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By Jack Guy, CNN London (CNN) — Renowned British artist Tracey Emin has revealed that she is recovering after her “small intestine nearly exploded.” Emin, who underwent extensive surgery to treat an aggressive bladder cancer in 2020, said she had been traveling before feeling “very unwell.” “Not cancer but horrible complications with my intestines bought

By Joe Minihane, CNN (CNN) — Squaring our urge to see the world with the need to ease the impact of flights on the planet is now a major concern among top travel companies. According to the International Energy Agency, flights account for at least 2% of all global carbon emissions, with the sector’s impact

By Julia Buckley, CNN (CNN) — Goodbye London; hello Italian Riviera. Straight on the heels of Europe’s most iconic train route striking the UK capital from its list of destinations, the “Orient Express” has scheduled a trip to the Ligurian coastline for summer 2024. The train – whose full mouthful of a name is the Venice

By Lilit Marcus and Eric Cheung, CNN (CNN) — A popular photo spot in northern Taiwan is no more. Elephant Trunk Rock collapsed into the sea on December 15, according to the New Taipei Ruifang District Office, which manages the area. The rock formation, which got its name from, well, its resemblance to an elephant

By Lilit Marcus, CNN (CNN) — Every day, thousands of tourists from around the world plan their bucket-list trips to the Great Wall of China. Despite the wall’s 5,500-odd miles of terrain, stretching from east to west across the country, most travelers find themselves at either the Badaling or Mutianyu sections, the two areas closest

By Maria Sole Campinoti, CNN (CNN) — The Metropolitan Museum of Art will return more than a dozen Southeast Asian sculptures after they were linked to a late art dealer accused of trafficking artifacts looted from the region, according to the museum and the US Attorney’s Office in the Southern District of New York. New

By Amarachi Orie, CNN (CNN) — Festive magic fueled by nostalgia has been credited for the “astonishing” sale of a Christmas tree, “bought for pennies” more than a century ago, for £3,411 ($4,328) at auction on Friday. The 31-inch tree, complete with 25 branches, 12 berries and six mini candle holders, was estimated to sell

By Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — In travel news this week: the world’s most attractive city destinations, why fake olive oil is on the rise and the flight-booking hack travelers love but airlines hate. Using legs to fly Skiplagging is a covert way to save big dollars on air travel by booking a cheaper, multileg

By Francesca Street, CNN (CNN) — In December last year, after their flight from Orlando to Knoxville was unexpectedly canceled, 13 stranded strangers desperate to reach their destination rallied together, rented a van and hit the road. It was a spontaneous decision that one of the passengers, Alanah Story, chronicled via a series of videos

By Marnie Hunter, CNN (CNN) — Southwest Airlines’ longstanding “customer of size” policy is generating new chatter, thanks to viral TikTok videos and media coverage surrounding efforts to push other airlines to offer seating policies for passengers who don’t fit comfortably into today’s narrow airline seats. The policy, which Southwest says has been around for

By Alex Rees, CNN (CNN) — Jessica Vincent fondly remembers embarking on frequent thrifting trips — at secondhand stores, yard sales, flea markets — with her mother as a child. It’s a habit she retained into adulthood, and one that on Wednesday turned into a six-figure windfall for the Richmond, Virginia native (and the art and

By Francesca Street, CNN (CNN) — The other flight attendants told Jerilyn Young that her boyfriend Bob Pelikan was never going to settle down. It was 1964. Jerilyn, who worked for United Airlines, was sitting on the floor of her apartment in Newark, New Jersey, chatting with her three roommates. Their apartment building, which neighbored

By Jack Bantock, CNN (CNN) — Professional golfers have been known to complain about the unruly behavior of crowds, but it could be worse – at one South African course, the spectators once feasted on a giraffe in the middle of the third fairway. The audience are, quite literally, animals at Skukuza Golf Club in

By Simone McCarthy, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Hundreds of commuters, dozens of them with fractured bones, were sent to the hospital in Beijing on Thursday after two trains collided on a busy metro line during snowy conditions, the city’s transportation authority said. The collision took place around 7 p.m. during rush hour on the

By Kathleen Magramo and Francesca Annio, CNN (CNN) — Thrill-seeking riders were left stuck over a hundred feet in the air after a roller coaster came to an emergency stop at Universal Studios Japan in Osaka. Thirty-two people were aboard the Jurassic Park-themed Flying Dinosaur attraction when it got stuck at the highest point some

By Forrest Brown, CNN (CNN) — They were fed up with a British tax on tea in particular and consumed by resentment of British authority in general. So on the night of December 16, 1773, a group of rebellious colonial Americans called the Sons of Liberty decided to make a statement. They sneaked onto ships

By Ulrike Lemmin-Woolfrey, CNN Shakhrisabz, Uzbekistan (CNN) — When you finally get your tongue around the name “Shakhrisabz”, with its guttural ‘kh’ in the middle, the more you say it, the more magical it becomes. Meaning “green” or “verdant” in Persian, this historic city of roughly 100,000 inhabitants lies in the Kashkadarya region of Uzbekistan,

By Pete Muntean, CNN (CNN) — The three biggest legacy airlines in the United States say they are gearing up for a longer and larger stretch of Christmas holiday travel while aiming for a repeat of this past Thanksgiving, which saw few flight cancelations. American Airlines, the country’s largest carrier, expects Friday, December 22, to be its busiest of

By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — A surrealist with an incisive eye, finding the beauty and absurdity of everyday life. A model who posed for Vogue and sat for Pablo Picasso and Man Ray, but whose fashion career was suddenly cut short. A war photographer who embedded with the US military to chronicle the harrowing

By Silvia Marchetti, CNN Rome (CNN) — After 50 years of neglect, Rome’s “lost” imperial palace Domus Tiberiana has reopened as an open-air museum. Until recently a crumbling and off-limits ruin near the famous Coliseum, the Domus Tiberiana palace — built in the first century AD and beloved by Nero — hopes to once again