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Lululemon's first president, Americas chief Celeste Burgoyne, leaves after 19 years, and international head André Maestrini becomes president and chief commercial officer over every region, store and digital channel.

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.

On 25 November 2025 Italy's Chamber of Deputies unanimously gave final approval to a law making femicide a crime of its own, article 577-bis of the Criminal Code, punished with life imprisonment.

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.

Goose Island released its six 2025 Bourbon County Brand stouts on Black Friday, 28 November 2025, adding a 10-ounce four-pack of the Original Stout for the first time and a baklava-inspired, Chicago-only Proprietor's Stout.

Louis Vuitton opened "Visionary Journeys Seoul" inside Shinsegae's main store, a six-floor, roughly 4,900-square-metre space combining retail, dining and exhibitions that the house calls its largest experiential space anywhere in the world.

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 Kremlin said Russian forces had captured Pokrovsk, a logistics hub in Donetsk region under siege for almost two years, and Vovchansk in Kharkiv; a NATO official said Russia held over 95% of Pokrovsk while Ukrainian pockets fought on.

Mayor Daniel Lurie swore in City College trustee Alan Wong as District 4 supervisor at Abraham Lincoln High School, the Sunset's third supervisor since October after his first pick, Beya Alcaraz, resigned a week into the job.

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.

Chanel transformed a decommissioned New York City subway platform at the Bowery stop into a runway for its 2025/26 Métiers d'art show, Matthieu Blazy's first for the annual craft-focused collection.

Salesforce's third fiscal quarter brought $10.3 billion of revenue, up 9%, a backlog of $59.5 billion and Agentforce ARR above $500 million, and it lifted its full-year outlook after closing Informatica.

Shops and bars in Thailand may sell alcohol through the afternoon for the first time since 1972, under a Royal Gazette notice that scraps the 2pm-5pm ban for a 180-day trial and gives pub customers until 1am to finish drinks.

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 presidents of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda signed the Washington Accords for Peace and Prosperity at a ceremony hosted by Donald Trump, recommitting to the June 2025 peace agreement and a regional minerals-and-economy framework; the M23 rebels were not party to it.

Germany's parliament voted 323 to 272 for the Military Service Modernisation Act: service stays voluntary, but 18-year-old men must fill in a questionnaire, medical screening becomes compulsory again for men born from 2008, and conscription can follow if recruiting falls short.

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.

OpenAI hired Slack chief executive Denise Dresser, a Salesforce executive for more than 14 years, as chief revenue officer; Slack product chief Rob Seaman stepped in as interim CEO.

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.

Qualcomm bought Ventana Micro Systems, the Cupertino designer of high-performance RISC-V server CPU chiplets, to build RISC-V CPUs alongside its custom Arm-based Oryon cores.

After seven years, Calvin McDonald will leave as CEO on 31 January 2026; CFO Meghan Frank and president André Maestrini become interim co-CEOs and chair Marti Morfitt becomes executive chair while the board searches for a successor.

Diageo opened the £73 million Guinness Open Gate Brewery London, a working microbrewery and visitor experience in Covent Garden's Old Brewer's Yard, to the public on 11 December 2025, returning brewing to a site first used for beer over 300 years ago.

Mayor Daniel Lurie signed the Family Zoning Plan, which allows taller, denser housing along transit and commercial corridors, mostly in the north and west of the city, to plan for about 36,000 more homes ahead of a 31 January 2026 state deadline.

Disney+ premiered The End of an Era, a six-episode docuseries on the making of the Eras Tour, alongside The Final Show, a concert film of the tour's last night in Vancouver with the full Tortured Poets Department set.

EU fisheries ministers set 2026 catch limits for the Atlantic, North Sea, Mediterranean and Black Sea, raising anchovy and Norway lobster but cutting sole in the Skagerrak-Kattegat by 44%, while mackerel was left without an agreed total catch.

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.

Oregon opened its commercial Dungeness crab season on 16 December 2025 from Cape Falcon to the California border, 15 days after its 1 December target, while the north coast waited for Washington crab to fill out.

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.

Salesforce signed a deal for Qualified, maker of the Piper AI SDR agent that turns company websites into conversations that qualify and book inbound leads, to strengthen Agentforce Sales and Marketing.

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.