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Stella McCartney returned to H&M 21 years after her 2005 collaboration with a womenswear collection in recycled and certified materials, on sale in selected stores and online from 7 May 2026.

Seven consumers filed a proposed class action against Nike in federal court in Oregon on 8 May 2026, saying it passed IEEPA tariff costs on through higher prices and should not keep the refunds it stands to get after the Supreme Court struck the tariffs down.

Chef Theo Adley opens a Basque-leaning bistro in Denver's Five Points, sister to Marigold in Lyons, Colorado, with a rotisserie and a counter by a roll-up door.

Phillips' Geneva Watch Auction XXIII totalled CHF 74,846,995 across 225 lots, the highest total for any watch auction in history, led by a Patek Philippe Ref. 2523 'Polychrome Two-Crown World Time' that sold for CHF 7,961,000.

The revived Portland Fire lost their first game 98-83 to the Chicago Sky, but the sold-out 19,335 was the largest crowd ever for a WNBA expansion team's home opener.

Aramco's first-quarter adjusted net income jumped to $33.6 billion from $26.6 billion as it ran the East-West Pipeline at its full 7 million barrels a day to export from the Red Sea while the Strait of Hormuz was choked off. The board held the base dividend at $21.9 billion, 3.5% up on a year earlier.

After soliciting up to 92.5 million barrels from all four storage sites - the largest single exchange in the reserve's history - DOE awarded contracts for 53.3 million on 11 May 2026, at a return premium of about 28 per cent. That is 15.1 million extra barrels owed back to the stockpile.

At a maternal healthcare event in the Oval Office, Trump announces a proposed rule letting employers offer fertility benefits outside their health plans, a day after HHS launched moms.gov for expecting and new mothers.

Zaha Hadid Architects' single-mast Danjiang Bridge across the Tamsui River, now the world's longest single-mast cable-stayed bridge, is set to open to traffic in Taipei.

Swatch Group shareholders voted 79.6% against seating US investor Steven Wood on the board at their annual meeting, even after proxy advisers Glass Lewis and ISS backed him and the company's own bearer shareholders separately elected him with 80.4% support.

The Federal Circuit affirmed without opinion a Patent Trial and Appeal Board ruling, won by Lululemon, that the challenged claims of Nike's patent on sharing recorded workouts to social networking sites are unpatentable.

Crews placed the final steel beam on the frame of American Airlines' rebuilt Terminal 4 main concourse at LAX, finishing the major structural work before interiors go in.

The Supreme Court stayed the Fifth Circuit's order in Louisiana v. FDA, so mifepristone can again be prescribed by telehealth and sent by mail while the case goes on; Justices Thomas and Alito dissented.

The three biggest US carriers agreed in principle to form a joint venture pooling spectrum so satellite operators can reach phones directly and all but end wireless dead zones.

Drake released his ninth album Iceman alongside two surprise albums announced the day before; they debuted at Nos. 1, 2 and 3 on the Billboard 200, the first time one act has held the top three at once.

Audemars Piguet and Swatch launched the 'Royal Pop' collection, eight Bioceramic pocket watches built around the Royal Oak's octagonal design and priced from $400, sold only in person at 200 Swatch stores worldwide with a one-per-person daily limit.

3 Floyds Brewing's 30th-anniversary Dark Lord Day in Munster, Indiana, the only place to get bottles of its Dark Lord imperial stout, paired the 2026 release and six barrel-aged variants with a metal bill headlined by Napalm Death.

Egypt has inaugurated the $15BN New Delta project, moving recycled water across the desert to reclaim up to 2.2 million feddans of new farmland west of the Nile Delta.

The US Supreme Court denies review in Day v. Henry, leaving in place a Ninth Circuit ruling that lets Arizona bar out-of-state wine retailers without a physical store in the state from shipping to its residents.

Danny Harris and Marco DeGeorge agree to sell Bella+Canvas, the blank T-shirt business they started in 1992 and ran beside Alo, to wholesaler SanMar, leaving Alo as their main brand.

An Assemblée nationale fact-finding mission found contaminated formula stayed on sale for weeks after the alert and that five weeks passed between Nestlé's first recall and France's health crisis centre hearing of it, and made 12 recommendations.

Ferrero plans ten seasonal and limited-edition Wonka products across chocolate, candy, ice cream and cereal for the US and Europe, in an exclusive global tie-up with Netflix.

To end a Superior Court trial and a Lincoln Club repeal initiative, the city agreed to cut the standard trash fee to $38.75 from July 2027 and to end paid parking in Balboa Park by January 2027.

People on the top 12 mg dose of Lilly's triple-hormone shot retatrutide lost an average of 28.3% of their body weight (70.3 lbs) over 80 weeks, and 30.3% by two years in the extension - weight loss at the level of bariatric surgery.

Saudi Arabia's NEOM authority paused further construction on The Line, its 170km linear megacity, until after 2030 amid a sweeping scale-back of the project's ambitions.

France's consumer-fraud inspectors found nine Aldi stores in Seine-Saint-Denis inflating reference prices and running "promotions" for an average of 288 days; Aldi's Dammartin buying centre accepted a EUR 350,000 settlement fine.

Lululemon's first Greek store opened at Akadimias 17 and Voukourestiou in Kolonaki, central Athens, with franchise partner Arion Retail Group; a second followed at Golden Hall in June.

Aramco signed an agreement to transfer its stakes in the PRefChem refinery and petrochemical complex at Pengerang, Johor to PETRONAS, which will own and run it outright. Aramco committed $7 billion to the 300,000 b/d project in 2017; the sale comes as the Strait of Hormuz closure cut Saudi crude flows to Asia.

Prosecutors detained former Ombudsman member Yeka Hendra Fatika, accusing him of rewriting a 2022 cooking-oil report into ammunition for the palm oil companies' defence and of taking money from Wilmar Group.

Lilly moves into infectious disease by agreeing to buy Curevo (shingles), LimmaTech Biologics (staph and other bacteria) and Vaccine Company (Epstein-Barr virus) for up to $3.83 billion combined in cash.

The Los Angeles City Council voted 11-3 to slow the raises in its Olympic Wage ordinance, pushing hotel and airport workers' $30 minimum from the 2028 Games to 2030, as business groups withdrew a ballot measure to repeal the city business tax.

MAPPA confirmed a third season of Dorohedoro at the end of Season 2's finale, keeping Caiman's grimy hunt through the Hole and the sorcerers' realm going.

Salesforce appointed Guy Wanger, its former EY lead audit partner, as chief accounting officer and principal accounting officer, starting on 15 June 2026.