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By Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — In our travel round-up this week: why Europeans and Americans hold their forks differently, the Spanish island with more cats than people, plus a nail-biting rescue atop the highest mountain in the Alps. Destination inspiration The Italian island of Palmarola is so close to Rome that it can be

CNN By Rachel Tashjian, CNN (CNN) — Only a few years ago, seeing scores of women strolling around New York City in real animal fur coats would have seemed unimaginable. Fur has been out of fashion for so long that it’s been decades since Vogue’s Anna Wintour was regularly seen wearing it. (In one of

By Rachel Tashjian, CNN (CNN) — Only a few years ago, seeing scores of women strolling around New York City in real animal fur coats would have seemed unimaginable. Fur has been out of fashion for so long that it’s been decades since Vogue’s Anna Wintour was regularly seen wearing it. (In one of the

By Amarachi Orie and Pierre P Bairin, CNN (CNN) — France’s famed high-speed rail service TGV INOUI is facing a backlash after introducing a new premium-class carriage that bans children. As of January 8, national rail operator SNCF has been offering “Optimum” class on many TGV INOUI routes to and from Paris, according to the

By Alexandra Skores, CNN (CNN) — Travelers will need to have a REAL ID to board their next US domestic flight or face a $45 fee from the Transportation Security Administration beginning on February 1. Last year, TSA started enforcement of its REAL ID requirement. Several months later, it proposed charging a fee to travelers

By Francesca Street, CNN (CNN) — For Madalin “Cris” Cristea, the danger unfolded in slow motion. Cris and two fellow hikers were descending Mont Blanc, the tallest mountain in the Alps. The wind was howling, the snow was driving hard, but they were making steady progress toward safety. Then, through the blur of white, Cris

By Leah Dolan and Barbie Latza Nadeau Rome, Italy (CNN) — Peers, supporters, successors and admirers of the late Italian fashion designer Valentino Garavani paid their respects today in Rome at the late couturier’s funeral. Since Wednesday, Valentino (who often went by his first name) has been lying in state at PM23, the arts and

By Stephy Chung, CNN (CNN) — In 2015, China handed back something of great value to Ai Weiwei: his Chinese passport. The move allowed the dissident artist to travel for the first time since authorities revoked his document in 2011 – the same year he spent 81 days in secret government detention for alleged tax

By Lilit Marcus, CNN Tokyo (CNN) — A group of tourists follows their guide into the building, where he explains the history and context of what they’re seeing, translating signs from Japanese into English. Wide-eyed in awe, the travelers politely ask if it’s OK to touch things and take pictures. Finally, they’re given free rein

By Oscar Holland, CNN (CNN) — In the days following the antisemitic attack at Australia’s Bondi Beach that left 15 people dead, a memorial site quickly filled with candles, stuffed toys, handwritten notes and thousands, perhaps even millions, of flowers. Such spontaneous memorials are typically removed and their contents quietly disposed of. But Sydney Jewish

By Francesca Street, CNN (CNN) — On January 21, 1976 a teenage John Tye was among crowds of onlookers clinging to a chain link fence, cheering as the first commercial British Airways Concorde flight departed from London’s Heathrow airport. Tye was exhilarated, amazed and inspired as he saw this sleek, supersonic airplane of the future

By Will Ripley, CNN (CNN) — A North Korean film is captivating audiences with scenes and storylines they have never seen before in a state-approved movie. In “Days and Nights of Confrontation,” a man is suffocated with a plastic bag. A particularly unlucky character is stabbed by her own husband, later injured after being struck