in the Trentino-Alto Adige region by hikers, naturalists and, in one case, after a road accident, according to

By Lex Harvey, CNN (CNN) — A residential cruise ship that has been sailing around the world continuously for more than two years has evicted passengers in Cambodia after the fallout from the Iran war made fuel prices too expensive to continue its voyage.The Florida-based operator of the luxury Villa Vie Odyssey announced Tuesday that

Arabelle Sicardi Frank Voelkl is a well-dressed German man you’d walk past on your Manhattan commute without a second thought. But his work has likely been on your neck, your vanity, your partner or your ex. If you’ve worn fragrance in the last two decades, you’ve probably worn Voelkl. He is, arguably, the perfumer of

By Maureen O’Hare, CNN Liverpool, England (CNN) — It’s an unassuming entrance to what’s been described as the world’s largest underground folly, a centuries-old mystery buried at least 60 feet below the streets of Liverpool, England, and stretching out for perhaps a square mile or more.The peeling, graffiti-covered facade of a Georgian house is all

By Mike Valerio, CNN Xiaohuajiang, China (CNN) — Against the towering mountains of southwestern China, a crowd gathered as a young man prepared to bungee jump off the world’s highest bridge.He stood above a vast canyon, the bridge’s roadway soaring nearly nine times higher above the water than San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge. Beyond him,

By Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — In our roundup of travel stories this week: the reality of living on a permanent cruise, the travelers visiting some of the world’s most notorious destinations, plus how the pandemic nearly killed off cargo ship tourism.Cargo ship cruisersFor centuries, cargo ships have welcomed paying passengers, making freighter tourism a

By Francesca Street, CNN London (CNN) — Walking down a London street populated by chic wine bars, Michelin-starred restaurants and smart, Victorian buildings, a group of tourists suddenly halts in its tracks.They’re ignoring the appealing surroundings. Instead, they’re peering through an iron gate leading to a far-less-appealing alleyway where a row of garbage cans flanks

By Lilit Marcus, CNN Busan, South Korea (CNN) — Crabs pulled, still alive, out of tanks and cooked to order. Groups of teens wearing fan gear for their favorite pop idols. Moms and daughters relaxing side-by-side in a naturally heated pool.Yes, Busan, South Korea’s second-largest city, has all of those things. But in the past

By Charlotte Reck, CNN (CNN) — Airbnb has revised its rules to reduce the tasks a host can expect a guest to perform at the end of their stay — and washing dishes has been wiped from the to-do list.Airbnb, which connects travelers with more than 5 million hosts globally, has advised hosts to choose

By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Just four years after the Civil Rights era, Chicago welcomed its first downtown high rise designed by a Black architect for a Black-owned company. For four decades, the Johnson Publishing Company occupied an 11-story tower at 820 S. Michigan Avenue that was a monument to Black culture, sending out millions of

By Lottie Gross, CNN (CNN) — Something delicious and wholesome is popping up all over the British countryside, and people are traveling for miles to be a part of it. While America has roadside farm stands and fruit carts, Britain is now officially obsessed with cake sheds.Honesty boxes — small wooden structures containing fresh, local