By Sara Smart, Sharif Paget and Alaa Elassar, CNN It’s only a week until Christmas, and Mechelle Lutsko is holding onto hope that her daughter, one of the hundreds of tourists stranded in Peru, will make it home in time. “I’ve been up all night worrying,” Lutsko told CNN Saturday from her home in Columbus,
Continue Reading By Zoe Sottile, CNN Rihanna was hacked — by her adorable kiddo. The musician and entrepreneur welcomed her first child with rapper A$AP Rocky in May of this year. The couple has not yet announced the baby’s name, and in the months since the birth, the two have refrained from posting any images of their
Continue Reading By Rebekah Riess, Paradise Afshar and Andy Rose, CNN Television personality Sharon Osbourne returned home Saturday, one day after she was taken to a Southern California hospital following an emergency call. Her son Jack Osbourne said on Instagram his mother “has been given the all clear from her medical team and is now home.” The
Continue Reading By Zoe Sottile, CNN Billie Eilish brought out Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl for a touching tribute to Taylor Hawkins at her Los Angeles show on Thursday night. Eilish was performing at Kia Forum arena when she invited Grohl on stage. Grohl recalled the 2022 Grammys, where Eilish performed on stage in a Hawkins shirt,
Continue Reading By Zoe Sottile, CNN Rihanna was hacked — by her adorable kiddo. The musician and entrepreneur welcomed her first child with rapper A$AP Rocky in May of this year. The couple has not yet announced the baby’s name, and in the months since the birth, the two have refrained from posting any images of their
Continue Reading By Megan Thomas, CNN Stephen “tWitch” Boss is being remembered for the joy he sparked by his friend and former colleague, “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” executive producer Andy Lassner. In a moving tribute to Boss, Lassner wrote about the many lives the late star touched. “So many people on social media are posting pictures of
Continue Reading By Kara Scannell, CNN Jennifer Shah, a cast member of the reality series “The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City,” asked a judge to give her a lesser sentence of three years in prison for stealing from hundreds of victims — many of them elderly — in a long-running telemarketing scheme. Shah, who is scheduled
Continue Reading Julia Buckley, CNN The UK: home to tradition, cozy cottages and Christmas movies. What better place to spend the holiday period than in a thatched cottage like in “The Holiday,” or have a romantic airport arrival channeling “Love Actually”? This year could be the perfect time for it, too — the normally mild UK has
Continue Reading By Toyin Owoseje, CNN Life in plastic really is fantastic if the first official teaser trailer for the highly anticipated “Barbie” movie is anything to go by. Released by Warner Bros. on Friday, the 75-second promo gives fans a glorious introduction to Margot Robbie as the iconic doll who changed the landscape for children’s toys.
Continue Reading By Hanna Pham, CNN The story of an African American gang member in Seattle reinventing himself as a Hasidic Jewish rapper in Jerusalem might not sound like your typical comedy series. But then, Nissim Black — the real-life inspiration for a series being developed by HBO Max called “Motherland Bounce” — is anything but your
Continue Reading By Marianne Garvey, CNN Tyler Perry is opening up about his mental health history after the death of Stephen “tWitch” Boss. Boss, a professional dancer, actor and the former DJ and co-executive producer for the “Ellen DeGeneres Show,” died by suicide on Tuesday at age 40. Perry paid tribute to Boss in a moving Instagram
Continue Reading Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN On December 1, Laura Massey-Pugh and Stevie Massey, both from the UK, cycled through a blizzard into Brandenburg Gate in Berlin approximately 180 days after setting off on a journey to become the fastest cyclists to circumnavigate the world on a tandem bicycle. The husband and wife team, who began their grueling
Continue Reading Review by Brian Lowry, CNN Noah Centineo’s graduation from “To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before” teen heartthrob to adult (but still boyish) action hero is off to a slow start, as he follows his supporting role in “Black Adam” with “The Recruit,” a junior spy yarn that, as a Netflix series, feels like a
Continue Reading By Toyin Owoseje, CNN Just three months after being diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, Jane Fonda has announced that her cancer is now in remission and she is set to stop chemotherapy treatment. The two-time Oscar-winning actress and activist — who turns 85 next week — shared her health update with fans on Thursday, in a
Continue Reading By Nadine Schmidt, CNN A 46-foot-high aquarium that was home to around 1,500 exotic fish burst Friday morning, injuring at least two people and sending a flood of water and debris onto a nearby street, police and firefighters in central Berlin have said. The AquaDom aquarium is located in the foyer of a Radisson Collection
Continue Reading Leah Dolan, CNN Walk into any Urban Outfitters, Zara or adjacent store today and you’ll be greeted by rows of cargo or “parachute” trousers á la Ciara circa 2006. Scroll through Pinterest, Instagram or TikTok and you’ll see Gen Z favorites like Dua Lipa, Olivia Rodrigo and influencer Matilda Djerf flaunting flamboyant sequin butterfly tops
Continue Reading By Toyin Owoseje, CNN Henry Cavill will not return as Geralt of Rivia in Netflix hit “The Witcher,” despite losing his Superman role following a shake-up of the DC Extended Universe. “We can confirm there are no changes to Season 4 of The Witcher,” Netflix told CNN in a statement on Friday. Peter Friedlander, Netflix’s
Continue Reading Francesca Street, CNN Virgin Atlantic plans to operate a Boeing 787 from London to New York, powered solely by waste oils and fats, a move hailed as a step toward reducing aviation’s significant environmental impact. Billed as the “world’s first” net zero transatlantic flight, the aircraft will hit the skies in 2023 fueled entirely by
Continue Reading By Mark Elliott, CNN We’re in Sheki, a magical little UNESCO World Heritage city tucked up against the thickly wooded foothills of Azerbaijan’s Greater Caucasus Mountains, on a rare tour of the silk factory which for decades has been the region’s economic mainstay. We’ve just been handed a bowl full of white, lozenge-shaped balls, each
Continue Reading Jacqui Palumbo, CNN We may dream of winning the lottery, but what about finding a medieval-era wedding ring in your yard, or a Byzantine-era mosaic on your farm? Everyday people joined archaeologists and art conservators in finding some of the year’s most compelling discoveries. Among them was a Van Gogh self-portrait, hidden behind a painting,
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