Reuters Archaeologists have revealed a group of structures discovered at the famed Mayan Chichen Itza archaeological site in Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula, believed to have been part of a housing complex inhabited by the elite of the sacred city founded in the 5th Century AD. Archaeologist Francisco Perez Ruiz said there were no known residential groups
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN How about that Rihanna concert sandwiched by a football game? At least that’s what the Apple Music Super Bowl LVII Halftime Show felt like with her as the featured performer. Dressed all in red, including red lipstick, she kicked off the performance flying high over the field on a floating
Continue Reading Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN From returning to the sky in new livery to fly for another airline, to being recycled for parts or moving an aircraft boneyard, the possibilities for retired aircraft are seemingly endless. Some have been converted into restaurants, museums, cafes and even party venues. But this private jet turned luxury villa, located on
Continue Reading By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN David Jude Jolicoeur, better known under stage name Trugoy the Dove as one third of iconic rap trio De La Soul, has died. The news was confirmed to CNN via Tony Ferguson, the music group’s publicist. Jolicoeur was 54 years old. Ferguson said Jolicoeur’s passing was “a huge loss” in a
Continue Reading By Zoe Sottile, CNN It’s the purrfect way to get back at your crappy ex. This Valentine’s Day, an Ohio animal shelter is offering to write your ex’s name in a litterbox — and let its adoptable cats go to town. The Animal Friends Humane Society in Hamilton, Ohio, is offering the unique tribute for
Continue Reading Leah Asmelash, CNN By any standard, Shirley Hailstock is a romance-writing star. Not only has she penned more than three dozen novels and novellas, she’s won dozens of awards, written best sellers, and previously presided over the romance industry’s leading professional organization, the Romance Writers of America. So, naturally, she gets fan mail. And there’s
Continue Reading By Zoe Sottile, CNN A statue of the late actor Philip Seymour Hoffman will now permanently stand outside the George Eastman Museum in Rochester, New York. The life-size bronze statue was crafted by David A. Annand and commissioned by philanthropist and film producer James Declan Tobin, according to a news release from the museum, which
Continue Reading By Maureen O’Hare, CNN In our latest weekly roundup, CNN Travel celebrates love stories: The gal pals who bonded over marriage misgivings, the 22-year-olds who found their life partner by buying cheapskate standby tickets and the gibbon who mystified zookeepers by having a baby when she lived alone in her cage. Love, sweet love Life’s
Continue Reading By Taylor Romine, CNN Cody Longo, an actor famous for his roles in “Hollywood Heights” and “Days of Our Lives,” was found dead Wednesday at his home in Austin, Texas, his representative Alex Gittelson told CNN. He was 34. “Cody was our whole world,” his wife, Stephanie Longo, said in a statement provided by Gittelson.
Continue Reading Review by Brian Lowry, CNN Yep, they went there. Apocalyptic drama inevitably means that a lot of people die, good as well as bad. Yet as is so often true when watching the news, a small-scale tragedy can hit harder than a mass-casualty event, especially when it involves an innocent. After the justifiable hoopla caused
Continue Reading Kristie Lu Stout and Jadyn Sham, CNN At a government auction in Hong Kong, “EL0NMUSK” sold for the equivalent of $1,405. The namesake of the headline-grabbing tech titan is one of a number of selected vehicle license plates — including “BAD G1RL,” “LATTE” and “SHADYB1Z” — that went under the hammer at the end of
Continue Reading Kristie Lu Stout and Jadyn Sham, CNN At a government auction in Hong Kong, “EL0NMUSK” sold for the equivalent of $1,405. The namesake of the headline-grabbing tech titan is one of a number of selected vehicle license plates — including “BAD G1RL,” “LATTE” and “SHADYB1Z” — that went under the hammer at the end of
Continue Reading By Harmeet Kaur, CNN For her powerful and moving performance as Mamie Till-Mobley in “Till,” Danielle Deadwyler was nominated for a BAFTA Award, a Critics’ Choice Movie Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award and several other industry prizes. But despite garnering critical acclaim for her turn as Emmett Till’s grieving mother, there was one notable
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN Zach Roloff’s wife Tori has shared about the reality star undergoing emergency surgery. The pair star on TLC’s “Little People, Big World.” On Thursday, she posted some photos of Roloff in the hospital on her verified Instagram account. “Not exactly how we saw our week going…,” the caption read. “Zachary
Continue Reading By Marianne Garvey, CNN Linkin Park has released a song called “Lost,” which features the band’s late frontman, Chester Bennington. Remaining members Mike Shinoda, Brad Delson, Rob Bourdon, Joe Hahn and Dave “Phoenix” Farrell had teased that a song was coming. “Lost,” released Friday, will feature on Linkin Park’s 20th anniversary edition of “Meteora,” debuting
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN Burt Bacharach has one of the most impressive songbooks in the history of the music industry. And while he is incredibly well known for hits like “Walk on By” by Dionne Warwick and “I Say A Little Prayer,” which was first recorded by Warwick and then covered by Aretha Franklin
Continue Reading Review by Brian Lowry, CNN Add “Your Place or Mine” to the list of split-screen rom-coms, where the stars (in this case Reese Witherspoon and Ashton Kutcher) essentially operate on parallel tracks. While that has worked out before (think “Sleepless in Seattle”), it doesn’t here, in a Netflix movie that proves roughly as generic as
Continue Reading Fiona Sinclair Scott, CNN When British designer Phoebe Philo announced she was stepping down from the top creative job at luxury fashion house Celine in 2017, women around the world took a sharp, collective in-take of breath. She had spent nearly 10 years at the brand developing a new lexicon for womenswear — centered on
Continue Reading Francesca Street, CNN Plunging into the icy waters surrounding Scandinavia, divers Jonas Dahm and Carl Douglas hunt for vessels long lost to the ocean, what they call the “ghost ships” of the Baltic Sea. Dahm and Douglas are history lovers and long-time friends who’ve devoted some 25 years of their lives to wreck hunting and
Continue Reading By Mick Krever and Amarachi Orie, CNN In a bid to improve the quality of life for residents, Amsterdam will ban the use of marijuana on the street and take new steps to discourage alcohol in its red light district, the traditional center of the city’s legal sex work trade. “Residents of the old city
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