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Longevity travel is rapidly becoming one of the most lucrative corners of luxury hospitality, as travelers increasingly look for vacations that promise to extend healthspan rather than simply offer a break from daily life. Hotels, resorts and specialized clinics are reshaping their offerings around preventative medicine, advanced diagnostics, sleep optimization, recovery therapies and personalized wellness […]

Aesthetic medicine has become a passport stamp. As Kim Kardashian, Gwyneth Paltrow, Eva Longoria and Rachel Brosnahan publicly chronicle trips built around facials, injectables and wellness retreats, beauty tourism — once a private indulgence — is reshaping how travelers plan vacations and where they spend money on their faces and bodies. The stakes for readers […]

Sleep tourism is shaping up to be one of the biggest travel trends for 2026, with hotels, wellness resorts and even medical-led retreats building entire vacations around one goal: better rest. Instead of packed itineraries and nonstop sightseeing, travelers are booking sleep-focused stays with smart beds, blackout rooms, spa treatments and personalized wellness programs. Here’s […]

Travelers are increasingly booking flights for facelifts, hair transplants and “glass skin” facials, turning beauty tourism into one of the fastest-growing corners of the global travel economy. Driven by cost, specialist expertise and techniques that experts say are years ahead of what’s available at home, the practice now spans everything from non-invasive injectables to full […]

Ice baths used to be the domain of pro athletes and Scandinavian saunas. Now Harry Styles is taking daily dips at Dublin’s Vico Baths, Lady Gaga is timing her post-show recovery to the minute and LeBron James is starting game days submerged in freezing water. The cold plunge has crossed over from elite recovery tool […]

Cold plunge resorts have moved from a niche Scandinavian ritual to one of the most sought-after categories in luxury wellness travel. Travelers are booking trips built specifically around freezing-water immersion, sauna circuits and recovery-focused spa programming, and resorts from Iceland to Arizona are designing entire experiences around the practice. The shift has been fast. Cold […]

Celebrity hospitality is having a moment, with Hollywood stars increasingly putting their names — and money — behind wellness retreats, boutique hotels and oceanfront resorts. Here’s a guide to the celebrity wellness retreats and properties where you can vacation like your favorite stars. Hugh Jackman — Gwinganna Health Retreat Hugh Jackman is a co-owner of […]

The way young adults meet romantic partners is changing — and dating apps are losing the battle. Gen Z is walking away from Tinder, Hinge and Bumble in favor of run clubs, book clubs and craft groups where chemistry builds around a shared activity instead of a swipe. The shift matters because it’s reshaping who […]

The biggest band in the world has never walked fashion’s most-photographed staircase — not as a group, not even individually. Could 2026 finally be the year that changes? The math is tantalizingly close. BTS — RM, Jin, SUGA, j-hope, Jimin, V and Jung Kook — kicked off their long-awaited world tour in April, just weeks […]

A contestant from Love Is Blind: Argentina has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for the attempted murder of his ex-wife — the same woman he met, fell for and married on the Netflix dating series. Santiago Martínez was convicted of attempted murder, repeated assault and unlawful detention of Emily Ceco, according to reports […]

You’ve done it thousands of times. After a game-winning shot, a solid joke, a perfectly executed parallel parking job. You’ve probably never thought twice about who did it first. The high-five is so woven into sports and everyday life that it feels like it must have existed forever — like a handshake or a wave. […]

A black cat picked a chicken coop nesting box as the spot to deliver her kittens — and the hens sharing that space decided to pitch in with the newborns. In a video posted by @farmer.jo.homesteading on Instagram, the cat gives birth to a litter of kittens in a nesting box right next to the […]

A viral egg trend on TikTok shows users freezing whole eggs in their shells, slicing them in half and frying them into tiny “mini eggs.” The method has gained millions of views across multiple waves on the platform, resurfacing again and again as new users discover the hack and try it for themselves. It looks […]

If you’ve ever felt the stress of navigating a busy airport terminal, imagine turning a corner and finding a six-foot-tall llama dressed as a pirate waiting to greet you. That scene is a regular reality at Portland International Airport, where therapy llamas and alpacas visit about once a month as part of an animal-assisted therapy […]

The Phoenix Suns are down 0-2 to the Oklahoma City Thunder in their first-round playoff series, and the postgame press conferences are already more heated than the games. After the Thunder’s 120-107 Game 2 victory on April 22, Suns guard Devin Booker went somewhere few NBA players dare to go — he named a specific […]

He had been alive for roughly 48 hours when a tornado tore through the area near Gun Lake in Michigan — and somehow, buried in the wreckage, the tiny kitten survived. Rescuers pulled the newborn from the storm debris and rushed him to Kittens In The Mitten, a rescue group that immediately recognized the severity […]

The hottest wellness trend of 2026 doesn’t involve a supplement, an app or a biohacking protocol. It involves knitting, long lunches and walking to the market — just like an Italian grandmother would. The trend is called nonna-maxxing, and it’s gone viral on TikTok as Gen Z embraces the slower, more intentional lifestyle of an […]

Two tiny capybara pups are the newest residents at the Cape May County Park and Zoo after mother Buttercup gave birth on April 14, the zoo announced in a news release. The pups mark the second litter for Buttercup, who also delivered two pups in October. The father of both litters is Goomba, the resident […]

Mike Myers didn’t just give a speech. He went full ogre. At the AFI Life Achievement Award ceremony Saturday night honoring Eddie Murphy, Myers arrived dressed as Shrek — green makeup, ogre ears and all — delivering one of the most memorable tributes of the evening in a moment that quickly lit up social media. […]

Here’s a deal most families wouldn’t expect to find at a fast-food restaurant: Put your phone away and get a free dessert. A Chick-fil-A location in Towson Place, Maryland, is offering complimentary Icedream® Cones to customers who agree to stash their phones in a container for the duration of their meal. The promotion is called […]

Somewhere in your phone’s endless scroll, you’ve probably seen the video — a father and his young son, both in swimming trunks, padding through a completely empty water park in the dead of night. Security cameras captured every moment. And somehow, the story behind it is even better than it looks. The footage, shared by […]