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By Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — Norway’s tourism board has launched a tongue-in-cheek toilet campaign to show off the country’s most scenic restrooms after US President Donald Trump branded the Nordic nation a “sh*t house country.” Trump delivered his scathing comments on the campaign trail, days before voters head to the polls for the midterm

By Lilit Marcus, CNN, and Keiichiro Kowaguchi Tokyo (CNN) — More than 500,000 people march, walk, skateboard and dance across Shibuya Crossing every day. As the world’s busiest and most famous intersection, it’s an essential Tokyo tourist stop. Many places around the world would love to have a “must visit” destination of this cachet. But

By David Mack, CNN If you were to put together a time capsule that might reflect what life feels like amid the chaos of the 2020s, what would you choose to include? Which artists and subjects — which bodies or voices — would you feature? And would you have the confidence to even trust yourself

Story by Associated Press The Vatican (AP) — The Vatican is opening a celebration of the popemobile, the now-iconic vehicle that for nearly a century has let popes get close to the faithful at home and abroad. The Vatican Museums on Wednesday unveiled a preview of the exhibition commemorating “A Century of the Popemobile,” featuring

By Jacqui Palumbo, CNN (CNN) — If you were a polarizing Canadian rapper who had a tumultuous end to your 30s and had spent the better part of the last year releasing a trove of new music to change the narrative, what would you want to signal through your 40th birthday attire? Drake, who turned

By Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Rome (CNN) — Some 250 World War I-era munitions that emerged from rapidly retreating glaciers in the Italian Dolomites have been removed. Artillery shells, mortar bombs and other ammunition had initially been found in the Trentino-Alto Adige region by hikers, naturalists and, in one case, after a road accident, according

By Lex Harvey, CNN (CNN) — A residential cruise ship that has been sailing around the world continuously for more than two years has evicted passengers in Cambodia after the fallout from the Iran war made fuel prices too expensive to continue its voyage. The Florida-based operator of the luxury Villa Vie Odyssey announced Tuesday

By Maureen O’Hare, CNN Liverpool, England (CNN) — It’s an unassuming entrance to what’s been described as the world’s largest underground folly, a centuries-old mystery buried at least 60 feet below the streets of Liverpool, England, and stretching out for perhaps a square mile or more. The peeling, graffiti-covered facade of a Georgian house is

Arabelle Sicardi Frank Voelkl is a well-dressed German man you’d walk past on your Manhattan commute without a second thought. But his work has likely been on your neck, your vanity, your partner or your ex. If you’ve worn fragrance in the last two decades, you’ve probably worn Voelkl. He is, arguably, the perfumer of

By Mike Valerio, CNN Xiaohuajiang, China (CNN) — Against the towering mountains of southwestern China, a crowd gathered as a young man prepared to bungee jump off the world’s highest bridge. He stood above a vast canyon, the bridge’s roadway soaring nearly nine times higher above the water than San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge. Beyond

By Maureen O’Hare, CNN (CNN) — In our roundup of travel stories this week: the reality of living on a permanent cruise, the travelers visiting some of the world’s most notorious destinations, plus how the pandemic nearly killed off cargo ship tourism. Cargo ship cruisers For centuries, cargo ships have welcomed paying passengers, making freighter