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Marianna Cerini, CNN If a Wes Anderson fan were to make a list of all the things that make them so bewitched with the director’s films, it might include the following: bespoke design, symmetrical close-ups, a highly saturated color palette, eccentric characters and impeccably studied outfits. But also carefully shot compositions, elaborate sets, observant human

Story by Reuters The operator of Ghana‘s main international airport will fine airlines $3,500 for every passenger they fly in who is not vaccinated against COVID-19 or who tests positive for the coronavirus upon arrival, it said on December 13. The rule comes into effect on Tuesday at Kotoka International Airport in the capital Accra,

Sana Noor Haq, CNN A 17th-century painting showing a Black woman with her White companion has been placed under a temporary export bar to reduce the risk of the artwork leaving the United Kingdom. The anonymous painting, described in a statement by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) on Friday as “extremely

By Sana Noor Haq, CNN Mary, Queen of Scots used a “spiral locking” technique to seal the last letter she wrote before her execution, indicating that she wanted the contents to remain secret, according to research published in the Electronic British Library Journal. An example of letterlocking — where people doubled letters as envelopes to

Blane Bachelor, CNN After nearly a decade of delays and billions of euros over budget, Berlin’s long-awaited airport, Berlin-Brandenburg, finally opened on October 31, 2020. But turbulence has continued for BER during its first year of operation, with a long list of problems and passenger complaints: lengthy check-in and security lines; confusing layout and signage;

By Maureen O’Hare, CNN You all excited for a third year of the pandemic? Neither are we. But as restrictions tighten around the world, CNN Travel has been taking solace in the world’s greatest cocktail bars and Europe’s finest cheeses. Here are the latest travel developments you need to know about from the past seven

Jeevan Ravindran, CNN British graffiti artist Banksy has announced that he will be selling T-shirts to help those charged with pulling down the statue of slave trader Edward Colston during Black Lives Matter protests in 2020. Anti-racist protesters toppled the statue in the city of Bristol in southwest England on June 7, 2020, during a

Jacqui Palumbo, CNN For a long time, the art market was “a secret world of whispers” according to art advisor Kim Heirston, who started her career working in New York’s downtown galleries three decades ago. Then, as an archivist for the late gallerist Robert Miller, she safeguarded and only shared materials that were critical to

Francesca Street, CNN It was the early months of the Covid-19 pandemic, and Reggie Laroche, stuck in his Florida apartment, was struggling to stay optimistic. Laroche’s job in television once took him around the globe. Now, he was confined to the same four walls, unsure what the future held. Killing time online, he stumbled across

Ben Jones, CNN As the world faces up to climate change, short-haul flights look increasingly unattractive to many travelers. The flygskam (flight shame) phenomenon that started in Scandinavia is already inspiring many travelers to reduce their reliance on airlines. Until someone proves otherwise, high-speed rail is the most effective alternative to air travel for journeys

By Andy Rose, Kay Jones and Pete Muntean, CNN A Delta flight from Washington, DC, to Los Angeles made an emergency landing in Oklahoma City on Thursday night after a passenger allegedly assaulted two people, authorities said. “The passenger assaulted a flight attendant,” Oklahoma City Police Capt. Arthur Gregory told CNN. An air marshal on

By Sharif Paget and Caroll Alvarado, CNN A man who told police he wanted to steal a jet so he could fly to Area 51 to look at aliens was arrested Wednesday after he drove through fences at the McCarran International Airport in a limo, parked on an aircraft ramp and made a bomb threat,

Oscar Holland, CNN The South Korean city of Busan has green-lit plans for an ambitious new ocean settlement, with work on the first neighborhood set to begin next year. Comprising a series of interconnected platforms, the proposed “floating city” could eventually accommodate 10,000 people, according to its designers, offering coastal areas a drastic solution to

Harmeet Kaur and Laura Ly, CNN New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art will remove the Sackler family name from seven galleries, including the wing that houses the Temple of Dendur, the institution announced Thursday. The museum said in a news release that it came to the decision with members of the Sackler family “in order

By Mohammed Tawfeeq and Jack Guy, CNN Organizers of a popular camel beauty contest in Saudi Arabia have disqualified 43 contestants after cracking down on Botox injections and other forms of “tampering” by breeders. The 40-day King Abdulaziz Camel Festival, located about 100 kilometers (62 miles) northeast of the capital, Riyadh, launched at the beginning

By Julia Buckley, CNN Bolmen: your toilet brush. Toftan: your trash can. Misterhult: your bamboo lamp. Those exotic-sounding names that IKEA gives your household products are familiar words to Swedish speakers — often, they’re named after famous destinations. And now, the Swedish tourist board is reclaiming those names in a new marketing campaign, designed to

Leah Dolan, CNN While many of us will spend the final days of 2021 reflecting on its whirlwind events, global color authority Pantone has already been busy looking ahead — to decide on the shade that will best encapsulate 2022. On Wednesday it unveiled Very Peri, a periwinkle hue that the company says combines the