Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

Ethiopia formally inaugurated the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on the Blue Nile in September 2025, capping over a decade of construction on Africa’s largest hydropower project.

Oracle said four multi-billion-dollar contracts lifted its contracted backlog 359% to $455 billion and forecast cloud infrastructure revenue rising to $144 billion in four years; the stock gained 36% the next day, its best since 1992.

Babcock & Wilcox and Denham Capital's Sustainable Infrastructure arm will jointly convert existing coal-fired plants, largely to natural gas, to power data centres in the US and Europe. B&W supplies the engineering and technology; Denham leads development and financing. No plant is named yet, so the pin sits at B&W's Akron headquarters.

Kering and Mayhoola amend their 2023 shareholders' agreement on Valentino, pushing back Mayhoola's put options and Kering's matching call option on the remaining 70% stake from 2026-2028 to 2028-2029, as Riccardo Bellini becomes Valentino's CEO.

Two days after losing the preliminary by 49 points, Josh Kraft suspended his campaign, the first Boston mayoral finalist to quit since preliminaries began in 1951, leaving Wu effectively unopposed.

Northrop Grumman's second B-21 Raider stealth bomber took off from Palmdale and landed at Edwards Air Force Base after its first flight, letting the Air Force move from flight checks into weapons and mission-systems testing.

3G Capital completed its $9.4 billion acquisition of Skechers, taking the world's third-largest footwear company private and ending its run on the NYSE, four months after the deal was announced.

Russia and Belarus held their first Zapad joint strategic exercise since the invasion of Ukraine, which Putin said involved 100,000 troops at 41 ranges and included practice with nuclear weapons and the Oreshnik missile, as Poland shut its border with Belarus.

Terence Crawford outboxed Canelo Alvarez over 12 rounds before 70,482 fans, a record crowd for Allegiant Stadium, to become undisputed champion in a third weight class.

Former Renault chief Luca de Meo becomes Kering's chief executive on 15 September 2025, the first time the luxury group is run by someone outside the Pinault family, as chairman François-Henri Pinault steps back from day-to-day management.

Indonesia's Supreme Court found five Wilmar subsidiaries guilty in the cooking-oil export case, fining each Rp 1 billion and ordering Rp 11.88 trillion (about US$709 million) in compensation, which Wilmar said would push it to a third-quarter loss.

Justice Gregory Carro threw out the two terrorism-based murder counts against Luigi Mangione as legally insufficient but let the second-degree murder and weapons charges in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson stand.

JDK 25 shipped with 18 JEPs, from compact source files and scoped values to compact object headers, and Oracle will support it for at least eight years.

U.S. District Judge James Donato dismissed with prejudice the Sherman Act claims that Hermès illegally tied Birkin bag sales to other purchases, ruling the plaintiffs never defined a viable product market or showed harm to competition.