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By Lilit Marcus, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Bar Leone – an Italian cocktail spot in central Hong Kong – has been crowned the best bar in Asia. It’s an impressive achievement, considering the venue has only been open for about a year. “We were not expecting this,” co-founder Lorenzo Antinori told CNN shortly after

By Lauren Rapp and Nic F. Anderson, CNN (CNN) — Ninety giant African snails were confiscated by US Customs and Border Protection at the Detroit Metropolitan Airport late last month, the agency said in a news release Tuesday. An “odd odor” coming from a passenger’s bag tipped off agriculture specialists, officials said in the release. The passenger, who was arriving from

By Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN (CNN) — It wasn’t until he moved near to an airfield in the UK over a decade ago that mechanical engineer Ashok Aliseril Thamarakshan began to seriously consider learning to fly a plane. He got his first taste of flying a few years later, when his wife Abhilasha bought him a

By Oscar Holland, CNN (CNN) — Move over Lululemon, Berluti and Ralph Lauren. The internet has chosen its new favorite national uniform at the forthcoming Paris 2024 Olympics: Mongolia’s. Featuring intricately embroidered vests, pleated robes and accessories inspired by traditional attire, the country’s opening and closing ceremony outfits have taken social media by storm since

By Lilit Marcus, CNN (CNN) — One of America’s most popular exports is illegal in South Korea – Trader Joe’s Everything But the Bagel seasoning mix. The blend, which is popular with influencers and regularly spotted in recipes on TikTok, contains salt, minced garlic, sesame seeds and poppy seeds – the last of which is

By Maggie Hiufu Wong, CNN (CNN) — The Forbidden City was once one of the most powerful places on the planet. In 1420, while Europe was in the midst of the Hundred Years’ War and yet to discover America, China’s Ming Dynasty ruler was moving into his new home in the center of Beijing and

By Rhea Mogul, CNN (CNN) — India’s most anticipated wedding of the year came to an end on Sunday after a star-studded three-day celebration that even saw the country’s prime minister arrive to bless the young couple. Billionaire heir Anant Ambani married his longtime girlfriend Radhika Merchant in Mumbai in a lavish ceremony attended by

By Emily Blumenthal, CNN (CNN) — Lord Howe Island has the look of a destination ripe for overtourism, with verdant mountaintops, pristine white-sand beaches and clear-blue waters teeming with colorful fish. Yet on this island of around 400 people, located 372 miles off the east coast of mainland Australia, the beaches are empty. The only

By Lilit Marcus, CNN (CNN) — In travel news this week: A beloved former airline is making a brief – and expensive – victory lap, France celebrates its national holiday, and we spotlight a Pacific Northwest destination that should be on your travel list. Flying high Pan Am is synonymous with glamorous travel. Although the

By Forrest Brown, CNN (CNN) — Bears and bison aren’t the only potential hazards when visiting Yellowstone National Park. The area’s thermal features also provide a point of caution as tourists in one car found out this week. On Thursday, a car with five occupants inadvertently drove off a roadway and into the Semi-Centennial Geyser,

CNN By Oscar Holland, Leah Dolan and Jacqui Palumbo, CNN, and Riddhi Doshi on the red carpet (CNN) — After seven months of extravagant pre-wedding celebrations, Anant Ambani, the son of India’s richest man, completed his long-awaited marriage to pharmaceutical heiress Radhika Merchant before thousands of guests on Friday. Kim and Khloé Kardashian, Nick Jonas

By Oscar Holland, Leah Dolan and Jacqui Palumbo, CNN, and Riddhi Doshi on the red carpet (CNN) — After seven months of extravagant pre-wedding celebrations, Anant Ambani, the son of India’s richest man, completed his long-awaited marriage to pharmaceutical heiress Radhika Merchant before thousands of guests on Friday. Kim and Khloé Kardashian, Nick Jonas and

By Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — A controversial statue by Pakistani-American sculptor Shahzia Sikander — one of a handful of public pieces by the celebrated artist — has been beheaded at the University of Houston. “Witness,” a larger-than-life, 18-foot golden statue of a levitating woman, was originally commissioned by the Madison Square Park Conservancy in Manhattan and

By Francesca Street, CNN (CNN) — Years after they’d broken up, Tom Giuliani found himself thinking about the role of timing in his relationship with Susan Hall. Tom and Susan were on the same flight from the US to Ireland in the summer of 1989. But they never saw one another. Then, Tom and Susan

By Billy Stockwell, CNN (CNN) — Buckingham Palace’s famous balcony room, where the monarch and other members of the royal family gather on special occasions before waving at cheering crowds in the streets below, is opening to the public for the first time. For royal fans who have waited for hours on The Mall in

By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — Pristine, crisp and all-white — tennis whites have been a tradition dating back centuries. The distinctive look has not only made the racquet sport stand out, it has also become a sartorial mainstay off the courts, too. And even though most of the major tournaments have done away with

By Will Ripley, CNN (CNN) — Even for locals, travel inside the isolated nation officially known as the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is heavily restricted. But arranging a trip was much easier for Russian national Yuri Frolov, 25, who spent two weeks in the hermit kingdom as a high-school student in 2015 and 2016. Yuri’s

By Kathleen Magramo, CNN (CNN) — A museum in Australia has come clean: The Picasso paintings hanging in its women’s restroom were forged by one of its own curators. The American curator and artist Kirsha Kaechele — who is married to the owner of Tasmania’s Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) — admitted in

By Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — When “Sex and the City” lead Carrie Bradshaw sees Mr. Big step out of a Presbyterian church in Manhattan, she notes with particular reverence that he was “wearing Armani on Sunday.” Looking suave, slick and seductive, the sight leaves Carrie overwhelmed and she gives in to her impulse, accosting

By Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — For better or for worse, days-long wedding events have become common in cultures around the world. Between Friday night cocktail receptions and sore-headed Sunday brunches, what might once have been a half-day affair can now easily envelop three or four days. But a wedding that spans seven months is