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(CNN) — Randall Reeves was destined to be a seaman. His father was a naval captain, and Reeves, now 57, grew up surrounded by sea lore. His childhood home was decorated with his father’s sextant and other navigational tools and charts, old uniforms and an underlined copy of Herman Melville’s classic 1851 seafarer novel “Moby

With 49 people on board, the Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner flight completed the 10,066-mile journey from New York to Sydney in 19 hours and 16 minutes. Qantas Group Chief executive Alan Joyce said: “This is a really significant first for aviation. Hopefully, it’s a preview of a regular service that will speed up how people travel

All systems are go as Dubai gears up for the grand spectacle of Expo 2020. After six years of preparation and around $8 billion of investment, we are just one year from showtime: October 20, 2020. The six-month showcase of innovation is expected to draw 25 million visitors, with 192 countries represented, and if history

(CNN) — Researchers have identified the elusive ancient “lost city” of Cambodia for the first time, according to a report published Tuesday. In a project that has spanned years, an international group of scientists used aerial laser scans and ground-based surveying to map Mahendraparvata, or the Mountain of Indra, King of the Gods. Mahendraparvata was

The royal couple — and around 40 members of the traveling media — were returning to Islamabad on the converted RAF Voyager after a day of engagements in Lahore when they found themselves caught up in a severe thunderstorm. Prince William and his wife Kate are on a five-day official visit to the country. The

(CNN) — Don’t be fooled by the wrought iron gates covered in bats and gargoyles. Stephen King hopes his stately home in Bangor, Maine, will soon be a welcoming place. This week, the Bangor City Council approved a request by the prolific author and his wife, Tabitha King to rezone their Victorian mansion for use

(CNN) — For more than a century, the secretive imperial palace complex has stood over Ethiopia’s capital city of Addis Ababa, closed off to everyone but the country’s leaders and the troops who protected them. Almost hidden from view on a wooded bluff, its forbidding 40-acre compound was unknown even to some of those living

(CNN) — A sheriff’s office was looking all over for Bigfoot for months. They finally found him exactly where you’d think he would be: alone in the woods. Typically if someone calls in a Bigfoot sighting, it would be ignored or maybe even laughed at. But in this case, it was celebrated. A statue of

(CNN) — For Rev. Yunus Coldman, an interfaith minister and a New York-based transgender man, the anxiety of going through a TSA checkpoint starts days before he arrives at the airport. “I begin to sweat the night before I know I’m getting on a plane because I’m trying to anticipate anything and everything that can

(CNN) — Call three friends, jump in the bubble gum pink Jeep, and hop on the Pacific Coast Highway. The Barbie Malibu Dreamhouse is available to rent. It is beachy and dreamy, and it is very, very pink. Better yet? It’s only $60 per night on Airbnb. Panoramic ocean views and glamorous décor bring the

Opening at The Peak on October 26, Monopoly Dreams is said to be the world’s first fully immersive attraction inspired by the 84-year-old board game. “The Peak is the most valuable piece of land in the Hong Kong version of Monopoly … it was why we chose this location to start with,” Macci Li, public

(CNN) — “There are at least half a dozen A-list DJs here every weekend,” says Wael Hijazi, a DJ and promoter who left his native Lebanon for Dubai in 2007. Hijazi runs his own club night “Deep Like” on board the Queen Elizabeth 2, a cruise liner christened by the British monarch in 1967, now

The summer 2019 heatwave saw glacier melt rates break records, leading to huge losses in ice volume, reports the Cryospheric Commission (CC) of the Swiss Academy of Sciences. Glaciers around the world are melting due to climate change, and this latest research shows the extent of the problem in Switzerland. Scientists from the CC took

(CNN) — Unspoilt beaches at the foot of steep cliffs, romantic winding roads, and plenty of mountain wilderness — Italy’s Mediterranean island of Sardinia has it all. But some tourists are finding the combination a little too difficult to take. Authorities in Baunei, in Sardinia’s eastern province of Ogliastra, have launched an appeal to visitors,

“I was afraid,” she says. “It had a very sharp eyewall and also the intensity was very strong. It was a super typhoon.” Song is a professional storm watcher who is becoming increasingly worried about the impact of climate crisis on the towering coastal city, home to seven million people. The super typhoon she was

(CNN) — When we hear that an industry is celebrating its 100th anniversary, images of the industrial revolution might spring to mind, with its coal-powered steam machines, railways and chimneys. But this will soon apply to a sector generally associated with cutting-edge technology and the modern world. October 2019 will mark the 100-year anniversary of

Hong Kong (CNN) — Hong Kongers have been protesting for more than four months and demonstrations are becoming more violent and disruptive. The city’s leaders have maintained Hong Kong is still open for business, but is it still safe to visit? The situation has changed significantly since June 9, when protest organizers estimated more than

Tl’uk, whose name means “moon” in Coastal Salish, is already something of a local celebrity in north coastal Washington. He’s been spotted a handful of times in the Salish Sea by local whale watchers and cropped up again this weekend, Island Adventures Whale Watching lead naturalist Erin Gless told CNN. Tiny Tl’uk was first spotted

(CNN) — Residents of a Sydney suburb have been warned to be on the lookout for a massive snake, after a “freshly shed” skin from the reptile was found in the town. The snake is believed to be an adult boa constrictor — one of the world’s largest snake species, with an average length of

(CNN) — A Taiwanese tourist was arrested and fined for wearing a particularly revealing bikini on the beach at the Philippines’ newly reopened resort island of Boracay, local media reported. The tourist, who has not been named, sparked controversy by donning a string bikini on the island’s famous white-sand beaches on October 9, according to