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'With more than 200 million gamers a day watching more than 50 billion hours of gaming content per year, YouTube provides gamers and their passionate fans with the most popular video gaming platform in the world,' Ryan Wyatt, YouTube's head of gaming, said in a statement. … [Read more...] about Call of Duty and Overwatch e-sports leagues will be broadcast live on YouTube after Google secures exclusive rights to Activision Blizzard’s content in a major push into gaming

Recently, Li has been thrust into a wider spotlight by the Chinese government, who seem to have realized her soft power potential. In 2018, the Communist party of China named her a “good young netizen” and role model for Chinese youth. In September 2019, the People’s Daily, a CPC mouthpiece, gave Li their “People’s Choice” award, while last month, state media praised Li for helping to promote traditional culture globally, and the Communist Youth League named her an ambassador of a program promoting the economic empowerment of rural youth. … [Read more...] about Country life: the young female farmer who is now a top influencer in China

Beauty over victory – beauty and victory. Now try to imagine a discussion on the subject between Cruyff and George Osborne. The nobility has been chased from our politics by desiccated calculators such as Osborne and Lynton Crosby, the astronomically well-rewarded political strategist who steamrollers his way to success with no quarter given, no dog-whistle left unblown and no rival left unflattened. Narrow margins today separate success from failure. The electorate is abandoning its tribal habits. We are displaying a sudden lust for referendum knife-fights over deeply divisive issues. The fashion is for data and ‘science’ to be master at all times. All of these things have brought the boffins, with their calculators and polling results, to the fore. They conspire to create a win-at-all-costs culture that has no room for feeling or poetry or elevation. … [Read more...] about CHRIS DEERIN: Politicians should learn from Cruyff, who knew an ugly win means nothing

Robin Campillo The French-Moroccan film-maker’s 120 Beats Per Minute tells the tale of his time with Aids activists ACT UP Paris in the early 90s. After what has been a banner year for LGBT cinema, from the Oscar triumph of Moonlight to the global success of Call Me By Your Name, A Fantastic Woman and his own film, Campillo is one of many queer storytellers courting mass attention, while sticking to his own terms. Read a full interview here. … [Read more...] about From Alden Ehrenreich to Zazie Beetz: the 40 rising film stars of 2018

Her father, however, is based on the east coast where he shares an apartment in New York and a home in The Hamptons with second wife Hilaria and their four children. … [Read more...] about Ireland Baldwin flaunts her cleavage in a baby blue suit at cousin-in-law Justin Bieber’s documentary premiere