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By Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — In our roundup of travel stories this week: the reality of living on a permanent cruise, the travelers visiting some of the world’s most notorious destinations, plus how the pandemic nearly killed off cargo ship tourism. Cargo ship cruisers For centuries, cargo ships have welcomed paying passengers, making freighter

By Francesca Street, CNN London (CNN) — Walking down a London street populated by chic wine bars, Michelin-starred restaurants and smart, Victorian buildings, a group of tourists suddenly halts in its tracks. They’re ignoring the appealing surroundings. Instead, they’re peering through an iron gate leading to a far-less-appealing alleyway where a row of garbage cans

By Lilit Marcus, CNN Busan, South Korea (CNN) — Crabs pulled, still alive, out of tanks and cooked to order. Groups of teens wearing fan gear for their favorite pop idols. Moms and daughters relaxing side-by-side in a naturally heated pool. Yes, Busan, South Korea’s second-largest city, has all of those things. But in the

By Charlotte Reck, CNN (CNN) — Airbnb has revised its rules to reduce the tasks a host can expect a guest to perform at the end of their stay — and washing dishes has been wiped from the to-do list. Airbnb, which connects travelers with more than 5 million hosts globally, has advised hosts to

By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Just four years after the Civil Rights era, Chicago welcomed its first downtown high rise designed by a Black architect for a Black-owned company. For four decades, the Johnson Publishing Company occupied an 11-story tower at 820 S. Michigan Avenue that was a monument to Black culture, sending out millions of

By Lottie Gross, CNN (CNN) — Something delicious and wholesome is popping up all over the British countryside, and people are traveling for miles to be a part of it. While America has roadside farm stands and fruit carts, Britain is now officially obsessed with cake sheds. Honesty boxes — small wooden structures containing fresh,

By Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN (CNN) — When David English woke up on the morning of September 11, 2001, he was confident his life was about to change. The entrepreneur, who was working near the Lower Manhattan area now known as Ground Zero, had been scheduled to sign a “career-clinching contract” with a major bank that

By Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — From a certain handmade $50 million white-gold bra to the latest red carpet look worn by Jenna Ortega, metal couture is everywhere this week. At first glance, Ortega’s fitted bodice, fringe skirt and W-shaped bustier looked like something you might find hanging in Cher’s closet. But the gown, designed

By Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — It’s too easy to kick the can down the road when planning dream trips: Push it to next month, next year, after the new kitchen is done, or never. To help banish the endless procrastination, National Geographic’s 2027 list of 25 must-visit destinations for the year ahead is one

By Stephy Chung, CNN Shanghai, China (CNN) — One of China’s most exciting art curators, X Zhu-Nowell, is giving me a very Shanghai morning. We share a breakfast of traditional staples –– scallion pancakes, salty bean curd and soup dumplings –– in an Art Deco museum building as she recalls the work of the Chinese

By Leah Dolan. Photographs by Jennelle Fong for CNN Los Angeles (CNN) — On Sunday night, just when you thought the megawatt spectacle that is the Victoria’s Secret runway show couldn’t get any glitzier, out struts Kylie Jenner in a $50 million diamond brasserie. The “Fantasy Bra” is a Victoria’s Secret signature stunt — since

By Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — In our roundup of travel stories this week: Istanbul’s time-traveling hotel, a slow-eater’s guide to Hong Kong, plus the aristocrats opening their homes to guests. Palazzo for hire Gone are the days when the duties of an Italian princess involved nothing more than a bit of regal hand-waving and

By Oscar Holland, CNN As father to both a toddler and an infant, the din of tearful wailing — theirs, not mine (usually) — is the soundtrack to approximately half of all car journeys. I get it. Trapped wind, claustrophobic car seats and long scary tunnels are all legitimate reasons to cry when you’re barely

By Oscar Holland, CNN Featuring tranquil courtyards, pond-lined walkways and a facade bursting with tropical plants, a rug factory in Bangladesh has claimed one of architecture’s top prizes. Green Field Factory, a seven-story textile facility in the northern city of Rangpur, won the prestigious RIBA International Prize on Thursday, with judges calling the building a

By Kate Springer, CNN Dubai-based A380 superfan Arun Rajagopal knocks three times on an ivory-colored door. “Voila!” he exclaims as he slides it open. Inside, there’s a beige leather sofa, wide blocky armrests, gently arching ceilings, under-seat accent lighting and two open windows bathing the space in sunshine. For a moment, it looks as though

By Bianca Betancourt, CNN I often base my impression of a celebrity on one of two major variables: how much I would want to actually be their friend and yap over martinis and French fries or how much I would want to raid their closet. The Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning actor Ayo Edebiri passes both

By Sebnem Arsu, CNN Istanbul (CNN) — “This has been sitting in the safe for such a long time,” says 78-year-old Umit Berksoy, leaning over the table with his magnifying glass in hand, gently running his fingers over the stone gleaming inside the creased white cloth. “You can no longer find rubies of this size

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — A heartbreaking image of an elephant carrying a dead calf has been named the overall winner of the 2026 Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition. The image, named “The Aftermath,” was taken by Italian photographer Federico Veronesi. It shows a female elephant carrying the calf in Namibia, according to

By Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — Passengers traveling from Italy to Australia failed to arrive in Perth as planned over the weekend, after their flight was canceled due to a reported case of bedbugs. Qantas, Australian’s national airliner, was forced to cancel the flight scheduled for Saturday after passengers on an earlier incoming flight complained

By Leah Dolan, CNN You’re a copywriter, a communications manager, an elusive creative director with indeterminate responsibilities. So why are you dressed liked a 20th century French rail worker? Today, some 70 million employed Americans will probably work from behind a desk. Yet our obsession with clothes from a different kind of working life just