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King Charles III’s new royal cypher unveiled by Buckingham Palace

Amarachi Orie, CNN Buckingham Palace has unveiled the new royal cypher of King Charles III, which will appear on British government buildings, state documents and mailboxes. The sovereign’s monogram consists of the intertwining initials “C” and “R,” representing his name “Charles” and “Rex,” the Latin word for king. Because the King is the third Charles

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What it’s like to visit Saudi Arabia now

Richard Quest, CNN I have seen countries change before, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything quite like the change taking place in Saudi Arabia. It is not like the fall of Soviet Europe, nor the upheaval recently witnessed in Sri Lanka. Saudi’s change is deliberate, deep-reaching and dramatic. It is difficult to visit

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‘My beliefs haven’t changed’: From social housing to skyscrapers, architect Moshe Safdie is still an idealist

Oscar Holland, CNN There are few buildings that have more drastically shaped a city’s image than Marina Bay Sands. Just as the Eiffel Tower and Burj Khalifa define the skylines of Paris and Dubai, the soaring three-tower resort, joined across the top by a horizontal “skypark” and the world’s most famous infinity pool, is an

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‘Transform her into Marilyn’: Inside Ana de Armas’ ‘Blonde’ metamorphosis

Marianna Cerini Few pop culture figures continue to live as large in our collective imagination as Marilyn Monroe, and her status as a beauty icon has been pivotal to that. From the moment she became Hollywood’s quintessential “blonde bombshell,” Monroe’s unmistakable features — the hourglass silhouette, pouty red lips, full eyelashes, dreamy eyes — came

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