By Nimi Princewill, CNN Climbers ascending Mount Kilimanjaro can now document their ascents in real-time on Instagram, following a recent move by Tanzanian authorities to install high-speed internet around the mountain’s slopes. Mount Kilimanjaro is in northern Tanzania and is Africa’s highest peak standing at over 19,000 feet (nearly 5,900 meters). The broadband service was
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN The world was denied a Taylor Swift cameo in “The Twilight Saga: New Moon.” The person who made that call now wishes he hadn’t. Chris Weitz, who directed the film, shared recently during a conversation on “The Twilight Effect with Ashley Greene and Melanie Howe” podcast that he and Swift
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France and Chloe Melas, CNN Angelina Jolie accused Brad Pitt of injuring her and verbally abusing their children during a heated encounter aboard a private jet in 2016, according to an FBI report provided to CNN by a source. In the heavily redacted report, which was released to both parties as a
Continue Reading Amarachi Orie, CNN While nowadays you might have some chicken soup to fight a cold, a new project unearthing manuscripts up to 1,000 years old reveals the bizarre medical remedies recommended by those in the medieval era. The violence of medieval society is detailed in the recipes, from gruesome animal-derived treatments to advice on how
Continue Reading By Marianne Garvey Patrick Swayze would have turned 70 on Thursday if it were not for the pancreatic cancer he died from in 2009. The “Dirty Dancing” star was one of the first public figures to reveal he had the disease, the same one that Alex Trebek and Steve Jobs died from. Swayze was diagnosed
Continue Reading By Marianne Garvey “The Wonder Years” actress Danica McKellar left acting to pursue a mathematics career and now she’s explaining why. McKellar’s young son Draco recently interviewed his mom for ET, asking her, “You were about my age when you acted in ‘The Wonder Years.’ What do you remember most about those years?” McKellar said
Continue Reading By Marianne Garvey Demi Lovato has released her latest single, “29,” and it’s speculated the song is about the age difference she had with her former boyfriend, Wilmer Valderrama. The actor was 29 when he began dating Lovato, who was 17 at the time. Lovato explained the lyrics in an Apple Music interview, saying “the
Continue Reading Terry Ward, CNN If you’ve been thinking every American you know is in Europe this summer (or headed there this fall), you might be right. “For most American travelers, this is the first year they are traveling unencumbered by Covid restrictions,” said Dolev Azaria, founder of New York City-based Azaria Travel, in an email. “And
Continue Reading Oscar Holland, CNN | Junko Ogura, CNN Hanae Mori, the first Asian fashion designer to break into the exclusive world of haute couture, has died at aged 96. The Japanese designer, whose elegant creations were worn by high-profile figures from Hillary Clinton to Empress Masako, died last Thursday, her office told CNN via email. No
Continue Reading Rebecca Cairns, CNN In a dark room in the middle of Hong Kong, there’s a new reprieve from the bustling city. It’s a forest — although it looks nothing like the dense greenery covering the nearby mountains. This one glows. The so-called “pixel forest” is made up of 3,000 LED lights, suspended by plastic cables
Continue Reading By Zenebou Sylla, CNN New York’s 9/11 Tribute Museum closed its physical location in lower Manhattan Wednesday, less than a month before the 21st anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks, citing financial losses during the pandemic. “Financial hardship including lost revenue caused by the pandemic prevents us from generating sufficient funding to continue to
Continue Reading By Forrest Brown, CNN You’ll still be able drive through Great Smoky Mountains National Park for free, but if you park your vehicle for 15 minutes or more, you’re going to need to cough up a little money starting in March 2023. The park in North Carolina and Tennessee announced the new fee on Monday,
Continue Reading By Marianne Garvey The Addams Family is back. This time thanks to director Tim Burton. The trailer for the upcoming spinoff series “Wednesday” has been released and it’s very Burton-esque. “You” star Jenna Ortega plays Wednesday, the gothlike teenage daughter of Morticia and Gomez Addams who has psychic abilities. She is attending Nevermore Academy, where,
Continue Reading By Marianne Garvey Priscilla Presley is remembering her late husband Elvis Presley on the 45th anniversary of his death. Presley, who was married to the king of rock and roll, spoke to “Today” about her memories and time with him. Elvis died of a heart attack on Aug. 16, 1977, at his Graceland home in
Continue Reading By Forrest Brown, CNN We can’t say that we weren’t warned. Experts told an eager public jazzed to fly again this summer that things would get chaotic in the skies — and that’s exactly how things turned out all summer long. We started out with rough Memorial Day weekend. Cancellations and stranded luggage were headlines
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN After Will Smith famously slapped Chris Rock during this year’s Academy Awards ceremony, Zoë Kravitz posted red carpet photos of herself at the event on social media. “Here’s a picture of my dress at the show where we are apparently assaulting people on stage now,” she wrote with in caption.
Continue Reading Review by Brian Lowry, CNN Proving “Moon Knight” wasn’t a fluke as Marvel-sized disappointments go, “She-Hulk: Attorney at Law” is big, bright, colorful, and also too goofy for its own good. Trying to bend the mold is fine in theory, but the mix of sitcom-style tropes and gamma-irradiated powers yields a series that’s too weak
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN Florence Pugh and Zach Braff have been used to the attention on their relationship, which they quietly ended earlier this year, according to Pugh. “We’ve been trying to do this separation without the world knowing, because it’s been a relationship that everybody has an opinion on,” Pugh told Harper’s Bazaar
Continue Reading Leah Dolan, CNN When asked how they turned Ganni into the formidable fashion brand it is today, husband-and-wife co-founders Nicolaj and Ditte Reffstrup’s modest answer hinted at a kind of serendipity. “There was never a big strategy to it,” Nicolaj told CNN over Zoom ahead of the label’s showcase at Copenhagen Fashion Week in August.
Continue Reading Megan C. Hills, CNN This week, Rihanna reminded fans of her boundary-pushing style. The multi-talented star, who has only been spotted in public a handful of times since giving birth in May, stepped out in New York on Saturday wearing larger-than-life boots. While her RZA tee, sunglasses and snakeskin-print bag already made for a casual
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