Leah Dolan, CNN Remember when a 24-year-old Christian Bale wowed onlookers with this red carpet look featuring a shimmering sweep of silver eyeshadow that struck like lightning across his face? This year marks the 25th anniversary of the bold makeup choice (two silvery cat-eyes with a dab of rouge on each cheek), which was a
Continue Reading By Michelle Watson and David Williams, CNN Officials in Hawaii seized a motorboat that had been floating just feet away from a sacred site on Maui known as the Hauola Stone. The officials told the boat owner they are taking control of the 56-foot grounded motorboat, named Kuuipo, in order “to avoid damaging a culturally
Continue Reading By Forrest Brown, CNN Thomas Nashe, the 16th-century British poet and dramatist, certainly looked forward to spring in his own colorful, singsong way: The fields breathe sweet, the daisies kiss our feet,Young lovers meet, old wives a-sunning sit,In every street these tunes our ears do greet:Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we, to witta-woo!Spring, the sweet spring! Sweet spring
Continue Reading By Marnie Hunter, CNN There’s cause for optimism in the latest report on world happiness. For one, benevolence is about 25% higher than it was pre-pandemic. “Benevolence to others, especially the helping of strangers, which went up dramatically in 2021, stayed high in 2022,” John Helliwell, one of the authors of the World Happiness Report,
Continue Reading Natsumi Suiguira, CNN and Taylor Nicioli, CNN In Tokyo’s Shibuya district, fashion enthusiasts came out in droves for this month’s Rakuten Fashion Week donning a mix of brightly-colored and experimental garments. And as brands sent their Autumn-Winter 2023 collections down runways, the street style — in a city known for its bold fashion culture —
Continue Reading By Zoe Sottile, CNN Customs officers at the Detroit Metropolitan Airport made an unusual — and potentially dangerous — discovery in a passenger’s luggage: Six giant African snails. The snails, which were alive, were found in the suitcase of a traveler who arrived in Detroit from the west African country of Ghana, according to a
Continue Reading By Janelle Davis, CNN. Recipes from Eva Longoria Eva Longoria has taken on many roles, including award-winning actor, producer, activist, entrepreneur — and now TV show host. But throughout her demanding career, she has stayed true to one of her original passions: cooking. “My love affair with cooking started long ago,” Longoria said in her
Continue Reading By Barbie Latza Nadeau and Lianne Kolirin, CNN Leonardo da Vinci’s mother was a slave trafficked into Italy, an expert on the Renaissance artist has claimed. In a new novel, a dramatized account of her life, Renaissance scholar Carlo Vecce writes that Leonardo’s mother, Caterina, was originally from the Caucasus but was sold into slavery
Continue Reading By Jackie Wattles and Kristen Rogers, CNN A giant blob of seaweed twice the width of the continental United States is headed for the shores of Florida and other coastlines throughout the Gulf of Mexico, threatening to dump smelly and possibly harmful piles across beaches and dampening tourism season. Sargassum — the specific variety of
Continue Reading By Maureen O’Hare, CNN This week in travel news: the top airports of 2023, new travel rules around the world and the man who visited Disneyland nearly 3,000 days in a row. The world’s best airports There was one commonly heard refrain, Port Authority’s Executive Director Rick Cotton tells CNN, that spurred on the multibillion
Continue Reading By Forrest Brown, CNN When you think of the Caribbean, you likely think of water. The crystalline sea, of course. Fancy resort pools. And spectacular water parks. You probably don’t think of modern, land-based theme parks. But one park is taking a big step outside the usual H2O-oriented offerings in the Caribbean with a park
Continue Reading By Maureen O’Hare, CNN There’s a lot more to Irish cuisine than stout and spuds, although both should be high on your must-try list when visiting the island of Ireland. That rich green patchwork that greets the eye as your plane descends produces some of the world’s finest beef, lamb and dairy, while the gray-blue
Continue Reading Jeong Jiwon, CNN and Oscar Holland, CNN Contributor: Kim Nayoon, CNN Seoul Fashion Week is a star-studded affair, with actors and K-pop artists among the high-profile guests seen on this season’s front rows. Some of the most interesting looks, however, could be found outside, as attendees arrived in style for runway shows across the five-day
Continue Reading Jacqui Palumbo, CNN A former photojournalist, Aïda Muluneh now creates images that pose questions, rather than offering answers. Muluneh has spent years creating surrealist photographs of stately African women bearing symbols that reckon with conflict, history and power. Painted eye motifs — as well as her subjects’ unflinching gaze — represent the need to bear
Continue Reading Hanna Pham, CNN If you’re in the market for ghoulish ceramic heads or colorful collages of gay sex among off-duty soldiers, a new digital art platform has you covered. The one-of-a-kind online hub is a new venture from Queer Art Projects, a London-based production company. Launched last December, QAP.digital is currently home to sixteen LGBTQ
Continue Reading By Greg Wallace, Pete Muntean and Alaa Elassar, CNN The Federal Aviation Administration is working to establish a requirement that aircraft have longer duration cockpit voice recorders. The announcement comes after the agency held an emergency “safety summit” Wednesday following a series of near-collisions on US runways. The FAA said it is “initiating rulemaking that
Continue Reading Julia Buckley, CNN The skies have been turbulent over the United States in 2023 — and not just because of rogue balloons. Since the start of the year, there have been a concerning number of high-profile “near misses” as planes involved in airport landing or taking off procedures came perilously close to potential disaster. And
Continue Reading By Maureen O’Hare, CNN Gather round, some hot new travel inspo just dropped. TIME magazine has just released its annual list of the World’s Greatest Places, and we’re here to tell you the where, the why and the what behind its picks. The nominations came from TIME’s international network of correspondents and contributors, which were
Continue Reading Hafsa Khalil, CNN The Koh-i-Noor — one of the world’s most famous and controversial diamonds — will be part of a new exhibition at the Tower of London that recognizes it as “a symbol of conquest.” The display will explore the origins and history of the crown jewels. It opens on May 26 — the
Continue Reading Francesca Street, CNN On her first date with Augustin Pasquet, Michelle Young found herself weaving through the streets of Paris on the back of his moped. As they headed down the Champs-Élysées, Michelle snapped a photograph with her digital camera. In the distance, she captured the striking Arc de Triomphe. In the forefront, Augustin lifted
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