Fire threatening Yosemite’s famed grove of giant sequoia trees is still growing
By Ralph Ellis, Taylor Romine and Hannah Sarisohn, CNN A wildfire in California’s Yosemite National Park still threatens the famed Mariposa…
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Why is travel so hard, and what could make it better?
By Harry Enten, CNN I haven’t been on a vacation in 10 years. Part of the reason, admittedly, is I’m a workaholic. The other part is I…
Continue ReadingUS dollars will go further on European vacations right now
By Maureen O’Hare, CNN This week in travel news: What it takes to master one of the world’s most difficult airport landings,…
Continue ReadingFilmmaker faces death threats over controversial Hindu goddess poster
Oscar Holland, CNN A Toronto-based filmmaker says she has received a deluge of death threats and abuse from Hindu nationalists in India after she…
Continue ReadingParis Haute Couture Week: Clothes for the 1%, thrills for everyone else
Fiona Sinclair Scott, CNN This week in Paris, a series of designer collections featuring handcrafted, one-of-a-kind, eye-wateringly expensive high…
Continue ReadingWhat it’s like to land on the world’s shortest commercial runway
By Nicola Chilton, CNN Flying into Saba isn’t for the faint hearted. The vertiginous slopes and sea cliffs of this five-square-mile island in…
Continue ReadingEvacuation orders issued as fire threatens Yosemite’s Mariposa Grove, home to more than 500 giant sequoia trees
By Taylor Romine, CNN A growing wildfire that threatens a famed giant sequoia tree grove in California’s Yosemite National Park has forced…
Continue Reading‘Leisure, pleasure and good taste’: How nautical fashion captivated the world
Megan C. Hills, CNN The image of Britain’s Prince Louis dressed in a miniature sailor suit was one of the standout moments of the recent…
Continue ReadingKazuki Takahashi, creator of hit manga ‘Yu-Gi-Oh!’, dies age 60
Emiko Jozuka, CNN Kazuki Takahashi, the creator of the international hit manga series and trading card game “Yu-Gi-Oh!”, was found dead…
Continue ReadingWhy this woman recreates the journeys of history’s greatest female explorers
By Lilit Marcus, CNN Elise Wortley didn’t set out to be an adventurer. After moving from the Essex countryside to busy London in 2017 when she…
Continue ReadingPenguins at a Japanese aquarium are being fed cheaper fish – and they aren’t happy
By Jake Kwon and Mayumi Maruyama, CNN An aquarium employee waves a mackerel near a penguin — but there’s no reaction. When she moves the…
Continue ReadingSix injured as controversial bull run returns to Spain’s Pamplona
By Al Goodman, CNN Half a dozen people, including a 30-year-old man from the US city of Atlanta, were taken to hospital after the first running of…
Continue ReadingA photographer cataloged all 12,795 items in her house. This is what she found
Oscar Holland, CNN After going through a divorce and moving home for the 11th time, Barbara Iweins decided to take stock of her life — and…
Continue ReadingThe secret stretch of coastal France that’s nicer than Nice
By Terry Ward, CNN Think of the south of France and postcard images of the lavender fields of Provence and tony spots with yachts — Nice,…
Continue ReadingWires, watercoolers and off-white walls: A portrait of ’90s offices
Oscar Holland, CNN The role that offices play in our lives has been disrupted by the Covid-19 pandemic. Among US workers able to perform their jobs…
Continue ReadingKim Kardashian walks Balenciaga show at Paris Couture Fashion Week
Leah Dolan, CNN While the world is seemingly one big runway for Kim Kardashian, on Wednesday she stepped onto an actual catwalk at Balenciaga’s…
Continue ReadingAirbus A380 ‘flew 14 hours’ with hole in side
Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN Passengers traveling on an Emirates flight to Brisbane, Australia were stunned when they noticed a huge hole in the side…
Continue ReadingOut-of-this world images revealed in Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2022 shortlist
Sana Noor Haq, CNN The star-studded Milky Way above a US coastline, pink and purple clouds overlooking Argentina and a reflection of the northern…
Continue ReadingThey fell in love on vacation in 1971. They’ve been together for 50 years
Francesca Street, CNN In the sundrenched summer of 1971, Sura Crutch, a recent graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Art, headed to Europe for three…
Continue ReadingJapanese tea house lets visitors drink from $25,000 antique bowls
By Miki Lendon and Brad Lendon, CNN Participating in an ancient Japanese tradition, sipping from a $25,000 antique bowl and even finding a bit of a…
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