This futuristic entertainment venue in Las Vegas is the world’s largest spherical structure
CNN By Brandon Griggs, CNN (CNN) — It squats on the Las Vegas skyline like an enormous spaceship, black and mysterious – until night falls,…
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Turkey seeks return of ‘stolen’ statue’s severed head
By Elizabeth Wells, CNN Editor’s Note: A version of this story appears in CNN’s Meanwhile in the Middle East newsletter, a three-times-a-week…
Continue ReadingThis futuristic entertainment venue in Las Vegas is the world’s largest spherical structure
By Brandon Griggs, CNN (CNN) — It squats on the Las Vegas skyline like an enormous spaceship, black and mysterious – until night falls, when…
Continue ReadingThe three-year cruise is going ahead – with a bigger ship
Julia Buckley, CNN (CNN) — It sounded like a travel lover’s dream: a three year cruise, looping the globe in search of an eternal summer, for…
Continue ReadingNHS at 75: Vintage photos document the birth of free healthcare in Britain
By Oscar Holland, CNN (CNN) — “Everyone — rich or poor, man, woman or child — can use it or any part of it,” read a leaflet introducing…
Continue ReadingGhanaian photographer Paul Ninson on how he was able to visit the ‘village with no men’
By Lamide Akintobi and Ayanda Ntuli, CNN (CNN) — A place for women, by women: that’s what Umoja, a village in Samburu County, northern Kenya,…
Continue ReadingThe 91-year-old male model with the face of a classic cinema star
By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — He’s louche and sun-kissed, effortlessly cool and 91 years old. The Spanish King — real name Andrés…
Continue ReadingRoller coaster riders stuck upside down for hours at Wisconsin festival
CNN By Christina Zdanowicz, CNN (CNN) — Festivalgoers got more of an adventure than they bargained for Sunday when a roller coaster ride got…
Continue ReadingRoller coaster riders stuck upside down for hours at Wisconsin festival
By Christina Zdanowicz, CNN (CNN) — Festivalgoers got more of an adventure than they bargained for Sunday when a roller coaster ride got stuck…
Continue ReadingThom Browne on the inspiration behind his first ever couture show
By Leah Dolan, CNN Paris (CNN) — On Monday evening in Paris, American designer and Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) chairman Thom…
Continue ReadingTwo teenagers set off on a cycle trip around the world. It didn’t go according to plan
By Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN (CNN) — He set off on a two-year cycling trip around the world with a friend shortly after graduating from high…
Continue ReadingJapan’s tallest skyscraper, part of ambitious ‘urban village,’ completed in Tokyo
Jessie Yeung, CNN (CNN) — The new tallest building in Japan is here — and the gleaming skyscraper is part of an expansive “modern urban…
Continue Reading7 injured during severe turbulence on Hawaiian Airlines flight to Australia
By Sara Smart, CNN (CNN) — Seven people were injured on a Hawaiian Airlines flight to Sydney, Australia, on Friday when the plane was buffeted…
Continue ReadingLife in limbo: Photographer documents ‘Kafka-esque’ migrant experience
By Oscar Holland, CNN (CNN) — Photographer Felipe Romero Beltrán’s depiction of a migrant facility in Spain oozes with the boredom and…
Continue ReadingMario Vargas Llosa, Nobel-winning novelist, hospitalized with Covid-19
Al Goodman and Hafsa Khalil, CNN (CNN) — Peruvian novelist and Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa has been hospitalized in Madrid with Covid-19,…
Continue ReadingChristina Quarles, the multiracial queer painter transforming the art of the nude
by Victoria Woodcock Isla del Rey, Menorca (CNN) — On the tiny Menorcan island of Isla del Rey, Christina Quarles is sitting under a canopy of…
Continue ReadingTurkey’s hidden alpine wonderland
Feride Yalav-Heckeroth, CNN (CNN) — Rize province, on the Black Sea coast near Turkey’s northeast border with Georgia, is still largely…
Continue ReadingRoller coaster with crack in support pillar investigated at Carowinds in North Carolina
By Mitch McCluskey, Jillian Sykes and Raja Razek, CNN (CNN) — Inspectors were at a North Carolina amusement park Monday to continue…
Continue ReadingRoller coaster at Carowinds closes after discovery of a crack in a support pillar
By Jay Croft and Raja Razek, CNN (CNN) — Carowinds amusement park in North Carolina closed a roller coaster Friday after discovering a crack in…
Continue ReadingRoller coaster with crack in support pillar investigated at Carowinds in North Carolina
CNN By Mitch McCluskey, Jillian Sykes and Raja Razek, CNN (CNN) — Inspectors were at a North Carolina amusement park Monday to continue…
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