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The American Library Association announced the winners of its Youth Media Awards

The 2022 Newbery and Caldecott Medal winners honor tales about the apocalypse, heritage and history

Scottie Andrew, CNN The 2022 winners of the American Library Association’s Youth Media Awards, the top prizes in US children’s literature, include tales of trans boys, coming of age during the apocalypse, historical tragedies and celebrations of heritage. The literacy nonprofit’s awards, which include the Newbery Medal, Caldecott Medal and Coretta Scott King Awards, honor

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The catwalk was the first show by new artistic director

Kanye West, Julia Fox and other highlights from the Paris Fashion Week menswear shows

Nick Remsen, CNN Even in an evermore metaverse-obsessed world, physical fashion weeks remain bellwethers of our wardrobe trends. Over the past two years, these summits have seesawed, largely due to Covid-19 and its variants, back and forth between digital, in-person, and “phygital” presentations. Despite the upheaval, the fact remains that there’s no more powerful a

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My big fat digital wedding: Couple plan India’s ‘first metaverse marriage’

Oscar Holland, CNN As Covid-19 forces families across India to downsize or cancel their traditionally large-scale weddings, one couple has found a venue unaffected by restrictions: the metaverse. Dinesh Sivakumar Padmavathi and Janaganandhini Ramaswamy from Tamil Nadu, where wedding gatherings are currently limited to 100 people, have invited 2,000 people to their virtual reception next

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Royal Caribbean's Anthem of the Seas docked in front of lower Manhattan in December 2021.

What it’s like to cruise during Omicron

Francesca Street, CNN Cruise ships turning around mid-voyage. People placed in quarantine cabins on board. Voyages abruptly canceled. Crew members trying to appease unhappy customers. It all feels a bit like deja vu, but the cruise industry is soldiering on as the Omicron coronavirus variant makes its presence felt at sea as it has on

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An American Airlines passenger plane bound for London turned around mid-flight due to a mask-related disruption on Wednesday.

American Airlines flight bound for London turns around mid-flight over mask rule compliance

By Marnie Hunter and Pete Muntean, CNN An American Airlines passenger plane bound for London turned around mid-flight due to a mask-related disruption on Wednesday. “American Airlines flight 38 with service from Miami (MIA) to London (LHR) returned to MIA due to a disruptive customer refusing to comply with the federal mask requirement,” American Airlines

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Several recent snow and hailstorms in the region have transformed landscapes in and around Saudi Arabia

Rare snow and hailstorms cover Saudi desert

Nourhan Elkallawy, CNN For most people, thinking about the Saudi Arabian desert probably conjures up images of sand dunes baked by relentless sunshine. More recently, however, those sands have been covered in snow. Several recent snow and hailstorms in the region have transformed landscapes in and around Saudi Arabia, stirring excitement among locals and causing

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Teenage aviator Zara Rutherford has become the youngest woman to fly around the world solo.

Teen pilot Zara Rutherford becomes youngest woman to fly the world solo

Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN Teenage aviator Zara Rutherford has become the youngest woman to fly around the world solo. The 19-year-old, who has dual British-Belgian nationality, landed at Kortrijk-Wevelgem Airport in western Belgium on Thursday, completing an epic 41-country journey spanning over 52,000 kilometers (32,300 miles), and broke two Guinness World Records in the process. “I

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Japan’s best castles to visit at least once

David McElhenney During Japan’s Sengoku “Warring States” era (1467-1615), castles were constructed, bolstered and fortified all across the Japanese archipelago, resulting in approximately 5,000 individual keeps. Though many were razed at the behest of the Tokugawa Shogunate during the Edo period (1603-1868) and subsequently following the Meiji Restoration of 1868, when power was restored to

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