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By Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN (CNN) — How important is extra legroom on a plane? Extremely important, if the results of the AirlineRatings.com annual round-up of the best airlines across the globe is anything to go by. Korean Air has been named Airline of the Year for 2025, beating out last year’s winner Qatar Airways, in

By Christopher Lamb, CNN Rome (CNN) — A man has caused minor damage at St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican after jumping onto the main altar and knocking over 19th-century candelabra, worth several thousand dollars. Video posted on X shows the individual climbing onto the altar, which is used for major liturgical celebrations presided over

By Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — In our travel news roundup this week: the rise in solo dining, where to save money at US ski resorts, plus the Californian hot-air balloon company offering a rather cheeky package. Your love keeps lifting me higher Is it getting hot in here, or is a gas-burner propelling a

By Oscar Holland, CNN; Photo editor: Jennifer Arnow, CNN (CNN) — Postponed twice due to the wildfires that devastated LA last month, the Critics Choice Awards finally got underway in LA on Friday evening. Held at Santa Monica’s Barker Hangar, just a few miles from the fire-ravaged Pacific Palisades neighborhood, this year’s ceremony occupied an

By Karla Cripps, CNN (CNN) — Dubai is famous for its attention-grabbing architecture, whether it’s the world’s tallest building, the Burj Khalifa, or the actual “World” — an archipelago of 300 man-made islands in the shape of, as its name suggests, the world. And now, a new project by Therme Group, a global developer of

By Lianne Kolirin and Sérène Nourrisson, CNN (CNN) — A man in France has been fined $200 for using the speakerphone on his cell while in a train station. The man, who has only been identified as “David,” told an interviewer from CNN affiliate BFMTV that the incident occurred while he was waiting for a

By Sophie Tanno, CNN (CNN) — The seismic activity rattling Santorini and other Greek islands is not over and the biggest quake yet could be still to come, a seismologist has warned. Rémy Bossu, Secretary-General of the European-Mediterranean Siesmological Centre, said “days, or perhaps, weeks” would be needed to evaluate the unusual tremors but said

By Agostino Petroni, CNN (CNN) — The Italian island of Sardinia sits in the middle of the Tyrrhenian Sea, gazing at Italy from a distance. Surrounded by a 1,849-kilometer coastline of white sandy beaches and emerald waters, the island’s inland landscape rapidly rises to form hills and impervious mountains. And it is within these edgy

By Forrest Brown, CNN (CNN) — A gastrointestinal illness has broken out this week on the Radiance of the Seas cruise ship, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Some 89 of the 2,164 passengers onboard have been affected by the outbreak on the Royal Caribbean International ship, the CDC said. That’s

By Oscar Holland, CNN (CNN) — One of the biggest-selling K-pop acts, NewJeans, has changed its name amid a long-running legal dispute that has gripped South Korea. Speaking exclusively to CNN ahead of Friday’s announcement, the five-member group unveiled it will now be known as NJZ. Band member Pham Ngoc Han, who goes by Hanni,