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By Oscar Holland, CNN Featuring tranquil courtyards, pond-lined walkways and a facade bursting with tropical plants, a rug factory in Bangladesh has claimed one of architecture’s top prizes. Green Field Factory, a seven-story textile facility in the northern city of Rangpur, won the prestigious RIBA International Prize on Thursday, with judges calling the building a

By Bianca Betancourt, CNN I often base my impression of a celebrity on one of two major variables: how much I would want to actually be their friend and yap over martinis and French fries or how much I would want to raid their closet. The Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning actor Ayo Edebiri passes both

By Sebnem Arsu, CNN Istanbul (CNN) — “This has been sitting in the safe for such a long time,” says 78-year-old Umit Berksoy, leaning over the table with his magnifying glass in hand, gently running his fingers over the stone gleaming inside the creased white cloth. “You can no longer find rubies of this size

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — A heartbreaking image of an elephant carrying a dead calf has been named the overall winner of the 2026 Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition. The image, named “The Aftermath,” was taken by Italian photographer Federico Veronesi. It shows a female elephant carrying the calf in Namibia, according to

By Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — Passengers traveling from Italy to Australia failed to arrive in Perth as planned over the weekend, after their flight was canceled due to a reported case of bedbugs. Qantas, Australian’s national airliner, was forced to cancel the flight scheduled for Saturday after passengers on an earlier incoming flight complained

By Leah Dolan, CNN You’re a copywriter, a communications manager, an elusive creative director with indeterminate responsibilities. So why are you dressed liked a 20th century French rail worker? Today, some 70 million employed Americans will probably work from behind a desk. Yet our obsession with clothes from a different kind of working life just

By Brad Lendon, CNN Manila, Philippines (CNN) — Without Filipino sailors, much of the world’s merchant shipping would come to a standstill — and the world economy along with it. Seafarers from the Philippine archipelago make up 25% to 30% of the ship crews worldwide, from tankers to bulk carriers to cruise ships. It’s a

By Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — In our round-up of travel stories this week: Why one US family moved from Virginia to Naples, how to stop a runaway plane, plus the verdict’s in on the world’s best bars, restaurants and hotels. The ‘world’s best bars’ When Lorenzo Antinori opened Bar Leone in Hong Kong’s fashionable

By Cy Neff Skopje, North Macedonia (CNN) — Spiked with ridges and peaks that deliver scenery running the full four-seasons gamut — from electric green slopes to snow-capped crags — North Macedonia offers one of Southern Europe’s final chances to take the path less-traveled. Previously known as Macedonia after declaring its independence from Yugoslavia in

By Leah Dolan, CNN You might have an idea as to what fashion people wear to runway shows. Then photographer Juergen Teller shows up, as always, to prove you wrong. Even amid the hooplah of peacocking influencers and frazzled fashion editors, Teller’s flash of Ibiza club-colored sportswear demanded a double take. He wore them a

By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — Anne Carson, the Canadian writer and classicist whose work blends verse, prose and essay with influences from classical myths, has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in literature for her “bold and inventive oeuvre.” Carson, 76, is an accomplished classicist who has taught at multiple colleges in the US and

By Sheena McKenzie, CNN London (CNN) — At some point, we’ve bumped our heads and woken in a ’90s fantasia. In this new-old world there are cargo pants, slip dresses and swooning for Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy’s minimalism. Kate Moss is on the runway. Oasis keeps going on tour. Nevermind (in the words of Nirvana) that it’s

By Oscar Holland, CNN (CNN) — At a busy thoroughfare inside the European Parliament, passing politicians are now confronted with a grotesque and gilded vision of American power: an 8.5-foot-tall statue of President Donald Trump, naked but for a thin layer of 23-karat gold leaf. “Trump likes gold,” said Danish artist Jens Galschiøt, the statue’s

Tanya Fevzi Julianne Moore’s apartment, a two-bedroom duplex smack in the center of New York’s West Village, was one she always wanted. “I had spotted it when I was wandering,” she confessed to Architectural Digest ahead of their November issue. A subconscious manifestation, perhaps. Today, she shares the space — which sits on top a

By Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — Standing at the crossroad of continents, Istanbul has long been a global linchpin. As Byzantium and then Constantinople, it controlled trade routes along the Silk Road and maritime passage from the Black Sea to the Mediterranean. In the golden age of railways, Istanbul was the end point of the

By Amarachi Orie, CNN (CNN) — Some of the cutest, weirdest and most comedic animal photographs and videos of the year have been released. Perhaps an elephant covering an eye with his trunk, as if participating in a game of hide and seek, makes you gush. Or two birds face-to-face in close proximity, covering themselves

By Fiona Sinclair Scott, CNN; Photos by Cha Gonzalez Paris (CNN) — A year after his highly-rated debut as the new artistic director of Chanel, Matthieu Blazy showed that despite the rave reviews and frenzied shoppers, he hasn’t lost sight of how it all began. On Monday night, the designer presented an ode to the