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By Georgiana Ralphs, CNN (CNN) — An AI-generated blog on a tour company’s website has landed tourists in hot water — and not the kind they were looking for — after it emerged the “tranquil” northern Tasmania hot springs it recommended don’t actually exist. Screenshots shared with CNN of the now-deleted blog on Tasmania Tours’

By Francesca Street, CNN (CNN) — The Beefeaters made her do it. Carrin Schottler was trying to focus on the centuries of British history at the Tower of London. Imposing white stone towers. Impressive armor. Ravens circling turrets. She was in a tour group with about a dozen people. The tour guide was talking, but

By Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN (CNN) — In 2018, Amanda Meyer Barkley left her home in Louisiana for what was meant to be a short vacation in Prague. She planned to stay for a few weeks, then return to the United States before moving on to China for a teaching job. Nearly a decade later, she

By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN New York (CNN) — At the base of the world’s most slender skyscraper, stretching high above Billionaires’ Row in Manhattan, Bonhams will relocate its American headquarters next month. The auction house leaves behind its more cloistered Madison Avenue home for airy galleries in an 80-foot glass atrium, as well as an

By Rachel Tashjian, CNN Paris, France (CNN) — Fashion is not a dignified business. It is messy, constantly changing and prone to disposability — of ideas, trends and especially people. So it was heartening to see a fashion house celebrate, with pitch-perfect dignity, the departure of one of its longtime designers at Paris Men’s Fashion

By Kati Chitrakorn, CNN Paris, France (CNN) — If last year’s discourse over a pink sweater was anything to go by, it’s that attitudes to masculinity are still more fragile than one might think. In late 2025, a candyfloss-colored fair isle knit from J.Crew went viral when it was dragged into the center of a

By Ben Jones, CNN (CNN) — At 186 miles per hour, the landscape starts to blur. A mile disappears every 20 seconds. An entire town can blink by in the time it takes to remember its name. High-speed trains are, as the name suggests, fast. When two are traveling toward each other, the distance between

By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — Four decades ago, 126 of Nan Goldin’s snapshots of love and loss became one of the most influential photo books ever made. “The Ballad of Sexual Dependency,” published by Aperture in 1986, follows Goldin and her friends through darkened nightclubs, daylit bedrooms, and late-night car rides around New York’s

CNN By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — Four decades ago, 126 of Nan Goldin’s snapshots of love and loss became one of the most influential photo books ever made. “The Ballad of Sexual Dependency,” published by Aperture in 1986, follows Goldin and her friends through darkened nightclubs, daylit bedrooms, and late-night car rides around New

By Harmeet Kaur, CNN (CNN) — When Heather Buzzell saw the video of a federal agent in Minneapolis running toward demonstrators only to slip on ice and fall on his backside, she was inspired. “I just thought, ‘How funny would this be in nail art form?’ Almost as if it was a comic in a

By Brad Lendon, CNN Manila, Philippines (CNN) — Two gravesites, less than 10 miles apart in a crowded, noisy, Asian metropolis of 14 million, stand testament to the horror, sacrifice and history of World War II. Go to one and you can see the names and read the stories of those buried there, more than

By Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — In our travel round-up this week: why Europeans and Americans hold their forks differently, the Spanish island with more cats than people, plus a nail-biting rescue atop the highest mountain in the Alps. Destination inspiration The Italian island of Palmarola is so close to Rome that it can be

CNN By Rachel Tashjian, CNN (CNN) — Only a few years ago, seeing scores of women strolling around New York City in real animal fur coats would have seemed unimaginable. Fur has been out of fashion for so long that it’s been decades since Vogue’s Anna Wintour was regularly seen wearing it. (In one of

By Rachel Tashjian, CNN (CNN) — Only a few years ago, seeing scores of women strolling around New York City in real animal fur coats would have seemed unimaginable. Fur has been out of fashion for so long that it’s been decades since Vogue’s Anna Wintour was regularly seen wearing it. (In one of the

By Amarachi Orie and Pierre P Bairin, CNN (CNN) — France’s famed high-speed rail service TGV INOUI is facing a backlash after introducing a new premium-class carriage that bans children. As of January 8, national rail operator SNCF has been offering “Optimum” class on many TGV INOUI routes to and from Paris, according to the