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By Marnie Hunter, CNN Assaults on crew members. Public intoxication. Verbal abuse. Last year was the worst on record for unruly airplane passenger behavior in the United States, according to Federal Aviation Administration data. A whopping 5,981 reports of unruly passengers were logged by the FAA as of December 31. Of those, 4,290 — nearly

By Sara Smart, CNN When Ricardo Rodriguez evacuated from the Caldor Fire in early September, he wasn’t sure if he’d ever see his dog again. Rodriguez was on a camping trip in the Lake Tahoe area with four of his friends and his 3-year-old pitbull-mix, Russ. Russ ran away in late August after getting startled

Harmeet Kaur, CNN Toni Morrison spoke often about the incoherence of race. “When you know somebody’s race, what do you know? Virtually nothing,” Morrison mused in one such instance during a “60 Minutes” interview in 1998. “You add to it all the stereotypical information and all the baggage that goes with race. But you don’t

Oscar Holland, CNN At the largest exhibition of his watercolors to date, painting enthusiast Prince Charles has described the restorative benefits of art, saying it “transports me to another dimension.” The heir to the British throne went on to say that painting is “one of the most relaxing and therapeutic exercises I know,” adding that

By Amanda Jackson, CNN A Key West, Florida, bartender who had worked a busy New Year’s Eve shift helped police track down two men suspected of defacing the famous “Southernmost Point” buoy landmark. The anchored 20-ton concrete buoy in Key West sustained “extensive damage” after a Christmas tree was placed near it and lit on

By Pete Muntean and Christina Maxouris, CNN A man entered the cockpit of an American Airlines plane in Honduras and caused damage while the aircraft was at the gate, the airline said in a statement. After doing damage, the passenger attempted to jump out of a window, American Airlines spokesperson Sarah Jantz told CNN. The

Jeevan Ravindran, CNN The remains of a vast Roman trading settlement have been discovered by a team of archaeologists working along a future high-speed railway route in England. Hundreds of Roman coins, jewelry, pottery and a pair of shackles were among the artifacts to be discovered at the site near a village in Northamptonshire, according

Oscar Holland, CNN For more than a decade, Nancy Richards Farese has been capturing heartwarming images of children around the world, from Burkina Faso to Honduras, Ethiopia to Spain. Throughout her travels, the American photographer has observed a common trait that seems to transcend cultures: “They play,” she said on a video call from Boston,

Livia Borghese, CNN An incident in which vandals apparently smeared red pigment across a famous white cliff on the island of Sicily has been condemned as “cowardly” by local officials. An investigation has been launched after the Scala dei Turchi, or Turks’ Steps — a distinctive cascade of marl limestone rock jutting out of the

Jack Guy, CNN A badger has led archaeologists to a hoard of more than 200 Roman coins that had been hidden in a cave in Spain for centuries. The animal had burrowed into a crack in the rock inside the La Cuesta cave in the Asturias region of northwest Spain, and dug out coins that

By Toyin Owoseje, CNN Oscar-winning actor Michael Caine is giving fans the chance to own mementos of his illustrious film career. Personal items including the 88-year-old star’s gold Rolex watch — estimated to fetch as much as £12,000 ($16,300) — and paintings from his personal collection will go under the hammer in London on March

By Lilit Marcus, CNN Not everyone is impressed with the fact that Turkmenistan’s most internationally-recognized site is known as the “Gates of Hell.” President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov has reportedly ordered the closure of the site, which is officially named the Darvaza Crater after the town where it is located. The crater was formed in the early