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By Francesca Street, CNN (CNN) — Flight attendant Cynthia Heck finished up the safety demonstration and walked through the cabin, confirming passengers were ready for takeoff. She took a moment to smile and greet each traveler individually. Fellow flight attendant Hannah Heck watched on, admiringly. Then, Hannah made a spontaneous announcement over the speaker. “Does

By Lilit Marcus, CNN (CNN) — This week in travel news: An ancient Italian site, a hefty European tourist tax and a bunch of bears in Alaska all got bigger. Amsterdam vs. overtourism Amsterdam is about to beat its own record for having the highest “tourist tax” in Europe – and possibly the world –

By Blane Bachelor, CNN (CNN) — Dermatologist Zeina Nehme says her clinic usually sees a number of cases every summer in which patients have been bitten by bedbugs while traveling. Yet surprisingly enough, she says none materialized this year. However, like anyone else not living under a rock, Nehme has seen the flurry of headlines

By Scottie Andrew, CNN (CNN) — Louise Glück, the former US Poet Laureate and 2020 Nobel Prize awardee whose deceptively simple poems revealed visceral truths about love, loss and survival, has died at 80. “Louise Glück’s poetry gives voice to our untrusting but unstillable need for knowledge and connection in an often unreliable world. Her

By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — To become a “master” authenticator at Fashionphile — the highest level of training to weed out designer fakes at the luxe online marketplace — takes more than 8,000 hours of rigorous schooling, according to the company. Trainees learn to quickly spot an error in the date format inside a Louis Vuitton bag,

By Thomas Page, CNN (CNN) — “Did she do it?” The question has lingered on audiences’ lips ever since Palme d’Or winner “Anatomy of a Fall” premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May. Written and directed by Justine Triet and starring Sandra Hüller, the courtroom drama about a woman accused of killing her husband

By Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN (CNN) — After dealing with the death of her mother, losing her job of 10 years and finalizing her divorce, Barbara Barto was at a crossroads in her life. The 62-year-old, from Fort Worth, Texas, who had been working as an office manager, struggled to find another role and felt as

By Christy Choi, CNN (CNN) — This year’s Miss Universe pageant will feature at least two trans women for first time, after 23-year-old flight attendant Marina Machete was last week named Miss Portugal. Machete will compete for the crown at the 72nd Miss Universe competition in El Salvador this November alongside Rikkie Kollé, who in

By Leah Dolan, CNN London (CNN) — The 20th annual installment of Frieze — London’s biggest and most influential art fair — has officially begun. Recently dubbed “a graveyard of creativity for tasteless one percenters” by one critic, Regent’s Park welcomed a mixture of flushed international art collectors, industry insiders and the city’s style set. And

By Tom Page, CNN (CNN) — You’d be forgiven for thinking the resurgence of airships and blimps was a load of hot air. This is, after all, the means of flight which plummeted in the public’s estimation in an inglorious blaze with the 1937 Hindenburg disaster. Ungainly, slow and prone to accidents, they were superseded

By Lilit Marcus, CNN (CNN) — “Love is strong, but our bolt cutters are stronger,” reads a new Facebook post from Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona. In the post shared on social media earlier this week, the park management expresses concern about ‘love locks.’ These popular objects are padlocks that are hung from a

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — Classical Greek marble sculptures today appear crisp and white. But they weren’t always that way, according to a new study, which found the famous 2,500-year-old Parthenon sculptures were colorful, painted with floral patterns and other elaborate designs. By using a noninvasive imaging technique, researchers at the British Museum — where

By Ananda Pellerin, CNN (CNN) — The world of Sarah Lucas is crowded with body parts. During a career spanning over three decades, the London-born artist has amassed hundreds — if not thousands — of arms, legs, breasts and backsides, mixing irreverence and innuendo to make sculptures, self-portraits, and works on paper that raise eyebrows

By Forrest Brown, CNN (CNN) — From parking their vehicles for the day to purchasing annual passes, visitors to Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California, are going to be paying more to enjoy that Mickey Mouse magic. Again. The latest increases were announced and went into effect on Wednesday, October 11. That happens to be the

Julia Buckley, CNN (CNN) — As overtourism continues to throttle European cities, one destination has taken a step against cruise ships, restricting access to the port. Barcelona has closed its northern port terminal to cruise traffic, after an agreement with the local authorities to move ships further out of town. Cruise ships must now dock

Anne Pinto-Rodrigues, CNN (CNN) — From dramatic humpback breaches to enthralling dolphin acrobatics, a springtime visit to the Azores is synonymous with incredible sightings of whales and dolphins. The remote Portuguese archipelago, consisting of nine volcanic islands about 900 miles west of Lisbon, lies in the North Atlantic Ocean, putting it on the migration route

By Jennifer Hansler, CNN (CNN) — The US State Department is warning Americans to reconsider travel to Israel in the wake of the weekend’s deadly Hamas attacks. The agency raised its travel advisory level on Wednesday to Level 3: Reconsider Travel because of civil unrest and terrorism, advising that “the situation in Israel remains dynamic; mortar and

By Eve Brennan, CNN (CNN) — A British Airways flight from London to Tel Aviv made an abrupt U-turn shortly before it was due land in the Israeli city on Wednesday as the airline canceled all flights to the destination amid safety concerns. Flight BA165 from London’s Heathrow Airport was on the approach to Tel

By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — As Juul’s popularity began to surge in 2016, the sleek USB-shaped e-cigarette was seemingly everywhere overnight, with clouds of vapor and the audible crackle of a deep pull. If you were a millennial, brought up amid secondhand smoke in homes and restaurants in the ’80s and ’90s (like this

By Natty Kasambala, CNN London (CNN) — It was a painting in the lobby of a Benin hotel last year that changed the way Afrobeats star Mr Eazi thought about art. “I saw this piece by (Benin-based artist) Patricorel of two skeletons sitting on a bench,” the 32-year-old Nigerian music star told CNN in an