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But when he heads out, Daniel Uhlfelder dons a raggedy black robe, conceals his face with a black cloth and wields his scythe. Uhlfelder, an attorney, is haunting Florida beaches dressed as the Grim Reaper to protest their reopening, which he believes is premature. It’s a macabre plea to beachgoers to stay home. Uhlfelder is

(CNN) — During the week of April 21, there were just two passenger-carrying 747 jumbo jets flying around the world. The Covid-19 pandemic has made the Queen of the Skies an acutely endangered monarch. But Her Majesty might just be having the finest moment of her reign. As the pandemic continues to sweep the globe,

Tokyo (CNN) — When Keisuke Arai switched to working from home during the coronavirus pandemic, he began bickering more with his long-term girlfriend. Suspecting he wasn’t alone, the Tokyo-based tourism operator wondered how couples across Japan were coping under lockdown, as they adjusted to being together 24/7 under the same roof. On April 3, he

(CNN) — High above the Polcevera valley, the final section of a majestic new bridge was hoisted into place this week, signaling the imminent completion of a remarkable engineering project against seemingly impossible odds. The bridge is a critical traffic artery for northern Italy. It connects two sides of the city of Genoa and serves

Though the museum temporarily closed in March due to stay-at-home restrictions, employees were determined to continue their daily practice of honoring victims of the September 11th terrorist attacks on their birthdays. The building’s security team, who is considered essential staff at One World Trade Center, volunteered to take up the task. Each day, members of

Wellington, New Zealand (CNN) — It may be some time before tourists are traveling the globe again. But what if you could travel through designated, approved parts of it? Politicians from Australia and New Zealand are discussing the possibility of opening up borders to each other, creating a travel corridor — or “travel bubble” —

Editor’s Note — Want more inspiring, positive news? Sign up for The Good Stuff, a newsletter for the good in life. It will brighten your inbox every Saturday morning. (CNN) — Every year, tourists descend on the Netherlands to revel in the bright and colorful tulip fields. But with coronavirus putting many travel plans on

(CNN) — No one element of my life has required such consistent spontaneity (and solvency) as the College Football Bowl schedule. The appeal is sometimes a mystery. There’s the annual displeasure, every December, of not knowing where you’ll be going in the next few weeks. Of having to book multiple hotel rooms across several different

(CNN) — Today three major US airlines separately announced they were going to require their passengers to wear masks. Two days after Jet Blue became the first major airline to announce this change, these three US airlines followed suit, releasing statements explaining their new policies. Earlier this week Delta communicated that airline employees were now

(CNN) — There are worse places to wait out a pandemic. Hundreds of tourists are still stuck in the Maldives, Ali Waheed, the country’s tourism minister told CNN’s Richard Quest, more than a month after the novel coronavirus arrived there. Waheed said there was about 500 tourists on the islands, with 100 of them stranded

(CNN) — Fans of Disney World in Florida and Disneyland in California are already dreaming of the parks’ eventual reopening down the distant road. But in a world that’s been through a pandemic, what will that reality look like? Little is certain, but there’s one sure thing: It’s a going to be different world. After

(CNN) — There have long been drive-thru theaters, fast food restaurants and even, in some places, pharmacies. Now, in Texas, there’s a drive-thru zoo — at least temporarily. The San Antonio Zoo announced it is giving families the opportunity pack up their cars and drive-thru the park for a limited amount of time. Visitors will

(CNN) — Glimmers of a gradual return to air travel mean airlines are rolling out new policies aimed at protecting passengers and crew from coronavirus transmission and increasing consumer confidence in air travel safety. One day after the TSA marked its highest number of screened passengers in the US since April 3, JetBlue Airways announced

Hong Kong (CNN) — Amid the global Covid-19 pandemic, people around the world are wondering when life will return to “normal.” The word normal is, of course, relative, but a spate of domestic flight routes slowly opening up in Asia and the Pacific give clues into what the aviation industry could look like in the

(CNN) — What do a sexy Hong Kong icon, a bankrupted entrepreneur and a failed military defense campaign have in common? They all contributed to the rise of bubble tea, the insanely popular Taiwanese drink that’s taken the world by storm in recent years. Invented in the 1980s, bubble tea (also called “black pearl tea”

(CNN) — Somewhere on that 7 a.m. Greyhound bus journey between Port Authority and Albany, I started crying. Being stranded by a blizzard in New York had been fun at first: crunching through piled-high sidewalks was a Christmas movie come true. But the record-breaking snowfall in the Eastern United States from December 16 to 20,

(CNN) — Right now, most of us can only explore the pyramids and archaeological wonders of Egypt online, but excavations and explorations into the country’s ancient past remain ongoing. Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities has announced the unearthing of five limestone sarcophagi and four wooden coffins containing human mummies. These incredible archaeological finds were

(CNN) — As journeys home go, it was a particularly long and unusual one. The Covid-19 pandemic forced a group of 24 Dutch teenagers to sail the Atlantic to return to the Netherlands, arriving safely in the port of Harlingen on Sunday after more than five weeks at sea. The students, aged between 14 and

(CNN) — Anyone currently whiling away the long hours of lockdown with when-this-is-all-over dreams of a fresh start in life, should heed this as a cautionary tale. In 2011, at the age of 44, I had my own mid-life-crisis career swerve, ditching journalism to start a new life as the owner of a waterfront hotel,

(CNN) — The last Hippo Creek Safari was cut short — in mid-March, the veteran tour operator’s guest flew out of Botswana several days early once news of impending lockdowns hit. She never made it to Rwanda. Covid-19 had arrived in Africa, restricting travel in and out of the continent. The restrictions spell trouble for