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Francesca Street, CNN Douglas McTaggart first spotted Brien Convery across a crowded room. It was Friday April 10, 1998 and Canadian McTaggart, then 32 and living in San Francisco, was visiting New York City for a long weekend. McTaggart and his friend Nadine had spent all day exploring, ending with a nightcap at Bemelmans Bar

By Zoe Sottile, CNN An 11-foot hammerhead shark washed up on a beach in southern Florida, much to beachgoers’ surprise. Visitors at Pompano Beach, north of Fort Lauderdale, encountered the shark’s corpse on April 6, according to CNN affiliate WPLG. A team of scientists from the American Shark Conservancy took samples and identified the shark

By Jacopo Prisco, CNN The images of the wrecked Antonov AN-225 are now an indelible memory for aviation enthusiasts worldwide. Built in the 1980s to ferry the Soviet space shuttle, the plane got a second life after the Cold War as the world’s largest cargo transporter, achieving records of all kinds, before being destroyed at

Zoe Sottile, CNN It’s not just a screen print by the German artist Josef Albers. It’s a screen print by the German artist Josef Albers once owned by late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. And now fans of the justice, who was nicknamed RBG and died in 2020 at the age of 87, can

Julia Buckley, CNN It’s time! Travel restrictions are easing, infection rates are settling, you’re fully vaccinated, and you’re finally thinking about going on vacation. This is the year to make up for the holidays you didn’t enjoy over the past two years. You’ve likely saved for two years to make it a good one. This

Kate Springer, CNN For 33-year-old Sarah Richard, life has long revolved around scuba diving. As the founder of Girls that Scuba, billed as the world’s largest scuba community for women, she traveled nonstop to host dive trips and events before the pandemic. It would not be unusual for Richard to spend a few weeks in

Leah Dolan, CNN This weekend sees the return of Coachella after a three-year pandemic-induced hiatus. And, as ever, there will be as much written about the festival’s fashion as its performances. But while the event was once classed among the most stylish outings on the cultural calendar — thanks to its celebrity attendees and exclusive

By Hannah Sarisohn, CNN A WWII-era naval destroyer, an exhibit at the Buffalo and Erie County Naval & Military Park, is partially submerged into Lake Erie, according to the facility. A statement from the park says, “a serious hull breach” occurred Wednesday in the USS The Sullivans. Paul Marzello, the naval park’s president and CEO,

Oscar Holland, CNN | Manveena Suri, CNN Two of Bollywood’s biggest stars, Alia Bhatt and Ranbir Kapoor, tied the knot in Mumbai on Thursday in an intimate ceremony attended by some of the greats of Indian cinema. In one of India’s most hotly anticipated celebrity weddings of recent years, the Bollywood power couple cut cake

Amarachi Orie, CNN A showcase of portraits of queens who have ruled Britain will feature in a month-long program of exhibitions, events and auctions celebrating Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee. The London exhibition of portraits loaned from country houses across the United Kingdom will present the likenesses of seven queens, from the larger-than-life Tudors, the

By Terry Ward, CNN Angelyn Burk has been in love with cruising since she boarded a megaship for the first time back in 1992 to sail in the Caribbean. Now that the 53-year-old is retired from her accounting job, she and her husband, Richard, plan to sail off into the sunset for good — by

Maureen O’Hare, CNN There are many ways to judge a city’s success as a tourist destination beyond the number of visitors it gets. There’s infrastructure, sustainability and economics; how it copes with the challenges of attracting and accommodating travelers while maintaining quality of life for residents; and then there’s the efficacy of its response to

Julia Buckley, CNN Venice is famously not short of tourists, but its newest sight aims to harness the city’s overtourism problem by pointing visitors towards social responsibility. The Procuratie Vecchie in St. Mark’s Square — one of the most famous buildings in one of the world’s most famous city spaces — has opened to the