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By Jack Guy (CNN) — Two fishermen have rescued a man thought to have been treading water off the coast of California for nine hours after falling from a cruise ship. Grant Garrett and Sean Norton told CNN affiliate KCBS/KCAL that they were around 20 miles from shore when they came across the man in

By Thomas Page, CNN London (CNN) — Namit Malhotra looks awfully relaxed for a man taking a $500 million gamble. Reclining into a sofa in a discreet London office, the movie producer bats away questions about the box office potential and estimated price tag of his two-part blockbuster adaptation of the Hindu epic, “The Ramayana.”

By Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — In our roundup of travel stories this week: The Englishman who walked around the world, why Norway is making toilets “great again,” plus a New Yorker driven to start life over in Argentina in the wake of 9/11. Finding solace in Mendoza David English planned to sign a “career-clinching

By Zoe Sottile, CNN The big-headed, wide-eyed girls that made Yoshitomo Nara one of the most beloved Japanese artists of the 21st century are everywhere — if you know where to look. You can find them on T-shirts, skateboards, plastered on water bottles as stickers, or blown up and rendered in monumental scale in the

By Oscar Holland, CNN Novels are an endangered art form. In the early 1990s, more than 60% of American adults finished at least one book a year; today, fewer than half do. Gen Z often takes the heat for this decline, but we’re all to blame — including me, a time-poor millennial with two young

By Lilit Marcus, CNN Macao, China (CNN) — Long before Tex-Mex and VietCajun, there was Macanese, the world’s first-ever fusion food. Macao was Asia’s first European colony. A pair of islands in southern China’s Pearl River Delta, just across the water from Hong Kong, this small colony became an important shipping and trading center. The

By Leah Dolan, CNN Two months after causing public outcry for planning a 2027 Met Gala exhibit centered on John Galliano, the Metropolitan Museum of Art has announced a new theme: Dressing down. Next May, “ExtraOrdinary: Fashion and the Poetics of the Everyday” will explore the artistic craft behind the kind of mundane garments we

By Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — Renae Plant and her husband Livinio Stuyck were about to become restaurant investors. A local pizza place in their Los Angeles neighborhood had approached the couple, offering them the opportunity to own a small stake. It made sense: Plant and Stuyck had a nest egg already saved and some

By Oscar Holland, CNN (CNN) — John Frieda, the celebrity hairstylist whose eponymous product range — its beloved Frizz Ease serum, especially — proved a commercial sensation, has died aged 75. The British entrepreneur, who counted Madonna and Princess Diana among his clients, died “peacefully” and “surrounded by his family,” according to a statement posted

By Jeanne Bonner, CNN (CNN) — The best restaurant in the world this year is Asador Etxebarri, an eatery in Atxondo, Spain, that’s nestled in the Basque region and which has become a revered destination restaurant known for a revelatory grilling technique. That’s according to The 50, which announced its 2026 list of the world’s

By Jeanne Bonner, CNN (CNN) — When Carol Gillott first glimpsed Paris, she was a 16-year-old Philadelphia girl, following in the footsteps of her older sister who had already visited the City of Light. Seven decades since she arrived in Paris by boat for that short stay as a tourist, she now calls the city

By Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — Professional shapeshifter Alexis Stone loves conjuring celebrities from beyond the grave. For Halloween, the performance and makeup artist morphed into Micheal Jackson. A few weeks earlier he embodied the late fashion designer Thierry Mugler. But the inspiration for Stone’s latest prosthetic metamorphosis wasn’t just alive — she was standing

By Barry Neild, CNN Finnish Lapland (CNN) — By November, a bone-penetrating chill has already crept into the northern reaches of Finland. The first heavy snows arrive toward the end of the month and by early December the sun dips below the horizon for weeks on end, transforming the region into a dark, frozen wilderness.

By David Mack, CNN New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani knows the power of maintaining a signature look in politics. When he began his campaign for the city’s top job, he swapped the South Asian collarless tunics, or kurtas, he’d gravitated to in his earlier career in favor of slender-cut suits that helped to balance

By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN When Liu Hsing-Yu asked his parents to swap wedding outfits and be photographed among a sea of plastic roses, he didn’t realize he’d be embarking on a 17-year-long (and counting) body of work. In 2009, he was studying for his art degree and had recently come out to them as a