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Jennifer Walker, CNN (CNN) — Walking into Budapest’s Budaörs Airport feels more like stepping inside a time capsule than an airfield. Perched on the edge of Budapest’s XI District, Budaörs was the country’s first international airport and has been operating continuously since 1937. Now its grassy airfield is hums with the buzz of small aircraft,

By Elizabeth McBride, CNN London (CNN) — By 8 p.m., three London tour groups are jostling for room in Mitre Square, where murder victim Catherine Eddowes was found with her face mutilated and kidney removed. “I once saw two guides get into a fistfight over space here,” claims Charlotte Everitt, a guide with London-based Rebel

By Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — How’s your tuxedo looking? Our travel news roundup this week is an award show spectacular. Read on to find out the winners of the world’s most liveable city, the best airline for 2025, the world’s best restaurant and the country with the finest wines. Award-winning food and drink Knives

By Karla Cripps, CNN (CNN) — It looks like Lima is going to be welcoming a lot of fine-dining fans in the coming months. Two restaurants in the Peruvian capital landed in the top 10 on the 2025 list of the “World’s 50 Best Restaurants,” including the coveted number one spot. The awards — considered

By Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — As summer sets in, the biannual round of men’s fashion shows begins today in Milan. Here, over the next four days, designers will present their vision for what they think people will be wearing next spring. Sure to be among the highlights are regular heavy hitters such as Prada,

By Rosa Rahimi, CNN (CNN) — What do they say about all publicity being good? When the world saw Naomi Campbell fall on the Vivienne Westwood runway, the supermodel was soon inundated with calls from other designers — asking her to do it again. It was an iconic moment in fashion history: Vivienne Westwood’s “Anglomania”

By Maureen O’Hare, CNN St Albans, England (CNN) — “Naturism is about liberating your body and accepting who you are,” says Stéphane Deschênes, a twinkly-eyed Canadian with an impressive white handlebar mustache. We’re gathered near the hot tub for the opening ceremony at British Naturism: Sunfolk, a 94-year-old naturist site that’s relaunching after a modern

By Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — The “wrong” shade of blonde; a deflated, empty Birkin bag; and a camel coat so stiff it looks “like a brick,” according to one Substack writer. These are the main complaints of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy fans, who this week jumped to the defense of the late fashion publicist, whose memorable

By Cindy Augustine, CNN (CNN) — The dish known as salad is said to date back to the ancient Roman habit of dipping romaine lettuce in salt — “herbe salata” means “salted leaves.” Now, centuries after the concept originated in Ancient Rome, salads may conjure for some an image of a tub of lettuce with

By Barbie Latza Nadeau, Antonia Mortensen and Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — An 80-year-old man has told police he was “wrong” to drive down Rome’s famed Spanish Steps, after firefighters had to recover his vehicle from the landmark in the early hours of Tuesday. The man was not injured in the incident but he was

By Fred He and Karla Cripps, CNN (CNN) — May and early June have always been popular times to visit the Zhangjiajie Forest Park in southwestern China’s Hunan province, before the oppressive summer heat sweeps in. The stunning area is famed for its massive quartz-sandstone pillar formations, which are said to have inspired the floating

By Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Venice, Italy (CNN) — On a sweltering Friday afternoon in June, a group of angry and self-described “precarious” or underemployed Venetian young people gathered in a square near the foot of Venice’s Rialto bridge. It was a call to action against the impending nuptials of billionaire Jeff Bezos and journalist

By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Chicago (CNN) — When did homosexuality become a fixed identity? At the Wrightwood 659 gallery in Chicago, an expansive, century-spanning exhibition charts the period when “homosexuality” and “heterosexuality” were new concepts, by looking at the queer subjects and artists of the period and how they depicted love, sex and gender. Set

By Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN (CNN) — It’s been a year of historic milestones for a certain Middle Eastern airline. Just weeks after announcing the largest widebody aircraft order in Boeing’s history, Qatar Airways is celebrating another huge achievement. The Qatar flag carrier has just been named the winner at this year’s Skytrax World Airline Awards,

By Marnie Hunter, CNN (CNN) — Chefs and restaurants were honored on Monday night with James Beard Awards, one of the US culinary community’s highest accolades. Bûcheron, a French American restaurant in Minneapolis, was named best new restaurant during the awards ceremony, which was held at the Lyric Opera in Chicago. The outstanding chef award

By Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN (CNN) — It’s official. Vienna is no longer the most liveable city in the world. After a three-year run at the top of the annual list from the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), the Austrian capital has been beaten out by “Wonderful, Wonderful Copenhagen.” Denmark’s capital has taken the number one spot

By Jen Rose Smith, CNN (CNN) — Like maple syrup and lakeside lounging, an annual influx of Canadians tourists has long been a part of life for the border-hugging New York region known as “North Country.” “I don’t ever remember a summer where I wasn’t at the beach, hearing the French language and seeing Quebec

By Billy Stockwell, CNN (CNN) — A crystal-covered chair inspired by one of Vincent Van Gogh’s most famous paintings was seriously damaged when a tourist sat on it while posing for a photograph, according to the Italian museum where the artwork is on display. Footage released by the Palazzo Maffei in Verona shows a man

CNN By Jade Walker, CNN (CNN) — Britain’s foreign intelligence service, MI6, will be led by a woman for the first time in its history. Blaise Metreweli, who is currently head of the technology and innovation teams, will become chief of the Secret Intelligence Service in the fall. For fans of the James Bond movies,

By Steve Salter, CNN London (CNN) — Even if you’re unfamiliar with designer Martine Rose by name, chances are you’ve seen her clothes at some of the most memorable pop culture moments of the year. From the varsity leather jacket worn by Kendrick Lamar for his viral Super Bowl halftime performance, to the navy suit