Hannah Ryan, CNN Cambridge University is due to return a Nigerian artifact looted during a British raid to its country of origin, in a historic first. Nigeria’s National Commission for Museums and Monuments will receive a Benin bronze cockerel from Cambridge’s Jesus College later this month — in a move the university called the “first
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By David Williams, CNN Decades after it was stolen, Canadian rock star Randy Bachman says he’s finally found the rare guitar he used to write hits like “American Woman” and “Takin’ Care of Business” after an internet sleuth tracked it down in Japan. Bachman, of The Guess Who and Bachman-Turner Overdrive fame, said he was
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By Marnie Hunter, CNN The United States’ new international travel policies are set to go into effect on Monday, November 8. New rules around air, land and ferry travel into the US will replace a patchwork of restrictions and make vaccination the key to entry for nearly all foreign visitors. Here’s what travelers need to
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By Lisa Respers France, CNN We know it seems like most of Adele’s music is about heartbreak, but that’s just because she does it so well. The release of her new single “Easy On Me” has us back in our feelings (thank you, Adele). With lyrics like “I was still a child / Didn’t get
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Julia Buckley, CNN They’ve long dominated the food and fashion worlds, this year they’ve dominated sports, and now they’re aiming for the skies. Italy’s new national airline, ITA Airways, launched on Friday with a promise to bring pride back to its national flag carrier, after Alitalia, Italy’s legacy airline, went bankrupt and ceased operations a
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By Sandra Gonzalez, CNN A strike is looming but the work on TV OT continues. Here’s this week’s column: The bloody best of TV The next few weeks are poised to be a regular serial killer spree with the return of Netflix’s “You” and Showtime’s “Dexter” in the form of a reboot titled “Dexter: New
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By Lisa Respers France, CNN Some old Mac Miller music is new again. The 2014 mix tape “Faces” from the rapper, who died from an accidental overdose in 2018 at the age of 26, has hit streaming services for the first time. Containing 25 tracks, it includes collaborations with several fellow artists including Rick Ross,
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By Lisa Respers France, CNN Rap beefs are common, but this one came with an Irish tinge. After rapper/actor/producer 50 Cent posted his amusement about a viral TikTok video that compared raptress Lil Kim dancing to a leprechaun, she clapped back. “Ur so obsessed wit me this is getting creepy. Yarnnnn this one ain’t it
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By Marianne Garvey, CNN Lance Bass is now a dad to twins. The *NSYNC alum and husband Michael Turchin welcomed home Violet Betty and Alexander James, Bass announced on Instagram Thursday. The babies were carried via surrogate, the singer said. Alexander, born one minute before his sister on Wednesday, weighed 4 lbs., 14 oz. Violet
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN Adele is bringing both her new music and her story to television. The British singer has teamed up with CBS for a new prime-time special titled “Adele One Night Only.” According to a news release the event will be filmed in Los Angeles and will welcome back the star “with
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Review by Brian Lowry, CNN Success hasn’t spoiled “Succession,” as the Emmy-winning drama returns with all its Shakespearean and Murdochian overtones intact, with a bruising father-son battle over its fictional media empire. Stripped of that, the HBO series remains enormously fun, filled with cringe-inducing moments and the kind of vicious insults that would make the
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Review by Brian Lowry, CNN Coming not long after the splendid Val Kilmer documentary, “Introducing, Selma Blair” provides more deeply personal access to an actor in the throes of a health crisis, following her multiple sclerosis diagnosis in 2018. In this case, the focus is less on her career than her struggles and treatment, with
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Review by Brian Lowry, CNN For anyone who watched “I Know What You Did Last Summer” or “Night of the Living Dead” and thought, “I wish that movie was four times longer,” Amazon and Syfy have series for you, because it’s that time of year for scary shows, and as things currently stand in TV/streaming,
Continue Reading By Amy Woodyatt, CNN The moment Adele fans have been waiting for has finally arrived — the singer has released her first music in six years, dropping the single “Easy On Me” on Friday. The song, the first from a hotly anticipated album due in November, begins to do exactly what the singer promised: to
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Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN Previous offerings include a yacht in the form of a swan and another devised to resemble a shark, but Lazzarini Design Studio’s latest superyacht concept may be one of its most daring yet. The Rome-based design team has just unveiled renderings of a brand new 69-meter yacht design with a “gaping hole”
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By Jack Guy, CNN The owner of a bakery in northern England has been left with a bitter taste in his mouth after authorities told him he had to stop using banned sprinkles sourced from the US. West Yorkshire Trading Standards said the sprinkles contained an artificial coloring which isn’t approved for use in sprinkles
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Jacqui Palumbo, CNN At 91 years old, Jasper Johns is one of the most important living artists today, with auction sales worth tens of millions of dollars and a seven-decade career credited with changing the course of 20th-century art. But the American artist has always been reluctant to engage with interpretations or even showings of
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Story by Reuters Sydney will end its Covid-19 quarantine for fully vaccinated international travelers from November 1, New South Wales Premier Dominic Perrottet said on Friday, October 15 foreshadowing the full return of overseas travel after more than 19 months. Australia closed its international borders in March 2020 in response to the pandemic, allowing entry
Continue Reading Story by Reuters Sydney will end its Covid-19 quarantine for fully vaccinated international travelers from November 1, New South Wales Premier Dominic Perrottet said on Friday, October 15 foreshadowing the full return of overseas travel after more than 19 months. Australia closed its international borders in March 2020 in response to the pandemic, allowing entry
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By Chloe Melas, CNN Gloria Estefan is getting candid in a whole new season of “Red Table Talk: The Estefans.” “I think it’s a great opportunity to show a multi-generational view of different topics that everyone is somehow affected by in our world,” The singer said in a recent interview with CNN. The latest episode,
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