Liverpool stripped of UNESCO World Heritage status after 17 years

Chinese social media platform has pulled its list of popular celebrities after the state’s media claimed that children are being corrupted by those who capitalise on the entertainment industry.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorTikTok, the popular short-form video app that’s been widely copied by competing social platforms, may be about to return the favor by itself copying the “stories” vanishing-posts format.The app, owned by Chinese internet giant ByteDance, has kicked off a small pilot test of TikTok Stories in various countries outside the U.S., a company rep said. Like “stories” on other services, TikTok Stories posts expire after a 24-hour period.

CNN reported. Jia Jia passed away in 2016, aged 38.Hong Kong’s Ocean Park theme park, where An An has lived for the last 22 years, put together a special celebration for the landmark occasion.

HONG KONG -- China’s biggest gaming company, Tencent Holdings, said Tuesday it will limit gaming time for minors and ban children under age 12 from making in-game purchases after a state media article called games “spiritual opium."Tencent’s pledge to curb gaming for minors came hours after the company’s stock plunged as much as 11% following a critique published by the Economic Information Daily, a newspaper affiliated with China’s official Xinhua News Agency.The newspaper article named

Back in action! Simone Biles won the bronze medal in the individual balance beam competition on Tuesday, August 3, after taking a step back during her other solo Tokyo Olympics events amid mental health concerns.

Kris Wu has been detained by police.

Peter Phillips is reflecting on saying “goodbye” to the Duke Of Edinburgh amid COVID-19. 

ROME -- Bologna’s extensive porticoes, dating back to the 13th century and still very much part of the city’s everyday life, have been added to the World Heritage List.At a meeting in China on Wednesday, the World Heritage Committee of UNESCO, the U.N. culture agency, inscribed the porticoes on the prestigious list.The addition raised to 58 the number of Italian sites on the list.

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2 min read It has taken 13 years, four Olympic Games and countless hours of training and competing but in a major boilover, Tom Daley and his diving partner Matty Lee have won a gold medal in the 10 metre Men’s Synchronised Platform Final in Tokyo over defending champions China by just one point.

MADRID -- Madrid’s tree-lined Paseo del Prado boulevard and the adjoining Retiro park have been added to UNESCO’s World Heritage list.The UNESCO World Heritage Committee, holding an online meeting from Fuzhou, China, backed the candidacy on Sunday that highlighted the green area’s introduction of nature into Spain’s capital.

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environment as an endangered world heritage site due to the impact of over-tourism alongside its steady decline in population and poor governance.The Italian government moved this this month to avoid the designation, rerouting massive cruise ships from the historic center to an industrial port still within the Venice lagoon.

Rebecca Davis editorDetails are trickling out about the sequel to China’s first true sci-fi blockbuster, director Guo Fan’s “The Wandering Earth.”Registration records on the National Film Bureau’s website revealed this week that censors have approved “The Wandering Earth 2” for production.

Neon has taken North American rights to Chinese director Zhang Yimou’s One Second, which was just announced as the closing-night film for this year’s Toronto Film Festival.

A number of Chinese brands are disassociating themselves from singer Kris Wu.