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By Francesca Street, CNN (CNN) — Lesley Ballantyne woke in the early hours to an emergency alert flashing on her phone: “Potential missile threats, seek immediate shelter in the closest secure building.” Her partner, Alistair, seemed to have slept through it. Ballantyne got out of bed and peered through the cabin window. Outside, nothing but

By David G. Allan, CNN Flagstaff, Arizona (CNN) — For no explainable practical reason, humans are enamored with – and even empathetic toward – specific inanimate objects. Our first car. A choice coffee mug. And for a particular subset of the population, that extends to a dimly lit frozen sphere currently 3.3 billion miles away.

By Rachel Tashjian, CNN Milan, Italy (CNN) — There comes a time during fashion week, as you look at a throng of photographers fighting to capture photos of someone very thin wearing a very dated outfit, or watch Priscilla Chan — alongside her husband, Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg — stride into the Prada show wearing

By Francesca Street, CNN (CNN) — Open the airplane-tracking website Flightradar24 right now and the change is unmistakable. Where one of the world’s busiest aviation crossroads should be — a dense web of aircraft linking Europe, Asia and Africa — there is instead a yawning gap. A hole in the sky. As conflict escalates in

By Marnie Hunter, Karla Cripps, CNN (CNN) — The war with Iran continues to cause aviation chaos in the Middle East and beyond as some of the world’s busiest airports attempt to manage the fallout of airspace closures, with only a limited number of flights now departing the region. The US is advising its citizens

By Oscar Holland and Stephy Chung, CNN; Photo editor: Jennifer Arnow, CNN (CNN) — The Screen Actors Guild Awards returned on Sunday evening, complete with a new name — and, for the first time ever, a thematic dress code. Now known as the Actor Awards, the annual ceremony’s 32nd edition sent attendees very specific sartorial

By Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — In our roundup of travel stories this week: a man recreates his father’s round-the-world bicycle trip, a luxury yacht that turned out to be a mold-covered wreck, plus the ancient Roman city 10 times the size of Disneyland. Built to last Jetavanaramaya, a colossal fourth-century Sri Lankan monument, was

By Rachel Tashjian, CNN Milan, Italy (CNN) — Backstage at the runway debut of the new new Gucci – the third rebrand that the luxury titan has undergone since Alessandro Michele left in 2022 – designer Demna was feeling the amore. “I hope I made you feel Gucci today,” he said. “The energy, the passion,

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Australian photographer Matty Smith has been named Underwater Photographer of the Year (UPY) 2026 for his image of a pair of southern elephant seal pups in a rockpool on the Falkland Islands. Named “Rockpool Rookies,” the photograph was named the overall winner of the awards, which received more than

By Barry Neild, CNN (CNN) — At first glance, the two photos almost look like duplicates: A young cyclist beneath the glaciers near Everest Base Camp, bike hoisted on his shoulders, face fixed in determination. The images could’ve been taken within seconds of each other — same spot, same light, same shadows. Yet they were

By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Picture this: You quit your mind-numbing corporate job for an agrarian lifestyle when your deceased grandfather leaves you his cottage on a plot of verdant farmland. Soon you are tending to seasonal crops, petting your pigs and ducks, running a DIY natural wine operation out of a shed, and romancing the

CNN By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Picture this: You quit your mind-numbing corporate job for an agrarian lifestyle when your deceased grandfather leaves you his cottage on a plot of verdant farmland. Soon you are tending to seasonal crops, petting your pigs and ducks, running a DIY natural wine operation out of a shed, and romancing

By Caroline Tell, CNN (CNN) — Evan Glassman has been traveling to Deer Valley in Utah for over a decade, drawn by its meticulously groomed runs, reliable service and convenient four-hour flight from his New York home. That loyalty held for years — until this winter. This season, Glassman redirected his annual family ski trip

By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — It’s not just Ilya Rozanov who is coming to the cottage. Anyone can now visit the famous site to which Ilya and Shane Hollander retreat in the emotional final episode of HBO’s “Heated Rivalry.” The cottage, the cottage, will be listed on Airbnb next month, allowing fans to enjoy

By Kati Chitrakorn, Leah Dolan, CNN London (CNN) — This season at London Fashion Week, designers made it clear that a runway is no longer the only way to go about staging a show. For every high-octane catwalk across the five-day schedule, there were a number of relaxed presentations and informal gatherings as some brands

By Fiona Sinclair Scott, CNN London (CNN) — February in London is a complete misery of a time. The days are still short, the ground is wet and vitamin D levels are low. Hunkering down at home is surely the best course of action. At the Burberry show on Monday night, the brand’s creative director

By Georgiana Ralphs, CNN (CNN) — From the shorelines of Perth in southwestern Australia, a towering blue hill can be seen jutting out of the horizon. Some days it seems so close you could touch it. Other days it’s hidden by mist or passing ships. “Sometimes it wants to be seen and sometimes it wants

By Christopher Lamb and Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — The remains of St. Francis of Assisi have gone on public display for the first time, marking 800 years since the saint’s death. The skeleton of the saint was exhumed from its sarcophagus in the crypt of the Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi, in the

By Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN (CNN) — Each time she steps out of her apartment in Montmartre and heads to the tiny courtyard around the corner, Michelle Harris has no idea how long the errand will take. “I could be gone for two minutes, or maybe an hour, particularly in the summer,” Harris, originally from Virginia,

By Leah Dolan, CNN London (CNN) — As if there weren’t already enough showstopping outfits at London Fashion Week this weekend, the coinciding 79th British Academy Film Awards on Sunday offered another stage for brands to showcase their designs as Hollywood A-listers including Timothée Chalamet, Teyana Taylor, Chase Infiniti, Ethan Hawke and Kirsten Dunst descended