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By Christy Choi, CNN (CNN) — Hidden under years of dirt and grime in storage rooms, hundreds of precious religious objects have been rediscovered at a monastery in Nepal’s capital, Kathmandu. Gilded crowns worn by Buddhist priests, halos that once adorned statues of deities and mini stupas gifted by the local community are among the

By Ann Binlot, CNN (CNN) — Gabriella “Gaby” Aghion would be proud. Amid a flurry of fashion houses appointing White men as their new designers as the Spring-Summer 2024 runways wrapped up, Chloé, the French fashion label she founded seven decades ago, announced Chemena Kamali as its next creative director, a hire true to Aghion’s

By William Emond (CNN) — Travel sickness isn’t just hearsay. Nearly a third of people experience motion sickness – and to this day we don’t exactly know what causes it. The prevailing theory suggests it is triggered by a poor perception of movement. Departure to and return from summer vacations seem moments especially prone to the stealthy advances

By Leah Asmelash, CNN (CNN) — “Oppenheimer” may have given the Trinity Site a boost of fame this summer, but for many history buffs, making a pilgrimage to the area is a journey years in the making. Nearly 4,000 people flocked to the Trinity Site this past Saturday, according to the White Sand Missile Range

Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — The ruins of an “incredibly rare” 5,000-year-old tomb have been uncovered on one of the Scottish Orkney Islands, National Museums Scotland said in a statement on Tuesday. The excavation at Holm, East Mainland, Orkney, revealed a stone structure accessed through a 7-meter (23-foot) -long passage and traces of a cairn

By Francesca Perry, CNN (CNN) — Recent headlines from South Africa have reported national crises, from rolling blackouts to the highest unemployment rate in the world and housing shortages. But a new photography exhibition shines a spotlight on the rich landscape of innovation and contemporary culture led by young people in the country. In “A Young South Africa,” (at

By Gregory Wallace (CNN) — A JetBlue passenger jet lost its balance and tipped like a seesaw while unloading Sunday at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport, according to the airline. “Once at the gate, due to a shift in weight and balance during deplaning, the tail of the aircraft tipped backward causing the

By Oscar Holland, CNN (CNN) — The Cleveland Museum of Art is attempting to block the seizure of a headless bronze statue that US investigators believe was once stolen from Turkey. In a legal challenge filed last week, the Ohio institution said Manhattan’s District Attorney Alvin Bragg had provided “insufficient” evidence that the artwork had

By Lilit Marcus, CNN (CNN) — Fukuoka, Japan’s sixth largest city by population, has more open-air food stalls than the rest of the country combined. These stalls are called yatais, and they’re an indelible part of what makes Fukuoka’s food scene so special. Think of them as a sort of foodie Cinderella. Yatais are assigned

By Zoe Sottile, CNN (CNN) — New York City has unveiled a sculpture paying homage to one of the city’s most enduring myths: Alligators lurking in the sewers. The sculpture shows a life-size gator wrapped around a New York City manhole cover, according to a news release from the Union Square Partnership. Designed by Swedish

By Melissa Magsaysay, CNN CNN — As a first-generation child of Filipino American immigrants, I grew up with wistful stories my parents told of their homeland, rich in details from their childhoods spent in a country that seemed as foreign to me as the fictitious lands described in fairytales. These stories were told in a

By Lilit Marcus, CNN (CNN) — This week in travel news: a record-breaking temple has opened, one of Europe’s best cities is reinventing itself and a Japanese airplane encountered a weighty issue. Like old times at the airport Remember when you could escort a friend or relative to their airport gate and wave goodbye? That’s

By Senay Boztas (CNN) — Six paintings stolen from an old town hall in the small coastal town of Medemblik in north Holland have been returned via an unusual doorstep delivery to an art detective nearly 40 miles away in Amsterdam. Arthur Brand, known for his work in recovering an early Van Gogh painting last month, as

By Pete Muntean, CNN (CNN) — Having passengers shuffle down the jetway and fumble their way into the cramped seats of a commercial flight is one of the most time-consuming, logistical nightmares that major US airlines execute thousands of times each day. Now, the airline with the most planes will start packing in passengers using

Julia Buckley, CNN (CNN) — Due to set sail from Istanbul on November 1, the three-year cruise was meant to be a smooth sail across the globe and into nomadic living for its inhabitants. But with less than two weeks to go before the scheduled departure date, Life at Sea cruises is navigating choppy waters

By Francesca Perry, CNN Mallorca, Spain (CNN) — In one of Pixy Liao’s photographs, she wrestles with her boyfriend Moro in a hotel room; in another, she flings his naked body over her shoulder and carries him in the way a fireman might rescue someone. The images form part of her ongoing project “Experimental Relationship”

By Lilit Marcus, CNN (CNN) — Saying that the Sydney Opera House is a well-known icon of Australia is kind of like saying the Amazon is a creek. The building, which turns 50 years old on October 20, has been given a cultural value of $11.4 billion by the global financial firm Deloitte. Sure, the

By Maggie Wong, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Offering everything from Michelin-endorsed dim sum to juicy smoked goose served in a world-renowned restaurant, Hong Kong is home to some of the finest culinary experiences on the planet. But there are hundreds of underrated meals that aren’t going to have quite the same impact on your

By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — Julia Fox’s press tour for her tell-all memoir “Down the Drain” has been in full swing this month, which means ample opportunity for the actor, model and newly christened author to go full on, well, Julia Fox. It takes restraint to not dedicate our Look of the Week title

By Suyin Haynes, CNN (CNN) — Photographer Chloe Sherman had rarely used social media, until a chance discovery by her daughter prompted her to revisit her work documenting the queer community in 1990s San Francisco. Sherman’s daughter, home from college in the spring of 2021, had noticed her mother’s photograph “Kindred Spirits, 1994” posted on