Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

Royal Caribbean's Icon of the Seas, the largest cruise ship ever built, entered service out of Miami after roughly two and a half years of construction in Finland.

A two-year, AUD $125M rail overhaul at Melbourne's Swanson Dock wrapped up, adding a new terminal so more shipping containers move by train instead of truck.

Dubai's One Za'abeel opened to the public, its twin towers joined by The Link, a 230-metre skybridge that went on to set the Guinness World Record for longest cantilevered building.

Red Dog Culture House streams The Girl Downstairs SP, a bonus episode of the webtoon-adapted donghua The Girl Downstairs, revisiting ex-celebrity Du-Na and her downstairs neighbor Won-Jun.

Production I.G's HAIKYU!! The Dumpster Battle opens in Japanese theaters, adapting the Haikyu!! manga's climactic Spring Nationals showdown between Karasuno High and rival powerhouse Nekoma High.

Emaar restarted work on the long-stalled Dubai Creek Tower after redesigning it to stand shorter than the Burj Khalifa.

Mumbai opened the first phase of its Coastal Road, an eight-lane highway built on reclaimed land and sea-facing tunnels along the Arabian Sea.

Egypt's 93,000-seat New Administrative Capital Stadium opened as the centrepiece of an Olympic City the country hopes will support a first-ever African bid to host the Games.

Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire is a 2024 American monster film directed and co-written by Adam Wingard. Produced by Legendary Pictures and distributed by Warner Bros.

The Francis Scott Key Bridge, a 2.6km truss bridge carrying I-695 over Baltimore's Patapsco River since 1977, collapsed after being struck by a container ship, killing several construction workers.

The founder of FTX was sentenced in Manhattan federal court to 25 years in prison and ordered to forfeit more than $11bn, four months after a jury convicted him on seven counts of fraud and conspiracy over the theft of customer deposits from the cryptocurrency exchange.

Cloud Art's donghua adaptation Zhu Xian returns for a second season, continuing its wuxia-fantasy story of a young disciple caught between rival martial sects amid a war for control of a legendary sword.

Sound! Euphonium 3 follows Kumiko Oumae's final year at Kitauji High School, now band president, as she pushes the more than 90-member concert band toward the nationals gold it has long chased.

The TV anime of Miraijin A's reincarnation fantasy premieres from studio MOTHER, following Ars Louvent as he uses his Appraisal skill to recruit talented retainers for his family's small territory.

The second cour of Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation Season 2 begins airing, as Rudeus Greyrat and Sylphiette hold their wedding party and Rudeus faces what his new life asks of him.

Production I.G's adaptation of Kaiju No. 8 begins airing, as monster-disposal worker Kafka Hibino gains the power of the creatures he cleans up and chases his abandoned dream of joining the Defense Force.

miHoYo releases Genshin Impact: The Song Burning in the Embers, a promotional animated short for the video game tied to its Fontaine story arc.

miHoYo's in-house animation arm launches an ongoing string of short, self-contained episodes built around individual Genshin Impact characters, each running only a few minutes but paired with full original scoring and film-quality visuals. The shorts fill in backstory for the game's cast without requiring any prior familiarity with Teyvat, making them as much stand-alone shorts as promotional tie-ins.

Brightline West broke ground on a 218-mile electric high-speed line between Las Vegas and Southern California, aiming to become America's first true bullet train.

Georgia's Plant Vogtle Unit 4 entered commercial operation in April 2024, completing the first new nuclear reactors built from scratch in the US in over three decades.

Enter the Garden, a three-part anime anthology from the Azuki brand and Dentsu with creative producer Goro Taniguchi, debuts online.

Paris inaugurated the Austerlitz basin, a giant underground stormwater tank built to stop sewage overflow into the Seine in time for Olympic swimming events.

OpenAI releases GPT-4o, its flagship model that reasons across audio, vision and text in real time, and makes it the new default in ChatGPT.

The third season of Fabulous Beasts (You Shou Yan) begins streaming, continuing FENZ's manga-based comedy about human and beast-folk life in a fantastical Chinese setting.

The anime film Umamusume: Pretty Derby - Beginning of a New Era releases in Japan, following freestyle racer Jungle Pocket ("Pokke") as she trains under veteran coach Tanabe to take on the Triple Crown races.