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By Scottie Andrew, CNN (CNN) — Though he may not wear his hair quite as tall and unkempt as he once did, and he’s ditched the smeared eyeliner and all-black dress code, founding member of The Cure Lol Tolhurst still considers himself goth. Life looks vastly different now for Tolhurst, who played drums and keyboard

By Richard Quest and Joe Minihane, CNN (CNN) — It’s a place that oozes sophistication, bonne humeur and joie de vivre, conjuring up an air of elegance unlike anywhere else on Earth. This is the Côte d’Azur, the grand dame destination for European vacations. Stretching from Cassis to Menton in the far southeast of France,

By Jessie Yeung and Emiko Jozuka, CNN Tokyo, Japan (CNN) — In an ink illustration, two siblings clutch their worldly possessions — a few bags and suitcases bearing the label “13660.” The same digits are pinned to their clothing, denoting the number their family was assigned at the detention camp they are about to enter.

By Niamh Kennedy and Sharon Braithwaite London (CNN) — Flights at London’s Luton Airport are due to resume hours after the break out of a “significant” fire in the airport’s Terminal 2 parking lot, the airport said in a statement on Wednesday. The first flights were expected to depart from 3 p.m. local time, according

By Forrest Brown, CNN (CNN) — Voting is over in Katmai National Park & Preserve’s annual Fat Bear Week contest, in which the public picks from 12 big ‘n’ bulky bears in an online brackets-style tournament. The 2023 winner is a defensive mama bear who has successfully raised two litters of cubs and who “often

By Nell Lewis, CNN (CNN) — A spooky image of a mushroom, a beached orca taking its final breaths, and a pair of Nubian ibex battling on a clifftop are among the winning images of the Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2023 competition. This year’s grand title was awarded to French underwater photographer and marine

By Sowmya Krishnamurthy (CNN) — Chanel’s 1991 Fall-Winter ready-to-wear show was set in Paris, but its soul was right off the streets of New York City. A remix of Nancy Sinatra’s “These Boots Are Made for Walkin’” blared overhead as one thousand or so spectators, like “Rocky” actors Sylvester Stallone and Dolph Lundgren, gazed at

By Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — A regular fixture in the style press, LA-born actor Chris Pine is a consistently top ranking name across best dressed lists. There was the red velvet Etro suit jacket Pine paired with a matching pussybow shirt for the 2022 Vanity Fair Oscar Party, or of course his fashion forward,

By Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN (CNN) — They were only planning to drop in on a friend, but the lives of Robin Johnson and Jim Thaman changed for good when they paid a visit to Cajarc, a small village in southwestern France, in the summer of 2001. The US couple, who had been enjoying a vacation

By Oscar Holland, CNN (CNN) — Clips of David and Victoria Beckham are flooding social media this week with the release of Netflix’s “Beckham” documentary. But while Victoria’s eponymous clothing label is, today, a credible fashion fixture, and David is a dapper style icon, it wasn’t always that way. For one thing, who can forget

By Elena Goukassian Following several years of planning, a pandemic closure, a temporaryreopening and a $67.5m makeover, the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) in Washington, DC, officially reopens on 21 October, showcasing reconfigured galleries and event spaces, as well as a cleaned exterior. An ambitious new exhibition, “The Sky’s the Limit,” will welcome visitors back

By Lilit Marcus, CNN (CNN) — Fighting continues to rage between Israeli forces and Hamas militants following the Islamist militant group’s deadly surprise assault on Israel on Saturday, with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declaring that the country is now “at war.” Most international airlines have already canceled flights in and out of Israel and

By Zoe Whitfield, CNN Petworth, UK (CNN) — When Eve Arnold joined Magnum in 1951 — four years after the renowned photographic agency was founded — she was its first female photographer. “Magnum was about to open a New York office,” she would write in her acclaimed monograph, 1976’s “The Unretouched Woman”. “I went to

Julia Buckley, CNN (CNN) — It sounds like a mathematical problem. How do you make one of the world’s most famous ancient sites bigger? You can’t build more of it. You can excavate more, but at immense cost. So with ever more tourists cramming onto the site, the team behind the archaeological park of Pompeii

By Rebecca Cairns, CNN (CNN) — Parked at the curbside of a tree-lined street, Luvly O looks a lot like any other small car. Boxy but sleek, the modern-classic aesthetic of the cream-colored vehicle embodies Scandi minimalism. It wouldn’t look out of place in an IKEA showroom — for more reasons than one. That’s because,

By Leah Asmelash, CNN (CNN) — Almost 200,000 books are being used to train artificial intelligence systems by some of the biggest companies in technology. The problem? No one told the authors. The system is called Books3, and according to an investigation by The Atlantic, the data set is based on a collection of pirated

By Francesca Street, CNN (CNN) — The last place Madeline Robson expected to meet her future husband was her friend’s bachelorette party. “I’m here for the bride,” Madeline remembers thinking. “I shouldn’t be having my own love story. This is so strange.” But when Madeline flew from her home in Ontario, Canada to New Orleans

By Raja Razek, Nouran Salahieh, Conor Powell and Taylor Romine, CNN (CNN) — The Maui County Council has voted unanimously in favor of a resolution urging Hawaii’s governor to delay the October 8 reopening of West Maui to tourism. “Opening up on the exact date that marks two months from the fire is not trauma-informed,”

By Alex Rees, CNN (CNN) — Maybe it’s the ascendance of fast fashion or the increasing reach of industry conglomerates, often seen at the expense of smaller labels and independent creatives. It could be due to the frenetic turnover of brands and microtrends spinning amid social media-forward news cycles — what’s that old adage, “one

By Terry Ward, CNN (CNN) — Over large swaths of the Americas this month and next April, too, all eyes will be on the skies during two spectacular events. Between the “ring of fire” annular eclipse coming up on October 14, 2023, and the 2024 total solar eclipse happening on April 8, 2024, viewers on land in