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By Maureen O’Hare, CNN Get your credit card out and your favorite booking platforms at the ready: US magazine and news website TIME has just released its list of the world’s 50 greatest places of 2022. The list was compiled by its international network of correspondents and contributors, and, says TIME in a statement, “with

Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Nearly three years ago, Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan kickstarted one of the art world’s biggest viral moments when he sold a banana duct-taped to a wall for $120,000 at Art Basel Miami. But Joe Morford, an artist from Glendale, California, is claiming that the world-renowned artist copied his own 2000 artwork titled

By Forrest Brown and Marnie Hunter, CNN The largest trees on Earth by volume, giant sequoias soar upward like natural skyscrapers and are simply mesmerizing in their immensity. These trees have a limited range, though: They’re found only on the western slopes of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in California. And that’s put some of

Francesca Street, CNN Not every city skyline includes an extinct volcano, an imposing hilltop castle and a line-up of centuries-old buildings, but Edinburgh’s awe-inspiring horizon is just one of the reasons why the Scottish capital is Time Out’s best city for 2022. Each year, the media company asks some 20,000 city-dwellers across the world, alongside

By Jack Guy, CNN The mayor of an Italian tourist town has moved to impose fines on under-dressed people citing concerns over “quality of life.” Massimo Coppola, mayor of Sorrento, announced fines ranging from 25 to 500 euros in a Facebook post published July 6. “No more with the indecent behaviour,” wrote Coppola. “That’s why

By Kathleen Magramo, CNN A group of tourists trekking in Kyrgyzstan‘s Tian Shan mountains on Friday survived a huge avalanche that swept right over them. One of the trekkers, Briton Harry Shimmin, managed to capture on video the moment snow chipped off a mountain top in the distance, before blanketing the slope and engulfing the

Toyin Owoseje, CNN Florence Pugh wants the world to know she is proud of her body — nipples and all. The “Black Widow” actress has addressed the “aggressive” and “vulgar” criticism she received after sharing a picture on social media of the sheer gown she wore to the Valentino haute couture show in Rome. Pugh

Jacopo Prisco, CNN The post-pandemic recovery of commercial aviation may have an early, unlikely protagonist: the A380 superjumbo. The world’s largest passenger plane seemed to be on the scrapheap just two years ago, as airlines grappled with the spread of the coronavirus. The entire fleet was grounded, many of the planes went into long-term storage,

Fiona Sinclair Scott, CNN This week in Paris, a series of designer collections featuring handcrafted, one-of-a-kind, eye-wateringly expensive high fashion was once again unveiled during the city’s biannual Haute Couture Week. Closer to collectible art than the clothing most regular people own, couture fashion is exclusive by definition, with each bespoke garment made for one

By Nicola Chilton, CNN Flying into Saba isn’t for the faint hearted. The vertiginous slopes and sea cliffs of this five-square-mile island in the Caribbean don’t leave much space to land a plane. But Juancho E. Yrausquin Airport, clinging to Saba’s only bit of flat land, is proof that it can be done. With a

By Taylor Romine, CNN A growing wildfire that threatens a famed giant sequoia tree grove in California’s Yosemite National Park has forced officials to issue evacuation orders for a nearby community, officials said Friday. The Washburn Fire has swelled to nearly 500 acres as it burns near the lower portion of Mariposa Grove, Yosemite park

Megan C. Hills, CNN The image of Britain’s Prince Louis dressed in a miniature sailor suit was one of the standout moments of the recent Platinum Jubilee celebrations. Photographed screaming with his hands pressed over his ears as fighter jets roared above the Buckingham Palace balcony, all eyes were on the 4-year-old royal heir. While