Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

A second TV season of Gushing over Magical Girls, the anime of Akihiro Ononaka's comedy manga about a girl who is drafted as a villain and discovers she enjoys tormenting the heroines she idolises, was announced at a fan event.

McLaren unveiled the W1 at its Woking headquarters, a twin-turbo V8 hybrid hypercar producing 1,258 hp, doing 0-100 km/h in 2.7 seconds and reaching 350 km/h, limited to 399 units at about $2.1 million each.

Aircraft-maintenance and storage specialist Tarmac Aerosave opened its fourth Airbus A380-capable hangar at Teruel Airport, Europe's largest aircraft boneyard. The 15 million euro building, the world's largest metal-textile hangar, can house one A380 or four narrow-body jets at once.

Natsume's Book of Friends Season 7 begins broadcast, continuing Studio Shuka's adaptation of Yuki Midorikawa's supernatural slice-of-life manga about a boy who can see spirits and works to return the names his grandmother once collected.

China made importers of European brandy, overwhelmingly French cognac, post deposits of 30.6% to 39% from 11 October 2024, days after the EU voted for tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles.

The Bering Sea snow crab fishery reopened at noon on 15 October 2024 with a 4.72-million-pound catch limit, its first season since the stock collapsed and the fishery was shut in 2022.

Alo Yoga signed BTS singer Jin as a global ambassador ahead of its first South Korean flagship in Seoul's Dosan Park; his announcement post was valued at $3.6 million in media exposure within a day.

One Piece Fan Letter premieres, a one-off Toei Animation special adapting a chapter of the One Piece novel Mugiwara Stories to mark the 25th anniversary of the One Piece anime, set as the Straw Hats reunite on the Sabaody Archipelago.

The WNBA players' union used its option to end the 2020 labor deal two years early, so the contract would expire after the 2025 season and force talks on higher salaries and revenue sharing.

US District Judge Jennifer Rochon granted the FTC a preliminary injunction halting Tapestry's proposed acquisition of Capri Holdings, ruling that the accessible-luxury handbag rivals were close competitors whose merger would hurt consumers.

Vinted completed a €340 million secondary share sale led by private-equity firm TPG, valuing the Lithuanian resale marketplace at €5 billion and letting employees and early investors cash out stock.

Sparkly Key Animation's Mu Shen Ji begins streaming, a Chinese donghua following Qin Mu, a young man raised by nine mysterious elders in the remote village of Can Lao, as he uncovers the dangers of the forsaken land of Da Xu.

Texas kicked off construction on its $13 billion North Houston Highway Improvement Project, a decades-long rebuild of one of America's deadliest interstates.

Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund ADQ completed a deal to buy newly issued Sotheby's shares alongside fresh capital from majority owner Patrick Drahi, together about $1 billion, mostly used to cut the auction house's debt.

Vuori's first international flagship, a two-floor store of just under 4,000 sq ft at 83-85 Regent Street, opened on 31 October 2024 in the former Fabletics space.

TxDOT started the rebuild of eight miles of I-35 through central Austin, which lowers the mainlanes, removes the 1970s upper decks and adds two non-tolled high-occupancy-vehicle managed lanes in each direction from US 290 East to SH 71/Ben White Boulevard. First work was the Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard bridge; the corridor is not finished until 2033.

OpenAI updates GPT-4o mini for ChatGPT's Free, Plus and Team users and for logged-out users.

Nevadans approved Question 6 with 64.36% of the vote, the first of two votes needed to write a right to abortion until fetal viability into the state constitution.

MAPPA recuts the Final Chapters specials into a single theatrical feature, Attack on Titan: The Last Attack, adding new footage to close out the anime adaptation of Hajime Isayama's manga on the big screen.

An $825 million secondary tender offer led by General Atlantic and Stripes valued Vuori at $5.5 billion, up from $4 billion in 2021, with General Atlantic's Andrew Ferrer joining the board.

Tapestry and Capri Holdings scrapped their planned merger after the FTC's court win, with Tapestry agreeing to reimburse Capri $45.1 million in expenses rather than keep fighting past the deal's outside date.

Austria's motorway operator ASFINAG opened the new Danube Valley Bridge and its connecting tunnels in Linz, the world's longest earth-anchored suspension bridge, completing the first phase of the A26 Westring motorway.

About 700 Culinary Local 226 and Bartenders Local 165 workers walked out of the off-Strip Virgin Hotels Las Vegas in the union's first open-ended strike in over 22 years, holding 24/7 picket lines until members ratified a five-year contract on 22 January 2025.

René Magritte's 1954 L'Empire Des Lumières, from the estate of interior designer Mica Ertegun, sold for $121.2 million at Christie's in New York, a record for the artist and for Surrealist art at auction, reportedly to billionaire Ken Griffin.

OpenAI updates GPT-4o for all paid ChatGPT tiers with more natural, audience-aware writing and deeper work with uploaded files.

Terminal 3 broke ground south of the existing terminals as the centrepiece of Pudong's phase-IV expansion, designed for 50 million passenger trips a year. When the programme is finished the airport will have three terminals, one satellite terminal and four runways, with terminal floor space above 1.7 million square metres.

Greenland's capital opened its new international airport on November 28, 2024, ending Nuuk's dependence on connecting flights for long-haul travel.

Hong Kong International Airport's HK$141.5BN Three-Runway System expansion reached full three-runway operation, capping an eight-year project to add capacity on reclaimed land.

Greece's Thessaloniki Metro Line 1 opened to the public, a driverless 9.6km line whose stations doubled as archaeological digs after more than 300,000 ancient artefacts were uncovered during construction.

The third season of Wan Jie Du Zun, a Chinese cultivation-fantasy donghua from Ruo Hong Culture that continues its web-novel adaptation with a planned 224-episode run. The story follows its protagonist's climb through a world of competing cultivation sects and hidden immortal realms, building directly on the events of the first two seasons.

LVMH's Cheval Blanc opened its sixth hotel, a 52-villa resort curled around Anse Intendance beach on Mahé island, designed by architect Jean-Michel Gathy with a spa created with Guerlain.

Monaco inaugurated Mareterra, a $2 billion, six-hectare land reclamation district built into the Mediterranean to ease the tiny principality's chronic space crisis.

UNESCO inscribed Japan's traditional knowledge and skills of sake-making with koji mold on its Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity at the committee's 19th session in Asunción, Paraguay.

Shenman Entertainment streams Cang Yuan Tu 2, continuing the Chinese action-fantasy ONA's story directly from where its first season left off.

Notre-Dame Cathedral reopened to worshippers and visitors on December 7, 2024, five and a half years after a fire gutted its roof and spire.

Sparkly Key Animation releases Tunshi Xingkong Movie: Xueluo Dalu, a Swallowed Star feature-length special in which Luo Feng travels to the trial grounds of the Snow Fall Continent to grow strong enough to protect Earth.

Taylor Swift played the 149th and last show of the Eras Tour at BC Place, closing a 21-month run that grossed $2,077,618,725 from 10,168,008 tickets, the first tour ever to pass $2 billion.

The full US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit voted 9-8 to vacate the SEC's approval of Nasdaq's rule requiring listed companies to have a woman and a minority or LGBTQ+ director on the board or explain why not.

Zalando agreed to acquire German rival About You for €6.50 a share, a roughly 12% premium to analysts' median price target, with major About You shareholders representing about 73% of its shares - including the Otto family - already committed to accepting the offer.

Chanel appointed Matthieu Blazy, previously creative director of Bottega Veneta, as its new artistic director of fashion, succeeding Virginie Viard and becoming only the fourth designer to lead the house after Gabrielle Chanel, Karl Lagerfeld and Viard.

A second season of 2.5 Dimensional Seduction, the anime of Yu Hashimoto's cosplay comedy about an otaku club president and the junior who wants him as her photographer, was announced at the end of the first season's finale.

Alo Yoga's first store in Ireland: a 6,738 sq ft shop at 62 Grafton Street, opened with a run of yoga, Pilates, boxing and run-club classes.

Isak Andic, the Turkish-born businessman who founded Mango in Barcelona in 1984 and built it into a global fashion retailer, died aged 71 after falling while hiking near the Coves del Salnitre de Collbató, outside Barcelona.

A University of Miami-led study using satellite radar found dozens of Miami high-rises, including some under construction, are subsiding by millimetres a year.

Overlap Bunko's 10th-anniversary event announced a second season of The Unwanted Undead Adventurer, the dark fantasy about an adventurer who comes back as a skeleton.

The FDA adds a boxed warning, its most prominent, to Astellas' hot-flash pill Veozah after a patient suffered serious liver injury within about 40 days of starting it, and orders monthly liver tests for the first months.

A Congress-ordered National Academies report finds with moderate certainty that moderate drinking is linked to lower all-cause mortality but a higher risk of female breast cancer, evidence meant to inform the 2025-2030 Dietary Guidelines for Americans.

Sotheby's told clients it was scrapping the streamlined buyer's-premium and flat seller's-commission structure it had rolled out in May, reverting from 17 February 2025 to bespoke seller terms and a tiered buyer's premium of 15% to 27% of the hammer price.