Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

Ferrero's turnover jumped 20.7% to EUR 17 billion in the year to 31 August 2023, boosted by the Wells Enterprises ice-cream deal; plants rose from 32 to 37 and staff to 47,212.

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.

Alabama's Supreme Court held that frozen IVF embryos count as children under the state's 1872 Wrongful Death of a Minor Act, letting couples sue a Mobile clinic whose embryos were destroyed and pushing clinics to pause IVF.

Alo Yoga's first UAE store, run with franchise partner Alshaya Group: an 833 m² flagship in The Dubai Mall with an organic beverage bar and a yoga terrace.

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

Anthropic releases Claude 3 Sonnet, the middle model of its new Claude 3 family, twice as fast as Claude 2.1 on most workloads at $3 per million input tokens and the model behind the free claude.ai.

Anthropic releases Claude 3 Opus, the most capable of its new Claude 3 models, which it says beats GPT-4 and Gemini 1.0 Ultra on most common benchmarks and brings image understanding to Claude for the first time.

Governor Kay Ivey signed SB159, shielding IVF patients, clinics and suppliers from lawsuits and prosecution over damaged or destroyed embryos, three weeks after the LePage ruling halted treatment.

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.

Anthropic releases Claude 3 Haiku, the fastest and cheapest Claude 3 model at $0.25 per million input tokens, able to read about 30 pages of text per second, nine days after announcing it with Opus and Sonnet.

The French National Assembly unanimously adopted, in first reading, a bill to curb "ultra-fast fashion" on 14 March 2024. The bill bans advertising for the cheapest, most disposable garments and creates a bonus-malus system funding penalties on the least sustainable clothing sellers.

Tina Cavalleri, Mark Glinoga and Mengyao Yang filed a proposed antitrust class action in San Francisco federal court, accusing Hermès of forcing customers to buy other Hermès products before it will sell them a Birkin or Kelly bag.

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.

Aston Martin named Adrian Hallmark, chairman and chief executive of Bentley Motors since 2018, as its new chief executive, succeeding Amedeo Felisa no later than 1 October 2024.

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.

Valentino announced Alessandro Michele, who had spent eight years as Gucci's creative director before leaving in late 2022, as its new creative director, succeeding Pierpaolo Piccioli after his 25-year run at the house.

China removed the anti-dumping and countervailing duties of up to 220% that had shut Australian bottled wine out of its market since 2020, effective 29 March 2024; Australia's wine exports to China had been worth A$1.1 billion in 2019.

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.