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(CNN) — We’ve all been tempted to bring a little bit of paradise home from our holidays. But the urge has backfired on a French couple, who are facing up to six years in prison for removing sand from a beach in Sardinia, where they had been on vacation. The Italian island’s white sand is

(CNN) — How early should you get to the airport before your flight? Sure, the official line is two hours for domestic travel and three hours for international, but we all have our own airport timing strategy. Do you prefer a stress-free trip, arriving early but losing half a day to terminal time, or do

Videos from last week show one swimming in the middle of a busy road — and another climbing a fence. One of the intrusive reptiles was filmed on Thursday swimming in a giant puddle in the middle of an intersection during a downpour in St. Petersburg. Facebook user Roger Light Jr. caught it on video.

Prince Harry and Meghan, who have spoken out regularly on environmental issues, were photographed boarding a private jet with their three-month-old son Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor twice in the last week, visiting Nice, France. British newspaper The Sun claims that the couple had returned to the UK from Ibiza, also by private jet, just two days

(CNN) — Workers in the United States left a record number of vacation days on the table last year, equating to billions in lost benefits, according to research from the U.S. Travel Association, Oxford Economics and Ipsos. A total of 768 million days went unused in 2018, a 9% increase from 2017. Of those, 236

(CNN) — The globe is criss-crossed a million times over with flight routes, buzzing with planes throughout the day. Sometimes market forces and competitive advantage come together to make some routes more lucrative than others. One route stands out from all the rest, the only one to break the billion-dollar barrier: British Airways’ service between

(CNN) — You wake up and eat breakfast on your private balcony, admiring majestic views of the ocean. You dock in port after port, crisscrossing the Mediterranean — from the canals of Venice to the red roofs of Dubrovnik and back. Or you travel down the German Rhine or beach-hop in the Caribbean. At each

Slavutych, Ukraine (CNN) — There’s a clock tower in the middle of the giant central square of Slavutych. Every hour it plays the anthem of the city. The sound comes suddenly, piercing through the silence and emptiness of the surroundings. In the quiet square it’s a reminder that this city in northern Ukraine is very

(CNN) — Itching to go to the Rainbow State but balling on a budget? Good news: Southwest Airlines is expanding its service from California to Hawaii starting in mid-January. The airline announced that it’s starting daily service between Sacramento International Airport and Honolulu. Southwest is also offering new nonstop service between the islands and airports

Maxim Rigaux was in the kayak closest to the rockfall. “We noticed it first when some little rocks fell down just next to one of our guides who was just under the cliff,” he said. The guide paddled away, and even bigger rocks began raining down. Rigaux started recording and captured video of the massive

The Ural Airlines Airbus A321 was carrying 226 passengers and a crew of seven from Moscow’s Zhukovsky airport to Simferopol — a city on the Crimean Peninsula — when it ran into trouble. Shortly after takeoff, the plane “collided with a flock of gulls,” according a statement from the agency. Some of the birds were

(CNN) — Over the past 10 weeks, shocking images have emerged from Hong Kong‘s pro-democracy protests: tear gas has been fired outside shops, protesters and police have clashed in dramatic face-offs, and thousands of demonstrators occupied the city’s airport. While millions have come out to peacefully march, in recent weeks the demonstrations have sometimes turned

(CNN) — Most teens dream of doing something absolutely epic before going off to college. Madelyn Hendrikse and Braden Dirkse made that dream a reality by water-skiing across Lake Michigan. Hendrikse, 18, and Dirkse, 17, of Oostburg, Wisconsin, have been friends their whole lives, and they wanted to share one more memorable experience before Hendrikse

The 16-year-old grabbed his surfboard and paddled out, as he’s done almost every day this summer. About 100 yards away from shore, he saw something sticking out of the water, but “blending in with the reef,” he told CNN. Keliikipi thought it was a turtle at first, but soon realized it was a shark. So

(CNN) — Ancient sites that have survived centuries, or even millennia, haven’t fared so well in the 21st century. The destruction at Palmyra in Syria, the Buddhas at Bamiyan in Afghanistan and Nimrud’s ruins outside Mosul in Iraq show how precarious the future can be. Here are 23 best ancient cities you can visit —

Jackson Hepner was visiting The Inn at Honey Run in Millersburg, Ohio, in July with his family when he made the discovery. “His dad and his uncle are both really into natural history and understanding nature,” Jason Nies, who owns the inn, told CNN affiliate WEWS on Tuesday. “They quickly jumped online and were Googling

(CNN) — India is immense; not solely in size and spirit, but also in possibilities. If you’re traveling here, a visit to the Taj Mahal — the iconic white marble mausoleum and UNESCO World Heritage site — is likely on the top of your list. And you’re probably familiar with other popular activities such as

Zoo Berlin officials announced that two of its male king penguins, Skipper and Ping, have eagerly adopted an egg. It’ll be the pair’s first chick, if all goes well. The couple arrived together from a zoo in Hamburg in April, and their bond was evident as soon as they arrived, zoo spokesman Maximilian Jäger said.

(CNN) — Nearly every culture has its own tradition involving a hot beverage — whether it be tea, mulled wine or spiced apple cider. For the Turkish, the hot beverage of choice is dark, muddy coffee known as Türk kahvesi. The drink has captivated the hearts and taste buds of generations, infusing flavor and meaning

The internet is losing its collective mind over a video of Whooshh Innovations’ salmon cannon — yep, that’s it’s real name — built to zip fish over hydroelectric dams that block their migration paths. The video shows a man chucking a salmon into a tube. The translucent channel is suspended mid-air, and the fish’s speeding