A lucky photographer captured an amazing shot of a giant manta ray that leaped out of the water as he was taking pictures of surfers from a Florida beach.Rusty Escandell told CNN that he took the photograph on Sunday, while…
'Serial stowaway' Marilyn Hartman is being held without bond following her arrest at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport on Tuesday after she left the residential facility where she was being electronically monitored.The Cook County Sheriff's Office told CNN in a statement…
British cruise line P&O Cruises has announced it is to offer "cruises to nowhere" for vaccinated British travelers this summer.The voyages will depart in late June from the southern England port of Southampton and navigate the UK coast.There will be…
Bathed in the faint light at the end of the once seemingly endless pandemic tunnel are visions of trips that reunite us with loved ones or take us to some blissfully new environment.Many of those visions are becoming a reality…
"You ride along here at night going home. And you look out. You look in the windows and you see the lights on and think... What is going on at that kitchen table? What are people thinking about? What are…
India is gigantic -- there are 28 states, with cultural and linguistic divergences between them.You can easily spend a few weeks (or months) exploring the popular Golden Triangle circuit that covers Delhi, the Taj Mahal in Agra, and Jaipur in…
France will return a painting by artist Gustav Klimt to the heirs of a Jewish family forced to sell the artwork during World War II.The painting, purchased by the French state in 1980, was being kept at France's Musée d'Orsay,…
Dozens of fragments of a Dead Sea Scroll bearing biblical text have been found by archaeologists working in the Judean Desert, the Israeli government said Tuesday.The fragments are the first pieces of the Dead Sea Scrolls found in around 60…
It's been a surreal year for travel as the Covid-19 pandemic brought aviation to a halt, museums and hotels shuttered their doors and once bustling tourist destinations from Paris to Phuket became ghost towns.Who can forget seeing eerie photos of…
Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal, known for transforming and revitalizing neglected buildings across France, have been named winners of architecture's equivalent to the Nobel Prize.The duo, whose "never demolish" ethos has given new life to pre-existing urban architecture, will be…
On forgotten walls of country churches or crumbling castles throughout Ireland, the tiny figures squat unseen.Lost in gray brickwork, obscured by ivy or moss, Sheela-na-gig stone carvings can be hard to spot in the wild -- but these medieval creations…
The Federal Aviation Administration will extend its stricter enforcement against unruly passengers -- specifically targeting those who disobey masking policies -- after receiving more than 500 reports of misbehaving passengers since December, the agency said Monday."The number of cases we're…
You may not know what a junk boat is, but odds are high that you've seen one.The junk boat -- tall and wooden with its three bright-red sails glowing in the Victoria Harbor sunlight -- is one of the most…
It's been a year since the cruise industry was in the eye of the Covid storm as leisure ships proved themselves ideal places for the disease to spread.On March 13 last year, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention…
She unearthed fantastic prehistoric creatures that had been lost to the sands of time, and her achievements -- overlooked and uncredited while she was alive -- also almost remained buried.An unsung pioneer of paleontology, Mary Anning is finally getting some…
Anna was born with the right to dual citizenship, because she has a Japanese mother and American father. She spent her life traveling between both countries, and says she felt deeply connected to the two cultures.But Japan requires those with…
Ireland. Close your eyes and picture what you think of when you envision the Emerald Isle. The green. The natural beauty. That distinctive accent. But above all, Ireland is forever associated with its famed hospitality -- the warmth of its…
Justin Bieber has teamed up with Crocs for the second time, after their first collaboration in October overwhelmed the comfort footwear brand's website and helped fuel record sales.The lavender clogs can be customized with colorful shoe pins called "Jibbitz charms"…
Paolo Gramaglia loves tomatoes. The owner and chef of the Michelin-starred President restaurant in Pompeii, his link with the fruit is so strong, he says, that he and it are intrinsically entwined.Not that he thinks he's special -- he thinks…
A writer hired to translate Amanda Gorman's poem "The Hill We Climb" into Catalan said he has been removed from the position by publisher Univers.Victor Obiols, whose previous work includes Catalan translations of William Shakespeare and Oscar Wilde, told CNN…
