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By Helen Regan and Kocha Olarn, CNN (CNN) — Three years since Thailand became the first country in Asia to decriminalize cannabis, the government this week imposed new rules designed to rein in the country’s “green rush.” As of Thursday, customers need a doctor’s prescription to buy cannabis — effectively restricting consumption of the plant

By Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — In travel news this week: how to get the Italian lifestyle when you don’t have a billionaire’s budget, plus we reveal CNN’s pick of America’s Best Towns to Visit in 2025. Only 10 made our list: Did somewhere near you make the cut? La Dolce Vita Money can’t buy

By Leah Dolan, Jacqui Palumbo and Sharon Braithwaite, CNN Venice, Italy (CNN) — It’s been both the most public and secretive wedding of the year. Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez concluded their three-day-long Venetian extravaganza on Saturday evening with a celebration at the Arsenale, a former medieval shipyard. The pair was seen traveling via boat

By Fiona Sinclair Scott and Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — After much anticipation, Lauren Sanchez’s wedding gown has been revealed, with Dolce & Gabbana confirmed as the fashion house behind the elegant, high-necked design featuring 180 silk chiffon-covered priest buttons. Many details surrounding the Bezos-Sanchez wedding extravaganza have been closely guarded and, in keeping with

CNN Travel (CNN) — America’s most interesting towns bring together the best of a beautiful country. Surrounded by stunning landscapes, packed with entrepreneurial talent and evolving with the tastes of the people who settle and explore them, these destinations show off what makes the United States so distinctive. For our second annual list of America’s

By Francesca Street, CNN (CNN) — Catherine Tondelli was standing underneath the Trevi Fountain, on a summer’s evening in Rome, about to throw three coins into the fountain’s waters. Growing up in the US, Catherine had seen romance movies set in Italy. She’d read books about Rome. She’d heard the city’s famous fountain was impressive.

Oscar Holland, CNN (CNN) — By today’s standards, the front cover of American Vogue’s November 1988 edition seems typical enough. Beside the text “the real cost of looking good,” Israeli model Michaela Bercu gazes past the camera, her windswept hair brushing across the shoulders of a bejeweled $10,000 Christian Lacroix couture jacket. Yet, the cover

CNN By Mike Valerio, Yoonjung Seo, and Gawon Bae, CNN Seoul (CNN) — Kim Jong Un personally cut the ribbon on a new resort hailed by state media as a “national treasure-level tourism city” — a lavish seaside development set against what human rights observers describe as stark realities of hunger and hardship across North

By Mike Valerio, Yoonjung Seo, and Gawon Bae, CNN Seoul (CNN) — Kim Jong Un personally cut the ribbon on a new resort hailed by state media as a “national treasure-level tourism city” — a lavish seaside development set against what human rights observers describe as stark realities of hunger and hardship across North Korea.

By Jacqui Palumbo and Oscar Holland, CNN (CNN) — After nearly four decades as the editor-in-chief of American Vogue, Anna Wintour is stepping down and seeking a replacement. Wintour broke the news to staffers on Thursday. Although she’ll exit the US edition’s top role, she is not leaving Condé Nast or Vogue altogether, but scaling

By Jacqui Palumbo, Barbie Latza Nadeau and Fiona Sinclair Scott, CNN Venice, Italy (CNN) — Lauren Sanchez and Jeff Bezos have made it onto the Venetian island of San Giorgio Maggiore, where they will celebrate their marriage on Friday evening. Hours ahead of the expected ceremony, the bride traveled to the island by water taxi.

By Nicole Mowbray, CNN (CNN) — Overlooked, familiar, homely… These are the words traditionally associated with the apron, a detachable, workaday garment that has historically functioned “almost like an invisibility cloak.” So said Carol Tulloch, a professor of dress, diaspora and transnationalism at Chelsea College of Arts, in a telephone interview with CNN. Just don’t

By Matt Villano, CNN (CNN) – So long as you’re not made of wax, right now is a great time to visit Las Vegas. Part of this is on Mother Nature; summer temperatures can hit a beastly 115 in the Mojave Desert, a harsh reality that can literally fry an egg on Las Vegas Boulevard

By Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — There is much to unpack with the portion of Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez’s wedding invitation that was leaked to the world. The explicit request for no gifts — the only option, really, for the one of the world’s richest individuals; along with the donation pledge to UNESCO’s Venice

By Chidozie Obasi, CNN Milan (CNN) — The feeling of unease is one of the hallmarks of our times, with cost of living increases and geopolitical conflicts contributing to a sense of disquietude. Within fashion, there is just as much uncertainty amid the ever-changing roster of designers at major luxury houses and a challenging retail

CNN By Angus Watson, CNN (CNN) — It appears in satellite pictures like great blotches of blue and green ink; swirling, spreading, sinking into parchment paper. In Australia’s arid center, those blotches represent a new inland sea, born from a deluge that has traveled hundreds of miles through the veins of a giant, parched continent.

By Angus Watson, CNN (CNN) — It appears in satellite pictures like great blotches of blue and green ink; swirling, spreading, sinking into parchment paper. In Australia’s arid center, those blotches represent a new inland sea, born from a deluge that has traveled hundreds of miles through the veins of a giant, parched continent. The

By Barbie Latza Nadeau and Sharon Braithwaite, CNN Rome (CNN) — Protesters in Venice rallying against the impending nuptials of billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and journalist Lauren Sanchez have claimed victory after their threats of disruption reportedly prompted a change of wedding venues. The group, No Space for Bezos, had called for a blockade

CNN By Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN (CNN) — When Kema Ward-Hopper and her then-fiance Nicholas Hopper, both from the US, decided to get married in Costa Rica, they had no idea that they’d end up relocating there a few years later. But a series of devastating events led the couple and daughter Aaralyn, now 15, to

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — An entire Scottish island complete with a ruined castle is up for sale for the princely sum of £5.5 million ($7.48 million). Shuna Island, which sits just off the west coast of Scotland, is being sold for the first time in 80 years, according to listings from estate agents