Paper Plane Animation Studio's original series To Be Hero X begins streaming, set in a world where public trust is quantified and channeled into ordinary people's superpowers.
CONFIRMED92% CONFIDENCE72%77 episodes so farBroadcast start date confirmed on the title's own MyAnimeList[1] listing.
Koupen-chan begins broadcast, a one-minute-per-episode slice-of-life anime starring the plush, dumpling-shaped baby emperor penguin character of the same name.
Umamusume: Cinderella Gray begins broadcast, a CygamesPictures prequel to the Uma Musume: Pretty Derby franchise following the anthropomorphized racehorse Oguri Cap as she rises from a rural countryside stable to national stardom.
CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCEMyAnimeList's[1][2] news report dates the second-season announcement to the fan event held on Sunday, April 6, 2025.
A-1 Pictures' hit romantic comedy about a bystander who keeps consoling the girls who lost the love race, Makeine: Too Many Losing Heroines!, was renewed for a second season at a fan event in April 2025.
Silvertown, London Borough of Newham, London, United KingdomTransport for London
CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCEHappened as dated, per the source[1]: "The Silvertown Tunnel will open on 7 April 2025, as confirmed by TfL[2]."
Transport for London opened the Silvertown Tunnel, a new road crossing under the Thames built to relieve the perennially congested Blackwall Tunnel a few hundred metres away.
5600, Avenida Encinas, Farr, Carlsbad Ranch, Carlsbad, San Diego County, California, 92008, United StatesVuori
CONFIRMED87% CONFIDENCESports Illustrated reported on 8 April 2025 that Manning "announced" a new partnership with Vuori, quoting its statement naming him "the newest Vuori Athlete"; Vuori's post carries the same date.[1]
Vuori named Texas Longhorns quarterback Arch Manning its newest Vuori Athlete, an NIL deal struck in its 10th-anniversary year as he prepared for his first season as the Longhorns' starter.
28, Via Antonio Fogazzaro, XXII Marzo, Municipio 4, Milano, Lombardia, 20135, ItalyPrada
CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCEPrada's release is dated 'Milan, 10 April 2025' and states Prada 'today announces that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire 100% of Versace from Capri Holdings'.[1]
Prada entered a definitive agreement to buy 100% of Versace from Capri Holdings for a cash consideration based on an enterprise value of €1.25 billion, adding the Milan-founded fashion house to its Prada and Miu Miu brands.
Holland Tunnel, Newport, Jersey City, Hudson County, New Jersey, 07311, United States
CONFIRMED83% CONFIDENCEStated as firm by the NTSB[4] (ntsb.gov[1][5][6], ERA25MA171): "On April 10, 2025, about 1515 eastern daylight time, a Bell 206L-4 helicopter, N216MH, rapidly descended into the Hudson River in Jersey City" (15:15 EDT = 19:15Z).
A New York Helicopters Bell 206L-4 tour flight from the Downtown Manhattan Heliport broke apart and fell into the Hudson River off Jersey City, killing the pilot and a family of five from Spain.
CONFIRMED88% CONFIDENCEThe Invest Ontario[1] release is datelined 'BRANTFORD, Ontario, April 11, 2025' and announces the expansion that day.
Ferrero Canada will spend C$445 million expanding its Brantford plant, adding 500 jobs and the first lines anywhere for new Ferrero Rocher chocolate squares, plus Nutella Biscuits made outside Europe for the first time.
United States Courthouse, 350, West 1st Street, Civic Center, Downtown, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, 90012, United StatesAlo Yoga
CONFIRMED91% CONFIDENCEThe Fashion Law[1][2] reports "the complaint that it filed on April 11 in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California"; the complaint's header reads "Filed 04/11/25".
Alo sued a Colorado shell company named "ALO YOGA ALO, LLC" and two men it says forged documents, posed as its CEO and tried to take over its trademarks in China and at WIPO to sell counterfeits.
Dirksen Federal Building and US Courthouse, 219, South Dearborn Street, Financial District, Loop, Chicago, South Chicago Township, Cook County, Illinois, 60604, United StatesAlo Yoga
Two shoppers filed a class action in Chicago federal court claiming Alo Yoga paid Instagram influencers who promoted its clothes and Alo Moves without disclosing the deals, seeking more than $150 million.
Kejaksaan Agung RI, Jalan Panglima Polim Raya, RW 07, Kramat Pela, Kebayoran Baru, South Jakarta, Special Capital Region of Jakarta, 12130, IndonesiaWilmar International
CONFIRMED89% CONFIDENCEAntara: 'pada Minggu (13/4) malam, penyidik menetapkan tiga orang tersangka' - the three judges who issued the acquittal - announced at the AGO building early on 14 April.[1]
Prosecutors named the three judges who cleared Wilmar, Musim Mas and Permata Hijau as bribery suspects, alleging Rp 60 billion was arranged through lawyers and a court clerk to buy the verdict.
CONFIRMED88% CONFIDENCEHappened as dated, per the source[1]: dome restoration was "scheduled to commence on April 14, 2025"; no completion date has been set for the wider 50-year reinforcement plan.
Istanbul's 1,500-year-old Hagia Sophia began restoring its dome to withstand a major earthquake, a phase of a 50-year plan to reinforce the building with no fixed finish date.
Harrison Park Fire Road, San Diego County, California, 92036, United States
CONFIRMED89% CONFIDENCEUSGS[1] event ci40925991, "M 5.2 - 5 km S of Julian, CA", origin time 2025-04-14 17:08:28 UTC, which is 10:08 a.m. PDT on 14 April, the time KPBS[2] and Times of San Diego report.
A magnitude 5.2 quake 5 km south of Julian on the Elsinore fault zone was felt from Los Angeles to Ensenada, closing San Diego City Hall for inspections and knocking boulders onto State Route 76.
CONFIRMED89% CONFIDENCE'The Company has today, i.e. on April 16, 2025, acquired 80% of the issued and paid up equity share capital of the Target Company'; filed on NSE at 16:45 IST.[1]
AWL Agri Business takes 80% of G.D. Foods Manufacturing, owner of the Tops sauces and pickles brand, making it a subsidiary; the other 20% is due by fiscal 2028-29.
Reese Avenue, Hershey, Derry Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, 17036, United StatesHershey
DELAYED13 months late62% CONFIDENCEStated as firm in the Governor's release dated "April 16, 2025": "Today, Governor Josh Shapiro joined Michele Buck, President and CEO of The Hershey Company[2] ... to open the new state-of-the-art Reese Chocolate Processing (RCP) facility"; Food Business News[4] confirms the ribbon-cutting "on Hershey's campus on April 16".
Hershey's first new factory in its hometown in more than 30 years, a 250,000-square-foot plant that makes the chocolate for Reese's, Kit Kat, Symphony and Special Dark, opened with Governor Josh Shapiro. It is Hershey's first fully integrated digital plant and brings more than 125 jobs.
Jack Shainman Gallery, 46, Catherine Lane, Civic Center, Lower Manhattan, Manhattan, New York County, New York, 10013, United StatesRalph Lauren Corporation
CONFIRMED82% CONFIDENCEThe Associated Press report is dated "Thursday, April 17, 2025," describing the show as taking place that day at the Jack Shainman Gallery in Manhattan; the page gives no clock time for the show itself.[1]
Ralph Lauren presented its Fall 2025 collection, "The Modern Romantics," at an off-calendar runway show inside the newly opened Jack Shainman Gallery in Tribeca, drawing a front row that included Anne Hathaway, Michelle Williams and Anna Wintour.
Carrousel du Louvre, Passage du Grand Louvre, Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois, Paris 1er Arrondissement, Paris, Île-de-France, France métropolitaine, 75001, FranceLVMH
CONFIRMED84% CONFIDENCELVMH's own shareholders'-meeting notice fixes the "Combined Shareholders' Meeting of Thursday, April 17, 2025" for 10:30 am Paris time (08:30 UTC, CEST) at the Carrousel du Louvre; Yahoo[1] Finance and Gulf News[2] both confirm the vote passed with 99.18% in favour that day.
LVMH shareholders approved raising the company's chairman-and-CEO age limit from 80 to 85 with 99.18% of the vote, clearing Bernard Arnault, then 76, to keep running the group without having named a successor.
Boston Marathon Finish Line, 665, Boylston Street, Back Bay, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, 02116, United StatesBoston Athletic Association
CONFIRMED85% CONFIDENCEStated as firm, per the B.A.A.'s race report datelined "BOSTON (21-April)" on the 129th Boston Marathon it describes as having played out, with the first start from the B.A.A.'s race-eve media notes: "9:06 a.m. ET – Wheelchair Division – Men" (13:06 UTC, EDT).[1]
Sharon Lokedi of Kenya won the women's race in 2:17:22, breaking the 2014 course record of 2:19:59, and John Korir won the men's race in 2:04:45 after falling in the opening meters. Marcel Hug took his eighth wheelchair title on the 250th anniversary of Patriots' Day.
Wilmar HQ, 28 Biopolis Road, Biopolis, Queenstown, Singapore 138568Wilmar International
CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCEThe minutes say the AGM commenced at 10.00 am on 22 April 2025 and the chairman "declared the AGM closed at 11.20am" (Singapore time).[1]
Shareholders passed every resolution at Wilmar's Biopolis headquarters; in written answers before the meeting, the company told a shareholder urging Kuok Khoon Hong to quit as CEO that he would hand over to a good successor.
A bonus Natsume's Book of Friends Season 7 episode, bundled with the season's fifth Blu-ray volume, adds a standalone story to spirit-sighted teenager Takashi Natsume's ongoing run-ins with the yokai around him.
40, Rue de Sèvres, Quartier Saint-Thomas-d'Aquin, Paris 7e Arrondissement, Paris, Île-de-France, 75007, FranceGucci
CONFIRMED83% CONFIDENCEKering's press release is headlined 'First-quarter 2025 revenue' and dated 23 April 2025, reporting Gucci revenue of €1.571 billion, 'down 24% reported / down 25% comparable'.[1]
Kering reports first-quarter 2025 group revenue of €3.9 billion, down 14%, as Gucci's sales fall 25% on a comparable basis to €1.6 billion amid low store traffic and a 33% wholesale decline.
Pulong Santa Cruz, Santa Rosa, Laguna, Calabarzon, 4026, PhilippinesPLDT
CONFIRMED87% CONFIDENCEPLDT's[1] release of 23 April 2025 says Marcos and Pangilinan 'today led the inauguration of VITRO Sta. Rosa'; PNA[3] dates the launch to Wednesday, 23 April 2025.
President Marcos and PLDT chairman Manuel Pangilinan inaugurated VITRO Sta. Rosa, a 50-megawatt hyperscale data centre in Laguna with NVIDIA-powered GPU servers for AI workloads.
CONFIRMED88% CONFIDENCEYogonet[1] (25 April 2025): 'The Nevada Gaming Commission (NGC) on Thursday unanimously approved an $8.5 million fine against MGM Resorts International'; the April 2025 disposition is dated April 24, 2025.
Nevada gaming regulators unanimously fined MGM Resorts $8.5 million for letting illegal bookmakers Wayne Nix and Mathew Bowyer gamble with illicit cash at MGM Grand and The Cosmopolitan, where the Grand alone took $4,079,830 of Nix's proceeds by 2020.
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