CNN By Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — In travel news this week: Why flight attendants want you to stop ignoring them, what Brits don’t want in their tea and Italians don’t want on their pizza, plus how to stay safe if you ever encounter a lion in the wild. Plane safety What the recent incidents
Continue Reading CNN, KCBS By Jamiel Lynch and Gregory Wallace, CNN (CNN) — A Boeing 757 plane lost its nose wheel shortly before taking off at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, according to US aviation officials. The Delta Air Lines plane had been preparing to fly to Bogota, Colombia, on January 20 when the “nose wheel came off and rolled down
Continue Reading CNN By Alex Rees, CNN (CNN) — Madison Marsh, a 22-year-old second lieutenant in the US Air Force and master’s student at the Harvard Kennedy School’s public policy program, emerged victorious at the 2024 Miss America pageant in Orlando, Florida on Sunday night. Marsh, representing the state of Colorado, is the first active-duty Air Force
Continue Reading CNN By Lilit Marcus, CNN (CNN) — This week in travel news: a 30-hour train trip has become a hot ticket, a “time traveling” flight didn’t work out as planned and one of Africa’s coolest countries just got easier to visit. We start our 2024 journey … Welcome to 2024! The world rang in the
Continue Reading Originally Published: 29 DEC 23 13:29 ET By Brammhi Balarajan, CNN (CNN) — Getting hitched in Las Vegas is famous for being as easy as 1-2-3. Now, the nation’s top wedding destination is prepping for an influx of couples hoping to embrace that simplicity by marrying on New Year’s Eve, when the date will be: 12/31/23 –
Continue Reading CNN By Nectar Gan, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — China has struck an agreement with Thailand to permanently waive visa requirements for each other’s citizens from March, the latest in a flurry of attempts by Beijing to lure back foreign tourists amid a struggling economy after years of self-imposed Covid isolation. The reciprocal visa-free scheme,
Continue Reading CNN By Angus Watson, CNN (CNN) — Dean Jacobowski stands atop the Sydney Opera House as the first glimmer of the day’s summer sun bounces from the famous white sails. It’s early in the morning, three days before New Year’s Eve. The harbor is Jacobowski’s canvas. He plans to paint it with pyrotechnics. “It’s the
Continue Reading CNN Julia Buckley, CNN (CNN) — It’s been a stormy tail end to Christmas for the UK and Ireland, as the countries were hit by Storm Gerrit coming in from the Atlantic on Wednesday, bringing gale force winds and flooding in its wake. It caused havoc for aviation, with flights being canceled across the countries.
Continue Reading CNN By Sarah Dewberry, CNN (CNN) — An unaccompanied 6-year-old child flying on Spirit Airlines to visit his grandmother in Fort Myers, Florida, was instead put on a flight to Orlando. In an emailed statement to CNN, Spirit Airlines apologized to the family, saying on December 21, the child was supposed to fly from Philadelphia
Continue Reading WINK, FAMILY PHOTOS, CELL PHONE VIDEO, CNN By Sarah Dewberry, CNN (CNN) — An unaccompanied 6-year-old child flying on Spirit Airlines to visit his grandmother in Fort Myers, Florida, was instead put on a flight to Orlando. In an emailed statement to CNN, Spirit Airlines apologized to the family, saying on December 21, the child
Continue Reading CNN, WMTW By Jennifer Henderson, Caroll Alvarado and Sarah Engel, CNN (CNN) — Passengers on the cruise ship MSC Meraviglia didn’t get the balmy getaway they were expecting. The ship, scheduled to sail to the Bahamas this week, instead headed to New England and Canada “due to unseasonable and rapidly worsening weather that would have
Continue Reading CNN By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — One of the world’s most widely used cargo planes completed an entire flight with no one on board for the first time. Lasting approximately 12 minutes in total, the flight departed from Hollister Airport, in Northern California, and was operated by Reliable Robotics, which has been working since
Continue Reading CNN By Radhika Marya, CNN (CNN) — It was the summer of 1966. The Beatles were in the middle of a tour that had them play five shows in just three days at Japan’s famed Nippon Budokan arena — but when they weren’t performing, they were holed up in the presidential suite of the Tokyo
Continue Reading CNN By Maddie Araujo, CNN (Interview by Christiane Amanpour, CNN) London, UK (CNN) — For an artist whose work focuses so heavily on mortality, Marina Abramović’s joie de vivre may come as something of a surprise. She appeared giddy as she roamed the main galleries at London’s Royal Academy of Arts, which is hosting a
Continue Reading CNN By Michelle Cohan, CNN (CNN) — Imagine relinquishing all sense of space and self — standing inside an area of stark darkness, interrupted by endless grids of light, and punctuated throughout by rising and falling acoustic tones, altering depth perception and consciousness. No longer left to the imagination, that experience is possible by stepping
Continue Reading CNN By Christy Choi, CNN (interview by Becky Anderson, CNN) (CNN) — Stella McCartney has called on world leaders to introduce new tariffs on leather goods, as well as fashion items made from polluting or environmentally unsustainable materials. Speaking to CNN’s Becky Anderson at the UN’s Climate Change Conference (COP28) in the United Arab Emirates
Continue Reading CNN By Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — If we could visualize the year ahead, what color would it be? The abstract thought is an annual consideration for the experts at the Pantone Color Institute, who trawl through high-fashion runways, interior design trends, pop culture moments and human psychology to make their pick. According to their
Continue Reading CNN By Steve Almasy, Carlos Suarez and Denise Royal, CNN (CNN) — American Airlines said it is reviewing a video posted on TikTok that shows a baggage handler releasing a passenger’s wheelchair to slide down a jet bridge chute, where it crashed into a metal barrier, flipped over and tumbled onto an airport tarmac. The post, which has millions of views, has
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CNN By Tara Subramaniam, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Elsa, Anna, Olaf and Sven have a new home on a subtropical island in Asia. World of Frozen, Disney’s first-ever themed land dedicated to the “Frozen” media franchise, opened at Hong Kong Disneyland on November 20. The new land at the park on Hong Kong’s Lantau
Continue Reading CNN By Heather Chen, CNN (CNN) — The votes are in for New Zealand’s Bird of the Century poll and the winner by a significant margin, getting more than 290,000 votes, is the Australasian crested grebe, better known as the pūteketeke or the ‘puking’ bird championed by comedian and talk show host John Oliver. “It began
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CNN By Maggie Hiufu Wong and Jake Kwon, CNN (CNN) — On scenic Geumjeong Mountain on the edge of Busan, South Korea’s second biggest city, lies the remains of what was once the country’s largest mountain fortress. Though now in ruins, this former bastion’s connection to the local community lives on in a nearby village
Continue Reading Jonathan Hawkins, CNN In the Emilia Romagna region, on Italy’s Adriatic coast, summers are languid, sultry, and full of opportunities to dine, drink, dance, swim, relax and replenish. For a few days at the end of July, however, this scenic corner of one of the world’s most beautiful countries experiences an invasion. From all over
Continue Reading By Chris Dwyer, CNN Dubai is known around the world as a center for fabulous indulgence and ambitious innovation and its restaurant scene is no different. A seemingly incessant wave of new openings has confirmed its place as one of the planet’s finest places to dine out. Whether you’re looking for a hip fast food
Continue Reading Hadani Ditmars The discovery of a rare gold coin on the south coast of Newfoundland, Canada, may challenge traditional historical narratives about the timing of European contact in the region, as it predates explorer John Cabot’s arrival on the island by at least 70 years. In a press release last week, the Government of Newfoundland
Continue Reading By Reuters Right on Times Square in the heart of New York’s theater district, a new Museum of Broadway is designed to take fans behind the curtain of some of its biggest musicals. Rooms in the museum on 45th Street, which opens on Tuesday, use music, videos, glittering costumes and walk-through sets to tell the
Continue Reading By Zoe Sottile, CNN The Rosamond Gifford Zoo in Syracuse, New York, has welcomed not one, but two new bundles of joy. The Asian elephant twins were born on October 24 to parents Mali and Doc, according to a news release from the zoo. The birth of twins was a shock for zoo staff, according
Continue Reading By Pete Muntean, CNN The FBI and the FAA are investigating an incident involving an “unruly passenger” on board a commercial flight that sent two passengers and one flight attendant to the hospital. United Airlines says a “disruptive customer” on board flight 476 from San Francisco was “removed by law enforcement” after the flight landed
Continue Reading Leah Dolan, CNN Taylor Swift arrived at MTV’s Europe Music Awards last night in Düsseldorf, Germany in an evening gown that flipped the scripts on red carpet jewelry. With her decolletage and wrists left entirely bare, Swift opted for just a few silver rings and a spiral of studded ear cuffs on each ear —
Continue Reading Taylor Swift makes history, filling all Top 10 spots on the Hot 100, plus news on Marvel’s ‘Wonder Man’ and the documentary ‘Gratitude Revealed.’ David Daniel reports.
Continue Reading Toyin Owoseje, CNN How much would you pay for a pair of secondhand shoes? Well, someone just spent more than $200,000 on a pair of old Birkenstock sandals owned and worn by the late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs — setting a record for the highest price ever paid for a pair of sandals at auction,
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