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Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Manhattan is no stranger to supertall skyscrapers but Brooklyn’s skyline has now radically changed as its first supertall reached its full, vertiginous height on Thursday. The 93-story, 1,066-foot-tall residential building, standing at 9 DeKalb Avenue in Downtown Brooklyn, was designed by SHoP Architects. (Supertalls, by definition, are residential or office buildings reaching

Christiane Amanpour CNN, Emmet Lyons CNN, Ken Olshansky CNN Legendary playwright Tom Stoppard has said that he remains unsure as to whether he has written his last work. “At the moment, I’m sitting here with nothing to write, and I’m thinking I really ought to try and write something else now,” Stoppard told CNN’s Christiane

By Amy Woodyatt, CNN There have long been theories that when great white sharks bite humans, it is a case of mistaken identity. Now, new research simulating the way that a shark would view the world has shown that this may really be the case. Researchers from Australia’s Macquarie University in Sydney found that swimming

Livia Borghese and Sana Noor Haq, CNN A stately villa in the heart of Rome, which houses the world’s only ceiling mural by the Italian painter Caravaggio, will be auctioned at a starting price of 471 million euros ($547 million) in January, a court in Rome has confirmed. While most of the infrastructure was demolished

Ben Jones, CNN You wake up in suburban Innsbruck, the snowcapped peaks of the Austrian Tyrol glistening in the distance. After breakfast you hop a tram to Innsbruck Hauptbahnhof, the city’s main railway station and climb aboard an Austrian Railways ÖBB Railjet bound for Vienna. After more than four hours crossing some of the prettiest

By Scottie Andrew, CNN For Summer and Kaleigh Kailani, the most wonderful time of the year is already here — haunted house season. The sisters and horror buffs are hosts for Sharp Productions, a YouTube channel with more than half a million subscribers that sees the pair brave the scariest Halloween attractions around their native

Harmeet Kaur, CNN A private collector has returned a Mayan artifact to Guatemala after it was initially slated for auction in 2019. The stone fragment depicts a bird headdress belonging to an ancient ruler of Piedras Negras, the capital of a Mayan kingdom that flourished between 4th century BC and 9th century AD and is

By David Williams, CNN A Colorado rescue team has some simple advice for lost hikers or anyone else who might find themselves stranded in the mountains — answer your phone. Lake County Search and Rescue says it got a report last week that a hiker hadn’t returned from a hike on Mount Elbert. The hiker

Ben Wedeman, CNN and Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Rome may be the eternal city, but its ancient artifacts are under unrelenting assault by the ravages of time, pollution, acid rain and the sweat and breath of millions of tourists. The Arch of Septimius Severus in the Roman Forum, for one, has the grime of 18 centuries

Leah Dolan, CNN Kim Kardashian West’s shapewear and lingerie brand, Skims, has unveiled a capsule collection in collaboration with Italian fashion house Fendi. Launching November 9, the collection focuses on form-fitting garments like hosiery, underwear and sportswear, with each piece covered in a sprawling Skims x Fendi monogram print. The collaboration also includes one bonded

Oscar Holland, CNN and Selina Wang, CNN | Emiko Jozuka, CNN and Junko Ogura, CNN As royal weddings go, the marriage between Japan’s now-former Princess Mako and her college sweetheart, Kei Komuro, was remarkably low-key. Amid public skepticism about the union, which saw the emperor’s niece relinquish her title to wed a commoner, the pair

By Forrest Brown, CNN The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has added just one new location to its list of “very high” risk travel destinations this week. On Monday afternoon, architecturally rich Ukraine, the second-largest nation in Europe in land area, was moved up from Level 3, or “high” risk for Covid-19, to

Oscar Holland, CNN An art collective purchased an original Andy Warhol drawing for $20,000 and is selling it to one lucky buyer for just $250. But there’s a catch: The artwork is being offered alongside 999 high-quality forgeries — and even their creators can’t tell them apart. This is the latest stunt by New York’s

By Livia Borghese and Amy Woodyatt, CNN It was the saga of Indiana Jones and the Lost Ark, or in this case Harrison Ford and the lost credit card. On Thursday, 79-year-old American actor Harrison Ford lost his credit card in the beach town of Mondello near Palermo, on the Italian island of Sicily. But

Amy Woodyatt, CNN A pair of Nike Air Ships sneakers worn by Michael Jordan have sold for a record-breaking $1.47 million (£1.07 million) at auction. The basketball star wore the red and white sneakers during his fifth NBA game in his rookie season with the Chicago Bulls on November 1, 1984. The shoes were sold