CNN – Style

By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — Boarding a sweltering airplane cabin on a hot summer day has never been anyone’s favorite part of a flight, but as aviation traffic picks up — generating congestion that keeps planes on the ground for longer — and global heat records keep being broken, overheated airplane cabins could soon

By Nell Lewis, CNN (CNN) — A photograph of a young girl in a checked green dress against the backdrop of a churned-up sea filled with debris is the winner of the 2024 Mangrove Photography Awards. Taken by Indian photographer Supratim Bhattacharjee, it shows the aftermath of a cyclone in the Sundarbans, a huge mangrove

By Caitlin Chatterton, CNN (CNN) — A man dances on the top-deck of his private yacht, swigging champagne from the bottle, surrounded by bikini-clad women. He’s heavily fake-tanned, his dark hair is coiffed. But this isn’t a man — it’s Taylor Swift. Back in February 2020, Swift had not yet announced her Eras Tour (now

By Forrest Brown, CNN (CNN) — The November 1975 shipwreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald is probably the most famous one of the Great Lakes, thanks to Gordon Lightfoot’s hit ballad. But a new discovery is putting another ship – the Margaret A. Muir – on the map. An intrepid team of maritime historians working with

By Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — Make sure you’ve got enough pages in your passport, because TIME has just released its list of the world’s 100 greatest places to visit in 2024. From Costa Rica to Koh Samui to the Republic of the Congo, the team of editors at the New York-based news magazine has

By Rosa Rahimi, CNN (CNN) — Princess Diana’s letters to her family’s former housekeeper are going on sale, providing an “insight” into her life behind closed doors, including wedding preparations to the then-Prince Charles, and details of Prince Harry and Prince William’s childhood relationship. Violet Collison, nicknamed Collie, was the head housekeeper at Park House

By Amanda Musa, CNN (CNN) — Yellowstone National Park’s Biscuit Basin will remain closed for the remainder of the 2024 season following a hydrothermal explosion Tuesday that launched debris hundreds of feet in the air and damaged the surrounding area, officials with the National Park Service and the US Geological Survey said in a statement

By Silvia Marchetti, CNN (CNN) — Sometimes making a fresh start isn’t all about big plans for the future. It can mean small changes such as walking instead of depending on a car. That was one of the key factors for Michael Steven Grant when he started considering a retirement move. Grant, a 63-year-old former

By Duarte Mendonca, Kathleen Magramo, Alex Stambaugh and Edward Szekeres, CNN (CNN) — Germany’s busiest airport temporarily suspended flights on Thursday after climate activists glued themselves to the tarmac in a protest against the use of fossil fuels. The airport, used by nearly 60 million travelers last year, advised passengers not to travel to the

By Chris Lau and Rinka Tonsho, CNN Tokyo (CNN) — Kudos to you if you can speak perfect Japanese and order food at a neighborhood sushi bar in Tokyo. If you can, chances are that on your next trip to Japan, you may be able to score a better deal by blending in as a

By Dhruv Tikekar, CNN (CNN) — When Simon Carter first laid his eyes on the “Totem Pole,” a 213-foot-tall monolith rising dramatically from the seas of eastern Tasmania, Australia, he was faced with a dilemma: “To climb or to photograph?” He did both. While the rock had been scaled before, the Australian photographer and his

By Jack Guy and Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN (CNN) — A mosaic from the floor of an ancient Roman villa has been uncovered on the seabed in the waters off Naples. Now underwater, the marble floor would originally have been located in the “protiro,” or decorated porch, of a residence overlooking the sea, according to

By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — When Gigi Hadid stepped onto the “Deadpool & Wolverine” red carpet premiere in New York on Monday, she dusted off a Y2K summer staple, sporting a yellow triangle top bound to give any millennial an immediate flashback (and possibly a hot flash). If crop tops could talk, the triangle

By Leighton Rowell, CNN (CNN) — If there’s one thing Parisians want tourists to know before millions of people descend on their city for the Olympics, it’s a simple, seven-letter word. “Bonjour.” Knowing how to say “hello” in French might seem like a no-brainer, but experts say it’s the essential first step if you want

By Marnie Hunter, CNN (CNN) — Delta Air Lines reported “a significant return to operational reliability” on Wednesday after five days of widespread disruptions stemming from a global tech outage. And Thursday was expected to be a “normal day,” according to an update from Delta CEO Ed Bastian. While most airlines affected by a CrowdStrike

By Louis Mian, CNN (CNN) — Hundreds of votes were cast fraudulently for one finalist in the prestigious Hugo Awards, which honors the best science fiction and fantasy works of the previous year, its administrative team has revealed. Nearly 10% of votes were deemed fraudulent, with 377 out of 3,813 votes being disqualified. Many votes

By Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — What’s red on the outside, purple on the inside, and grants you access to 195 destinations around the world visa-free? It’s the Singapore passport, and it’s just been named the world’s most powerful travel document in a quarterly ranking of the passports with the most international clout. For the

By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — Toy company Mattel has launched the first ever blind Barbie in its latest move to make the iconic doll more inclusive and represent more sections of society. This Barbie carries a white and red cane with a marshmallow tip and wears sunglasses on her head to provide additional eye

Essay by Forrest Brown, CNN (CNN) — Six little words – mundane to anyone else – electrified me: Boxed Lunch on the Capitol Steps. It was one line from an itinerary of an upcoming field trip to Columbia, the capital of South Carolina. I couldn’t have been any more excited if I had been told

By Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — A specific shade of retina-singeing chartreuse has become the defining color of summer 2024. Similar to the text message bubble sent from your iPhone, the vivid hue sits somewhere between 360 and 375 on the Pantone color chart. It is, of course, Brat green. Now synonymous with British pop