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By Justin Calderon, CNN Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka (CNN) — Visit the ancient city of Anuradhapura on a full moon day and the past feels anything but distant.Buddhist pilgrims dressed in white walk barefoot along dusty paths. Saffron-robed monks chant at dawn. Foreign visitors — from Taiwan to Canada — join local worshipers in rituals that

By Kati Chitrakorn, CNN (CNN) — Back in 2019, Gab Waller would never have expected that her first client as a personal shopper would be the English model and actor Rosie Huntington-Whitely. Based in Australia and working for the local government at the time, Waller couldn’t have been further away from the world of high

By Charlotte Reck, CNN (CNN) — A flamboyance of flamingos dazzling against a backdrop of power lines, a crafty crab hitching a ride on a jellyfish and a young sloth safe in his mother’s embrace are among the shortlisted images for the Wildlife Photographer of the Year People’s Choice Award 2026. London’s Natural History Museum

By Silvia Marchetti, CNN (CNN) — After decades of building businesses, designing buildings and traveling, Edward Krueger Connors Jr. reached an unexpected conclusion in his early 80s: staying put no longer made sense. “I was bored of America,” Connors tells CNN Travel. In January 2026, just weeks before his 81st birthday, the Vietnam War hero,

By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — The women wear high-collared puffer jackets and billowing sports jerseys, the fabrics richly painted in acid yellow and bubblegum pink. Bathed in cool light against shadowy backdrops, they seem to glow as they regard the viewer dispassionately with an aristocratic air. For the past few years, the Spanish artist

By Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Rome (CNN) — Legend has it that tossing a coin into Rome’s Trevi Fountain guarantees a return to the Eternal City. Two coins promise love with an Italian. Three, marrying an Italian. As of February 2, however, making any of those wishes comes with a price. Visitors now need to

By Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — Does bad taste make for good fashion? At the 2026 Grammy Awards, several celebrities opted for clothes that were a little odd and a little ugly. Arguably they were also the most memorable. Amid some of the more conventionally tasteful outfits — see Hailey Bieber in a black strapless

By David G. Allan, CNN Cocoa Beach, Florida (CNN) — Cape Canaveral is no dusty history tour, despite the consecrated status this oceanside resort area holds as the birthplace of American spaceflight. The Space Coast, as it’s often called, is not just where this bold era of science began, with multiple museums to document it.

By Oscar Holland and Stephy Chung, CNN; Photo editor: Jennifer Arnow, CNN (CNN) — The music industry’s red carpets are usually bolder, brighter and more adventurous than their Hollywood counterparts. And they don’t get bigger than the Grammys — the awards ceremony that brought you Michael Jackson’s bedazzled military jacket, Pharrell Williams’ oversized hat and

By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — A funerary portrait from Roman Egypt, featuring a strikingly modern-looking male subject with piercing hazel eyes and graying hair, sold for more than double its high estimate on Thursday during Sotheby’s Masters Week sales in New York. The painting, which brought in $889,000 with fees, is one of 900

By Lilit Marcus, CNN (CNN) — This week in travel news: Australian travelers descended on an imaginary tourist attraction, a woman recalls the night she unexpectedly bunked with a pair of traveling nuns, and the turning point for REAL ID has arrived. Getting into hot water Hundreds of tourists are flocking to hot springs in

By Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN (CNN) — For more than a decade, images of Santa Maddalena, a small village church in northern Italy framed by jagged peaks of the Dolomite Mountains, have circulated online. But locals say it was last summer that the steady stream of visitors became a flood. Now, authorities are stepping in