These designers are reviving an ancient craft — using plastic waste

Egypt is famous for its ancient history and culture, but it is struggling with a particularly modern problem: plastic waste.
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بين حرير تونس وعمارة اليابان.. مصممة أزياء تبني جسراً بين ثقافات مختلفة

عكست أزياء المصمّمة التونسية أنيسة مدب حوارا معاصرا بين التراث شمال الإفريقي والجماليات اليابانية.Credit: Ash Khmiri (CNN) -- جمعت المصمّمة التونسية ...

Nike’s ‘mind-altering’ shoes are flying off shelves. Is this the era of ‘passive neuro-wearables’?

Nike’s Mind shoe range has rapidly sold out across worldwide releases with buyers eager to get their hands on the “neuroscience-based footwear.” ...
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China’s Three Gorges Dam is one of the largest ever created. Was it worth it?

Three Gorges Dam is the largest hydropower project ever built. When construction began in 1994, it was designed not only to generate electricity to propel China’s breakneck economic growth, but also ...
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The Hermès Birkin bag: Everything you need to know about the world’s most coveted tote

What fits your personal belongings and can cost a full year’s salary — or two, or three? In the 1990s, you might have said “a house,” but today a valid answer could also be a Hermès Birkin bag, the ...
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Photographer shows the secretive, colorful world of Ghanaian funerals

It was a funeral two years in the making. The deceased had laid in a morgue in Greater Accra, Ghana, biding his time in icy torpor as plans were made for his final journey. There was financing to be ...
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The internet’s famous dancing baby from 1996 is getting a new look

If you were born before 1990, you may remember the 3D graphic of an almost-naked baby that danced on a loop to become one of the internet’s earliest viral phenomenons. The strange-yet-sassy “Dancing ...
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Asian rivers are turning black. And our colorful closets are to blame

Editor’s Note: This story was produced as part of CNN Style’s The September Issues, a hub for facts, features and opinions about fashion, the climate crisis, and you. When Haji Muhammad Abdus Salam ...
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Why gaming is now for adults and art lovers

Editor’s Note: Chris Melissinos is a gaming expert and author of “The Art of Video Games: From Pac-Man to Mass Effect”. The opinions expressed in this article belong to the author. As I ascended the ...
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The Broker, The Astronaut and The Vampire: Enter the mysterious world of Soviet watch collectors

With pseudonyms like the The Bastard, The Broker, The Astronaut and The Vampire, they’ve banded together deep inside the world of Soviet-era watch collecting. This cabal of watch aficionados spans the ...
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The next world’s tallest building could be a 3,000-feet-high battery

Humans have long built towering structures to showcase the power of empires, rulers, religions and corporations. Today, more tall buildings are popping up than ever before. But skyscrapers could soon ...
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Balenciaga apologizes for ads featuring children holding bondage bears

Luxury fashion house Balenciaga has apologized for featuring children cuddling teddy bears dressed in bondage gear in its latest advertising campaign. Shot by photographer Gabriele Galimberti, images ...