By Maureen O’Hare, CNN This was a bad, bad week for holiday travelers in the United States. First there was the raging storm that caught many people in perilous situations far from home: Here are some of their stories. Then Southwest went into an almighty days-long meltdown that left hundreds of thousands of passengers delayed
Continue Reading Stephy Chung and Kristie Lu Stout Advanced age and the pandemic have done little to deter Japan’s Yayoi Kusama. At 93, the world’s best-selling living female artist is still painting daily at the psychiatric hospital she voluntarily checked into and has lived in since the 1970s. Some of her latest creations feature alongside early drawings
Continue Reading Stephy Chung and Kristie Lu Stout Advanced age and the pandemic have done little to deter Japan’s Yayoi Kusama. At 93, the world’s best-selling living female artist is still painting daily at the psychiatric hospital she voluntarily checked into and has lived in since the 1970s. Some of her latest creations feature alongside early drawings
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Amanda Kludt, Special to CNN New Year’s Day is meant for fresh starts. But maybe even more, it’s meant for food. As the new year arrives around the world, special cakes and breads abound, as do long noodles (representing long life), field peas (representing coins), herring (representing abundance) and pigs (representing good luck). The particulars
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Scottie Andrew, CNN With some help from the Sex Pistols, British youths hungry for anarchy, and influences including Teddy Boy subculture and fetishists, Vivienne Westwood helped develop punk as a style, an ethos and a movement. The British designer, who died this week at 81, became one of the UK’s most revered style icons. But
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By Maureen O’Hare, CNN In 2022, the world started traveling again — and with that came the return of all the usual misbehavior and antics abroad. But with nerves perhaps frayed by a record year for airline cancellations, delays, lost luggage and inflated prices, misconduct was a particularly strong theme. Here are the standout moments
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By Gregory Wallace, CNN Ask Southwest Airlines employees about their company’s technology, and one word keeps coming up: “antiquated.” While Southwest grew from a scrappy, Texas-based discount airline operating three planes into one of the nation’s largest — union officials representing Southwest workers say the company did not keep pace with technology changes. And they
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Leah Dolan, CNN | Hanna Pham, CNN If you’ve reached the end of the year feeling as though you didn’t read enough, we’ve got you. Here are some of the best books of the year according to notable authors, artists, image-makers and other cultural tastemakers. Emily Ratajkowski, model: ‘Ghost Lover’ “This collection of nine short
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By Gregory Wallace and Forrest Brown, CNN The boss of Southwest Airlines has vowed he will “make good” to passengers hit by his company’s disastrous holiday meltdown as the carrier was delivering on its promise to resume better service on Friday. “This has impacted so many people — so many customers — over the holidays,”
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Nick Glass, CNN British fashion designer and style icon Vivienne Westwood has died aged 81. She passed away peacefully, surrounded by her family, at her home in London on Thursday, according to an official statement from her eponymous company. To the media, she was “the high priestess of punk” and the “Queen of Extreme.” To
Continue Reading Nick Glass, CNN British fashion designer and style icon Vivienne Westwood has died aged 81. She passed away peacefully, surrounded by her family, at her home in London on Thursday, according to an official statement from her eponymous company. To the media, she was “the high priestess of punk” and the “Queen of Extreme.” To
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Forrest Brown, CNN These destinations around the world have a well-deserved reputation for traditionally throwing a great New Year’s Eve fireworks show and shindig, and they’re bouncing back from the subdued celebrations of the past two years during the Covid-19 pandemic. Be sure to plan for prime parties and the best viewing areas for fireworks.
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Leah Asmelash, CNN American Girl’s latest “Girl of the Year” is a spunky Broadway-loving dancer and singer — and also the line’s first-ever South Asian main character. Kavika Sharma, Kavi for short, was unveiled Thursday as American Girl’s 2023 “Girl of the Year.” Unlike other American Girl dolls, “Girl of the Year” dolls are based
Continue Reading By Gregory Wallace and Forrest Brown, CNN The boss of Southwest Airlines has vowed he will “make good” to passengers hit by his company’s disastrous holiday meltdown as the carrier was delivering on its promise to resume better service on Friday. “This has impacted so many people — so many customers — over the holidays,”
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By Jessie Yeung, CNN A surging Covid outbreak in China. Countries imposing travel restrictions on Chinese travelers, wary of the virus being imported. Scientists warning against fearmongering and xenophobia. But this isn’t early 2020. The familiar scene is playing out now as China battles its biggest-ever outbreak, after abandoning its stringent zero-Covid approach and partially
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Oscar Holland, CNN The last year in architecture will be remembered as one of firsts, from the world’s first “upcycled” skyscraper winning World Building of the Year to Burkina Faso-born Francis Kéré becoming the first African architect to win the coveted Pritzker Prize. It was also a year in which we lost industry giants like
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By Heather Chen, CNN Bangladesh on Wednesday launched its first metro rail service in the capital Dhaka, with officials and commuters hopeful it will help ease traffic in one of the world’s most densely populated and congested cities. The largely Japanese-funded project, known as Line 6, was inaugurated at a ceremony by Prime Minister Sheikh
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By Gregory Wallace, Forrest Brown, Barry Neild and Karla Cripps, CNN Southwest Airlines says it’s set up to resume normal schedules on Friday after a tumultuous eight days that left hundreds of thousands of passengers delayed or stranded and prompted its executives to make apologies to the riding public and government officials. In a statement
Continue Reading By Gregory Wallace, CNN Ask Southwest Airlines employees about their company’s technology, and one word keeps coming up: “antiquated.” While Southwest grew from a scrappy, Texas-based discount airline operating three planes into one of the nation’s largest — union officials representing Southwest workers say the company did not keep pace with technology changes. And they
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By Forrest Brown, Gregory Wallace and Karla Cripps, CNN As beleaguered Southwest Airlines continues to sort out stranded passengers, uncollected baggage and out-of-position airplanes, US Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has taken the airline to task. He’s pulling no punches, referring to the situation as a complete “meltdown” of the system. Meanwhile, the airline’s decision to
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