By Mohammed Tawfeeq and Ramin Mostaghim, CNN Jailed Iranian poet and documentary filmmaker Baktash Abtin has died in detention in a hospital after falling ill with Covid-19 aged 48, according to Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and the Center for Human Rights in Iran (ICHRI). Abtin was in prison on charges of “propaganda against the state”
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By Marianne Garvey A mother’s love knows no bounds, even if that means creating a billboard in the middle of Times Square in order for your daughter to find love. When Boston native Beth Davis was first diagnosed with breast cancer in 2004, she treated it with chemotherapy and she was doing well. But in
Continue Reading By Marianne Garvey A mother’s love knows no bounds, even if that means creating a billboard in the middle of Times Square in order for your daughter to find love. When Boston native Beth Davis was first diagnosed with breast cancer in 2004, she treated it with chemotherapy and she was doing well. But in
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By Marianne Garvey Jim Gaffigan is driving for the first time in 30 years. He’s also bought a home in the country and has started gardening. Indeed, the pandemic has changed us all. Gaffigan, his wife Jeannie and their five children, Marre, Jack, Katie, Michael and Patrick, spent the spring of 2020 in the early
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By Hannah Ryan, CNN Just six months after opening, London’s newest tourist attraction is shutting its doors. The much-derided Marble Arch Mound, which cost a reported £6 million ($8.15 million), and was overseen by Westminster Council, will close January 9 after developing a reputation as a major disappointment and having been the source of widespread
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By Maureen O’Hare, CNN Among the clouds over 2022, we’re finding silver linings. Some popular countries for tourism are relaxing entry restrictions, and the world’s safest and most punctual airlines have been revealed. Here are the biggest stories from CNN Travel this week. How flying will change in 2022 New airline launches. Revamped airports. Aircraft
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By Lisa Respers France, CNN “Beautiful,” “brilliant,” “grace” and “elegance” are just a few of the words used by those who paid tribute Friday to the late Sidney Poitier, one of the greatest actors of the past century. Poitier, who died Thursday at the age of 94, blazed trails as a Black actor who rose
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By Sandra Gonzalez, CNN Welcome to 2022, or as the Internet has been calling it, Season 3 of 2020. Whatever the new year has in store for you, there’s one positive you can count on — and hopefully it’s not your rapid Covid test: New TV. While not everything here has a premiere date set
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By Lisa Respers France, CNN Rooney Mara, the Oscar-nominated actress, is reportedly set to play an iconic star from the Golden Age of Hollywood. According to both Deadline and Variety, Mara will star as Audrey Hepburn in a forthcoming Apple Studios biopic. Hepburn, who died in 1993 at the age of 63 from cancer, appeared
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By Sara Spary, CNN Nicolas Cage and wife Riko Shibata are expecting their first child together, a spokesperson for the American actor confirmed to CNN Friday. The couple married at a ceremony in Las Vegas in February 2021. Aged 26, Shibata is 32 years younger than Cage, who turned 58 on Friday. Little is known
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By Sara Spary, CNN A panel of prehistoric stone artworks, thought to be between 4,000 and 8,500 years old, have been “irreparably damaged” by vandals at Big Bend National Park in Texas, the US National Park Service has said. The ancient petroglyphs were defaced by visitors who scratched their names and a date into the
Continue Reading By Brandon Griggs, CNN Sidney Poitier, whose elegant bearing and principled onscreen characters made him Hollywood’s first Black movie star and the first Black man to win the best actor Oscar, has died. He was 94. Clint Watson, press secretary for the Prime Minister of the Bahamas, confirmed to CNN that Poitier died Thursday evening.
Continue Reading By Brandon Griggs, CNN Sidney Poitier, whose elegant bearing and principled onscreen characters made him Hollywood’s first Black movie star and the first Black man to win the best actor Oscar, has died. He was 94. Clint Watson, press secretary for the Prime Minister of the Bahamas, confirmed to CNN that Poitier died Thursday evening.
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By Chloe Melas, CNN Bon Jovi is hitting the road again. The rock ‘n’ roll band announced on Friday its Bon Jovi 2022 tour, which will kick off this spring. This is the first time the group has toured since 2019. “We have all missed touring and we know that nothing can replace the energy
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By Marianne Garvey The Weeknd has released a new album and it features a bunch of surprise guest appearances. Titled “Dawn FM,” the album features contributions from Jim Carrey (yes, that Jim Carrey) Calvin Harris, Tyler, the Creator, Lil Wayne, Quincy Jones, Oneohtrix Point Never, Swedish House Mafia, Max Martin, and “Uncut Gems” co-director Josh
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN Olivia Jade used her podcast this week to clear up what she says is “a big misconception” about her. The social media influencer’s parents went to prison after being involved in a massive college admissions scandal. “I am super aware that I’ve been given opportunities because of my parents and
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By Swati Gupta, CNN At least 10 passengers have escaped from an airport in the northern Indian city of Amritsar after testing positive for Covid-19, according to Ruhee Dugg, a senior district official. The passengers arrived aboard an international chartered flight from Italy to India on Thursday, and 125 people tested positive on arrival, Dugg
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By Lisa Respers France, CNN It was a very different way to go public with their dating, but according to Julia Fox so was their date. The actress wrote about her experience kicking it with Kanye West, who now goes by “Ye,” for Interview magazine, complete with intimate photos shot by Kevin Leyva. According to
Continue Reading Julia Buckley, CNN It’s the stuff of travel nightmares. Taking something precious on your trip, keeping it close to hand so you don’t risk losing it in checked baggage — and then realizing you don’t have it when you get home. For Rachel DeGolia, the nightmare of losing something on a flight came true. In
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By Toyin Owoseje, CNN Andrew Garfield is finally talking about his extended cameo in “Spider-Man: No Way Home.” In a Variety interview published Thursday, the former web-slinger discussed his return to the franchise, which saw him teaming up with veteran Spider-Man Tobey Maguire to help Tom Holland‘s Peter Parker save the multiverse. In the lead
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