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By Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — For her highly-anticipated return to the US Open today, Naomi Osaka is hoping to evoke a touch of magic. The 26-year-old tennis player has revealed one of the competition looks she will wear onto the court — and it might surprise you. While modern tennis-wear is typically streamlined, Osaka’s

By Barry Neild, CNN Kayaköy, Turkey (CNN) — There’s a large and very dignified school in Kayaköy. There are narrow streets, lined with houses, that wend and rise up both sides of a steep valley. There’s an ancient fountain in the middle of the town. And there are churches, one with million-dollar hilltop views over

By Chris Lau, CNN (CNN) — For a short period last Thursday, first-class round-trip airline tickets from Australia to the US that normally cost up to 28,000 Australian dollars (about $19,000) were available from Qantas for a whopping 85% off. Due to a coding error, about 300 lucky people were able to buy them on

By Marnie Hunter and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN (CNN) — Two Henderson, Nevada, men have been indicted and are set to face trial for allegedly damaging ancient rock formations at Lake Mead. Payden David Guy Cosper and Wyatt Clifford Fain were arraigned on Friday and both men pleaded not guilty to one count of injury and depredation

By Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN (CNN) — After years of traveling together, Brooke and Rick Gazer, both from Canada, were used to staying in interesting places. And as they bedded down at a guesthouse in San Miguel, Mexico, owned by a couple from Nebraska, Brooke wondered what it would be like to move away and open

By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — Following the death of the Danish butter magnate Lars Emil Bruun in 1923, his will had a curious order: His vast accumulation of coins, notes and medals, amassed over more than six decades, should be held as an emergency reserve for Denmark’s national collection in case it were ever

By Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — It’s not who you know, but where you’re flying them to. IGA Istanbul Airport, which opened just six years ago in 2018, has been revealed as the world’s best-connected airport, according to new data from aviation analytics firm Cirium. Occupying a prime East-meets-West location in Turkey, Istanbul Airport operates

By Lauren Rapp, CNN (CNN) — The jersey that legendary New York Yankees player Babe Ruth wore when he hit one of baseball’s most famous home runs sold for $24.12 million on Sunday — making it the world’s most valuable sports collectible. Dallas-based Heritage Auctions said the jersey achieved the record — previously held by

By Gordon Cole-Schmidt, CNN (CNN) — In today’s world of autonomous cars, keyless ignitions and charging ports, it’s hard to imagine just how big the tiny, two-door Volkswagen Beetle once was. But in Mexico, where the last Beetle rolled off the production line at Volkswagen’s flagship factory in Puebla in 2003, the plucky car lives

By Forrest Brown, CNN (CNN) — A dangerous encounter with a territorial bison and the subsequent viral video were not what Rebecca Clark had in mind when she set out for Caprock Canyons State Park in early October 2022. She had been so enamored with Texas’ third-largest state park on her first solo hiking and

By Marnie Hunter, CNN (CNN) — Shayne Burke let out a scream. A grizzly bear had just taken a “good chomp right to the bone” on his leg. The bear dropped him. “And then she was up on my back, and then just went to bite down on the back of my head,” Burke said

By Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — In travel news this week: the world’s best party spots, the city taking a stand against electric scooters, plus the story of how the world’s tallest bridge transformed a continent. Best nightlife cities Sun, sea and samba: Rio de Janeiro in Brazil has been declared the best place in