San Antonio Zoo will let you name a cockroach after an ex and feed it to an animal
By Yenny Sanchez, CNN The San Antonio Zoo is offering a special Valentine’s Day greeting for exes who just won’t bug off. For $10, the…
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How a harrowing fire became a silver lining for a museum of Chinese American life
Harmeet Kaur, CNN The Museum of Chinese in America’s workshop space in Lower Manhattan is brimming with artifacts that were very nearly lost to…
Continue ReadingRare Van Dyck painting sells for $3 million. The owner originally bought it for $600
Zoe Sottile, CNN Once abandoned in a farm shed, a rediscovered Anthony van Dyck painting has sold for over $3 million at auction. The piece is a…
Continue ReadingControversial cuisine: Fish head pie and ‘devil’s dung’
By Maureen O’Hare, CNN This week in travel news, we bring you fish head pie, “devil’s dung,” mummified crocodiles and a cane…
Continue ReadingAll Flybe flights canceled after UK airline ceases trading
By Duarte Mendonca British airline Flybe has “ceased trading” and canceled all scheduled flights, the company and the British Civil…
Continue ReadingIndian fashion designer Gaurav Gupta makes his Paris Haute Couture Week debut
Samantha Tse, CNN Nearly 20 years after launching his eponymous brand, Indian fashion designer Gaurav Gupta made his hotly anticipated debut at Paris…
Continue ReadingArchaeologists may have found Egypt’s oldest mummy
Amarachi Orie and Mia Alberti, CNN Archeologists have uncovered what may be the oldest mummy ever found in Egypt. The 4,300-year-old mummy was a…
Continue ReadingUS tourist fined for driving rental car over medieval Italian bridge
From Barbie Nadeau, CNN The Ponte Vecchio, a beautiful centuries-old bridge spanning the Arno River in the Italian city of Florence, is best viewed…
Continue ReadingComplete Roman city uncovered in Luxor, Egypt
By Christian Edwards, CNN Archaeologists working in the southern Egyptian city of Luxor have uncovered a complete 1,800-year-old Roman city. Mostafa…
Continue ReadingShe was crying alone at an airport. Then she met her future best friend
Francesca Street, CNN Maggie Musgrave was sitting, alone, in Miami International Airport, crying. It was a Sunday evening in summer 2011.…
Continue ReadingLook of the Week: Apple Martin looks every bit the ‘Chanel girl’
Leah Dolan, CNN and Oscar Holland, CNN When the late Karl Lagerfeld met Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin’s daughter Apple, as a baby, he…
Continue ReadingWhy NASA tested a plane with a pivoting wing
By Jacopo Prisco, CNN Not many aircraft can claim to be truly one of a kind, but the NASA AD-1 is undoubtedly one of them. A slim pointed cigar with…
Continue ReadingThis bio-designer is creating flavorful future food with microalgae
Rebecca Cairns, CNN The year is 2050. Agriculture happens in labs, as well as fields. And on the menu for dinner? Microalgae. That speculative future…
Continue Reading‘Beauty is power’: For Eileen Gu, fashion and sport aren’t so different
Oscar Holland, CNN Interview by Coy Wire, CNN If Eileen Gu’s account of last Saturday’s Freestyle Ski World Cup event in Calgary is…
Continue Reading‘Beauty is power’: For Eileen Gu, fashion and sport aren’t so different
CNN Oscar Holland, CNN Interview by Coy Wire, CNN If Eileen Gu’s account of last Saturday’s Freestyle Ski World Cup event in Calgary is…
Continue Reading‘All the Beauty and the Bloodshed’ chronicles the fight to purge one family’s name from the art world
Thomas Page, CNN The campaign by American photographer Nan Goldin to shame galleries and museums into cutting ties with the Sackler families, the…
Continue ReadingFrom 700 million years ago to the World Cup: Inside Qatar’s best museums
Sarah Reid, CNN Qatar hasn’t only been busy building soccer stadiums but also a slew of architecturally striking and accessible museums in its…
Continue ReadingWhat it’s like to travel to every country in the world
Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN After decades of traveling, both separately and together, Rachel Davey and Martina Sebova had each visited over 100 of…
Continue ReadingCommuning with the dead: A photographer spent 20 years documenting seánces
Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Though photographer Shannon Taggart grew up only an hour from Lily Dale, New York, the lakeside hamlet where people congregate to…
Continue ReadingViktor & Rolf couture show features upside-down and sideways gowns
Jacqui Palumbo, CNN Paris Haute Couture Week is in full swing with dramatic runway shows and surreal, lavish looks worn by front-row A-Listers —…
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