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By Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — Bandanas have long been the crowning glory of festival looks, Instagrammable beach outfits and, more recently, the fashion week front row. Rarer is it to see the casual headscarf on the red carpet circuit — a space usually reserved for sartorial extravagance. But on Saturday night, Norwegian actor Renate

By Amarachi Orie, CNN London (CNN) — A beach in England has disappeared under a blanket of uncooked French fries and onions after a container ship spilled its cargo earlier this month. A cleanup operation began on Tuesday along the coastline of East Sussex in southeast England after containers on two cargo ships went overboard

By Silvia Marchetti, CNN Palmarola, Italy (CNN) — Palmarola has no town and no roads. There is no electricity, no mobile phone coverage and no ferry terminal. On most days, the only way to reach the island is by small boat from Ponza, five miles away across the Tyrrhenian Sea.It lies west of Rome, close

By Kati Chitrakorn, CNN Milan, Italy (CNN) — Sporting striped rugby shirts, tangy orange puffers and baseball caps (worn backwards), the kids were out on Friday night in Milan and they were modelling looks, which also included racing jackets and slouchy beanies, from Ralph Lauren’s Fall-Winter 2026 show during the city’s Men’s Fashion Week. Staged

By Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — In our travel news roundup this week: how airlines make sure your pilot is sober, what really happens inside a Turkish bath, and why there’s a worldwide dash to secure second passports. Starting over in Germany and Sweden Dual citizenship — the ability to be a citizen of more

CNN By Jessie Yeung, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — Seven girls sit in a room, waiting for their name to be called. All of them are young, slim and gorgeous, ranging in age from 14 to 20, with glossy hair and flawless skin. Anticipation hangs in the air, and nerves are written plain on

By Jane Sit, CNN (CNN) — Following the success of “Squid Game” on Netflix and “Pachinko” on Apple TV+, “Moving” has landed Disney+ its first Korean hit. The star-studded Disney+ Original has become its most successful K-drama globally and the most popular on Hulu in the US, beating out the likes of Star Wars and

By Rachel Tashjian, CNN (CNN) — TikTok influencers no longer have us blindly following a dizzying slate of microtrends – cottagecore one week, dark academia the next, the mob wife aesthetic days later. In place of the churn of trends and overconsumption, a new mindset is emerging: the search for personal style. Finding your personal

By Richard Collett, CNN It has vast mangrove forests, hills covered in tea plantations and record-breaking beaches, but for most tourists, Bangladesh is still a blank space on the map. The South Asia country welcomed just 650,000 international tourists in 2024, according to the Bangladesh Tourism Board — a fraction of the numbers drawn by

By Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — A British restaurant with two Michelin stars has been given a one-star hygiene rating after food standards inspectors visited the premises in November. Ynyshir, which offers a 30-course tasting menu, is the only restaurant in Wales with two Michelin stars. The price of the five-hour experience, which the prestigious

By Steve Salter, CNN (CNN) — From TikTok feeds to high fashion runways, a new mood in men’s fashion has been taking hold. It is not flashy, nor nostalgic. Instead, it is intentional, defined by restraint, with garments that better align with how young men want to be perceived right now. One need only look

By Leah Dolan, CNN London (CNN) — In 1979, photographer Richard Avedon packed up his antiquated Deardorff camera, jumped in a Chevy Suburban and drove across Texas, Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota, Colorado, California and 15 other American states, hoping to capture an essence of the regions through the people who lived there. These were

By Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN (CNN) — There are few things Arabella Carey Adolfsson enjoys more than going fishing near her lakeside home in Sweden during the summertime, or getting her camera out and taking photographs of the natural beauty surrounding her. She and her husband Stefan, a Swede, often take their boat out from Torpön,

By Jessie Yeung, Yoonjung Seo, Gawon Bae, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — When the world’s biggest K-pop group announced their hiatus in late 2022, they were at the height of superstardom. They regularly topped music charts, won prestigious awards, and arguably transformed the genre into a global cultural phenomenon. Now, BTS is back –

By Leah Dolan, CNN By the time Nia DaCosta was in 12th grade, she had seen the world — or at least, that’s how it felt. In reality she hadn’t much left her boarding school common room in Dobbs Ferry, NY, but through the power of television DaCosta had been given access to far-flung places