Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

Terminal 3 broke ground south of the existing terminals as the centrepiece of Pudong's phase-IV expansion, designed for 50 million passenger trips a year. When the programme is finished the airport will have three terminals, one satellite terminal and four runways, with terminal floor space above 1.7 million square metres.

Greenland's capital opened its new international airport on November 28, 2024, ending Nuuk's dependence on connecting flights for long-haul travel.

Hong Kong International Airport's HK$141.5BN Three-Runway System expansion reached full three-runway operation, capping an eight-year project to add capacity on reclaimed land.

Greece's Thessaloniki Metro Line 1 opened to the public, a driverless 9.6km line whose stations doubled as archaeological digs after more than 300,000 ancient artefacts were uncovered during construction.

The third season of Wan Jie Du Zun, a Chinese cultivation-fantasy donghua from Ruo Hong Culture that continues its web-novel adaptation with a planned 224-episode run. The story follows its protagonist's climb through a world of competing cultivation sects and hidden immortal realms, building directly on the events of the first two seasons.

LVMH's Cheval Blanc opened its sixth hotel, a 52-villa resort curled around Anse Intendance beach on Mahé island, designed by architect Jean-Michel Gathy with a spa created with Guerlain.

Monaco inaugurated Mareterra, a $2 billion, six-hectare land reclamation district built into the Mediterranean to ease the tiny principality's chronic space crisis.

UNESCO inscribed Japan's traditional knowledge and skills of sake-making with koji mold on its Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity at the committee's 19th session in Asunción, Paraguay.

Shenman Entertainment streams Cang Yuan Tu 2, continuing the Chinese action-fantasy ONA's story directly from where its first season left off.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on 6 December 2024 that employers added 227,000 jobs in November, with unemployment up to 4.2% and September and October revised up by 56,000.

Notre-Dame Cathedral reopened to worshippers and visitors on December 7, 2024, five and a half years after a fire gutted its roof and spire.

Sparkly Key Animation releases Tunshi Xingkong Movie: Xueluo Dalu, a Swallowed Star feature-length special in which Luo Feng travels to the trial grounds of the Snow Fall Continent to grow strong enough to protect Earth.

Taylor Swift played the 149th and last show of the Eras Tour at BC Place, closing a 21-month run that grossed $2,077,618,725 from 10,168,008 tickets, the first tour ever to pass $2 billion.

The full US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit voted 9-8 to vacate the SEC's approval of Nasdaq's rule requiring listed companies to have a woman and a minority or LGBTQ+ director on the board or explain why not.

Zalando agreed to acquire German rival About You for €6.50 a share, a roughly 12% premium to analysts' median price target, with major About You shareholders representing about 73% of its shares - including the Otto family - already committed to accepting the offer.

Chanel appointed Matthieu Blazy, previously creative director of Bottega Veneta, as its new artistic director of fashion, succeeding Virginie Viard and becoming only the fourth designer to lead the house after Gabrielle Chanel, Karl Lagerfeld and Viard.

A second season of 2.5 Dimensional Seduction, the anime of Yu Hashimoto's cosplay comedy about an otaku club president and the junior who wants him as her photographer, was announced at the end of the first season's finale.

Alo Yoga's first store in Ireland: a 6,738 sq ft shop at 62 Grafton Street, opened with a run of yoga, Pilates, boxing and run-club classes.

Isak Andic, the Turkish-born businessman who founded Mango in Barcelona in 1984 and built it into a global fashion retailer, died aged 71 after falling while hiking near the Coves del Salnitre de Collbató, outside Barcelona.

A University of Miami-led study using satellite radar found dozens of Miami high-rises, including some under construction, are subsiding by millimetres a year.

Overlap Bunko's 10th-anniversary event announced a second season of The Unwanted Undead Adventurer, the dark fantasy about an adventurer who comes back as a skeleton.

The FDA adds a boxed warning, its most prominent, to Astellas' hot-flash pill Veozah after a patient suffered serious liver injury within about 40 days of starting it, and orders monthly liver tests for the first months.

A Congress-ordered National Academies report finds with moderate certainty that moderate drinking is linked to lower all-cause mortality but a higher risk of female breast cancer, evidence meant to inform the 2025-2030 Dietary Guidelines for Americans.

The FOMC lowered the federal funds target range by 1/4 percentage point to 4-1/4 to 4-1/2 percent on 18 December 2024 by an 11-1 vote, with Beth Hammack preferring to hold.