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Double-decker buses carried the 2025 champions from Temple Street and Broadway through downtown Los Angeles, then on to a rally of more than 52,700 fans at Dodger Stadium.

Aramco posted third-quarter adjusted net income of $28.0 billion, up from $27.7 billion a year earlier, and declared a $21.1 billion base dividend plus a $0.2 billion performance-linked payout, the last one owed on 2024's results. It also raised its 2030 sales-gas growth target to about 80% and announced plans to buy a significant minority stake in the AI company HUMAIN.

Babcock & Wilcox signed a limited notice to proceed on a project valued at over $1.5 billion to design and install four 300 MW gas-fired boiler and steam turbine plants for an Applied Digital AI Factory, its entry into AI data-centre power.

OpenAI adds GPT-5-Codex-Mini, a smaller, cheaper GPT-5-Codex with about 4x more usage, to the Codex CLI and IDE extension.

B&W sold $67.5 million of new shares through its at-the-market program in two days, about $50 million of it to a single institutional investor, then paused the sales. The money backs its move into power for AI factories and data centres.

PLDT's core income held at ₱25.8 billion in the first nine months of 2025 as Maya's ₱603 million offset a 5% drop in telco core income, and the group turned free-cash-flow positive a year ahead of its 2026 target.

Waymo robotaxis began carrying public riders on Bay Area freeways such as the 101 and 280, as its service grew into one zone of more than 260 square miles from San Francisco to San José, with curbside rides at San José's airport.

An executive order took cocoa and other farm goods out of President Trump's reciprocal tariffs, backdated to November 13. Hershey, which had asked the White House for the exemption, said cocoa is not grown in the US and supports more than 10,000 American jobs.

A 377-metre, 1,004-room supertall hotel on Dubai Marina's waterfront opened as the world's tallest hotel, its curved concrete form engineered to shed wind loads on a coastal site.

The 19-kilometre, 20-station Line 1 returned to service end to end after a stage-by-stage closure for CRRC's System+ modernisation, which brought new trains, Siemens CBTC signalling and a rebuilt Observatorio station with 13 lifts. Railway Gazette puts the PPP concession behind the work at 32.2 billion pesos.

Hershey closed its acquisition of organic popcorn and puffs maker LesserEvil, paying $769 million in cash up front with up to $200 million more if earnings targets are met. The brand joins SkinnyPop and Dot's Pretzels and lifted Hershey's salty snacks sales by about 22% in the second quarter of 2026.

Salesforce closed its purchase of Informatica, funding the $25-a-share cash deal partly with $6 billion of bank borrowings and folding Informatica's data management into Data 360, MuleSoft and Agentforce 360.

Aramco signed a preliminary agreement with Commonwealth LNG, developer of a planned 9.5 mtpa export plant near Cameron, Louisiana, on Aramco Trading potentially buying its LNG, and Aramco-backed MidOcean Energy signed an MoU on investing in Lake Charles LNG. Both were among 17 US deals Aramco announced at the US-Saudi Investment Forum in Washington.

Lence Pte completes its purchase of 168,958,219 AWL Agri Business shares from Adani Commodities at Rs 275 each, about Rs 46.5 billion, making the Fortune maker a 56.94%-owned Wilmar subsidiary.

CEO Dan Schulman told staff Verizon would cut more than 13,000 jobs, its largest single layoff, and franchise 179 company-owned stores, taking a $1.6 to $1.8 billion severance charge.

The Nevada Gaming Commission voted 4-1 to fine Caesars Entertainment $7.8 million after state agents found bookmaker Mathew Bowyer gambled millions at Caesars Palace and other Caesars properties over seven years, bringing the year's Bowyer fines to $26.8 million.

Eli Lilly's market value crossed $1 trillion on 21 November 2025, making it the first drugmaker and first health-care company to join the club dominated by tech giants. Its shares hit a record $1,066.65 and closed at $1,059.70, driven by Zepbound and Mounjaro.

A house at 915 N Kagawa Street, built by Thomas James Homes in about six months, became the first home rebuilt after the Palisades Fire to be cleared for occupancy.

Max Verstappen won the Saturday-night race on the Strip from second on the grid; Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri were then thrown out for excessive plank wear, handing George Russell second and Kimi Antonelli third.

Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.5, its new flagship model with state-of-the-art coding and agentic performance at lower pricing.

Abbott began a medical device correction for about 3 million FreeStyle Libre 3 and Libre 3 Plus sensors in the U.S. after internal testing found some give incorrect low glucose readings, an issue it linked to 736 severe adverse events and seven deaths worldwide. The FDA later made it a Class I recall.

Aldi Polska opened its 400th Polish store on 26 November 2025 in the new Rock Park retail centre in Tarnobrzeg, a 1,000 m2 shop in its new fresh-food layout, with more openings due before year-end.

Work started on the 456,100 sq m site of the former Yongsan train depot in central Seoul, to be built out as a cluster of skyscrapers including towers of more than 100 storeys on land held 7 to 3 by Korail and the Seoul Housing and Urban Development Corporation. Foundational roads, parks and parking are due by 2028, with the first move-ins from 2030.

Aldi Nord's rebuilt store in Wolfsburg-Wendschott, a timber-frame building with 1,300 square metres of sales floor, is the first in Germany built to a building specification Aldi Nord and Aldi Süd now share.

San Diego FC's record-setting expansion season ended at a sold-out Snapdragon Stadium, where Vancouver Whitecaps FC won the Western Conference Final 3-1 in front of 32,502 fans.

The Middle East's largest liquids-rich shale gas play came on stream with a first phase of about 450 million cubic feet a day, the start of a ramp to 2 billion cubic feet a day of sales gas by 2030.

City Attorney David Chiu filed the first government lawsuit against ultra-processed food makers, accusing Kraft Heinz, Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Nestlé USA and six others of engineering addictive products they knew made people sick.

The Jakarta anti-corruption court sentenced judges Djuyamto, Agam Syarief Baharuddin and Ali Muhtarom to 11 years each for taking bribes to acquit Wilmar, Musim Mas and Permata Hijau; former court chief Muhammad Arif Nuryanta got 12.5 years.

Salmonella was found in a batch of All Seasons 8 Kräuter frozen herbs sold in Aldi Nord and Aldi Süd stores in all 16 German states and online, and the producer called it back.

The nearly 8-mile extension runs south from Angle Lake along I-5 and adds Kent Des Moines, Star Lake and Federal Way Downtown stations. Sound Transit moved the $2.5 billion project's opening up from an earlier target of March 2026.

Babcock & Wilcox received a limited notice to proceed on engineering and long-lead purchasing for a SolveBright CO2-capture system at an unnamed existing US power plant, sized to capture more than 550,000 tons a year. The full contract, expected by March 2026, is worth an estimated $80 million; the plant is not named, so the pin sits at B&W's Akron headquarters.

Routine checks after new equipment went into a line at Nestlé's Dutch infant-formula plant found traces of the toxin cereulide, so Nestlé recalled every batch made since - 25 batches, including NAN formula, in 16 European countries.

Oracle's backlog rose $68 billion to $523 billion on new commitments from Meta and NVIDIA, but revenue came in below forecasts and the shares fell 11% after hours; a $2.7 billion gain on selling its Ampere stake lifted earnings.

Alice Waters and Chez Panisse open a neighbourhood wine bar right beside the Berkeley restaurant, with chef Amelia Telč cooking a short, simple menu.

Chubby Group brought its all-you-can-eat wagyu shabu-shabu chain to San Diego's Convoy District, taking over the former Shancheng Lameizi Hot Pot space. Four tiers run about $45 to $98 a head across 90-minute seatings.

The two sections of the International Boundary and Water Commission committed Mexico to a new Tijuana treatment plant by December 2028 and a Smuggler’s Gulch sediment basin before the 2026-27 rains, on top of the Minute 328 projects.

TI began production at SM1, the first 300mm wafer fab on its site off US-75 at Shepherd Road in Sherman, three and a half years after breaking ground. The site is laid out for up to four connected fabs and is meant to support as many as 3,000 direct jobs; TI is spending more than $60 billion across seven fabs in Texas and Utah.

A 6-1 vote shuts the Lee Academy Pilot School, Another Course to College and the Community Academy of Science and Health after 2026-27, affecting about 800 students.

The prefect authorised Nestlé Waters Supply Sud to bottle 'Source Perrier' natural mineral water at Vergèze from only the Romaine VI and VII boreholes, with three others disconnected and 24 months of reinforced health checks.

ByteDance and TikTok signed binding agreements to form TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC, with Oracle, Silver Lake and MGX holding 15% each and ByteDance keeping 19.9%, due to close on 22 January 2026.

Vietnam marked a ceremonial 'technical opening' of its US$4.6 billion first phase at Long Thanh International Airport near Ho Chi Minh City with the first landings, while most of Phase 1 was still under construction.

A sequel to Studio Pierrot's 2014 Yona of the Dawn TV anime was announced in the same Hana to Yume issue that carried the final chapter of Mizuho Kusanagi's 16-year fantasy manga.