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By Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Rome (CNN) — The massacre was silent, the assassins stealthy and the impact devastating. The victims: more than 30 dogs, highly trained to sniff out the valuable truffles that grow underground near the dank and musty roots of trees in central Italy’s rural Abruzzo and Molise regions. They were poisoned

By Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — In travel news this week: a 50-year romance between a Pan Am pilot and a flight attendant, a three-year cruise that never happened and the European ski resorts that ran out of snow. Bus shelter, smoking shed or house of God? Rome has St. Peter’s. Cambodia has Angkor Wat.

By Christian House, CNN A Caruña (CNN) — Helmut Newton, the German post-war fashion photographer who notoriously posed a model on a bed in a Paris hotel with a saddle on her back, is the focus of a new retrospective in the port city of A Caruña in Galicia, Spain. Counter intuitively, it is a

By Amaya McDonald and Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — To keep up with the ever-changing trends propagated by runway shows, influencers and frenetic social media fads, fashion connoisseurs and avid clothing shoppers can be quick to turn to the most convenient — and budget-conscious — options out there. Often, that’s “fast fashion” offerings, from e-tailers

By Lana Lam, CNN London (CNN) — The Coliseum in London’s West End is used to staging epic theatrical productions. But even for the capital’s largest theater, this was unique. With a cast of more than 70 actors, dancers and musicians, “The Mongol Khan” is a riot of color and sound. But the political backdrop

By Lianne Kolirin, CNN London (CNN) — Airbrushing and beauty filters may feel like a modern phenomenon, but conservation work to a portrait painted in the 17th century has revealed that touch-ups to images are nothing new. English Heritage, an organization that manages more than 400 historic buildings, monuments and sites in England, has discovered

By CNN Staff (CNN) — How creative would you get to shave $500 off a flight? For those kinds of savings, some flyers engage in the practice known as skiplagging. Also called hidden-city ticketing or throwaway ticketing, it’s a way some travelers work around an often-counterintuitive airline booking system, shaving money off the price of

Julia Buckley, CNN (CNN) — They had signed up for the experience of a lifetime: three years traveling the world from the comfort of a cruise ship, at prices that rivaled regular living expenses. But now the dream is over for passengers who’d signed up for Life at Sea Cruises’ inaugural three-year voyage. After weeks

By Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — Fragments of musical scores discovered at Auschwitz will be played for the first time next week after being painstakingly restored by a composer. Leo Geyer, 31, who is also a conductor, said he stumbled upon the collection of musical manuscripts by accident during a visit to Auschwitz in 2015.

Words by Jane Sit, videos by Kevin Broad, CNN Bulgan, Mongolia (CNN) — It’s early morning and an orange glow has filled the sky as the sun slowly rises over a seemingly endless desert landscape. Every few hours, herders walk into view, hundreds of sheep and goats in tow as they make their way to

Julia Buckley, CNN (CNN) — If you want to take a day trip to Venice next year, you’re going to have to pay. The city authorities have now approved dates and prices for the much discussed entry fee to the UNESCO-listed destination. There will be 29 days affected between April and July 2024. It’ll be

By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — So you want to live like you’re from the Middle Ages? Well, maybe that’s not a common aspiration, but nevertheless, it’s a subject that’s become Olivia M. Swarthout’s expertise. Swarthout is the researcher behind the popular art history-inspired social media account Weird Medieval Guys, which has attracted nearly 700,000 followers

By Blane Bachelor, CNN (CNN) — Stephen Lewis and Christian Scali met the old-fashioned way, as Scali likes to call it: at a Starbucks in Los Angeles’ West Hollywood neighborhood. It was spring of 1997, and Scali, a law student, was buried deep in his textbooks. Lewis, who at the time was in private practice,