As part of the rituals in the Hindu festival Thaipusam, participants engage in various acts of devotion -- including piercing their skin, tongue or cheeks.
The partial US government shutdown raises all sorts of questions for travelers on topics from aviation safety and security to passports and national parks.
A Canadian mayor says he is considering putting a hat on his town's statue of a moose, after affronted residents discovered that it is no longer the world's tallest.
Coco Chanel checked in to the Hôtel Ritz in Paris and left 34 years later, while in London, Claude Monet stayed at The Savoy, where he'd sit and paint the River Thames through the city's fog.
Once, a simple hangover breakfast might have sufficed for a reset on January 1, but not today: The world is moving lightning fast and keeping up doesn't generally include taking a moment to breathe.
Tempted by the deal offering homes for just over $1 in the town of Sambuca on Italy's island of Sicily? So's everyone else, deluging its deputy mayor with tens of thousands of enquiries.
A great white shark, believed to be one of the largest on the planet, has been spotted by Ocean Ramsey and other divers as it fed on a whale carcass off the coast of Hawaii. The divers, who captured remarkable footage of the encounter, say the shark is Deep Blue -- a 20-foot-long female.
When bad weather means pilots can't see the runway, they can use autoland -- an automatic control system that uses radio signals to guide their airplane to a safe landing.
The National Park Service will use a grant from Delta Air Lines and fee revenues to reopen the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historical Park in Atlanta despite the government shutdown.
Ambitious plans for an enormous new beach resort on North Korea's southeast coast are nearing completion, according to satellite images obtained by the US-based monitoring group 38 North.
A woman in southern India has become the first to climb a sacred mountain after a court lifted a local custom that prohibited females from scaling the peak.
Finland ranks as the happiest country in the world. Could (voluntary) plunges into icy water — and the mental and physical health benefits associated with such a practice — be one of the reasons this country is so content?
CNN Travel unveils 19 of the best places to visit in 2019 -- including hallowed ground in France, the US Space Coast and the exotic Middle Eastern nation of Oman.
