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By Jeevan Ravindran, CNN A penguin couple received an extra special New Year’s gift at a zoo in New York, where they became the organization’s first same-sex foster parents to successfully hatch an egg. The chick was hatched on January 1 by Elmer and Lima, two adult male Humboldt penguins, at the Rosamond Gifford Zoo

Amanda Florian, CNN After realizing there weren’t any Koreans in the pantheon of iconic Disney princesses, 22-year-old Julia Riew set out to create one herself, along with an accompanying musical. The Harvard student, who grew up in St. Louis, Missouri, has been writing and composing for years. But with her seventh full musical to date,

Jeevan Ravindran, CNN Vogue France has been criticized after publishing a social media post that many users branded as offensive to Muslim women amid a culture of increasingly public Islamophobia in France. Sharing a photo on Instagram on Friday of actress and model Julia Fox wearing a piece of fabric wrapped around her head, the

By Maggie Hiufu Wong, CNN Dust off your pink, tiger-print jacket — it’s time to celebrate the Lunar New Year. Saying goodbye to the Ox, we enter the Year of the Tiger on February 1, 2022. Though the pandemic continues to overshadow the occasion, with public festivities once again pared down or canceled in many

Scottie Andrew, CNN The “dark academic” is smart but sullen, effortlessly cool but largely withdrawn, with rings under their eyes (spending all night in dimly lit libraries) and bruised legs (getting up to no good in between courses — a dark academic typically has a dark secret). They’ve got an eye for Gothic architecture and

Nicola Ruotolo, Sana Noor Haq, Livia Borghese and Jeevan Ravindran, CNN Italy’s former royal family has asked the country’s central bank to return the crown jewels, a lawyer for the family confirmed to CNN. The jewels were deposited in the Bank of Italy by a representative of the family on June 5, 1946 — three

By Marnie Hunter, CNN A man charged with groping a flight attendant has been sentenced to six months in prison. Enio Socorro Zayas was sentenced on Monday in US District Court in the Southern District of Florida, according to court documents. Zayas was indicted after an incident on August 6, 2021, aboard American Airlines flight

Xiaofei Xu and Camille Knight, CNN Several Nazi-pillaged artworks held in France’s national collections could soon to be reunited with the families of their previous Jewish owners. The French National Assembly passed a law on Tuesday to return 15 artworks looted by authorities during the Nazi period. “It’s a bill that we can describe as

Oscar Holland, CNN From the moment 57-year-old supermodel Kristen McMenamy opened Valentino’s latest show in Paris, it was clear the fashion house was breaking with convention. With Haute Couture Week collections normally worn by young, waif-like models, the Italian label’s creative director Pierpaolo Piccioli offered two things rarely seen on the most exclusive of runways:

Lilit Marcus The central Asian nation of Bhutan reopens to visitors today for the first time since the pandemic began. This means that the country’s breathtaking Trans-Bhutan Trail is now accessible to travelers. It reopened on September 28 after being closed for 60 years, and now foreigners can experience it for the first time as

By Lianne Kolirin, CNN When Jonathan the giant tortoise was born, Queen Victoria was just a teenager. While the British monarch died more than 120 years ago aged 81, Jonathan is still shuffling around planet Earth. Perhaps the most famous resident of St. Helena, one of the world’s remotest islands, Jonathan is this year celebrating

Francesca Street, CNN Pre-pandemic, the idea of airlines advertising flights to nowhere, in which passengers land in the same place they took off, would have been almost unthinkable. Sure, sightseeing flights have always existed, but they’re usually run by private aviation companies in select tourist destinations. But as Covid-19 grounded much of the world’s airplane

Oscar Holland, CNN Chanel unveiled its latest collection in dramatic style at Haute Couture Week in Paris — by sending a real-life princess down the runway on horseback. To the surprise of guests at the Grand Palais Éphémère, the French fashion house opened its show Tuesday with the help of Prince Albert of Monaco’s niece

Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN Why build a superyacht that just moves on water when you can create one that flies through the air as well? Rome-based design company Lazzarini Design Studio has dreamed up a new concept named Air Yacht that has the ability to “sail in the sky” as well as the ocean. Renderings of