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Sign up for CNN Travel’s weekly newsletter, Unlocking the World. Get destination news, plus the latest information on aviation, food and drink, and accommodation. This week’s trip: The world’s best cheese and lots of delicious bread to go with it, another Italian town offering sweet perks to its new residents, and a medieval village in France that gets top scores from the French. France has been the world’s most visited country for years, with a record 100 million international tourists arriving last year to enjoy its culture, food and scenery. In 2022, a Belgian man cycled 870 miles just to…
Check out the companies making the biggest moves at noon: Scholar Rock — The Cambridge, Mass.-based biotechnology company soared 23% Wednesday after announcing it had “completed a constructive and collaborative Type A face-to-face meeting” with the FDA for its biologics license application for its spinal muscular atrophy drug apitegroumab. Officials from Novo Nordisk’s Catalent Indiana also attended the meeting and said the facility will be ready for re-inspection by the end of 2025. Strategy — Cryptocurrency stocks fell about 1%, well below the lows seen earlier in the day. CEO Michael Saylor told CNBC’s “Squawk Box” that Bitcoin holders are…
NASA astronaut Anne McClain is rescued from the SpaceX Dragon Endurance spacecraft aboard the SpaceX recovery vessel Shannon, along with NASA astronaut Nicole Ayers, JAXA astronaut Takuya Onishi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov, after landing in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego, California, on August 9, 2025. NASA | Getty ImagesProsecutors in Houston, Texas, announced Friday that a former Air Force intelligence officer has pleaded guilty to lying to federal officials by falsely claiming that his estranged astronaut wife illegally accessed his bank account during a six-month stay on the International Space Station.Summer Warden, 50, entered a…
Buckingham Palace released a new photo of the king on Friday, marking what would have been Charles III’s 77th birthday. The image, taken by photographer Millie Pilkington in May, shows Charles in the gardens of Norfolk’s Sandringham Estate, with his expansive stately home in the background. Other photos, believed to have been taken at the same time, show him wandering around Sandringham’s gardens, tending to maple saplings. They were published in Country Life magazine on Wednesday to commemorate Charles’ restoration of the historic garden. On Friday, Camilla and Duchess attended a reception at Cyfarthfa Castle, about 40 kilometers north of…
The Walmart logo is seen near a store in Austin, USA, on October 23, 2025.Jakub Porzycki | Null Photo | Getty ImagesWhen receiving a call walmart Chief Executive Officer John Furner will assume the retailer’s top role as he seeks to follow a period of dramatic market share growth that many of Walmart’s rivals have failed to match.Walmart’s stock price has more than quadrupled since outgoing CEO Doug McMillon took over in February 2014. In nine of Walmart’s 12 calendar years as a leader, the company posted a positive price-to-earnings ratio.Only one of Wal-Mart’s major competitors in the retail and…
13. Stark insisted on filming on location, so the cast was trucked to Louisiana. “It helped because Natchitoches is gorgeous,” Harling said. “No matter where you point your camera, you’ll get a good shot.” But by bringing in the necessary equipment and finding rental accommodation for the biggest stars, the production turned into a lavish affair. As Harling said, “The circus has come to town.” 14. Parton and her team (assistants, bodyguards, hairstylists) ate at the same place every night, “a restaurant called Mariner’s on Sibley Lake,” resident Tom Whitehead recalled to Garden and Gun. As a result, the seafood…
New technology is reducing workers’ compensation claims and fraud across industries.But on a construction site, the results are visible on camera. Specialized cameras are being installed around the work site in collaboration with Arrowsight, a safety technology company specializing in video-based behavior modification and coaching analytics. These cameras capture footage of workers scrambling under timber hanging from cranes, or forgetting to tie off their balancing safety harnesses high above the ground. The video is flagged by the team and the safety supervisor is notified. Employees then receive feedback and appropriate training.In New York state, where workers’ compensation insurance costs and…
Beijing — China has warned its citizens against traveling to Japan amid an intensifying backlash over the country’s prime minister’s comments on the island of Taiwan. This ruling is the Chinese government’s most substantial retaliation to date for Sanae Takaichi’s comments. While this may be more symbolic than anything else, the move signals Beijing’s readiness to use economic influence to pursue geopolitical points, a well-worn strategy. China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement Friday that recent “blatantly provocative statements against Taiwan” have “further deteriorated the atmosphere of people-to-people exchanges and posed further risks to the safety and security…
Warren Buffett speaks at Berkshire Hathaway’s annual shareholder meeting in Omaha, Nebraska on May 3, 2025.CNBCWarren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway revealed a new position in alphabetGoogle’s parent company was the conglomerate’s 10th largest holding at the end of September, according to regulatory filings.Berkshire took $4.3 billion of Alphabet stock public at the end of the third quarter, a surprising move given Buffett’s traditional value investing philosophy and reluctance to invest in high-growth tech stocks. While owned by Berkshire, apple Buffett has long called the company more of a consumer products company than a pure technology business.The acquisition was also likely made…
The Dancing with the Stars star deftly dodged questions about whether he was dating Xochitl Gomez after the two sparked romance speculation with an intimate dance at the show’s 20th anniversary celebration on Nov. 11. “Oh my god, I had the best time,” Robert told TMZ about performing a jive routine with the Marvel actress during the dance relay portion of the episode. 「あのダンスはとても楽しかったです。」 And the 21-year-old was among six Mirrorball Trophy winners after performing a foxtrot in honor of his late father Robert Irwin earlier in the evening with professional partner Witney Carson and sister Bindi Irwin. He emphasized…