By Dan Heching, CNN (CNN) — England’s biggest night in music took place Saturday across the pond, and one international superstar received one the highest honors. Australian pop sensation Kylie Minogue was honored at the Brit Awards in London with the global icon award, recognizing her nearly 40-year career in music. She was also nominated
Continue Reading By Dan Heching, CNN (CNN) — The Brit Awards – the top prize in music in the United Kingdom – unfolded in London on Saturday, and some of the biggest names from pop to rock from around the world are hoping to walk away with a statuette or three. The night belonged to English singer-songwriter
Continue Reading By Dan Heching, CNN (CNN) — “Dune: Part Two” is landing in theaters this weekend, and the movie is already a promising franchise hit, with (to date) an impressive 94% critical rating on Rotten Tomatoes, and an audience score one percentage point higher. After 2021’s first entry fared similarly well – and picked up a
Continue Reading By Forrest Brown, CNN (CNN) — In travel news this week: Circling the calendar for peak cherry blossoms, a very rare peek at post-pandemic North Korea and the insightful confessions of a Vegas habitué. Flower power Flowers can be powerful tourist draws, be they boldly colorful tulips in the Netherlands or fragrant lavender fields in
Continue Reading By Amy Woodyatt, CNN (CNN) — Victoria Beckham’s Paris Fashion Week show was disrupted by animal rights activists as they joined her models on the catwalk to protest her brand’s use of animal products such as leather. Protesters in white vests reading “turn your back on animal skins” and “animals aren’t fabric” walked along models
Continue Reading By Julia Buckley, CNN (CNN) — Ed Pierson was flying from Seattle to New Jersey in 2023, when he ended up boarding a plane he’d never wanted to fly on. The Seattle resident booked with Alaska Airlines last March, purposefully selecting a flight with a plane he was happy to board – essentially, anything but
Continue Reading By Hilary Whiteman, CNN (CNN) — Through oversized black-rimmed glasses, Iris Apfel for over a century surveyed the world with the confidence of a woman who rejected convention and set her own style for all. Apfel died on Friday at the age of 102, according to a post on her verified Instagram page. She died
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — Sydney Sweeney was not down for a meet cute. In a promo for her hosting spot on “Saturday Night Live” this weekend, the “Anyone But You” star bumps into “SNL” cast member Michael Longfellow in studio 8H and his script and her book go flying. He picks up
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By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — Twenty-four floors up a Manhattan high rise, the photographer Ahn Jun sat on her windowsill one crisp day in 2008, dangling her leg precariously outside over the city. Fearful of heights, the South Korean photographer was beginning a yearslong body of work that pushed her to her limits, placing
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By Marianne Garvey, CNN (CNN) — Millie Bobby Brown is talking about her marriage proposal from Jake Bongiovi. The actress and Bongiovi, the son of rocker Jon Bon Jovi, first shared news of their engagement in April 2023. On Thursday, Brown appeared on “The Tonight Show,” where she shared with host Jimmy Fallon new details
Continue Reading By Francesca Street, CNN (CNN) — Bianca Gignac was swimming under the stars, against a backdrop of colorful, cliffside houses, with a complete stranger, her clothes left in a pile on a rock. Bianca was in the harbor of Riomaggiore, the southernmost of the five picturesque fishing villages that make up the Italian Cinque Terre
Continue Reading By Lisa Respers France, CNN (CNN) — There has been some chatter about Joey Graziadei’s eyes appearing yellow on “The Bachelor” this season, and he’s now explained the cause. In a video posted on his verified Instagram account, Graziadel revealed that he has Gilbert syndrome, which was first diagnosed when he was in high school
Continue Reading By Michelle Watson and Andy Rose, CNN (CNN) — A private jet carrying Grammy-winning artist Karol G made an emergency landing at a Los Angeles area airport after a report of smoke in the cockpit Thursday night. Video captured by CNN affiliate KABC shows the plane landing without incident at Van Nuys Airport and appears
Continue Reading By Brian Lowry, CNN (CNN) — After her Emmy-winning roles in “Mildred Pierce” and “Mare of Easttown,” HBO would probably say “yes” to a series in which Kate Winslet reads the phone book. Alas, they’ve come a little too close to that with “The Regime,” a political satire that’s weird but not very good, other
Continue Reading By Ben Jones, CNN (CNN) — Crowded, hot, noisy, hectic – subway systems can test the sanity of even the most hardened urbanite, but can you imagine the world’s biggest cities without them? And as millions more of us flock to live in cities every year, efficient mass transit is going to become ever more
Continue Reading By Leah Dolan, CNN London (CNN) — In the spring of 1888, New York socialite Eleanora Iselin welcomed the portrait artist John Singer Sargent into her home, feverish over the question of what she would wear. Eager for her expensive and refined taste to be immortalized on canvas, Iselin instructed a maid to follow her
Continue Reading By Alli Rosenbloom, CNN (CNN) — Former “Vanderpump Rules” cast member Rachel Leviss filed a lawsuit against two of the reality show’s stars, Tom Sandoval and Ariana Madix, over matters stemming from a 2023 scandal. Filed Thursday with the Los Angeles County Superior Court and obtained by CNN, the complaint alleges revenge porn, invasion of
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By Lilit Marcus, CNN (CNN) — Ahead of the 2024 Mount Everest season, Nepal has announced a new requirement that all climbers must rent and use tracking chips on their journey. “Reputed companies were already using them but now it’s been mandatory for all climbers,” Rakesh Gurung, director of Nepal’s department of tourism, told CNN.
Continue Reading By Dan Heching, CNN (CNN) — It’s not a bird or a plane… it’s James Gunn bringing us news about Superman, and on Leap Day, no less. The director and co-CEO of DC Studios (which, like CNN, is owned by Warner Bros. Discovery) said on his Instagram on Thursday that principal photography has begun on
Continue Reading By Dan Heching, CNN (CNN) — “Selling Sunset” stars Jason Oppenheim and Mary Bonnet have shared some difficult news about their dog Niko. In a joint Instagram post on Thursday, the celebrity realtors, who once dated, said the dog they shared for 18 years has died. Alongside a touching carousel of photos that showed the
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