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By AJ Davis, Karol Suarez and Matt Rivers, CNN A hotel in Mexico popular with American tourists was sent into chaos Thursday amid reports of gunfire. According to local authorities, a confrontation between drug dealers had exploded into lethal violence on a beach nearby. “There was a confrontation between members of hostile groups of drug

Jack Guy, CNN A country estate in southwest England is up for sale for £4.95 million ($6.7 million), and the new owners could be obliged to receive a royal visitor at short notice. Brimptsmead is a six-bedroom Edwardian family home that sits in 9.22 acres of land in Dartmoor National Park, boasting paddocks, woodland and

Julia Buckley, CNN Paris, Rome, Barcelona… Europe’s cities are bucket list destinations, and rightly so. But the continent’s small towns are a dream, too, with all the beautiful architecture and much of the culture you’ll find in the big hitters, only with fewer crowds to share them with. Here are some of the prettiest small

Oscar Holland, CNN A new property development in Austin, Texas, is set to become the world’s largest community of 3D-printed homes. Scheduled to break ground next year, the project will feature 100 single-story houses “printed” on-site using advanced robotic construction and a concrete-based building material. Digital renderings of the neighborhood, unveiled last week, show rows

Megan C. Hills, CNN Macaulay Culkin often shirks the spotlight, but he made a surprise appearance Tuesday as a runway model for Gucci. Joined on the catwalk by stars-turned-models Jared Leto and Jodie Turner-Smith, the “Home Alone” actor looked at ease in a vibrant outfit as the label took over Hollywood Boulevard for its Gucci

By Josh Campbell and Pete Muntean, CNN A Southwest Airlines pilot is accused of assaulting another crew member following a mask dispute last month in San Jose, California, according to information received from the airline and local law enforcement. The October 18 incident occurred at a Doubletree hotel bar and “involved a disagreement over mask

Al Goodman, CNN A soft goat’s cheese from Spain won first place at the World Cheese Awards on Wednesday, besting the field of 4,079 entries from more than 40 countries on five continents. The winning cheese, called Olavidia, from an artisan cheesemaker using the commercial name Quesos y Besos (Cheeses and Kisses), got 103 votes,

Leah Dolan, CNN Two years after her Oscar-nominated performance in the musical “A Star is Born,” Lady Gaga is set to return once more to the silver screen. This time she’ll be playing the socialite Patrizia Reggiani — who arranged the murder of her ex-husband, fashion house head Maurizio Gucci — in Ridley Scott’s retelling

By Brian Rokus and Susannah Cullinane, CNN A California man has been charged in connection with an alleged assault on an American Airlines flight attendant last week, which was described by the airline’s CEO as “one of the worst displays of unruly behavior we’ve ever witnessed.” Federal prosecutors said Brian Hsu has been charged with

By Marnie Hunter, CNN The holiday season last year was a stay-at-home affair for many people who would normally have flown south for a beach break or gravitated toward the twinkling lights of a big city. This year, with widespread vaccination in many countries, moving around the world has become safer and more accessible for

Megan C. Hills, CNN In the mountains north of San Diego, a modernist mansion made of white concrete and glass rises from the cliffside. The property, nicknamed “Razor House” after the nearby Razor Point Trail, is now home to two famous inhabitants: singer Alicia Keys and her music producer husband Kasseem Dean, better known as

By Tina Charisma, CNN In 2012, Nana Amoako Anin was working as a prosecutor in New York. An American of Ghanaian descent, she had spent much of her adult life studying law and entering the legal profession. Then one day, despite the prospects of career advancement in one of the world’s most prosperous cities, she

By Marnie Hunter and Forrest Brown, CNN The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention added Russia to its list of “very high” risk travel destinations this week. On Monday afternoon, the world’s largest country by area (covering more than 17 million square kilometers or 6.6 million square miles), moved up to Level 4, the

By Jack Guy, CNN Archaeologists in Egypt have uncovered the tomb of Batah-M-Woya, who was chief treasurer in the time of King Ramses II. The tomb is located in Saqqara, a huge necropolis south of Cairo, according to a statement from Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities published Saturday. Saqqara has been the site of

By Jack Guy, CNN New Zealand‘s annual Bird of the Year competition has been won by the country’s only land mammal: the pekapeka-tou-roa, or long-tailed bat. This is the first time the bat — or, indeed, any non-bird — has been part of the competition, which is organized by New Zealand’s Forest & Bird conservation