Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

Chef Bill Briand opens a coastal Southern restaurant in a two-storey house in Fairhope, near Mobile, cooking Cajun-leaning dishes such as a dark-roux gumbo.

India inaugurated the Chenab Bridge, a steel arch railway bridge standing 359 metres above the Chenab River in the Himalayan foothills of Jammu and Kashmir.

OpenAI rolls back an o4-mini snapshot deployed less than a week earlier after its monitoring detected an increase in content flags.

Valley Metro opened the 5.5-mile South Central Extension and Downtown Hub, adding eight stations along Central and 1st avenues down to Baseline Road. The same day the system was restructured into an A Line running to Mesa and a B Line running from Metro Parkway in north-west Phoenix down to Baseline Road, the two meeting at four new downtown platforms.

OpenAI releases o3-pro to Pro users in ChatGPT and in its API, a version of o3 that thinks longer for the most reliable responses.

Cloud Art's donghua adaptation Zhu Xian continues into a third season, extending its wuxia-fantasy saga of rival sects, hidden loyalties, and the legendary Zhuxian Sword.

How to Train Your Dragon is a 2025 American fantasy adventure film and a live-action remake of the 2010 animated film by DreamWorks Animation, itself loosely based on the 2003 novel by Cressida Cowell. The film was written and directed by Dean DeBlois, who co-wrote and directed the animated film.

New York's MTA won final approval for a record $68.4 billion five-year capital plan aimed at modernizing the aging subway, from new train cars to next-generation train control.

China opened Chongqing East, a 1.22 million sq m high-speed rail hub roughly six times the size of New York's Grand Central, as the newest showpiece of its 50,000km high-speed rail network.

Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: A Lonely Dragon Wants to Be Loved opens in Japanese theaters, a Kyoto Animation film that draws Kanna back to the Dragon World and threatens the found family she built with Kobayashi and Tohru.

After years of safety-related construction halts and cost overruns, the new cable-stayed Harbor Bridge across Corpus Christi's ship channel finally opened to traffic in 2025.

Futuroscope closes out its €300 million Vision 2025 expansion with Mission Bermudes, the debut installation of Mack Rides' Rocking Boat system, which lets its vessels drift like real boats before climbing onto coaster-like track.

National Gas marked a £350M investment in hydrogen-ready compressor infrastructure shared across three sites, Peterborough among them, part of preparing Britain's gas transmission network for a lower-carbon future.

Port Waratah Coal Services took Shiploader 7.09 offline for a four-month overhaul at its Kooragang Coal Terminal, fitting a new seven-metre loading chute and trimmer flap. The refurbishment is part of a $270 million program to modernise the Newcastle coal export terminal.

Canada's first large-scale liquefied natural gas export terminal, built by a Shell-led joint venture in Kitimat, British Columbia, produced and shipped its first LNG cargo in 2025.

HPE closed its all-cash purchase of Juniper Networks at $40 a share, doubling its networking business, days after settling the Justice Department's antitrust suit by agreeing to sell its Instant On unit and license Juniper's Mist AI source code.

Superman is a 2025 American superhero film written and directed by James Gunn. Based on the DC Comics character Superman, it is the first film in the DC Universe (DCU) and a reboot of the Superman film series.

Las Vegas Sands began construction on an $8BN fourth tower and 15,000-seat arena at Marina Bay Sands, designed by original architect Moshe Safdie.

Europe's largest bedding-plant nursery, Emsflower, planted the first crop in its new 14-hectare greenhouse expansion in Emsbüren, Germany on 15 July 2025, growing its glasshouse footprint that already produces up to 500 million plants a year.

Diriyah Company awarded a branch of China Harbour Engineering the contract to build the Arena Superblock: the multi-purpose indoor Diriyah Arena seating 20,000 spectators, three mixed-use office buildings and a parking facility with more than 4,000 spaces. The arena sits on the edge of historic At-Turaif and anchors the Grand Avenue district alongside Diriyah's Grand Mosque.

Eddie Vargas opens his first restaurant in Southwest Detroit, building a menu around his father's birria and Mexican-American home cooking.

Ufotable's Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle opens in Japanese theaters, the first of a three-part film series adapting the manga's climactic Infinity Castle arc.