Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

Sydney opened the City & Southwest section of its Sydney Metro, adding a new driverless rail crossing under Sydney Harbour and the CBD alongside the city's largest railway cavern.

The Taliban's Ministry of Justice published the Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice law on 21 August 2024: 35 articles that make women cover their faces and bodies, bar their voices from being heard in public and stop them travelling without a male guardian.

Given: Hiiragi Mix Specials is a set of four short bonus stories bundled with the Blu-ray release of Given the Movie 2: Hiiragi Mix, animated by Lerche as an extension of the Given franchise.

The first phase of Queen's Wharf Brisbane, the AUD $3.6BN riverside district built around the historic Queen's Wharf site, opened to the public as Star Brisbane.

Prague and Stockholm signed a joint declaration to keep the Čáslav-based Saab JAS 39 Gripen fleet flying beyond the lease's 2027 expiry, until Czech F-35s arrive; the binding contract covering 12 jets to 2035 was still being negotiated the following year. The deal underpins the fleet's ongoing depot-level overhauls, which strip and rebuild each jet roughly every few years.

A plant-forward modern Southern restaurant in a century-old house in Montgomery's Cloverdale neighbourhood, run by nutrition professor Deanne Allegro with a staff of under ten.

OpenAI updates GPT-4o in ChatGPT to make better use of uploaded files and to save the key parts of a conversation to memory.

A vegan-certified Nutella that swaps milk for chickpeas and rice syrup, launched in Nutella's 60th year in Italy, France and Belgium in a 350g jar.

Alo's first performance shoe, a $185 unisex runner with a dual-density midsole and heel clip, went on sale online and in its US stores, backed by a campaign with Joe Burrow.

Verizon agreed to buy Frontier Communications, the largest pure-play US fiber provider, in an all-cash deal valued at $20 billion ($38.50 a share), adding 2.2 million fiber subscribers and reach to 25 million premises across 31 states and DC.

Aldi Nord's 42,800-square-metre distribution centre near Lehrte-Aligse began supplying 77 stores in Lower Saxony, completing the modernisation of its German logistics network.

Victoria's Secret & Co. named Hillary Super, previously CEO of Savage X Fenty, as its chief executive officer, tasking her with reviving the lingerie retailer's core brand and its Pink and Adore Me businesses.

Marriott's plan for the world's tallest modular hotel in Manhattan's NoMad district collapsed after years of stalled construction, and the site was sold for a residential condo tower instead.

Every US mammography facility must now tell patients in writing whether their breast tissue is dense, which can hide cancers on a mammogram, under the FDA's amended Mammography Quality Standards Act rule.

A section of the 1971-built Carola Bridge in Dresden, Germany collapsed into the Elbe overnight with no warning, minutes after the last tram had crossed it.

OpenAI releases o1-preview and o1-mini, the first of a new series of models that spend more time thinking before they respond.

After bargaining that began in March 2023 and strikes that delayed the cane crush, 55% of voting Wilmar Sugar and Renewables employees accepted a three-year deal with a A$2,500 bonus and 16% in pay rises.

Malaysia formally launched the Forest City Special Financial Zone, a tax-incentive push aimed at reviving the stalled $100 billion artificial-island city project in the Johor Strait.

Given the Movie: To the Sea, the third feature film in Lerche's Given series, opens in Japanese theaters, picking the story back up as singer Mafuyu Sato begins to doubt his place fronting the band Given.

Governor Gavin Newsom signed SB 707, the Responsible Textile Recovery Act of 2024, making California the first US state to require clothing and textile makers to fund the collection, repair and recycling of their products.

The second season of the reincarnation fantasy premieres from studio MOTHER in the CBC/TBS Agaru Anime block, continuing Ars Louvent's rise as he leads his territory through the empire's widening war.

Alessandro Michele staged his debut Valentino runway show at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, a maximalist Spring/Summer 2025 ready-to-wear collection blending Gucci-era exuberance with Valentino's own archive, including its signature red gowns reworked with feathers and lingerie layering.

The minimum price of a unit of alcohol in Scotland rises by 15p to 65p, the first increase since minimum unit pricing began in 2018, after MSPs voted to keep the policy past its sunset date.

Verizon agreed to give Vertical Bridge exclusive rights to lease, operate and manage 6,339 of its towers across all 50 states and DC for about $3.3 billion, with roughly $2.8 billion paid up front and Verizon leasing capacity back as anchor tenant.

Claudia Sheinbaum took the oath of office before Congress at the Palacio Legislativo de San Lázaro on 1 October 2024, becoming Mexico's first woman president for the 2024-2030 term.

Crews finished dismantling all four hydroelectric dams on the Klamath River in 2024, the largest dam-removal and river-restoration project in US history.

Urban Miracle Doctor is an iQIYI donghua adapting Chao Shuang Hei Pi's web novel, in which a broke student stumbles into an ancient medical inheritance and returns to the modern city a healer-fighter.

OpenAI trains GPT-4o to work in canvas, a side-by-side writing and coding surface in ChatGPT, as an early beta.

Denver, Aurora and RTD are rebuilding East Colfax Avenue for the region's first center-running bus rapid transit line, an 8.6-mile, $280 million project that broke ground on 4 October 2024 and is due to finish construction at the end of 2027.

Madhouse's adaptation of Chi. Chikyuu no Undou ni Tsuite begins airing, a historical drama following generations of scholars risking their lives to prove heliocentrism in a fictionalized 15th-century Europe hostile to the idea.

Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War - The Conflict premieres, the third cour of Studio Pierrot's Bleach adaptation, as Ichigo Kurosaki races to stop Yhwach from destroying the Soul King and the three worlds.

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.

Elon Musk showed the two-seat Cybercab, a robotaxi with no steering wheel or pedals, and a 20-passenger Robovan at Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank, promising Cybercab production before 2027 at under $30,000.

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.

Anthropic releases an upgraded Claude 3.5 Sonnet that lifts SWE-bench Verified from 33.4% to 49.0% and is the first frontier model to offer computer use, moving a cursor and typing like a person, in public beta.

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.