Entertainment

By Zoe Whitfield, CNN Petworth, UK (CNN) — When Eve Arnold joined Magnum in 1951 — four years after the renowned photographic agency was founded — she was its first female photographer. “Magnum was about to open a New York office,” she would write in her acclaimed monograph, 1976’s “The Unretouched Woman”. “I went to

Julia Buckley, CNN (CNN) — It sounds like a mathematical problem. How do you make one of the world’s most famous ancient sites bigger? You can’t build more of it. You can excavate more, but at immense cost. So with ever more tourists cramming onto the site, the team behind the archaeological park of Pompeii

By Rebecca Cairns, CNN (CNN) — Parked at the curbside of a tree-lined street, Luvly O looks a lot like any other small car. Boxy but sleek, the modern-classic aesthetic of the cream-colored vehicle embodies Scandi minimalism. It wouldn’t look out of place in an IKEA showroom — for more reasons than one. That’s because,

By Leah Asmelash, CNN (CNN) — Almost 200,000 books are being used to train artificial intelligence systems by some of the biggest companies in technology. The problem? No one told the authors. The system is called Books3, and according to an investigation by The Atlantic, the data set is based on a collection of pirated

By Francesca Street, CNN (CNN) — The last place Madeline Robson expected to meet her future husband was her friend’s bachelorette party. “I’m here for the bride,” Madeline remembers thinking. “I shouldn’t be having my own love story. This is so strange.” But when Madeline flew from her home in Ontario, Canada to New Orleans

By Raja Razek, Nouran Salahieh, Conor Powell and Taylor Romine, CNN (CNN) — The Maui County Council has voted unanimously in favor of a resolution urging Hawaii’s governor to delay the October 8 reopening of West Maui to tourism. “Opening up on the exact date that marks two months from the fire is not trauma-informed,”

By Alex Rees, CNN (CNN) — Maybe it’s the ascendance of fast fashion or the increasing reach of industry conglomerates, often seen at the expense of smaller labels and independent creatives. It could be due to the frenetic turnover of brands and microtrends spinning amid social media-forward news cycles — what’s that old adage, “one

By Terry Ward, CNN (CNN) — Over large swaths of the Americas this month and next April, too, all eyes will be on the skies during two spectacular events. Between the “ring of fire” annular eclipse coming up on October 14, 2023, and the 2024 total solar eclipse happening on April 8, 2024, viewers on land in

By Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — Customs workers at a Minnesota airport discovered a traveler had brought a unique souvenir in her luggage: Giraffe feces. The passenger arrived at the Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport from Kenya on September 29, according to a news release from US Customs and Border Protection. “The passenger declared giraffe feces

By Lilit Marcus, CNN (CNN) — This week in travel news: one country might ban airplane pilots from wearing perfume, the world’s most popular unfinished building edges closer to completion, and Fat Bear Week kicks off in style. Every year, millions of tourists enjoy Japan’s high speed rail network and use trains to get around

By Ben Jones, CNN (CNN) — Barely a day goes by without railways making the headlines in Britain. Industrial unrest, crumbling infrastructure, rising costs, a wildly unpopular government plan to close station ticket offices, staff shortages, late-running trains and the chaos around a money-burning project to build the so-called High Speed 2 (HS2) rail line