‘Bored Ape’ NFT worth $284,495 accidentally sells for just $2,844
Amy Woodyatt, CNN A distracted trader accidentally sold a non-fungible token (NFT) for a hundredth of its market price. NFTs are the latest…
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‘Royal Tenenbaums’ at 20: How the film that established the ‘Wes Anderson effect’ is still making its mark
Marianna Cerini, CNN If a Wes Anderson fan were to make a list of all the things that make them so bewitched with the director’s films, it…
Continue ReadingGhana airport will fine airlines if they bring unvaccinated passengers to the country
Story by Reuters The operator of Ghana‘s main international airport will fine airlines $3,500 for every passenger they fly in who is not…
Continue ReadingLas Vegas airport renamed in honor of Harry Reid
By Forrest Brown, CNN As of Tuesday, December 14, some travelers going to Las Vegas may notice a change in their itineraries. That day, the airport…
Continue Reading‘Extremely rare’ 17th-century painting of Black woman with White companion placed under export bar from UK
Sana Noor Haq, CNN A 17th-century painting showing a Black woman with her White companion has been placed under a temporary export bar to reduce the…
Continue ReadingMary, Queen of Scots used ‘spiral locking’ technique to preserve secrecy of last letter before her execution
By Sana Noor Haq, CNN Mary, Queen of Scots used a “spiral locking” technique to seal the last letter she wrote before her execution,…
Continue ReadingWorld’s top tourist destination on ‘very high’ travel risk list
By Maureen O’Hare, CNN You all excited for a third year of the pandemic? Neither are we. But as restrictions tighten around the world, CNN…
Continue ReadingBerlin’s troubled Brandenburg Airport still in crisis one year after opening
Blane Bachelor, CNN After nearly a decade of delays and billions of euros over budget, Berlin’s long-awaited airport, Berlin-Brandenburg,…
Continue ReadingBanksy to sell T-shirts in aid of protesters facing trial over removal of slave trader statue
Jeevan Ravindran, CNN British graffiti artist Banksy has announced that he will be selling T-shirts to help those charged with pulling down the…
Continue ReadingThe countries welcoming US tourists now — and some resources for your visit
CNN Forrest Brown, CNN Throughout the pandemic, US passport holders have seen an ever-morphing list of international travel options. The only…
Continue ReadingThe art market has radically changed. Here’s how to buy art today
Jacqui Palumbo, CNN For a long time, the art market was “a secret world of whispers” according to art advisor Kim Heirston, who started…
Continue ReadingHow a photo from the other side of the world sparked a continent-spanning pandemic love story
Francesca Street, CNN It was the early months of the Covid-19 pandemic, and Reggie Laroche, stuck in his Florida apartment, was struggling to stay…
Continue ReadingFlying without wings: The world’s fastest trains
Ben Jones, CNN As the world faces up to climate change, short-haul flights look increasingly unattractive to many travelers. The flygskam (flight…
Continue ReadingDelta plane makes emergency landing after passenger assaults flight attendant and air marshal, police say
By Andy Rose, Kay Jones and Pete Muntean, CNN A Delta flight from Washington, DC, to Los Angeles made an emergency landing in Oklahoma City on…
Continue ReadingLas Vegas police arrest man who breached airport security claiming he wanted to steal a jet so he could get to Area 51
By Sharif Paget and Caroll Alvarado, CNN A man who told police he wanted to steal a jet so he could fly to Area 51 to look at aliens was arrested…
Continue ReadingSouth Korea green-lights plans for flood-resistant ‘floating city’
Oscar Holland, CNN The South Korean city of Busan has green-lit plans for an ambitious new ocean settlement, with work on the first neighborhood set…
Continue ReadingThe Metropolitan Museum of Art is removing the Sackler name from galleries
Harmeet Kaur and Laura Ly, CNN New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art will remove the Sackler family name from seven galleries, including the…
Continue ReadingCamels ejected from beauty contest over Botox use and other ‘tampering’
By Mohammed Tawfeeq and Jack Guy, CNN Organizers of a popular camel beauty contest in Saudi Arabia have disqualified 43 contestants after cracking…
Continue ReadingSweden reclaims place names from IKEA
By Julia Buckley, CNN Bolmen: your toilet brush. Toftan: your trash can. Misterhult: your bamboo lamp. Those exotic-sounding names that IKEA gives…
Continue ReadingPantone unveils Color of the Year for 2022
CNN Leah Dolan, CNN While many of us will spend the final days of 2021 reflecting on its whirlwind events, global color authority Pantone has already…
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