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By Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Rome (CNN) — Tourists-behaving-badly season seems to have started early in Rome this year, with three visitors from New Zealand getting in trouble long before the summer sunshine could be blamed for giddy behavior. The trio were stopped Sunday night as they started to wade into the famous Trevi Fountain

By Maureen O’Hare, CNN London (CNN) — From Narnia to Alice in Wonderland, Britain’s best adventures begin with hidden doors or secret tunnels — and this is a tale with both. Behind an unmarked blue door in London’s Chancery Lane, the historic legal district where Charles Dickens once worked as a clerk, CNN puts on

By Leah Asmelash, CNN (CNN) — Danielle Mckinney’s ladies are in a permanent state of relaxation. They lounge alone on couches or in bed. They sleep. Some are playful — toying with a butterfly or eying a praying mantis. Others are naked and seemingly unaware of the viewer, cigarettes in hand and gazes soft. The

By John Liu, CNN (CNN) — It’s official: Sydney has the world’s best coffee shop. At least that’s what a new list ranking top cafés globally found, with the Australian city beating out perennial rival Melbourne for the top spot. Sydney-based Toby’s Estate Coffee Roasters was crowned the best coffee shop in the world, followed

By Joe Minihane, CNN (CNN) — Miami. Just saying the name is enough to conjure thoughts of vibrant nightlife, streets aglow with neon and Art Deco architecture that lends everything a hip, 20th-century feel. This Florida gem is in your face and proud to be so. Yet it hasn’t always been like this. Miami is

By Kati Chitrakorn, CNN London (CNN) — In case you missed the memo, “quiet luxury” is still having its moment. Despite expert predictions that people (having played it safe with their fashion purchases throughout a cost-of-living crisis) would soon return to embracing a more individual sense of style, the latest Burberry collection was rooted in

By Oscar Holland, CNN (CNN) — A female skater in India, a park ranger transporting Congolese crocodiles and a taxidermist preparing a deceased wolf for display are among the subjects of the past year’s best images, according to judges of the Sony World Photography Awards. On Tuesday, the World Photography Organisation unveiled the shortlisted entries

By Kati Chitrakorn and Leah Dolan, CNN London (CNN) — Once home to visionaries such as Vivienne Westwood and Alexander McQueen, London Fashion Week has been synonymous with theatricality and boundary-pushing designs. But increased operational costs and other disruptions in the wake of Brexit, along with diminishing global interest in the city’s designers, whose shows

CNN By The Associated Press Rome (AP) — An American Airlines flight from New York to New Delhi, India, landed safely in Rome on Sunday afternoon after it was diverted due to a security concern, which later proved to be “non-credible,” the airline said. American Airlines said Flight 292 “was inspected by law enforcement” after

By Amanda Jackson and Sharif Paget, CNN (CNN) — February is one of the busiest times of the year at Yosemite National Park thanks to “firefall,” a natural phenomenon that causes a glowing ribbon of water to look like molten lava cascading down El Capitan’s Horsetail Fall. Travelers come from around the world to witness

By Lilit Marcus, CNN (CNN) — Australian people have a reputation for being hardy and fearless — after all, when you live in a country that has every kind of poisonous snake and spider known to man, not to mention the elusive predator known as the drop bear, it probably takes a lot to freak

By Oscar Holland, CNN; Photo editor: Jennifer Arnow, CNN (CNN) — With awards season drawing to a close, Hollywood’s biggest names had one last chance to impress on the red carpet before next Sunday’s Oscars. But while some stars (or their stylists, at least) will be saving their show-stopping outfits for the Academy, Sunday evening’s

By Terry Ward, CNN (CNN) — Jennifer Veilleux didn’t know what she was getting herself into when she agreed to a winter vacation with friends in Grindelwald, Switzerland. “I got a message from my friend that said, ‘Have you ever thought about going sledding in the Alps?’ ” says the 47-year old geographer and environmental

By Karina Tsui, CNN (CNN) — A Delta Air Lines flight from Los Angeles International Airport bound for Sydney on Saturday was forced to return after smoke was detected on board. The flight, DL43, which took off shortly after 9:00 p.m., returned to LAX around 30 minutes later, according to data from FlightAware. The Airbus

By Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — In travel news this week: railway ambitions in Europe, China and the Middle East, the delicious foods that Sweden does better than anywhere else, plus the Mongolian nomad family who’ve become an online hit. International train travel Adding Britain to your European rail vacation could get a little easier

By Leah Dolan, CNN London (CNN) — The story of Talia Byre starts with a family tree. “Can you pass me a pen?” asks Talia Lipkin-Connor, the fashion label’s founder and sole designer. Hers is a lineage peppered with successful clothes-makers, designers and boutique owners. But in the last 80 years the British fashion landscape,

By Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — “I don’t think I was lustful like that, until I saw him in that little outfit,” said Whoopi Goldberg in the new documentary “Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story.” Goldberg was, of course, referencing the 1978 electric blue lycra body suit and red cape Reeve wore in the first ever

By Lisa Kjellsson, CNN (CNN) — The “new Nordic cuisine” movement has put Scandinavian flavors on the menu internationally and sparked interest not just in innovative culinary creations but also their provenance. Much like the classic smörgåsbord, Sweden’s gastronomy is wide-ranging, reflecting its large north-to-south expanse and four distinct seasons. While centered around local produce,

By Hilary Whiteman, CNN (CNN) — Of all the bugs New Zealanders could have selected to win an international competition, they chose neither the prettiest, nor the most useful. The NZ velvet worm won this year’s New Zealand Bug of the Year competition, a less than scientific social experiment held every year by the Entomological

By Rosa Rahimi and Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN (CNN) — Italian police have seized dozens of forged artworks attributed to famous artists such as Picasso and Rembrandt in what authorities have called a “clandestine painting laboratory.” The investigation, led by the Carabinieri Command for the Protection of Cultural Heritage, the country’s arts and culture police,