Entertainment

By Gawon Bae, Yoonjung Seo, Chris Lau, CNN Seoul, South Korea (CNN) — The owner of a two-Michelin-starred restaurant in South Korea has avoided prison time in a highly publicized case surrounding a sorbet dessert topped with ants. On September 16, the Seoul Western District Court fined the owner of the restaurant 15 million won

By Megan Frye, CNN (CNN) — Just beyond the edges of one of the largest cities on the planet, a stretch of ancient rainforest and coastline lies mostly unknown to international travelers. The roughly 370 miles of São Paulo state’s pristine, mountainous coastline is nestled beneath the canopy of the Atlantic Forest, or Mata Atlântica

By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — Beneath red tinsel and in the dim glow of club lighting, six young couples kiss, each seemingly wrapped up in their own little worlds. The intimate scene feels like a film still out of time, decade unclear, as they close their eyes and hold one another in the retro

By Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — In 2006, a United States passport was the ultimate ticket to the world, offering its citizens a level of global access matched only by two other nations: Denmark and Finland. What a difference 20 years makes. As the Henley Passport Index reveals in its newly released 20th-anniversary report, the

By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — For more than two months, Cipriani Residences has held the title of Miami’s tallest building. The three-tower luxury design has risen in the Brickell neighborhood, its wraparound terraces and airy glass promising the feel of the Italian Riviera on Biscayne Bay, topping out at 950 feet this month. But

By Francesca Street, CNN (CNN) — Jill Shropshire turned the key in the lock and immediately felt a snap. She stood for a moment in disbelief: the key had broken off in her hand. “I wasn’t looking at what I was doing, and I just shoved it in there … I think I put it

By Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — In our roundup of travel news this week: how Asia is coping with hyper-hot weather, a terrifying incident on board a budget airline, plus the world’s busiest airports of 2025. Why Atlanta? Last year, global air travel reached a record-breaking 9.8 billion passengers, according to a report on the

By Mike Dunphy, CNN (CNN) — When American pharmacist John Stith Pemberton reached his eureka moment on May 8, 1886, his formula for what would become Coca-Cola sparked a global soft drink revolution that still reverberates today. In fact, it’s now possible to “buy the world a Coke,” as the 1970s jingle goes, in nearly

Zoe Whitfield (CNN) — So intimately tethered is the American family at the center of Karim Aïnouz’s latest movie “Rosebush Pruning” – by blood, desire, and an excessive interest in designer labels – that the arrival of any outsider would guarantee friction. When Elle Fanning’s character Martha (the girlfriend of eldest son Jack, portrayed by

By Leah Dolan, CNN (CNN) — How do you define glamour? Like the ever-elusive concept of personal style, glamour is often intangible, innate, even aura-based. It’s in the details: the socialite Lee Radziwill’s slouchy shawls and capes worn with a rock-hard blow-dry and enormous jewellery; her sister Jackie Kennedy’s valorous commitment to a silk headscarf

By Griffin Shea, CNN Bukasa, Uganda (CNN) — On a tropical island more than 600 miles from the sea, a mystical waterfall springs out of a rock and cascades down a cliff, eventually flowing into Lake Victoria and then the Nile. It’s a natural and, for many Ugandans, a spiritual wonder. But the people who

By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — Beneath a diaphanous white veil, four family members sit together on tan leather chairs, the woman in the center holding a baby in her arms. They gaze pointedly at the viewer, their concealed-yet-visible state a potent metaphor. Now in their 60s, they are the children born from a Japanese