- Friday, 28 November 2025
CNN
World’s best restaurants for 2024
The awards – considered the Oscars of global fine dining – were handed out at a ceremony at the Wynn in Las Vegas on Wednesday evening, with Barcelona’s Disfrutar walking away with the top prize. Ranked number two last year, it’s owned and run by chefs Oriol Castro, Eduard Xatruch and Mateu Casanas. The fact that this trio met while working at the legendary El Bulli should provide a few clues as to what diners can expect – imaginative and playful dishes executed with technical mastery, such as the caviar-filled Panchino doughnut, the frozen gazpacho sandwich and squab with kombu spaghetti, almond and grape.
Plastics industry claims this technology could help banish pollution
A squat, light-coloured building in Tigard, Oregon, was supposed to be part of a game-changing new solution for the global plastics industry. Called Regenyx, this recycling facility took in polystyrene — a hard-to-recycle plastic used for products like coffee cups, egg cartons and meat trays — and melted it right down to its building blocks, ready to be made into new products.
World’s best airline for 2024
When planning a trip, you can’t guarantee your flight won’t be delayed, your bag won’t go missing, or you won’t have a nightmare neighbour. But you can lighten your unease when things go wrong by choosing an airline brand you trust. Journeys on Qatar Airways don’t always go as hoped – 12 people were injured after a flight from Doha to Dublin was hit with turbulence on Sunday – but the Qatari flag carrier consistently places highly on global airline rankings.
No showers, no privacy, no regrets: Welcome to life in Antarctica
A five-month-long slumber party. A college dorm. An introvert’s hell. Those are just some of the words residents of Antarctica use to describe life in the world’s coldest, most mysterious continent.
As many as 2,000 people feared buried under Papua New Guinea landslide
As many as 2,000 people are feared to have been buried by last week’s massive landslide in Papua New Guinea, according to the country’s National Disaster Centre, as rescuers scramble to find any survivors in the remote region.
World’s best countries for tourism
The United States has just won a significant honour – being named the world’s best country for travel and tourism in 2024 by the World Economic Forum. The rankings are determined by a broad range of criteria, including infrastructure, natural resources, sustainability, labour availability and – since this is the World Economic Fund we’re talking about – competitive pricing.
Scientists say they’ve found where the sun’s magnetic field originates
The sun has a powerful magnetic field that creates sunspots on the star’s surface and unleashes solar storms such as the one that bathed much of the planet in beautiful auroras this month. But exactly how that magnetic field is generated inside the sun is a puzzle that has vexed astronomers for centuries, going back to the time of Italian astronomer Galileo, who made the first observations of sunspots in the early 1600s, and noticed how they varied over time.
Iran's President Raisi Killed in helicopter crash, state media confirms
Iran President Ebrahim Raisi has died in a helicopter crash, Iranian news agencies have reported.
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World's 15 most spectacular airport landings
There are plenty of spectacular landing strips around, but often the best known are located in out-of-the-way destinations. So here we’ve put together some of the most beautiful approaches in major destinations – along with which side of the aircraft you should sit to best appreciate them.
New Miss USA crowned amid ongoing turmoil at pageant
Amid a dramatic two weeks of resignations and allegations made against the Miss USA organization, Miss Hawaii USA Savannah Gankiewicz — who had originally placed as the first runner-up at the 2023 Miss USA pageant — has stepped up to be crowned Miss USA.
Scientists make surprising whale language discovery
Understanding how sperm whales such as the mother and calf shown above vary their click sequences could help scientists learn how the animals "encode information in their calls," researchers said.
Iranian rapper Toomaj Salehi sentenced to death for protesting
Dissident rapper Toomaj Salehi has been given a death sentence for his involvement in the widespread protests that swept Iran in 2022, according to his lawyer.
Orangutan observed treating wound using medicinal plant in world first
Scientists working in Indonesia have observed an orangutan intentionally treating a wound on their face with a medicinal plant, the first time this behaviour has been documented.
Perimenopause may raise risk of one mental health condition by 40%, study finds
Now, a new study has quantified the risk of depression during the transition, known as perimenopause — showing that women in this stage are about 40% more likely to experience the mental health condition than premenopausal women.
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Why hundreds of climbers heading into the ‘death zone’ this spring?
Dead bodies are left behind on Mount Everest, so why are hundreds of climbers heading into the ‘death zone’ this spring?
