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By Jack Guy, Antonia Mortensen and Juan Pablo O’Connell, CNN (CNN) — A five-star hotel in Italy that repeatedly refused to serve a guest tap water at its restaurant did not break any laws, the country’s top court has ruled. The woman filed a lawsuit after hotel staff said they would only serve her bottled

By Joe Yogerst, CNN (CNN) — Route 66 is just one of the highways that features in “On The Road,” the Jack Kerouac book that introduced so many people to white-line wanderlust. More than anything written about the iconic highway, it’s a quote from that book that personifies the almost mystical allure of America’s most

By Maureen O’Hare, CNN Istanbul, Turkey (CNN) — If you dreamed of holding one of history’s most seismic New Year parties, one capable of ripping through six centuries of time and uniting the chronology of a whole country at the stroke of midnight, you’d choose a ballroom like this. When the Champagne popped in this

By Ben Jones, CNN (CNN) — Europe wants to lure more people away from short-haul airlines and onto high-speed trains between its major cities. And as more and more travelers discover the joys of long-distance rail, there’s everything to play for. But there’s one big problem: geography. Europe is a continent with mountain ranges slicing

By Jessie Yeung, CNN (CNN) — When Icelandic Chinese musician Laufey dropped her latest music video last month, starring a cast of mixed white and Asian celebrities, the internet went wild. “Laufey collecting wasians like pokemon,” read one social media comment, using a portmanteau to describe people of mixed white and Asian descent. “WASIAN AVENGERS,”

By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — The light fades as divers disappear farther into a cave system, until the greenish hue from their flashlight is all that’s visible, bouncing off walls, picking out creatures humans might never have seen before, and illuminating a world otherwise confined to total darkness. These caverns can extend for hundreds

By Sam Peters, CNN (CNN) — An EasyJet flight bound for London was forced to divert to Rome after a passenger told crew they had left a device charging from a power bank in their hold luggage, the airline told CNN. Flight EZY2618 departed from Hurghada, a popular Egyptian tourist destination on the Red Sea,

By Leah Asmelash, CNN (CNN) — Diana Beasley knew she wanted to spend her 12th birthday at Atlanta’s High Museum of Art, surrounded by the paintings of Amy Sherald. She dressed up for the occasion, wearing a sparkly pink crown reading “BIRTHDAY GIRL” over her neat braids. Diana learned about Sherald in school, she said,

By Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — In our roundup of travel stories this week, America’s most underrated destinations, the world’s most dangerous bowl of soup, plus how two US families’ lives changed when they relocated from the States to Italy, Ireland and Germany. Families who moved from the US to Europe The Galella family had

By Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — Vibeke Tandberg met her husband at the bar. And the next one. And the husband after that. In fact, she met all 11 of her husbands at a bar in Bergen, Norway. She became a bride in the summer of 1993, with a puff-sleeved gown trimmed in lace in

By Bianca Betancourt, CNN (CNN) — In Boots Riley’s “I Love Boosters,” color serves as its own character, fueling the full-throttle chaos of his latest eccentric comedy about a group of girlfriends who steal and resell (or “boost”) clothes to make ends meet. Starring Keke Palmer, Naomi Ackie, Taylour Paige – who play Corvette, Sade

By Sam Peters, CNN. Photographs by Toby Hancock, CNN. (CNN) — Ask Gerry del Guercio and Paul Delany what they thought of New York’s pizza and the response is emphatic: “Underwhelmed.” While New York’s slices may have a global reputation as some of the world’s best, they pale in comparison to what’s on offer in

By Oscar Holland, CNN (CNN) — What better way to honor one of fashion history’s most famously spontaneous moments than with an elaborate custom gown that took 130 artisans a combined 22,160 hours to produce? If only irony always looked this glamorous. At Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday, supermodel Bella Hadid attended the premiere of

By Jeanne Bonner, CNN (CNN) — A crescent-shaped beach in Hawaii that’s immersed in greenery and facing an island just offshore is the best beach in the US. So says coastal scientist Stephen P. Leatherman, better known as “Dr. Beach.” Poipu Beach on the island of Kauai tops the list for 2026, which he compiles

By Scottie Andrew, CNN (CNN) — Everlane, a company that promised shoppers affordable and ethically defensible clothing, may be over as customers have known it. Shoppers have been rattled by reports that Everlane, the former direct-sales retailer that promised sustainably made clothes, is being purchased by fast-fashion giant Shein. The $100 million deal was made

By Kathleen Magramo, Kocha Olarn, CNN (CNN) — Months-long backpacking trips to Thailand might have just got a lot harder to arrange. The Southeast Asian nation is ending a 60-day visa-free entry program for travelers from 93 countries and territories, the Thai Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday. Visitors from countries including Australia, the UK and

By Lilit Marcus, Erica Hwang, CNN Busan, South Korea (CNN) — In a 1991 episode of “The Simpsons,” Homer goes to a Japanese restaurant and eats fugu, or poisonous pufferfish. He becomes convinced that he’s going to die, so he crosses off as many of the items on his bucket list as possible. There’s one

By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN New York (CNN) — On Monday evening, it took auction house Christie’s just 40 minutes to sell more than $630 million in art, smashing records for both the painter Jackson Pollock and sculptor Constantin Brancusi. Later in the night, it rounded things off with yet more broken records and another $490

By Chris Lau, CNN (CNN) — Jet Li’s work has always carried some degree of risk. Performing many of his own stunts, the martial arts star has fought opponents on shaky bamboo ladders (“Once Upon a Time in China”), leapt from tall buildings (“Romeo Must Die”) and dodged fireball explosions (“High Risk”). But no amount