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By Francesca Street, CNN (CNN) — While ticking famous landmarks off your bucket list is always a highlight of a city break, there’s also something special about randomly stumbling upon a local neighborhood offering cozy coffee shops, dreamy bookstores and chic dining spots aplenty. That’s the premise behind global listing guide Time Out’s latest roundup

By Forrest Brown, CNN (CNN) — America is called a melting pot – and that’s certainly true of its food. The USA’s culinary history is that of reinvention. Waves of food influences – Native, African, British, continental European, Asian and Latin – have landed on our shores (and still do). People take those classics, mix

By Francesca Perry, CNN (CNN) — Andrew Holmes’ images of trucks on Californian highways are sun-drenched, saturated and sharp. Looking at the crystal clear snapshots, you can almost hear the roar of the engines, feel the heat reflected off shiny aluminum gas tanks, and smell the diesel pumped out of the exhausts. But these are

By Lilit Marcus, CNN (CNN) — For travelers, there’s a very specific image of Fiji that comes to mind: flawless white stretches of sand, overwater bungalows perfect for honeymooning couples and bright blue sea in every direction. For the people who live in Fiji, though, the picture is more complicated. Restaurateur TJ Patel is a

By Scarlett Conlon, CNN Milan (CNN) — The strapline to the recent Spring-Summer 2025 shows at Milan Fashion Week should read: “expect the unexpected.” The runways staged across the Italian city were a stark contrast to Milan’s usual doubling down on house codes and familiar signatures. Just six months ago, designers were offering up collections

By Terry Ward, CNN (CNN) — New York City author Lisa Wixon always knew she had a path to EU citizenship through her maternal great-grandfather, who arrived in the United States in 1906 from Rijeka in western Croatia. Croatia is one of many countries in the European Union to recognize jus sanguinis (the “right of

By Amarachi Orie, CNN (CNN) — A diamond necklace that has been worn at two British coronations, and is thought to contain stones from the infamous necklace at the heart of a Marie Antoinette scandal, sold for over 4.2 million Swiss francs ($4.8 million) at an auction in Geneva, Switzerland on Wednesday. Weighing approximately 300

By Richard Quest and Joe Minihane, CNN (CNN) — Tree-covered peaks soaring from sparkling azure seas. Hiking trails that stretch for miles over rugged, beautiful and underexplored terrain. And enough food on offer to feed an army. This is Turkey’s Muğla Province. Situated in the destination’s stunning southwest, it’s a region that, beyond a few

By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — On a different timeline, the New York Stock Exchange might have been housed inside an imposing, Mayan temple-shaped tower; Disney World would exit to an after-party companion park named Night World, and Paris’ Centre Pompidou could have risen tall as a 344-foot-tall alabaster egg. For every architectural project built,

By Chris Lau, CNN (CNN) — The US is returning 297 history-spanning antiquities stolen or smuggled from India, many dating back centuries. Marking the handover, President Joe Biden and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi posed for a photo in front of several of the artifacts, during a recent meeting between the two leaders. In July,

By Jack Guy and Joyce Jiang, CNN (CNN) — Hong Kong-based airline Cathay Pacific has banned two passengers from its flights after an argument over seat-reclining etiquette descended into xenophobic insults. The incident occurred during a flight from Hong Kong to London on September 17, and a female passenger from mainland China recounted her experience

By Joe Yogerst, CNN (CNN) — For those who find themselves awed by arid landscapes, there’s no place like Africa. The continent boasts nine separate deserts, including a vast Sahara that sprawls across much of the north, the rust-colored Kalahari of the southwest, and the bizarre Turkana Basin of northern Kenya. All of them have

By Lilit Marcus, CNN (CNN) — He’s a “walking feathery poop machine.” And he’s also a celebrity. Meet Pesto the king penguin. At just nine months old and 22.5 kilograms (50 pounds), he’s already bigger than his parents at the Sea Life Melbourne Aquarium in Australia. Photos of Pesto – who is 90 centimeters (about

By Silvia Marchetti, CNN (CNN) — Relocating to another country is a dream come true for many people, yet when the language is a nightmare it can be a major deterrent. But a 36-year-old former gardener from California who flunked Spanish language at high school embraced his fate when a short-term stay on the island

By Lilit Marcus, CNN (CNN) — This week in travel news: why going on vacation could be better than using eye cream, how a hippopotamus became the internet’s hottest influencer, and how a cruise ship purchase on Craigslist became a sinking dream. Healthy holidays It’s no secret that going on a trip is fun. But

By Hannah Seligson, CNN (CNN) — Tell someone you’re going to Greece, and you’ll probably be asked “which Island are you visiting?” It’s an understandable knee-jerk response since many travelers spend little or no time on the mainland. But tourists with eyes only for the Aegean islands are missing out. Specifically, on Costa Navarino, a

By Freya Rogers, CNN (CNN) — Applying makeup is a powerful ritual, deeply ingrained into our souls. Many little girls (or boys) have a story about the first time they dared to swipe their mother’s red lipstick across their lips or brush blue eyeshadow onto their eyelids. In Ancient Egypt, makeup was believed to appeal

By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — In late 1965, at what’s now London Heathrow airport, a commercial flight coming from Paris made history by being the first to land automatically. The plane – A Trident 1C operated by BEA, which would later become British Airways – was equipped with a newly developed extension of the

By Oscar Holland, CNN (CNN) — CNN’s coverage of the 1980 US presidential election, broadcast just five months after the network’s launch, featured the analog predecessor of its now-essential election night prop: the “Magic Wall” electoral map. Visible behind a dedicated Election Desk at CNN’s Atlanta studio, the technology was far from magical (at one

By Alex Stambaugh and Manveena Suri, CNN (CNN) — A zoo in China has admitted its star attraction, two so-called pandas, are just painted dogs. The fluffy Chow Chow dogs painted to resemble the country’s beloved national animal were seen in a video shot by a visitor to the zoo in southern Guangdong province. The