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Prosecutors named the three judges who cleared Wilmar, Musim Mas and Permata Hijau as bribery suspects, alleging Rp 60 billion was arranged through lawyers and a court clerk to buy the verdict.

Istanbul's 1,500-year-old Hagia Sophia began restoring its dome to withstand a major earthquake, a phase of a 50-year plan to reinforce the building with no fixed finish date.

A magnitude 5.2 quake 5 km south of Julian on the Elsinore fault zone was felt from Los Angeles to Ensenada, closing San Diego City Hall for inspections and knocking boulders onto State Route 76.

On 15 April 2025 Caterpillar announced that COO Joe Creed would succeed Jim Umpleby as CEO and join the board on 1 May, with Umpleby becoming executive chairman.

Hershey's first new factory in its hometown in more than 30 years, a 250,000-square-foot plant that makes the chocolate for Reese's, Kit Kat, Symphony and Special Dark, opened with Governor Josh Shapiro. It is Hershey's first fully integrated digital plant and brings more than 125 jobs.

AWL Agri Business takes 80% of G.D. Foods Manufacturing, owner of the Tops sauces and pickles brand, making it a subsidiary; the other 20% is due by fiscal 2028-29.

Google puts Gemini 2.5 Flash in preview, its first fully hybrid reasoning model, where developers can switch thinking off or cap it with a thinking budget of up to 24,576 tokens.

Ralph Lauren presented its Fall 2025 collection, "The Modern Romantics," at an off-calendar runway show inside the newly opened Jack Shainman Gallery in Tribeca, drawing a front row that included Anne Hathaway, Michelle Williams and Anna Wintour.

Sharon Lokedi of Kenya won the women's race in 2:17:22, breaking the 2014 course record of 2:19:59, and John Korir won the men's race in 2:04:45 after falling in the opening meters. Marcel Hug took his eighth wheelchair title on the 250th anniversary of Patriots' Day.

Tesla's first-quarter 2025 revenue fell 9% to $19.3 billion and automotive revenue 20%, with adjusted EPS of $0.27 against $0.39 expected; Tesla held back on 2025 growth and said it would revisit guidance in its Q2 update.

Shareholders passed every resolution at Wilmar's Biopolis headquarters; in written answers before the meeting, the company told a shareholder urging Kuok Khoon Hong to quit as CEO that he would hand over to a good successor.

Kering reports first-quarter 2025 group revenue of €3.9 billion, down 14%, as Gucci's sales fall 25% on a comparable basis to €1.6 billion amid low store traffic and a 33% wholesale decline.

President Marcos and PLDT chairman Manuel Pangilinan inaugurated VITRO Sta. Rosa, a 50-megawatt hyperscale data centre in Laguna with NVIDIA-powered GPU servers for AI workloads.

Nevada gaming regulators unanimously fined MGM Resorts $8.5 million for letting illegal bookmakers Wayne Nix and Mathew Bowyer gamble with illicit cash at MGM Grand and The Cosmopolitan, where the Grand alone took $4,079,830 of Nix's proceeds by 2020.

Mytheresa closed its purchase of YOOX Net-a-Porter from Richemont, giving Richemont a 33% stake in Mytheresa in exchange, after signing the binding agreement in October 2024; the combined company was renamed LuxExperience.

Vuori welcomed Michigan tight end Colston Loveland, a 2023 national champion from Idaho, as a Vuori Athlete as the Chicago Bears took him 10th overall in the 2025 NFL Draft.

OpenAI updates GPT-4o to optimize when it saves memories, improve STEM problem solving and make its responses more proactive.

In the first dispute under the post-Brexit Trade and Cooperation Agreement, an arbitration tribunal upheld the science behind the UK's North Sea sandeel closures and the Scottish ban, but found the English ban disproportionate to EU vessels' access rights.

OpenAI reverts the latest GPT-4o update in ChatGPT because it made responses overly agreeable.

Food products and plantations lifted the quarter while tropical-oil refining stayed tough and sugar volume fell 41.5%; Wilmar warned US tariffs made the rest of the year uncertain.

On 30 April 2025 Visa introduced Visa Intelligent Commerce, an initiative opening its payments network to developers building AI agents that browse, select and buy on a consumer's behalf, announced at its Global Product Drop in San Francisco.

Shenman Entertainment releases Shen Yin Wangzuo Movie: Yi Lai Ke Si Chuanqi, a spinoff film in the Throne of Seal donghua franchise retelling the legend of the Holy Necromancer God Yi Lai Ke Si and his war against the undead.

Hershey's first-quarter net sales fell 13.8% to $2.81 billion and adjusted EPS 32% to $2.09 as it lapped last year's pre-ERP stock build and a later Easter; it held its 2025 outlook and put Q2 tariff costs at $15-20 million.

LVMH's wine and spirits arm Moët Hennessy plans to cut about 1,200 of its roughly 9,400 jobs, back to 2019 staffing, through departures that will not be replaced rather than layoffs, as cognac and champagne sales slide.

President Trump ended duty-free de minimis treatment for shipments worth $800 or less from China and Hong Kong at 12:01 a.m. EDT on 2 May 2025. The change subjected packages from platforms such as Shein and Temu to full customs duties and formal entry.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported on 2 May 2025 that employers added 177,000 jobs in April, with unemployment at 4.2% and February and March revised down by 58,000.

Two weeks after the Pahalgam attack killed 26 people, India struck what it called nine terrorist camps in Pakistan and Pakistan-administered Kashmir, opening four days of the heaviest fighting between the nuclear-armed neighbours in decades.

March 2025: the trade gap was $140.5 billion, up $17.3 billion from the revised prior month. Exports rose to $278.5 billion and imports rose to $419.0 billion. Released May 6, 2025.

King Charles III officially opened the Thames Tideway Tunnel, a 25km deep sewer built to stop billions of litres of sewage overflowing into the Thames each year.

The FOMC held the federal funds target range at 4-1/4 to 4-1/2 percent on 7 May 2025 by a unanimous vote, noting that swings in net exports had affected the data.

De Beers Group said it intends to close Lightbox, the lab-grown diamond jewellery brand it launched in 2018, after wholesale lab-grown prices fell 90% and diverged sharply from natural diamonds.

The 60th Academy of Country Music Awards, hosted by Reba McEntire at the Ford Center at The Star in Frisco, Texas on 8 May 2025, gave Lainey Wilson a second straight Entertainer of the Year, Ella Langley five wins and Alan Jackson the first Alan Jackson Lifetime Achievement Award.

On and the Swiss Ski Federation agreed an early eight-year extension to 2034, with On equipping all eleven Swiss-Ski snow sports and more than 300 squad athletes with off-snow training apparel and shoes; terms were not disclosed.

The FDA approves Teal Health's Teal Wand, the first device that lets women collect their own vaginal sample at home for HPV-based cervical cancer screening instead of a speculum exam.

Qualcomm added Christopher Young, Microsoft's executive vice president for business development, strategy and ventures and a former McAfee CEO, to its board and its HR and Compensation Committee.

OpenAI improves GPT-4o's system instructions so ChatGPT calls its image generation tool when users want an image.