By Amy Cassidy, CNN A 17-year-old has become the youngest person to fly around the world solo in a small aircraft on Wednesday after first taking off on March 23, according to Guinness World Records (GWR). British-Belgian national Mack Rutherford touched down earlier in the day in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia, where his journey
Continue Reading By Maureen O’Hare, CNN Shoulder season is almost here, when travel transitions from peak crowds and prices to something — hopefully — a little more mellow. Join us for our roundup of weekly travel news as well as tips for where to travel in late 2022. Seasons in the sun American travelers have been unleashing
Continue Reading By Jessie Yeung, CNN For more than 30 years, British veteran James Grundy made an annual 5,500-mile journey to South Korea, to visit the graves of bodies he had recovered as a young man thrust into war. Grundy was just 19 when he joined the Korean War in 1951, according to the United Nations Memorial
Continue Reading By Rebekah Riess, CNN Dog lovers — get ready for your hearts to melt over a hard-working dog named Eebbers. One of Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport’s (MSP) passenger-screening canines, he has won the Transportation Security Administration’s 2022 “Cutest Canine Contest,” according to a news release. The announcement comes on National Dog Day, which is on
Continue Reading By Toyin Owoseje, CNN The personal art collection of the late Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen could raise more than $1 billion when it goes under the hammer in November, in what is being billed as the largest auction sale in history. “Visionary: The Paul G. Allen Collection” will be offered at Christie’s in New York,
Continue Reading By Nick Thompson and Forrest Brown, CNN First things first: Despite some truly terrifying tales of survival, you are incredibly unlikely to be duking it out with a shark any time soon. But sharks do occasionally attack humans. Florida teen Addison Bethea was severely injured recently when a shark attacked her in the waters off
Continue Reading Julia Buckley, CNN Walking from Brühl’s town center to the train station, I passed a UNESCO World Heritage site. The 18th-century Augustusburg Palace — one of Germany’s earliest examples of Rococo architecture — draws visitors from all over the world. Brühl itself, 11 miles south of Cologne, has a pretty pedestrianized main street, acres of
Continue Reading By Kocha Olarn and Jessie Yeung, CNN With its long neck, round torso, tail feathers and lumbering gait, the huge creature being chased around a Thai zoo by net-wielding veterinarians appears to be an ostrich. But when cornered by its pursuers, the strange beast’s true nature is revealed — and the clue is in its
Continue Reading Megan C. Hills, CNN When Brad Pitt arrived at the premiere for new movie “Bullet Train” last month, his laidback linen outfit made headlines everywhere — or part of it did, at least. The actor, who is known for hypermasculine roles in films such as “Fight Club” and “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” completed
Continue Reading By Paradise Afshar, CNN Swastika Mountain, located within Oregon’s Umpqua National Forest, may get a new name later this year — partly thanks to one Eugene resident. “I thought ‘this is crazy,’” Joy McClain, 81, said when she saw the mountain’s name in a local paper and felt called to action. “I decided maybe I
Continue Reading By Lilit Marcus, CNN Hong Kong’s Peak Tram, one of the city’s most recognizable tourist attractions and the oldest funicular in Asia, will reopen to the public on August 27 following a year-plus-long closure. The tram, which has been ferrying locals and tourists alike to Hong Kong island’s highest spot since 1888, is now in
Continue Reading By Jackie Wattles, CNN NASA is gearing up for its most consequential launch in decades, launching a rocket built to carry humans on an uncrewed test flight around the moon. It’s the first major step for the space agency’s Artemis program that aims to one day return astronauts to the lunar surface. To commemorate the
Continue Reading By Lilit Marcus, CNN When it comes to fashion, street style has as much cachet as runway style — in fact, there are dozens of blogs and Instagram accounts dedicated to chronicling the best streetwear looks. That’s because urban chic has always started in the street, where people from all kinds of classes and backgrounds
Continue Reading By Jackie Wattles, CNN NASA is gearing up for its most consequential launch in decades, launching a rocket built to carry humans on an uncrewed test flight around the moon. It’s the first major step for the space agency’s Artemis program that aims to one day return astronauts to the lunar surface. To commemorate the
Continue Reading By Amarachi Orie, CNN Dramatic lightning strikes, extreme climate events, icy spectacles and sublime sun scenes are among the stunning images shortlisted for the Weather Photographer of the Year 2022 competition. The 22 pictures, a selection of which feature in the gallery above, showcase some of nature’s most artistic moments. This is the Royal Meteorological
Continue Reading By Brad Lendon, CNN Photographer Tim Page, whose images and exploits from the Vietnam War made him a legendary figure of journalism in the 1960s, died Wednesday in Australia at the age of 78, fellow journalist Ben Bohane confirmed to CNN. Page had cancer, according to Bohane, who said he spent Page’s last week with
Continue Reading By Jacopo Prisco, CNN On an average day, more than 200,000 flights take off and land across the world. That includes commercial, cargo and charter planes — which account for about half of the total — as well as business jets, private aircraft, helicopters, air ambulances, government and military aircraft, drones, hot air balloons and
Continue Reading By Amy Cassidy, CNN A 17-year-old has become the youngest person to fly around the world solo in a small aircraft on Wednesday after first taking off on March 23, according to Guinness World Records (GWR). British-Belgian national Mack Rutherford touched down earlier in the day in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia, where his journey
Continue Reading By Amy Cassidy, CNN A 17-year-old has become the youngest person to fly around the world solo in a small aircraft on Wednesday after first taking off on March 23, according to Guinness World Records (GWR). British-Belgian national Mack Rutherford touched down earlier in the day in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia, where his journey
Continue Reading Leah Dolan, CNN Oscar-winning actor Nicole Kidman caught the Internet’s attention this week with a new shoot for Perfect Magazine. Kidman, who turned 55 this summer, flexes her impossibly sculpted biceps on the magazine’s cover — a cascade of red hair falling over one shoulder with a section cropped bluntly at her chin. Not a
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