How Alexander the Great redrew the map of the world
By Julia Buckley, CNN (CNN) — By the time he died, aged just 32, he had redrawn the map of the northern hemisphere, conquering land across…
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By Julia Buckley, CNN (CNN) — By the time he died, aged just 32, he had redrawn the map of the northern hemisphere, conquering land across…
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By Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — In this week’s roundup of travel news: Denver’s weed church, zodiac predictions for the Year of the…
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By Alice Pfeiffer, CNN Paris (CNN) — Haute couture is an enigma to most. Accessible to only a select few (an estimated few thousand people…
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By Marnie Hunter and Julia Buckley, CNN (CNN) — This week’s close call at Chicago Midway Airport between a Southwest aircraft and a private…
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By Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — A world-famous ballet school has agreed a legal settlement with a woman who claimed she developed an eating…
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By Francesca Street, CNN (CNN) — Three years after Arthur “Chip” Gaudio Jr. last met his friend Jenny Teresia Sundberg, he decided to visit…
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By Oscar Holland, CNN (CNN) — Dutch police have arrested three people in connection with a museum heist that saw thieves blow open a door with…
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By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — A painting bought at a garage sale in Minnesota is a previously unknown portrait by Dutch artist Vincent Van Gogh,…
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By Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN (CNN) — After vacationing in Spain a few times, Cristina Martinez, from the US, felt enamoured with the European…
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By Kathy Rose O’Brien, CNN (CNN) — A year and a half ago, chef Robbie McCauley left behind the swanky kitchens of some of the UK and…
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By Barbie Latza Nadeau and Antonia Mortensen, CNN (CNN) — Not all publicity is good publicity. Especially when it leads to 10,000 daytrippers…
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By Catherine Nicholls, CNN London (CNN) — A British man has become a Guinness World Record holder after visiting an unparalleled 42 museums in…
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By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — A girl staring into the distance, two Chinese coal miners joking during a break from work, and a Pallas cat lying…
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By Julia Buckley, CNN (CNN) — It’s the train set to whisk people across the largest country in the Middle East — and to do so in style,…
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By Lilit Marcus and Lisako Neriki Ancheta, CNN Tokyo, Japan (CNN) — One of Japan’s biggest cities is “beautifying” itself ahead of…
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CNN By Maggie Hiufu Wong, CNN (CNN) — Seeing an overabundance of red lately? From clothing shops to city streets, the fiery hue is going to be…
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By Oscar Holland, CNN (CNN) — In photographer Zhang Xiao’s images of the Shehuo festival, an ancient celebration still observed in parts of…
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By Maggie Hiufu Wong, CNN (CNN) — Bidding farewell to the mythical Dragon, the world welcomes the Year of the Snake on January 29 — the first…
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By Alice Pfeiffer Paris (CNN) — As Paris Men’s Fashion Week kicked off — one day after the second inauguration of US President Donald Trump…
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By Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — With her eyes fixed straight ahead, first lady Melania Trump leans forward onto an impossibly reflective surface —…
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By Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — The return of supersonic travel has been remarkably slow for something faster than the speed of sound, but…
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By Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN (CNN) — She’s been described as the “Indiana Jones for girls,” and after becoming the first woman to walk…
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By Chris Lau, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — China and India have agreed to resume direct commercial flights for the first time in five years, in the…
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By David G. Allan, CNN New York City (CNN) — Before she died of typhus at 15 inside the German concentration camp Bergen-Belsen, Anne Frank…
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By Lilit Marcus, CNN (CNN) — It’s a matter of national pride, with carefully chosen teams spending years training in pursuit of winning the…
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By Oscar Holland, CNN (CNN) — Thieves have stolen four ancient artifacts, including an approximately 2,500-year-old gold helmet, after using…
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CNN By Oscar Holland, CNN (CNN) — Thieves have stolen four ancient artifacts, including an approximately 2,500-year-old gold helmet, after…
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By Lisa Klaassen and Serene Nourrisson, CNN Paris (CNN) — Throughout his legendary fashion career, Karl Lagerfeld maintained that “Art is…
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By Maggie Hiufu Wong, CNN (CNN) — Seeing an overabundance of red lately? From clothing shops to city streets, the fiery hue is going to be on…
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By Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — In our travel roundup this week: How a forgotten airport was once the gateway to Europe and the tale of a…
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