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Oscar Holland, CNN and Yuki Kurihara, CNN Having a family portrait taken by Haruhiko Kawaguchi comes with one unusual condition: That he wrap your entire house in plastic and then vacuum-seal you into an airtight bag. From there, the Tokyo-based photographer has just seconds to capture the images he needs before setting his breathless subjects

By Melanie Radzicki McManus, CNN After watching so many impressive Olympic performances, you may be inspired to ratchet up your fitness routine or sports practice. You may even wish you could try an Olympic-caliber workout to see what it’s like. While there are several Olympic training centers in the United States reserved for elite athletes,

By Forrest Brown, CNN Venice knows the burden all too well. So does Amsterdam. And some of the most visited national parks in the United States are going through the same thing — the downside of being popular. It puts them in quite the jam, especially those with short, sought-after peak seasons and one-of-a-kind attractions.

Scottie Andrew, CNN There are few occasions in this life for which we can really dress to the nines — the Met Gala, if you’re a certain kind of famous, or Halloween for us regular folk. Add to that list the icy stage at the Winter Olympics. Figure skaters and ice dancers know it takes

Nicola Chilton, CNN There’s no in-flight service. No business class cabin. No sipping Champagne, choosing beef or chicken, or watching a movie. At just eight minutes from takeoff to landing, there’s no time for any of that. There are shorter flights — the hop from Westray to Papa Westray in Scotland’s Orkney Islands clocks in

By Allegra Goodwin, CNN Photographs of the British royal family captured by members of the public will go on display alongside the work of world-renowned photographers in London next month, at a new exhibition that promises to examine the evolution of the family’s “image across three centuries.” The Life Through A Royal Lens exhibition will

Toyin Owoseje, CNN Man Ray’s famed “Le Violon d’Ingres” is poised to make history as the most expensive photograph ever sold at auction. The black and white image, taken in 1924 by the American surrealist artist, transforms a woman’s naked body into a violin by overlaying the picture of her back with f-holes. The original

By Reuters Israeli farmer Chahi Ariel has grown the world’s heaviest strawberry, according to Guinness World Records. At 289 grams (10 ounces), the strawberry was about five times the average weight of a regular berry of the local Ilan variety, said Nir Dai, a researcher at Israel’s Volcani Institute where the strain was developed. The

By Xiaofei Xu and Anaëlle Jonah, CNN “The Little Prince” has arrived in Paris, nearly eight decades after it was written. The iconic novella was penned by French author Antoine de Saint-Exupery in New York during World War II, and now 30 handwritten pages of the original manuscript are on display at the Museum of

Jacqui Palumbo, CNN This week, 24-year-old model Sofia Jirau became the first person with Down syndrome to appear in a campaign for Victoria’s Secret. The Puerto Rican model appeared alongside 17 other women to promote the new all-day-comfort Love Cloud collection, which the brand hopes will “reinforc(e) Victoria’s Secret’s commitment to welcoming and celebrating all

Katie Hunt, CNN The distinctive silhouette of Stonehenge in the flat landscape of Salisbury plain in southwest England is instantly and iconically familiar. However, the 4,500-year-old monument and the world it encapsulated remains profoundly mysterious — there are no written records that shed light on its meaning and significance. A major new exhibition at The

By Jeevan Ravindran, CNN Scientists in New Zealand have discovered a newly-hatched ghost shark which they say could inform their knowledge of the “mysterious” creature. The ghost shark was found at a depth of around 1,200 meters (about 3,900 feet) on the Chatham Rise, an area of ocean floor off the east coast of the

Leah Dolan, CNN There is no shortage of depictions of sex work in media, from films like “Moulin Rouge” and “Memoirs of a Geisha” to, more recently, the HBO teen drama “Euphoria,” the world has come to expect a certain narrative when hearing stories of one of society’s most tabooed career paths. “Even ‘Pretty Woman,’

Sana Noor Haq, CNN One of the most valuable blue diamonds to ever feature at an auction could sell for more than $48 million, according to Sotheby’s. Named “The De Beers Cullinan Blue,” it is the biggest vivid blue diamond to be put up for auction, according to a press release from Sotheby’s Wednesday. The

By Sara Smart, CNN A miniboat built by fifth graders took to the seas on October 25, 2020, charging off into the Gulf Stream for its maiden voyage. That voyage would take 5.5-foot-long Rye Riptides over 8,000 miles from home — all the way to the coast of Norway after 462 days at sea. It

Oscar Holland, CNN | Yoonjung Seo, CNN North Korea has started work on a sprawling 10,000-apartment residential project as the country embarks on a housing drive in its capital, Pyongyang. Amid major economic woes brought about by trade sanctions and the Covid-19 pandemic, leader Kim Jong Un attended a ground-breaking ceremony at the construction site

Scottie Andrew, CNN On their faces, “Jersey Shore” and the “Real Housewives” franchise don’t seem like series worthy of sociological study. Danielle Lindemann knows better than to count them out, though. Lindemann, a sociologist who’s previously written books on dominatrixes and commuter couples, was raised on reality TV — the fourth season of “The Real

Hannah Ryan, CNN A London art gallery has removed some souvenirs relating to Vincent Van Gogh from its gift shop after they were branded insensitive and considered to be making light of the topic of mental health. The Courtauld Gallery, which can be found in Somerset House in the English capital, is holding its “Van