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Icons and Influencersi

Who's making headlines and creating trends? Meet the social media icons and influencers who shape the world as we know it.

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Donnie Yen’s stand-out appearance in John Wick: Chapter 4 is an excellent opportunity to raise Hong Kong’s global prominence, and the city’s government must step up to take it.

By paying tribute to a British monarch, the mourners in Hong Kong are thumbing their noses at Beijing. And police cannot do anything about it.

The 2022 wedding of Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck, 18 years after they broke up, gives us all hope about reuniting with ‘the one that got away’. A relationship expert gives some advice.

  • Taiwan-born Huang is known for his black leather jacket look, and his company Nvidia, a graphics chip maker, counts Tesla and Microsoft as some of its biggest clients
  • The company’s Santa Clara headquarters is named Voyager after the Star Trek starship, and Huang is often seen lunching with fellow staffers; he owns a US$44 million home in San Fran’s Billionaires’ Row

Net worths, ranked for everyone from T.D. Jakes to Joel Osteen and Kenneth Copeland, all men of faith who have also amassed considerable fortunes – which they mostly prefer not to discuss

The social media account of an online influencer in China has been taken down after videos she produced about the lost homework of a mainland student being found in a cafe toilet in Paris were exposed as fakes.

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The former World Bank economist’s sustainable clothing label, SukkaCitta, ensures better wages for the women working for it, while providing education to their families

She was a regional political director for the White House Office during the Obama-Biden administration, and is a former MSNBC analyst and mental health advocate

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No surprise that Cheung and Trump are both fans of combat sport and WWE, and have been seen together at UFC fights in Vegas … now Cheung is part of Trump’s 2024 presidential election campaign team

From mime-video maestro Khabane ‘Khaby’ Lame, sisters Charli and Dixie D’Amelio, big brand-endorser Addison Rae and comedian Matt Rife – so how they stack up in the TikTok popularity stakes?

The Polish fashion designer loves vintage Rolexes, Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, the Ritz Paris and travelling to the Maldives, while at home she eats pierogi and enjoys exploring her home city of Warsaw

Hirsi was suspended from Barnard College at Columbia University, New York over her participation in a pro-Palestinian protest – and her politician mum could not be prouder

Knowing what we know now about the celebrities on this list only serves to make these unlikely pairings more fascinating – here are the star couples you may have forgotten existed …

The LGBT advocate – whose ‘lifestyle’ was publicly denounced by his evangelical pastor brother – wrote a bestselling coming out memoir, and traded barbs with Chaya Raichik, an anti-LGBT TikTokker

The ex pro-footballer-in-training was previously linked to Charli D’Amelio’s sister, Dixie D’Amelio, in 2020, but the former couple broke up in November 2022 – so who is he exactly?

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Pan’s shocking criminal case that took place over a decade ago has been thrown back into the spotlight in the form of a Netflix documentary, What Jennifer Did, released on April 10

The sport’s top-paid coach has led her teams to 4 national championship wins – but she has also been called a homophobe, and appeared callous in the face of Brittney Griner’s detention

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Leclerc and his girlfriend just made a rare appearance together at the Monte-Carlo Masters men’s doubles final on Sunday, but they’ve been linked since the spring of 2023

JFK’s grandson John Schlossberg recently found himself in the spotlight after rumours began spreading online that he’d had a fling with Selena Gomez, so what do we know about the 31-year-old?

Nicolaj and Ditte Reffstrup, the Danish brand’s CEO and creative director respectively, talk about dressing the quintessential ‘Copenhagen girl’ and making fabrics from biowaste

The former press sec is ex-Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee’s daughter, battled cancer and comments about her body, and has had a rocky relationship with media

He was pitching jokes to David Letterman and Jay Leno by age 14, and he has also interviewed stars like Gary Oldman, Jennifer Lopez and Jennifer Love Hewitt

The Protestant Heiliggeistkirche in the old centre of Heidelberg, a medieval university town in southwest Germany, saw its 423 seats quickly booked up for the initial service on May 12.

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No stranger to controversy on social media, Australia-born Adams is known as ‘Alpha Male’ and regularly speaks about politics and his support for Trump, what it means to be American and his love of meat

She’s made controversial remarks about everything from Sandy Hook and 9/11, to QAnon and the 2021 Capitol riots, and even CrossFit has had to distance itself from her

Hollywood Unlocked is one of the US’s most prominent Black-owned media and entertainment brands, with Lee having interviewed Cardi B and Tiffany Haddish – while Rihanna is a fan of the platform

WeWork’s US$47 billion valuation plunged after the company’s 2019 IPO failed to materialise due to multiple controversies – but now co-founder and former CEO Neumann wants back in to the business