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Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Emma Raducanu has been named a Dior ambassador just over a month after winning the women’s singles title at the 2021 US Open. The 18-year-old British tennis star will represent the womenswear collections of French luxury fashion house as well as its skincare and makeup categories. Ahead of the announcement on Tuesday,

Julia Buckley, CNN There’s a lot to love about travel. Experiencing a new culture. Eating great food. Staying in top notch hotels… and landing in a new airport. Of course, not all airports are created equal. Some have incredible amenities. Some provide easy access into town. Some make connections a dream. And some have truly

Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN Saudi Arabia may be trying to reduce its dependency on oil, but that hasn’t stopped the Arabic kingdom from using its petroleum industry as inspiration for a brand new tourist attraction. The Middle Eastern country has announced plans to convert an oil rig into a 150,000 square meter “extreme park” and resort

By Evan Simko-Bednarski, CNN A vote by a little-known New York City committee on Monday signals the end to a two-decade effort to remove a statue of Thomas Jefferson from the chambers of the New York City Council. The Public Design Commission, which oversees the city’s collection of public art, voted 8-0 Monday to relocate

By Lilit Marcus, CNN Flight to nowhere. Cruise to nowhere. And now … a bus ride to nowhere. Hong Kong’s residents are among the most travel-starved people in the world. As other cities throughout Asia and the Pacific loosen travel restrictions and emerge from lockdowns, any Hong Konger who wants to leave the city is

Megan C. Hills, CNN Over a century since it was last seen in public, a vibrant Vincent van Gogh painting once seized by the Nazis is heading to auction. The watercolor of a harvest scene, titled “Meules de blé” (“Wheat Stacks”), depicts women working in the fields at Arles, France, and is expected to sell

Leah Dolan, CNN Since Harry Styles’ became the first man to grace the cover of American Vogue alone almost one year ago — and did so wearing a full-length dress — the British singer has come to symbolize a new, more expressive era of men’s fashion. But he’s the wrong face for the moment, according

Francesca Street, CNN The Airbus A380 is designed for long-haul flying, thanks to its hefty size and famously quiet inflight experience. But come November 2021, Singapore Airlines will deploy a superjumbo on a short-haul flight lasting a mere 60 minutes. Travelers heading on certain flights from Singapore to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia will board what is

Elliott Gotkine, CNN With desert peaks stabbing the sky and a thin blue ribbon of Dead Sea shimmering in the distance, the ghostly figures of around 200 men and women — painted head to toe in white — began appearing from behind an outcrop. Each and every one of them was naked. Which could only

Noah Sheidlower, CNN Jazz artist and composer Terence Blanchard never thought his work would be performed on the Metropolitan Opera Stage. Adapted from Charles M. Blow’s memoir of the same name, Blanchard’s opera “Fire Shut Up in My Bones” tells of a Black boy growing up in rural Louisiana, where he faces poverty and sexual

Leah Asmelash, CNN There was a time, not too long ago, when many people could only name one, maybe two, poets — often a long-dead White man named William Shakespeare, Robert Frost or Walt Whitman. In recent years, though, a shift has occurred. Amanda Gorman, after reading her striking poem at President Joe Biden’s inauguration

Hannah Ryan, CNN The city of Vienna is taking an offbeat approach to the censorship of art and has turned to using the adults-only online platform OnlyFans to put its most “explicit” artworks on full display. The tourism board for the Austrian capital is now presenting art from four of Vienna’s most revered museums on

By Marnie Hunter, CNN The United States’ new international travel policies are set to go into effect on Monday, November 8. New rules around air, land and ferry travel into the US will replace a patchwork of restrictions and make vaccination the key to entry for nearly all foreign visitors. Here’s what travelers need to

Julia Buckley, CNN They’ve long dominated the food and fashion worlds, this year they’ve dominated sports, and now they’re aiming for the skies. Italy’s new national airline, ITA Airways, launched on Friday with a promise to bring pride back to its national flag carrier, after Alitalia, Italy’s legacy airline, went bankrupt and ceased operations a

By Jack Guy, CNN The owner of a bakery in northern England has been left with a bitter taste in his mouth after authorities told him he had to stop using banned sprinkles sourced from the US. West Yorkshire Trading Standards said the sprinkles contained an artificial coloring which isn’t approved for use in sprinkles

Jacqui Palumbo, CNN At 91 years old, Jasper Johns is one of the most important living artists today, with auction sales worth tens of millions of dollars and a seven-decade career credited with changing the course of 20th-century art. But the American artist has always been reluctant to engage with interpretations or even showings of